Any location in Texas, aside from El Paso?, seems like a hassle by train. I priced DC to Austin a few years ago and it was way too expensive even for a consumer

Any location in Texas, aside from El Paso?, seems like a hassle by train. I priced DC to Austin a few years ago and it was way too expensive even for a consumer that wanted to take the trip by train. Amtrak seems to be good at North to South on the coasts, and East to West in the middle, but bad at any diagonal routes.