one notable passenger train of the postwar era was the streamlined "valley eagle", introduced on october 31, 1948, which covered the 372 miles between houston, corpus christi, and brownsville in 8 1/2 hours at an average speed of 44 miles per hour. two trainsets of five cars each were built by acf to make the daytime run in both directions. the train was discontinued on july 1, 1962.