TEXAS EAGLE

The '''Texas Eagle''' is a 1306-mile (2102 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the central and western United States. Trains run daily between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, and continue to Los Angeles, California, 2728 miles (4390 km) total, three days a week (incorporated as part of the ''Sunset Limited'').

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History

Amtrak's ''Texas Eagle'' is the direct successor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Texas and Pacific Railway train of the same name, which was inaugurated August 15, 1948. For thirteen years, the ''Texas Eagle'' operated as two separate sections, leaving St. Louis in the late afternoon, one following behind the other at an approximately 10 minute interval. At Longview, the routes diverged. The west Texas section continued to Dallas and El Paso, while the south Texas section operated to Austin and San Antonio, where a connection was made to the Aztec Eagle for Laredo, Texas and Mexico City. After 1961, the ''Texas Eagle'' was consolidated as a single, very long train, between St. Louis and Longview, Texas, where the train was split into several sections, each serving different Texas cities. The west Texas section of the Texas Eagle continued from Longview to Dallas, Fort Worth, and El Paso; the south Texas section served Palestine, Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo, with a through Pullman continuing to Mexico City. A third section of the ''Texas Eagle'' split from the main train at Palestine, providing service to Houston.
The route of Amtrak's ''Texas Eagle'' is longer (Chicago to San Antonio versus St. Louis to San Antonio), but much of today's route is historically a part of the original ''Texas Eagle'' route. St. Louis to Texarkana and Taylor, Texas to San Antonio is over former Missouri Pacific Railroad trackage, while the Texarkana to Fort Worth segment traverses the former Texas and Pacific Railway.
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Consist

The current consist on the ''Texas Eagle'' includes:
1 P42,
1 dorm-sleeper,
1 sleeper,
1 diner,
1 lounge/cafe,
1 coach-baggage,
and 2 coaches.
This consist is relatively short because it is combined with the Sunset Limited in San Antonio.

References

★ Texas & Pacific Color Pictorial, Goen, Steve Allen, , , Four Ways West Publications, 1997, ISBN 1-885614-17-9

★ Route of the Eagles, Missouri Pacific in the Streamlined Era, Stout, Greg, , , White River Productions, 1995, ISBN 0-9659040-3-2

★ Allies of the Earth, Railroads and the Soul of Preservation, Runte, Alfred, , , Trumann State University Press, 2006, ISBN 1-931112-52-5

External links

★ ''Texas Eagle''

★ Amtrak - ''Texas Eagle''