Riding the Rerouted "Texas Eagle" (21/421)

Due to track work on it's regular route, Amtrak's Texas Eagle (running between Chicago & San Antonio by way of St. Louis, Little Rock & Dallas/Ft. Worth & continuing on to L.A. by way of El Paso, Tuscon & Palm Springs) was rerouted between Chicago & St. Louis. Usually, it travels on the Union Pacific's Springfield Subdvision, stopping in Joliet, Pontiac, Bloomington-Normal, Lincoln, Springfield, Carlinville & Alton on it's way down to St. Louis. However, the reroute took us straight down to St. Louis on the Villa Grove & Pana Subdivisions, a 6 hr. ride, passing through suburbs like Chicago Heights & Crete & on through small towns like Beecher, Mommence, Woodland Jct., Villa Grove, Findlay, Pana, Hillsboro, & Joan. Unlike it's regular route, the top speed along the reroute was only 60 mph. I had travelled down to St. Louis to meet a friend of mine from home who was visiting his girlfriend in Sedalia, MO. Amtrak was busing people from Chicago to St. Louis, for their "Lincoln Service" (running between Chicago & St. Louis via Springfield) & he would travel on to Sedalia on Amtrak's "Missouri River Runner"

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