Heartland Flyer

Heartland Flyer
A southbound Heartland Flyer boarding in Norman, Oklahoma.
Overview
Type	Inter-city rail
System	Amtrak
Termini	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Fort Worth, Texas
Stations	7
Daily ridership	213
Ridership	77,831 total (FY14)
Operation
Opened	14 June 1999
Owner	BNSF Railway (track)
Operator(s)	Amtrak
Technical
Line length	206 miles (332 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map 0 mi 0 km Oklahoma City 20 mi 32 km Norman 35 mi 56 km Purcell 57 mi 92 km Pauls Valley 102 mi 164 km Ardmore 129 mi 208 km Thackerville (Proposed) OK/TX border 141 mi 227 km Gainesville 206 mi 332 km Fort WorthTexas Eagle, TRE This diagram:

The Heartland Flyer is a daily passenger train that follows a 206-mile (332 km) route from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Fort Worth, Texas. Amtrak serves as contractor, initially only for the State of Oklahoma, but now also for the State of Texas. The train's daily round-trip begins in Oklahoma City in the morning and reaches Fort Worth in the early afternoon, then makes an evening return to Oklahoma City. As of November 2014, the train is scheduled at 3 hours 58 minutes in each direction.

The train connects to Amtrak's national passenger rail network at the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center, where it is timed to allow transfers to the Texas Eagle in both directions. The Texas Eagle runs daily between Chicago, Illinois and San Antonio, Texas, and continues three days each week to Los Angeles, California. The Trinity Railway Express commuter rail service also runs from Fort Worth to nearby Dallas Monday through Saturday each week, with roughly hourly service on weekdays and service every two hours on Saturday. Among its several stops, TRE indirectly connects to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at CentrePort station, and links to DART Light Rail at Victory station and Union Station (which is also a Texas Eagle stop).