{"id":58879,"date":"2025-11-21T05:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:44:14","slug":"dallas-to-houston-via-train-is-not-exactly-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58879\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-to-Houston Via Train Is Not Exactly High-Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Ethan Oliver is a 22-year old from Pottsboro, a Texas town of fewer than 3,000 near the Oklahoma border. The nearest Amtrak station is a 90-minute drive away, in Dallas. That didn\u2019t stop him and four friends from buying train tickets for a ride to San Antonio aboard the Texas Eagle, one of the state\u2019s three surviving rail routes. He\u2019d only been on a train once before, but it made a big impression, and wanted to show his friends the wonders of intercity passenger rail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cYou look at places like Japan, China, whatever, they have their high-speed rail, and then Europe, it\u2019s all interconnected,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cBut like, if you want to do this, it\u2019s a 10-hour trip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Oliver is a 22-year old from Pottsboro, a Texas town of fewer than 3,000 near the Oklahoma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[132,31708,2945,7771,31367,102,104,103,56,82,27,4093,6208],"class_list":["post-58879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-austin","tag-central-japan-railway-co","tag-chicago","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-houston","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-transportation-security-administration","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}