I did at 7:07 AM CT this morning. Unlike on Sunday morning, when I woke up during the Capitol Limited’s Elkhart, Indiana station stop, the train was in motion this morning when I woke up. However, we shortly arrived at the station stop for Devils Lake, ND, at which point we were running a little over one hour late. When we got to Minneapolis/St. Paul last night, we were only about 30 minutes late.
At the moment, we are on time, and are running through the Flathead Tunnel, which measures 7 miles long and is one of the longest tunnels in the world. Of course, since the sun has already gone down, one can’t really tell from the sightseer lounge where I am currently sitting that we are in a tunnel. However, the sounds from around the train are those that result from tunnel running, so I have established that we are in the tunnel as a result.
After signing off last night, I went out to get some fresh air at the Minneapolis-St. Paul stop, which is a service stop for the Empire Builder. 
While at Minneapolis, the local coach for Chicago-Minneapolis passengers and the private coach at the end of our train were removed, making my sleeper the last coach of the train. I then went to take a shower. The sleeper I have on this train has been refurbished, and therefore has a slightly different shower setup, with a door instead of a curtain. Also, one must push a button for the water to come out, and it only stays on for about 30 seconds until the button needs to be pressed again. The train was still stopped for most of the station stop, so showering was not difficult.
After waking up this morning, I went to breakfast, where I was seated with an older couple taking their granddaughter on a vacation trip. Shortly after breakfast, we arrived at Minot, ND, which is a service stop for the train. I walked the platform, still unable to photograph the engines, and bought a USA Today. A complimentary copy of whatever the local Minot paper was also given to the sleeper passengers, but I decided it would make more sense and be more interesting to read the USA Today. We departed Minot at 9:29 AM CT, 38 minutes late.
To all the naysayers who say no one rides Amtrak, today’s train was oversold 
from Minot until Whitefish, Montana, necessitating that the lounge be used for regular seating and was unavailable for sightseeing. (At 10:10 PM MT, we have left the tunnel and are again outside.) I spent most of the morning in my sleeper room, which was on the better side of the train for views, reading The Way to Win, a book recommended to me by one of my housemates, and doing some work on my website.
The overselling of the train also meant that many people wished to eat in the dining car for lunch, which was first come first served. So far, this has been my biggest issue on the trip. It seems to me that in the event that the train is so full, reservations should be taken for lunch and breakfast if necessary. 
At the very least, sleeper car passengers should have priority on the waiting list. I had to wait over an hour to be served, and did not finish until 2 PM MT (we had crossed time zones when we left North Dakota and entered Montana). At that time, dinner reservations were taken. Given a choice between 5, 6:45, and 8:30, I chose 5, since I wished to be in my room so I could photograph the scenery in Glacier National Park. For lunch, I was seated with a man who was originally from Chile but has lived in the United States for ten years and is moving from Albany to Portland, a woman who went to Cornell University and her husband, both of whom now live in West Virginia.
Shortly after lunch ended, we arrived at Havre, MT for another service stop. 
We left Havre at 3:23 PM, and soon after, sleeping car passengers were invited to a wine and cheese tasting that was held in the dining car. I was seated with yet another older couple from Upstate New York that was traveling to visit their children on the west coast, and a younger, married woman who was traveling with her railfan husband and two kids to Glacier National Park. The wine, cheese, and crackers were all good, and the tasting ended at about 4 PM. We were still running about 30 minutes behind schedule.
Shortly before 5 PM, we arrived at Shelby, MT, a smoking stop, meaning that passengers could leave the train, smoke, or just get some fresh air. At this stop I was finally 
able to get photos of our engines. We also made up time somehow, and arrived here about 30 minutes before our scheduled departure time of 5:22 PM. At 5:00, people on the platform with 5 PM dinner reservations were asked to go to the dining car, and I was seated with two women, each of whom was traveling alone to Portland. By now, the dining car was out of desert, so I returned to the room at about 6:30 and had some chocolate that I had brought along while continuing to read. Later on in the evening, I did more work on the website. While doing all of this, I had an eye looking out the window and my camera ready to be grabbed for any scenery that came by.
We crossed the Continental Divide, marked by a small sign next to the railroad tracks, at 7:03 PM MT, and left Essex, MT at 7:39 PM, two minutes early. 
The Whitefish, MT stop was also a smoking stop, so I used that opportunity to stretch and get more engine photos. The Whitefish station building is styled in a European manner, and is the nicest station I’ve seen on the Empire Builder route thus far.
After Whitefish, my sleeper car attendant, Anthony, announced he was making up rooms for the night, so I tidied mine up so he could do so and came to the lounge to write this. As of now, we are still running on or close to schedule. Overnight during our Spokane, Washington stop, the train will be split in two. The dining car, forward sleepers, and forward coaches will go on to Seattle, while the lounge/sightseer, rear two coaches, and my sleeper will travel through the Columbia River Gorge, said to be the scenic highlight of the trip, to Portland. I want to be up early to get a choice spot under the dome, so it is off to shower and sleep. Good night!
