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Amtrak service between Chicago and Los Angeles via Texas
the former Missouri Pacific train

The Texas Eagle is a long distance passenger train operated daily by Amtrak on a 1306 mile (2102 km) route between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with major stops in St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. Three days per week, the train joins the Sunset Limited in San Antonio and continues to Los Angeles via El Paso and Tucson. The combined 2728 mile (4390 km) route is the longest in the United States and the second longest in the Americas, after the Canadian. Prior to 1988, the train was known simply as the Eagle.

Amtrak's Texas Eagle is the direct successor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Texas and Pacific Railway train of the same name, which was inaugurated in 1948 and ultimately discontinued in 1971. The route of Amtrak's Texas Eagle is longer (Chicago to San Antonio versus St. Louis to San Antonio), but much of today's route is historically a part of the original Texas Eagle route. St. Louis to Texarkana and Taylor, Texas, to San Antonio travels over former Missouri Pacific Railroad trackage, while the Texarkana to Fort Worth segment traverses the former Texas and Pacific Railway. The T&P merged with MoPac in 1982; in turn MoPac was acquired by Union Pacific in 1986. The Eagle began on October 2, 1981, as a restructuring of the Inter American, which had operated a daily schedule from Chicago to Laredo, Texas, via San Antonio since 1973. From 1979 onward, it operated a section to Houston, Texas, which diverged at Temple, Texas. The new Eagle dropped the Houston section, while its southern terminus was cut back from Laredo to San Antonio. The new train carried Superliner equipment, replacing the Amfleet coaches on the Inter American. In addition, the new train ran on a thrice weekly schedule with a through car on the Sunset Limited to Los Angeles, although the latter was not announced until the April 1982 timetable. On November 15, 1988, Amtrak revived a Houston section, this time diverging at Dallas and running over the route of the Southern Pacific's Sunbeam. It was the first time passenger traffic had served that route since 1958. Amtrak had intended to operate the Lone Star over this route back in the 1970s, but dropped the plan in the face of obstruction from the Southern Pacific. With the change, Amtrak revived the name Texas Eagle for the thrice weekly Chicago San Antonio/Houston train, while the off day Chicago–St. Louis train remained the Eagle. This section would be discontinued on September 10, 1995. On April 4, 2013, Amtrak opened a new station in Hope, Arkansas, the hometown of former U. S. president Bill Clinton. was added on November 17, 2016, serving Iron County, Missouri. In August 2023, Amtrak approved construction of a new station in De Soto, Missouri for trains to stop at between St. Louis and Arcadia Valley.

As part of Amtrak's response to the COVID 19 pandemic resulting in greatly depressed ridership, service was reduced to tri weekly throughout the corridor October 11, 2020. In March 2021, Amtrak announced plans to return the Texas Eagle to its pre pandemic schedule on May 24, 2021. However, the train began operating on a five days per week schedule in January 2022 due to a resurgence of the virus caused by the Omicron variant and remained so until March 2022.

as of 2022, the southbound Texas Eagle (train 21) departs Chicago 1:45 pm, running between Chicago and its first station stop in , parallel to the Illinois and Michigan Canal, along first the Canadian National's Freeport Subdivision and then Joliet Subdivision, which is also used by Metra's Heritage Corridor and Amtrak's Lincoln Service. From Joliet, the train travels along Union Pacific rails, often parallel to Interstate 55, making station stops in , Bloomington–Normal, Lincoln, Springfield, (a flag stop), and before crossing the Mississippi River to make its stop at St. Louis' Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center, scheduled for 7:13 pm. After St. Louis, the train skirts the Ozark Mountains, stopping in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, before crossing the state line into Arkansas. In Arkansas, the train stops in , the state capital of , and the stations at , , , and , on the Arkansas–Texas border. Continuing into Texas, the train makes station stops in , (bus connection with Houston), , and , which has connections to via Amtrak's Heartland Flyer, and from there the train travels on BNSF trackage. The train continues on, making stops in , , (where the train resumes traveling on the Union Pacific), , the state capital of , and , with a scheduled arrival into at 9:55 pm (the next day). A sleeping car and a coach (designated internally as train 421) are conveyed to the Sunset Limited on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, departing San Antonio at 2:45 am. The northbound Texas Eagle (train 22) leaves San Antonio at 7 am, splitting from the eastbound Sunset Limited (train 422) on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. The train arrives in Chicago at 1:44 pm the next day.

+Amtrak Texas Eagle stationsState/ProvinceCityStationIllinoisChicagoChicago UnionJolietJolietPontiacPontiacNormalBloomington–NormalLincolnLincolnSpringfieldSpringfieldCarlinvilleCarlinvilleAltonAltonMissouriSt. LouisSt. Louis GatewayIrontonArcadia ValleyPoplar BluffPoplar BluffArkansasWalnut RidgeWalnut RidgeLittle RockLittle RockMalvernMalvernArkadelphiaArkadelphiaHopeHopeTexarkanaTexarkanaTexasMarshallMarshallLongviewLongviewMineolaMineolaDallasDallasFort WorthFort WorthCleburneCleburneMcGregorMcGregorTempleTempleTaylorTaylorAustinAustinSan MarcosSan MarcosSan AntonioSan AntonioDel RioDel RioSandersonSandersonAlpineAlpineEl PasoEl PasoNew MexicoDemingDemingLordsburgLordsburgArizonaBensonBensonTucsonTucsonMaricopaMaricopaYumaYumaCaliforniaPalm SpringsPalm SpringsOntarioOntarioPomonaPomonaLos AngelesLos Angeles Union

During fiscal year 2019, the Texas Eagle carried 321,694 passengers, a 4.2% decrease from 2018. In FY2016, the train had a total revenue of $22,323,171, an 8.5% decrease from FY2015. +Ridership by Fiscal Year (October–September)RidershipChange over previous year2007218,321 2008287,16410.25%2011337,97312.84%2013313,3387.86%2015345,67912.85%2018335,7712.87%2019196,07837.03%2021151,39322.79%2022253,49167.44%2023294,43916.15%