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 #1447289  by electricron
 
UT-OU Red River Rivary football game and the last weekend of the Texas State Fair.
Amtrak runs the Heartland Flyer to Dallas on Friday, the game is played on Saturday, and Amtrak runs the Heartland Flyer from Dallas on Sunday. This happens every year....
 #1505842  by Gilbert B Norman
 
This article from a "questionable recognized news source" is long on human interest and short on facts. The reporter is an intern from Germany. I'm sure she was astounded by the "one point three three a day" frequency serving a city of 1.5M:

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Fair Use:
When Amtrak’s Texas Eagle leaves its station in historic St. Paul’s Square, it does so in reverse. Slow and steady, until you can see the Lone Star neighborhood through the windows. There, it changes tracks and finally heads northbound, toward its final destination, Chicago.

The Eagle is scheduled to depart San Antonio at 7 a.m. on a recent Thursday. While passenger after passenger arrives on the platform, the train already waits on the tracks. It’s still dark, and fluorescent lights reflect off the train’s metal surface, making it look somehow futuristic and old-fashioned at the same time.

People shuffle around on the platform, waiting to board. Many of them carry blankets and pillows for the journey; some opt for coffee instead. Each yawns at one point or another.
 #1514719  by Roadgeek Adam
 
So, apparently De Soto wants a station and is starting to look into it.
A proposed Amtrak stop could be the start of bigger things in De Soto.

That’s the message from a group called Fast Track De Soto, which envisions a new rail platform in De Soto to accommodate twice-daily stops for Amtrak, the national passenger train network.

Native De Sotoan and local entrepreneur Jim Thomas, president of the group, has steadily gathered support for the passenger platform from local business and governmental leaders as well as from Union Pacific, whose large train-car maintenance facility on the east side of downtown could provide the necessary rail lines for passenger-train service.

De Soto welcomed train travelers as recently as April 1971 (aboard Missouri Pacific trains) but the rail stop in the city disappeared in 1982 with the demolition of the city’s train station, erected in 1919.

Union Pacific has agreed to cooperate on the project and every area government official whose constituency includes De Soto has sent a letter of endorsement to Derrick James, Amtrak’s government affairs director in Chicago.
It might anger Texas Eagle riders, but I support the idea of a station breaking up the stretch between Arcadia Valley-Ironton & St. Louis Gateway.
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