| Box Width: | 30em |
| Valley Eagle | |
| Type: | Inter-city rail |
| Status: | Discontinued |
| Locale: | Southwestern United States |
| First: | 1948 |
| Last: | 1962 |
| Formeroperator: | Missouri Pacific Railroad |
| Start: | Houston, Texas |
| End: | Brownsville, Texas second section to Corpus Christi, Texas |
| Distance: | 371miles (Houston-Brownsville) |
| Journeytime: | Southbound: 8 hrs 55 min Northbound: 8 hrs 25 min (1960) |
| Frequency: | Daily (1948 - 1962) |
| Trainnumber: | Southbound: 321 Northbound: 322 (1960) |
| Seating: | Reclining seat coach |
| Stock: | Streamlined passenger cars |
The Valley Eagle was a named streamliner passenger train of the Missouri Pacific Railroad that began in 1948. It ran from Houston, Texas's Union Station to Brownsville, Texas at the Mexico–United States border and a second section to Corpus Christi. It first carried the numbers #11 south and #12 northbound and in later years carried the number of #321 south and #322 heading north.[1]
It made coordinated connections in Houston with trains from St. Louis (Texas Eagle #21/22), from Memphis (#201/202) and from New Orleans (Houstonian #309/310). The Valley Eagle had its final run in 1962.[2]
The Missouri Pacific Railroad also operated the Pioneer, a night train counterpart that outlasted the Valley Eagle.[3] After the Pioneer lost its sleeping car and its name, it continued to 1965 or 1966 as an unnamed night train on the route.[4]