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[quote user="Dakguy201"] [quote user="Sam1"] <snip> Amtrak releases Number 22 without the connecting cars from the Sunset Limited.  To protect the service it parks a coach and sleeper in San Antonio to be used in case the transfer cars from the Sunset Limited are not available.   [/quote] In the past there have been proposals to make the through route Chicago/San Antonio/Los Angles with a stub running between New Orleans and San Antonio.  This seems to say there is little demand for such a service. [/quote] The 2010 PRIIA Sunset Limited/Texas Eagle Improvement team recommended running the Texas Eagle as a daily through train from Chicago to LAX, dropping the Sunset Limited, and substituting a New Orleans to San Antonio connecting train. According to Amtrak the proposal fell apart because the UP wanted too much money to upgrade its infrastructure to handle a daily train west of San Antonio.  Apparently Boardman caved in without much of a fight.   As an interim step, it seems to me, Amtrak could have run the Eagle as a three day a week through train from Chicao to LAX, with a connecting train from New Orleans, thereby eliminating the car transfer issue at San Antonio. Also, it would have freed up a sleeper since it would not be needed between New Orleans and San Antonio.  Why Amtrak management did not recognize this opportunity is beyond me, unless they were bowing to political pressure from the communities east of San Antonio. Given the paucity of the results stemming from the PRIIA improvement studies, I cannot help but wonder if they were performed mostly for window dressing.  Amtrak management does not appear to have implemented any of the tough recommendations, i.e. stood up to the UP over the Sunset Limited/Texas Eagle issue.
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