Glacier National Park and the Izaak Walton Inn

We will be spending two full days exploring Glacier National Park. We are staying at the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex, MT midway between East and West Glacier. It is on the Empire Builder, Chicago to Seattle Amtrak rail line. The inn was the hotel where the railroad workers stayed. The tracks needed to be cleared of snow and extra locomotor cars needed to be added to the trains to get them over the pass. The present inn dates from 1937. We are staying a restored BN caboose.

Here's our caboose. The smallest one.... "The Honeymoon Caboose"

Very cozy.

The Izaak Walton Inn by the tracks.

Checking out the rolling stock.