Night train route
Texas Eagle
Chicago → San Antonio · United States
Texas Eagle in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,102 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 32 h
- Average speed
- 66 km/h
- Top speed
- 177 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amtrak Superliner
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1948
- Riders per year
- ≈ 300k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A Missouri Pacific name kept alive from the Loop to the Alamo: with through sleepers to Los Angeles, one of the longest runs on the Amtrak map.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2795760 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 32 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 8 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 21
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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All sleepers serving these cities: night trains from Chicago · all 108 night trains.
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