Amtrak Government Affairs: November 2017

Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2017

State of Texas

Amtrak-Texas partnership Grants from the State of Texas help support the daily Heartland Flyer service

between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City Over 148,000 Texas residents are members of the Amtrak Guest Rewards

frequent user program

Amtrak Service & Ridership

Amtrak operates one state-supported train, the Heartland Flyer (daily Fort Worth-Gainesville-Oklahoma City) and two National Network trains through Texas:

• The Sunset Limited (tri-weekly Orlando-New Orleans-Los Angeles via Houston, San Antonio,

and El Paso)* • The Texas Eagle (daily Chicago-Dallas-San Antonio with tri-weekly through car service via the

Sunset Limited to Los Angeles)

* Sunset Limited service suspended east of New Orleans. During FY17 Amtrak served the following Texas locations:

City Boardings + Alightings Alpine 4,999 Austin 34,513 Beaumont 3,377 Cleburne 3,890 Dallas 47,488 Del Rio 1,764 El Paso 14,922 Fort Worth 114,231 Gainesville 6,328 Houston 19,786 Longview 33,936 Marshall 8,404

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McGregor 5,124 Mineola 7,156 San Antonio 57,048 San Marcos 8,380 Sanderson 193 Taylor 5,484 Temple 16,461 Total Texas Station Usage: 393,484 (up 8.8% from FY16)

Procurement

Amtrak spent $48,708,250 on goods and services in Texas in FY17. Much of this was in the following locations: City Amount Austin $ 1,934,115 Dallas $ 33,854,778 Fort Worth $ 2,890,650 Grand Prairie $ 1,605,840 Houston $ 1,898,942 Plano $ 1,506,415 Southlake $ 1,607,857

Employment

At the end of FY17, Amtrak employed 188 Texas residents. Total wages of Amtrak employees living in Texas were $15,060,997 during FY17.

PRIIA Section 209 and State-Supported Services

The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-432) required, by October 2013, an equitable arrangement of cost sharing between Amtrak and state or public agency partners that provide funding for short-distance, intercity train services. Agreements were reached with all parties, including Texas, by the deadline, and the services continued to run without interruption.

The Texas Transportation Commission voted in September 2006 to begin contributing a part of the operating grant for the Fort Worth-Oklahoma City Heartland Flyer. The State of Oklahoma also contributes to this service.

Station Improvements

Longview: The city acquired the former Texas & Pacific Railway station from the previous owner, the Union Pacific Railroad, for restoration. On May 10, 2014, the completed, $2.8-million project was

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dedicated and Amtrak moved back into the original waiting room and ticket office. The rest of the building is used for city offices and meeting space. The station was built in 1940. For many years, the Amtrak waiting room and ticket office were in a walled-in, former porch area on the west end of the building, which also has been restored to its original form.

Infrastructure Improvements

• The U.S. Department of Transportation announced on September 1, 2011, a $34 million TIGER II grant for improvements to rail lines in and around Tower 55 in Fort Worth. The project is expected to greatly improve rail and street traffic flow in the area, where two busy freight lines currently intersect at grade. The project will begin construction in early 2014 and has matching grants from Texas DOT ($1 million), City of Fort Worth ($1 million), BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad ($65 million).

• The Texas Eagle was rerouted between Fort Worth and Dallas, over tracks owned by the Trinity Railway Express, at the start of 2016. This allows Amtrak to eliminate backing through Tower 55 in Forth Worth.

New Connecting Service

Beginning in April 2016, Amtrak initiated Thruway motorcoach service, connecting Newton, Kansas, and Oklahoma City, with a stop in Wichita, the largest city in Kansas. Wichita is now back on the Amtrak map for the first time since 1979. The throughway service provides a direct connection between Amtrak’s Southwest Chief and the Heartland Flyer.

Expansion Planning

Amtrak continues to work with state DOTs in both Oklahoma and Texas to explore options for adding frequencies to the Heartland Flyer service. On June 9, 2017, Amtrak operated an inspection train from Oklahoma City to Kansas City, with dignitaries, BNSF officials, and DOT representatives from Oklahoma and Kansas to see the railroad and to explore the opportunity of extending the Heartland Flyer to Newton, Kansas.

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