Inside the Texas Eagle: What Traveling San Antonio to Dallas on Amtrak Really Looks Like
By James H. Sterling
The Texas Eagle ties together several core civic centers without stranding riders in distant perimeter suburbs.
The train stops directly at the Austin Amtrak station, positioned on Lamar Boulevard just blocks west of downtown Austin and Lady Bird Lake. Boarding here skips the gridlocked downtown ramps of I-35 entirely. Continuing north through Taylor, Temple, and Cleburne, the train enters the historic Fort Worth transit hub at the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center. This station offers seamless, same-platform connections to the Trinity Railway Express commuter train and the TEXRail line directly servicing DFW International Airport.
Leaving Fort Worth, the train makes its final crawl east into Dallas Union Station. This Beaux-Arts landmark anchors the southwestern edge of downtown Dallas, providing immediate underground transfers to the light rail system. Passengers step directly off the Texas Eagle and onto local transit lines running straight to Uptown, the Medical District, or north Dallas, bypassing highway parking fees entirely.
James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.
