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====Rail service==== [[Amtrak]] passenger rail service is available on the ''[[Texas Eagle]]'' through a [[Longview station|downtown terminal]]. Longview's Amtrak station is the fifth-busiest in Texas and the fourth-busiest station along the ''Texas Eagle'' route.<ref>Amtrak, State of Texas factsheet, Fiscal Year 2019, page 1 https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/statefactsheets/TEXAS19.pdf</ref> Daily trains between [[Chicago]] and [[San Antonio]] stop each morning (Chicago–San Antonio) and each evening (San Antonio–Chicago). Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the Longview station serves the Chicago to [[Los Angeles]] trains. The return train, Los Angeles to Chicago, stops in Longview on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday. It serves about 20–50 passengers per day. From the station, passengers can connect to [[Nacogdoches, Texas|Nacogdoches]], [[Lufkin]], [[Houston]], and [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], as well as [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], by motorcoach. A proposal is in the works for a [[high-speed rail]] system from [[Dallas]]/[[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]] to Shreveport along the I-20 corridor, bringing passenger rail service to that corridor for the first time since the [[Texas and Pacific Railway|Texas and Pacific]]'s unnamed successor to the ''[[Louisiana Eagle]]'' in the late 1960s.<ref>Streamliner Schedules, ''Louisiana Eagle,'' 1952 http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track9/louisianaeagle195208.html</ref><ref>Texas & Pacific September 1960 timetable http://streamlinermemories.info/South/T&P60TT.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Missouri Pacific Lines, Table 2 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways|publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=101 |issue=1 |date=June 1968}}</ref> Longview is served by Amtrak, the [[BNSF Railway]], and the [[Union Pacific Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://longviewusa.com/transportation|title=Transportation |publisher=LEDCO |website=longviewusa.com |accessdate=2022-04-06}}</ref>
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