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The ''Lone Star'' was an Amtrak passenger train serving Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston and intermediate points. The train was renamed from the ''Texas Chief'', which the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had introduced in 1948. Amtrak discontinued the ''Lone Star'' in 1979. == History == (詳細はChicago, Illinois and Galveston, Texas on April 3, 1948. The service survived, with adjustments, until the coming of Amtrak in 1971. Amtrak renamed the train the ''Lone Star'' on May 19, 1974, after the Santa Fe determined that Amtrak's trains no longer met its service standards and demanded that Amtrak stop using the "Chief" name. A number of colleges and universities along the route—including the University of Kansas, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Wichita State University, University of Oklahoma—provided students looking for economical transportation. Due to cuts by Congress, the Reorganization Act of 1979, pressed by the US Department of Transportation under the Carter administration, Amtrak's ''Lone Star'' was discontinued on October 8, 1979.〔''Lakeland Ledger,'' October 6, 1979 "Last Minute Court Decision Rules to Keep Amtrak Trains Running" https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19791006&id=ndsvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DPsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6854,1563605〕 At the time of its discontinuance, the train was ranked as Amtrak's 7th most popular long-distance train.〔''Passenger Train Journal'' (Nov. 1979).〕 Chicago-Houston service continued in the form of a section of the Chicago-Laredo ''Inter-American'' that split from the train in Temple, Texas. This left Oklahoma without passenger rail service until 1999. Oklahoma continues to lack rail service north into Kansas. 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「Lone Star (Amtrak train)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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