Texas Eagle
he Texas Eagle is a 1,306-mile passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the central and western United States, numbered trains 21 and 22.. Trains run daily between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, and continue to Los Angeles, California, 2,728 miles total, three days a week as a section of the Sunset Limited. Prior to 1988, the train was known as the Eagle. Amtrak's Texas Eagle is the direct successor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Texas & Pacific Railway train of the same name, which was inaugurated in 1948 and ultimately discontinued in 1971. The route of today's Texas Eagle is longer -- Chicago to San Antonio versus St. Louis to San Antonio -- but much of the current route makes use 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 & Pacific Railway. The Eagle began in 1981, as a restructuring of the discontinued Inter-American. The Texas Eagle makes use of a typical long-distance Superliner double-level consist with one Genesis locomotive, with crew change stopes in St. Louis and Ft. Worth.
From the "city of big shoulders" to the state that made "bigness" a virtue, the Texas Eagle will truly delight and amaze you from start to finish. If having a big heart is prized, the "heart of Texas" has it all wrapped up. So many superlatives are attached to its cities and wide-open spaces that you will immediately see it for yourself: things really are bigger here in the heartland of the Southwest, and nowhere more so than your views from the big windows of the Texas Eagle. From the Windy City through to St. Louis and on to the prairies and oil fields of Texas, to the modern cosmopolitan skyscrapers of Dallas, to the state capitol at Austin, to the pine forest and immense landscape conjuring images of cowboys and stagecoaches, to the picturesque Hill Country and on to "Remember the Alamo" at San Antonio -- this is truly your introduction into the Spirit that is Texas. So prop up your boots and relax -- you're entering the Lone Star State-of-Mind-Zone!
Amtrak
MP timetable
Texas Eagle route map / web
Chicago, Il
Chicago Union Station
Chicago, Il / Mar 2023 / RWH
See our complete Chicago Union Station scrapbook in Amtrak Great Stations
Saint Louis, Mo
Saint Louis, Mo / Jun 2009 / RWH
Saint Louis, Mo / Jun 2009 / RWH
Saint Louis, Mo / Jun 2009 / RWH
Saint Louis, Mo / Jun 2009 / RWH
Saint Louis, Mo / Jun 2009 / RWH
Saint Louis, Mo / Jun 2009 / RWH
Saint Louis, Mo / Jun 2009 / RWH
Click to see St. Louis Amtrak platform plotted on a Google Maps page
Marshall, Tx
Marshall, Tx / JCH
Click to see the Marshall depot area plotted on a Google Maps page
The Texas & Pacific Railway Depot, commonly referred to as the "T&P Depot," is the only surviving structure of the Texas and Pacific Railway shops complex which originally consisted of fifty-seven buildings spanning 66 acres. The T&P Depot is located in the Ginocchio National Historic District and was built in 1912 to house the T&P passenger station and the headquarters of railroad's eastern district. The building welcomed soldiers in both World War I and World War II, and at its height housed telegraph and immigration offices.
During the 1970s a series of events led to the station being abandoned. Amtrak passenger trains used the building beginning in 1974, however in 1988 the Union Pacific Railroad, which owned the property, filed for a permit to demolish the building. The community intervened and throughout the 1990s worked to save the Depot and the building was restored and resumed service as the local train station; additionally, much of the building houses the Texas & Pacific Railway Museum.
Marshall, Tx / JCH
Marshall, Tx / collection
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Marshall, Tx / 2003 / JCH
Dallas, Tx
Amtrak #152
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Amtrak #152
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Click to see the Dallas Amtrak Union Station platform plotted on a Google Maps page
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Dallas, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
See also our Dallas Area Rapid Transit streetcar scrapbook
Fort Worth, Tx
Fort Worth, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Fort Worth, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Fort Worth, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Click to see Ft. Worth Amtrak station plotted on a Google Maps page
Austin, Tx
Austin, Tx / Jun 2009 / RWH
Lagniappe
Texas Tall
Dallas, Tx / May 2014 / ETH
Porthole Passing
Jun 2009 / RWH
Roll on, over flatlands, foothills, and bogs
Roll on, ‘cross gulleys, creeks, and channels
Roll on, past fields, hamlets, and boroughs
Shuffle through ribbon bends in the line
Blast over road crossings where they wait
Chug away from platform-stops, siding-rests
Roll on, from the brisk rain to the arid sun
Roll on, from headwaters down to gulf lands
Roll on, past the hulks of labor’s great past
Shoot by locals, shifters, sisters in the hole
Thump over diamonds and other rows to hoe
Squeal ‘round tight changes in your course
Roll on, keeping the pace and making up time
Roll on, with the seasoned and virgins alike
Roll on, with lives aboard as varied as the run
From one high green to another
It's your time to move
Roll on
RWH 2009
1958 timetable
1967 timetable
Links / Sources
- Amtrak's official Texas Eagle page
- Wikipedia page for Texas Eagle route
- TrainWeb.com Texas Eagle route page