What is the name of the passenger train that is now part of the Texas Eagle, a 1,306-mile train route operated by Amtrak, that ends in Los Angeles, California?
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Texas Eagle The Texas Eagle is a 1,306-mile (2,102 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, 2,728 miles (4,390 km) total, three days a week (incorporated as part of the "Sunset Limited"). Prior to 1988, the train was known as the Eagle.
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Sunset Limited The Sunset Limited is a passenger train that for most of its history has run between New Orleans and Los Angeles, over the nation's second transcontinental route.
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Reno station The Reno station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Reno, Nevada, served by the "California Zephyr" train and multiple-frequency daily Thruway Motorcoach service.
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Amtrak California Amtrak California (reporting mark CDTX) is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail on three state-supported Amtrak rail routes within the US State of California, the "Capitol Corridor", the "Pacific Surfliner", and the "San Joaquin". It also includes an extensive network of Thruway Motorcoach bus connections, operated by private companies under contract. The three lines shared the use of "Amtrak California" branded Thruway buses and trainsets.
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Texas Eagle (MP train) The Texas Eagle was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Texas and Pacific Railway between St. Louis, Missouri, and multiple destinations in the state of Texas. It operated from 1948 to 1971. The "Texas Eagle" was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971, although Amtrak would revive service over the Missouri Pacific with the "Inter-American" in 1974. This train was renamed the "Eagle" in 1981 and finally the "Texas Eagle" in 1988.
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1995 Palo Verde, Arizona derailment The 1995 Palo Verde derailment took place on October 9, 1995, when Amtrak's "Sunset Limited" was derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve cars derailed, four of them falling 30 feet (9 m) off a trestle bridge into a dry river bed. Mitchell Bates, a sleeping car attendant, was killed. Seventy-eight people were injured, 12 of them seriously.
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Kentucky Cardinal The Kentucky Cardinal was a nightly 312 mile passenger train operated by Amtrak from 1999 to 2003 between Chicago, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, via Indianapolis, Indiana. On the three days that the "Cardinal" ran, the "Kentucky Cardinal" operated as a section, splitting at Indianapolis. On the other four days, it ran on its own to Chicago.
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Cardinal (train) The Cardinal is a thrice-weekly long distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York Penn Station and Chicago Union Station, with major intermediate stops at Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, Charleston, Huntington, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. Trains depart New York on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and depart Chicago on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The 1146 mi trip between the termini of the route takes 26⁄ hours.
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Maple Leaf (train) The Maple Leaf is an international passenger train service operated by Amtrak and Via Rail between Pennsylvania Station in New York City and Union Station in Toronto via the Empire Corridor. Daily service is offered in both directions; the 544 mi trip takes approximately 12 hours, including two hours for customs and immigration inspection. Although Amtrak rolling stock is used exclusively, the train is staffed by Via Rail personnel while in Canada. Service began in 1981.
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Tempe station (Arizona) Tempe is a former train station served by Amtrak's "Sunset Limited" and "Texas Eagle" trains. Amtrak service to this station was discontinued in June 1996.
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South Wind (train) The South Wind was a named passenger train equipped and operated jointly by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (later Seaboard Coast Line), and the Florida East Coast Railway. The "South Wind" began operations in December 1940, providing streamliner service between Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. This was one of three seven-car streamlined trains operating every third day along different routes between Chicago and Miami. The other two trains were the "City of Miami" and the "Dixie Flagler". The "South Wind" remained in service through the creation of Amtrak in 1971 but was soon replaced by the "Floridian".
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Grand Canyon Limited The Grand Canyon Limited was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was train Nos. 23 & 24 between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
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Arrow (MILW train) The Arrow was a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road") between Chicago, Illinois and Omaha, Nebraska. It operated from 1926 until 1967. The "Arrow" provided overnight service between the two cities and included through cars for other destinations in Iowa.
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List of Amtrak stations in California In most states, intercity passenger train service is provided solely by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation), with no assistance of any sort from state or local governments. This level of service usually includes only a few long distance trains such as the "Coast Starlight" or "California Zephyr", with perhaps a small number of shorter distance trains operating within the state. This was the situation in California prior to 1976. Since 1976, California has been one of several states which assists Amtrak in order to provide more service than the basic system.
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Texarkana Union Station Texarkana Union Station is a historic train station in the Texarkana metropolitan area serving Amtrak, the United States' national passenger rail system. The Arkansas-Texas border bisects the structure; the eastern part, including the waiting room and ticket office, are in Texarkana, Arkansas, but the western part is in Texarkana, Texas, meaning stopped trains span both states. The station was built in 1928 and was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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Montrealer (train) The Montrealer was a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Washington, D.C. and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After operating from the 1970s to 1995, with a two-year stoppage in the 1980s, it was replaced by the "Vermonter" after service to Montreal ended.
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Santa Clara – Great America station Santa Clara – Great America (called Great America by ACE) is a train station in Santa Clara, California. It hosts Amtrak's "Capitol Corridor" trains and Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains. The station is close to Levi's Stadium and California's Great America. Amtrak service to Santa Clara began on May 21, 1993.
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Lone Star (Amtrak train) The Lone Star was an Amtrak passenger train serving Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston and intermediate points. The train was renamed from the "Texas Chief", which the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had introduced in 1948. Amtrak discontinued the "Lone Star" in 1979.
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Scott Special The Scott Special, also known as the Coyote Special, the Death Valley Coyote or the Death Valley Scotty Special, was a one-time, record-breaking (and the best-known) passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) from Los Angeles, California, to Chicago, Illinois, at the request of "Death Valley Scotty". At the time of its transit in 1905, the "Scott Special" made the 2265 mi trip between the two cities at the fastest speed recorded to date; in doing so, it established the Santa Fe as the leader in high-speed travel between Chicago and the West Coast. The "Scott Special" made the trip in 44 hours and 54 minutes breaking the previous records, set in 1900 by the "Peacock Special", by 13 hours and 2 minutes, and in 1903 by the "Lowe Special", by 7 hours and 55 minutes. Santa Fe's regular passenger service from Los Angeles to Chicago at the time was handled on a 2½-day schedule by the "California Limited". It was not until the 1936 introduction of the "Super Chief" that Santa Fe trains would regularly exceed the speeds seen on the "Scott Special".
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City of San Francisco (train) The City of San Francisco was a streamlined through passenger train which ran from 1936 to 1971 on the Overland Route between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California, with a ferry connection on to San Francisco. It was owned and operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway (1936–55), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (1955-71), the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Southern Pacific Railroad. It provided premium extra fare service from Chicago to San Francisco when introduced in 1936 of 39 hr 45 min each way.
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Pelican (train) The Pelican was a named train of the Southern Railway which ran from New York City to New Orleans and back until 1970.
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Lone Star (St. Louis Southwestern train) The Lone Star was a passenger train operated by St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) between Memphis, and Dallas, with through connections via Cotton Belt parent, Southern Pacific, for San Antonio, El Paso, and ultimately Los Angeles. There were also through cars operating between Memphis, Lewisville and Shreveport. At various times during the train's operation, connecting services were also provided from Brinkley to St. Louis. The train was discontinued on November 1, 1952, as a part of extensive passenger train restructuring by St. Louis Southwestern. The "Lone Star" was replaced by trains number 107 and 108 which connected with the Cotton Belt mainline at Mount Pleasant, Texas.