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Pages in category "Passenger rail transportation in Texas" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Note: Williams Electric Trains put the name Lonestar on many of its Texas Special passenger cars. Note: The late Pat Neil, owner of Collectible Trains & Toys, a train store formerly located in Dallas, Texas, commissioned a Texas Special train in three-rail 0-Gauge with the firm K-Line. Although the prototype Texas Special did not have a vista ...
2.1 Intercity passenger rail. 2.2 Commuter rail. 2.3 High speed rail. ... (2003), Railroad Service in Texas . Retrieved May 19, 2005. Handbook of Texas Online
The Sunset Limited is a long-distance passenger train run by Amtrak, operating on a 1,995-mile (3,211 km) route between New Orleans and Los Angeles.Major stops include Houston, San Antonio and El Paso in Texas, as well as Tucson, Arizona.
The corridor saw use by the Santa Fe for both freight (particularly the movement of cattle) [4] and for passenger rail. Of the passenger routes that used the corridor, the most notable was the Texas Chief, which traveled from Chicago to Galveston. [5] In 1971, following the Rail Passenger Service Act, the Texas Chief was transferred to the ...
The Texas Eagle is a long-distance passenger train operated daily by Amtrak on a 1,306-mile (2,102 km) route between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with major stops in St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin.
When MCSA operations began in 1898, Texas law required railroads to operate passenger service in order to claim common carrier status. In 1927, the railroad's original passenger car was replaced by a wood combine car built in 1898 for the Long Island Rail Road. It would be the last passenger car ever owned by the MCSA.
Lone Star High-Speed Rail LLC was founded in 2009, changing its name to Texas Central Railway in 2012. [12] Texas Central Partners, LLC (TCP), was founded on September 24, 2013, [13] as the company to build and operate the service, with the rail line itself owned by the separate Texas Central Railway (TCR). [12]