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As for Amtrak service in Texas, and lack of any improvements by Mr. Gunn. Our great senator, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a tireless worker for Amtrak on the Transportation committee, sought to get improved service to Texas. As the Texas Eagle was improved to daily service, from trice a week service, the timetables were changed to improve ridership in Texas. Three years later, the timetable looks as if it never changed, still getting into San Antonio after midnight, too late to rent a room at any hotel/motel. She sought to change the route of the Sunset Limited from Cactus Jack territory near Big Bend to Dallas, Abilene, Midland, & Odessa so that there would at least be trice a week service between Houston and Dallas. We are still waiting. She sought to expand the Crescent with a branch from Meridian Mississippi to Dallas thru Jackson and Shreveport similar to what the Southern Railroad did before Amtrak. We are still waiting. Back during the glory days more people rode the train to Dallas than to New Orleans. Oh, well. I guess Amtrak has not realized that Texas is the second largest state in population in the Union..... I can name ONLY two cities of over 5 million in metropolitan population in America 245 miles apart that does not have Amtrak railway service daily. Yep, Dallas and Houston.... But Amtrak did put in a service daily from Oklahoma City and Fort Worth. Sorry Amtrak, you went in the wrong direction.... But Amtrak does run a bus service from Dallas to Houston to catch the Sunset Limited going east to New Orleans, Mobile, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Orlando. Catch the Greyhound at 2 am and catch the Sunset Limited in Houston at 6 am..... Or leave Houston at 1 am and get to Dallas at 5 am..... Sorry, most TEXANS sleep during those hours..... Of course, you could go west to El Paso, Tucson, Los Angeles. Pull into San Antonio at 1 am and get switched to the Sunset Limited leaving San Antonio at 7 am. It also works the other way, pull into San Antonio at 3 am and get switched to the Texas Eagle that leaves at 9 am. But there is no swithing of cars going eastbound in San Antonio. You are supposed to take Greyhound after midnight. You can take the train, but the station is closed. If it rains, there is no cover. Of course, you'll get no sleep that night, being on the east side of downtown San Antonio in the warehouse district.... Then there is the slow track. Amtrak averages less than 30 mph from Dallas to San Antonio and vice a versa. Too slow for most.... I hate to admit it, but you actually hope the Sunset Limited is so late pulling into San Antonio, it misses the Eagle and Amtrak buses you home to Dallas..... NOT ANYWHERE NEAR GOOD ENOUGH FOR A STATE WITH OVER 22 MILLION IN POPULATION, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO DOUBLE IN THE NEXT 25 YEARS TO 50 MILLION! There is no border.....
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