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Amtrak Is Reintroducing Its Sightseer Lounge On The Texas Eagle For The Chicago And San Antonio Route Texas Eagle riders know all about the Sightseer Lounge. It was on the train up until October 2020.
You’ve heard of "The Little Engine That Could," but Amtrak’s Texas Eagle just might be the little train that could. Amtrak announced plans to discontinue the route in the 1990s, but the communities in ...
On Wednesday, Amtrak suspended departures on the City of New Orleans, Coast Starlight, Crescent, Lake Shore Limited, Silver Star, Sunset Limited, and Texas Eagle routes.
Amtrak is suspending long-distance trips across the country, including the Texas Eagle route from Chicago to San Antonio through Dallas, because of a nationwide rail worker strike coming as early ...
Everything's bigger in Texas. And it's about to get faster. Amtrak released details of its plan to introduce high-speed rail, Acela, to Texas via a YouTube video detailing the upcoming steps of ...
But as cost estimates for the project grew—now more than $40 billion, according to the U.S. Dept. of Transportation—Texas Central turned to Amtrak to help explore the proposed line’s viability.
The route is slated to run between Dallas and the intersection of two highways in the Houston area, several miles from the city’s urban core. Duffy and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) say ...
Amtrak has further outlined its plan to use Shinkansen technology to bring high-speed rail to Texas, with a route connecting Dallas and Houston. A Japanese Shinkansen bullet train, Aichi ...
The Texas Eagle runs between San Antonio and Chicago and, when paired with the Sunset Limited out to Los Angeles, makes the longest Amtrak route.