Passenger trains to return? One of the routes proposed by Amtrak would extend the ‘Heartland Flyer’, which restarted in 1999 between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City, north to Wichita and Newton, Kansas. This would use the existing BNSF-owned line used by Amtrak in its early years. A BNSF freight with two BNSF locos and a third from Mexican operator Ferromex, seen heading south on the line, having just left Kansas near Newkirk, Oklahoma, on June 28, 2019. KEITH FENDER