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The Heartland Flyer is a daily passenger train that follows a 206-mile (332 km) route between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas. It is operated by Amtrak and jointly funded by the states of Oklahoma and Texas. [3] The train's daily round-trip begins in Oklahoma City in the morning and reaches Fort Worth in the early afternoon.
To-scale map of Amtrak services as of 2013 ... Route miles Acela: NEC ... Oklahoma City – Fort Worth: 821, 822: 1 80,371 206
Norman (Amtrak: NOR) is an Amtrak station in Norman, Oklahoma. The station is serviced by the daily Heartland Flyer , which travels from Fort Worth, Texas to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . The station building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as the Santa Fe Depot .
Fort Worth Central Station (Amtrak: FTW) is an intermodal transit center in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. It serves two commuter rail lines ( TEXRail and Trinity Railway Express ), two (later three) Amtrak intercity rail lines ( Texas Eagle , Heartland Flyer and proposed Crescent (train) ), and Greyhound intercity bus .
The Long Distance Service Line is the division of Amtrak responsible for operating all intercity passenger train services in the United States longer than 750 miles (1,210 km). There are fourteen such routes as of 2024 [update] , serving over 300 stations in 39 states.
Rail service to the area was established by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (now BNSF Railway) in 1887, which aimed to create a junction between the Santa Fe and its Texas-based Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe division. A townsite for railway employees was constructed around the junction and named after the Santa Fe's director, Edward B ...
Santa Fe Depot (Amtrak: OKC), also known as the Santa Fe Transit Hub, is an Amtrak station located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is the northern terminus of the Heartland Flyer, a daily train to Fort Worth, Texas. The Art Deco structure was built in 1934 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, colloquially known as the Santa Fe ...
Passenger rail service ceased on December 5, 1979 with the discontinuation of Amtrak's Lone Star train. The railway deeded the depot to the city on October 19, 1981, [4] and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [3] On June 15, 1999, the station was brought into service once again for Amtrak's new Heartland Flyer ...