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===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 |archive-date=July 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722040111/http://www.texaseagle.com/home.htm |url-status=live }}</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 |archive-date=January 18, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000118103221/http://www.sunset-station.com/ |url-status=live }}</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 |archive-date=June 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621030355/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqs12 |url-status=live }}</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>
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