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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). The Fort Worth station also has connections to many local buses operated by Fort Worth Transportation Authority (The T) and intercity buses operated by Greyhound Lines. ==History and funding== After Amtrak's formation in 1971, the corridor was served by the railroad's Chicago-Houston ''Lone Star'' route, but that was discontinued in 1979 and left the state of Oklahoma without any passenger rail service. The ''Heartland Flyer'' was inaugurated on June 14, 1999, ending a 20-year absence of passenger trains on the route. First-year ticket sales totaled 71,400 passengers, surpassing Amtrak's original 20,000 projection. The ''Heartland Flyer'' carried 68,000 passengers during FY 2007. In September 2007 it had carried 500,000 passengers since its inception, and in November 2013, it carried its millionth passenger. The temporary federal funding for the service was used up by 2005. However, regional passenger rail advocates came out in force on April 11, 2005, for a state capitol rally sponsored by (PassengerRailOk.org ). Keynote speaker, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett addressed the crowd along with the mayors of Perry, Guthrie, and Purcell, Oklahoma, encouraging the state fund the service and to expand the train into Kansas. State lawmakers kept the ''Heartland Flyer'' in operation by passing House Bill 1078 that provided an annual $2 million subsidy to continue the service. According to preliminary data, the ''Heartland Flyer'' carried over 77,000 passengers in fiscal year 2014, a 4.1% decrease from FY2013. The train had a ticket revenue of $1,965,642, a decrease of 2.8% from FY2013.〔 Total revenue for the train, including state-level subsidies to Amtrak, was approximately $7.3 million, against a fully allocated cost of $9.2 million. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heartland Flyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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