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The Texas Eagle (#s 21 and 22) does not have a baggage car.  It has a baggage coach, which means that the lower portion of one of the coaches has been converted for checked baggage service.  One of the train persons handles the baggage on and off chores.   Just got back from a roundtrip on the Eagle from Taylor to Dallas.  All up it was a good trip.  I rode coach both ways and had lunch in the dinning car.  Good value for the money. Riding coach on the long distance trains is a gamble.  Some times you wind up with a neat seat mate; other times you can find yourself next to someone who can be an ordeal, in which case a hasty retreat to the lounge car is in order. This time I drew a lucky card. I was seated next to a young man who was on a four month Amtrak trip around the United States.  He started in Portland, Oregon and plans to cover every mile of the Amtrak system.  Turned out he is a contract programmer for a LAX firm and can work from anywhere, including the train. We shared a mutual interest in computers and programming, which is one of my skill sets. No 22 was 27 minutes late leaving Taylor.  It had to make a double stop in McGregor and Cleburne.  It went into Forth Worth about 10 minutes late and was nearly on time into Dallas.   No. 21 arrived in Dallas at 11:14 a.m. as opposed to its carded time of 11:30.  It arrived in Fort Worth at 1:10 p.m, where it laid over until 2:10. The Eagle has so much fat built into its schedule that it probably could make double stops at every station that it serves and doing so would not have a significant impact on its schedule performance.
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