Great Falls, MT Tribune, 11/27/17:
Woman suing Amtrak in Montana Hi-Line rape case
A North Carolina woman is suing Amtrak after she was violently raped on the passenger train by an employee as it passed by Wolf Point in 2015, alleging the carrier had the responsibility to protect her from employees such as her assailant, who had a long and "egregious disciplinary record."
Story is here.
...and in April that year boarded the Empire Builder train in Washington, D.C. headed west.
Impossible to do, since the Empire Builder starts in Chicago.