[1]: 119  For thirteen years, the Texas Eagle operated as two separate sections, leaving St. Louis in the late afternoon, one following behind the other at an approximately 10-minute interval.

A third section of the Texas Eagle split from the main train at Palestine, providing service to Houston.

[2] While at its northern end, the Texas Eagle served St. Louis, as noted above, it also had another section that split off at Little Rock, going east towards Memphis.

[5] The Texas Railroad Commission ruling was handed down less than a month before President Nixon signed Railpax legislation which placed a moratorium on passenger train discontinuances in anticipation of the start-up of Amtrak.

[6] The December 1952 edition of the Official Guide of the Railways listed the following for a southbound Texas Eagle:[7]