San Antonio Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Rail=== San Antonio is served by two [[Amtrak]] routes: the daily Chicago to San Antonio ''[[Texas Eagle]]'' and the thrice-weekly New Orleans to Los Angeles ''[[Sunset Limited]].''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.texaseagle.com/home.htm |title=Amtrak's Texas Eagle | Welcome aboard! |publisher=Texaseagle.com |access-date=June 30, 2010}}</ref> On the days that the ''Sunset Limited'' operates, a section of the ''Texas Eagle'' continues west with it, offering Chicago to Los Angeles through service. The [[San Antonio station (Texas)|old Sunset Station]] is now an entertainment venue owned by VIA and neighbored by the current station and the [[Alamodome]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sunset-station.com/ |title=Sunset Station San Antonio near the Convention Center, Alamo and River Walk Hotels |publisher=Sunset-station.com |access-date=June 30, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqs12|title=Nancy Beck Young, "San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad Company"| publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]] on-line| access-date=April 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/history-rr-sa-uvalde-gulf.php| title=Hugh Hemphill, "San Antonio Uvalde and Gulf Railroad"| publisher=txtransportationmuseum.org| access-date=April 28, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512071002/http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/history-rr-sa-uvalde-gulf.php| archive-date=May 12, 2013| url-status=dead}}</ref> San Antonio became the largest American city without an intra-city rail system when [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], the former largest city without such a system, [[Valley Metro Rail|procured one in 2008]]. A proposed passenger rail line, Lone Star Rail, would have linked San Antonio to Austin, but was cancelled in 2016 after 19 years of planning.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.kut.org/post/campo-vote-derails-lone-star-rail-project|title=CAMPO Vote Derails Lone Star Rail Project|last=Maas|first=Jimmy|date=October 18, 2016|work=KUT News|access-date=January 23, 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705003943/http://kut.org/post/campo-vote-derails-lone-star-rail-project|archive-date=July 5, 2018}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page