Southbound Amtrak Texas Eagle No. 21 arrives in Little Rock Tuesday morning, December 4, at 3:25 a.m. To see a movie of the train arriving, click on the photo above OR click the link below:
http://youtu.be/E4d-pMMYYcE
Dining Car menu. I had breakfast here at 7:26 a.m. December 4.
Breakfast and lunch menus.
Dinner menu.
Dessert, children's menu and drink menu.
Dallas, Texas station, 11:07 a.m.
Amtrak Heritage locomotive No. 66 on the front of the train at the Dallas station.
No. 66 is one of several Amtrak 40th Anniversary special locomotives.
From the front of the train in Dallas.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) train at the station at 11:10 a.m.
Texas Eagle and DART.
Inside my sleeping car.
A roomette in the sleeping car. These fold down into a bed at night.
Backing into the Fort Worth, Texas station at 12:41 p.m. passing Tower 55.
Texas Eagle Train No. 21 at the Fort Worth station with locomotive 66 in the lead.
Skip ahead one day to Wednesday, December 5 as Amtrak Train No. 21 prepares to leave Fort Worth at 2:10 p.m. headed south for Austin and San Antonio. To watch a movie of this train leaving, click on the photo above OR click the link below:
http://youtu.be/xmS4ihWnQo0
Below is a link to a movie of a Trinity Railway Expresss (TRE) commuter train leaving Fort Worth toward Dallas about 2:30 p.m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ydeip0upI&feature=g-crec-u
Amtrak Texas Eagle No. 22 arriving from the south at Fort Worth, 3:12 p.m. on Wednesday, December 5. Locomotive No. 66 was again in the lead.
On board the train near Arlington, Texas, between Fort Worth and Dallas. Cowboy Stadium can be seen.
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Click the link below for a movie of us passing cars on a parallel road in Arlington:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YREZqrXg1QI&feature=g-crec-u
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Click the link below for a closeup of the next track as we were speeding along:
http://youtu.be/STpQOv16z2c
View from the Sightseer Lounge/dome car. That's Dallas in the background, our next stop.
Arriving in Dallas at 4:49 p.m. as we cross busy freeways. To view of movie of the train arriving, click on the photo above OR click the link below:
http://youtu.be/D5gBLxBgZaU
Another shot of the Dallas skyline from the dome car as the sun was setting at 5:08 p.m. We had just backed out of the Dallas station to switch to another track.
Sunset taken from the train at 5:11 p.m. December 5.
5:14 p.m.
To view a movie of this scene, either click on the photo above OR click the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfOxQUVKm8o&feature=g-crec-u
Clouds reflected in a stream in east Texas taken from the train.
Christmas lights as we passed through a town in east Texas.
Dinner in the diner at 7:30 p.m.
Click the link below for train sounds as we moved through the countryside at night:
http://youtu.be/jgnBdlnisRQ
At 9:26 p.m. the train stopped in Texarkana. I got off the get a rare picture of the Texas Eagle at this station.
Arrived in Little Rock at 11:57 p.m. December 5.
Waiting Little Rock passengers. I was on the platform for this photo since I was a ticketed passenger.
Ready to leave Little Rock at 12:03 a.m. Thursday, December 6. To view a movie of the train leaving, click on the photo above OR click the link below:
http://youtu.be/PZL2NUe_TII