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Article: Amtrak's Heartland Flyer turns five

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Monday marked the fifth anniversary of Amtrak's Heartland Flyer service between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth. The anniversary was observed at the Santa Fe Station in downtown Oklahoma City by representatives of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the Heartland Flyer Coalition and Amtrak. Representatives of Norman, Purcell, Pauls Valley and Ardmore joined in the celebration as the train made its way south to and Fort Worth.

Passenger rail service returned to Oklahoma after a 20-year absence on June 14, 1999. Oklahoma lost its Amtrak service in 1979, when the Chicago-Dallas/Houston Lone Star was among several trains that were discontinued. In the last five years, nearly 300,000 people ...

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