I Hear The Train A Comin’
Dec 24, 2019
3 minutes
By Clayton Maxwell
The Day the Eagle Flies
he Texas Eagle runs along the 1,306-mile train route between Chicago and San Antonio that the Texas and Pacific Railway built in the late 1800s. In 1948, the T&P, in partnership with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, introduced The Texas Eagle as a passenger train from St. Louis to San Antonio. The route was discontinued in 1971, but Amtrak rebooted it in 1981, and expanded
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