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Trinity Railway Express 568 (F59PH) leaves Fort Worth's Intermodal Transportation Center for its last stop at the old Texas & Pacific station before starting its trip back east to Dallas. 23 Feb 2008
The Chicago-bound Texas Eagle sits at the Fort Worth Intermodal Transporation Center waiting for an on-time departure. AMTK 193 P42DC will be replaced with AMTK 4 before leaving.
The LA-bound Texas Eagle passes Tower 55 as it backs in to the Fort Worth Intermodal Transporation Center. It will be about 15 minutes late by the time it gets to the station.
Built in 1900. Formerly: Santa Fe Depot, Fort Worth Union Depot
This Beaux Arts styled train depot features red and white stone banding and decorative brickwork. The architect for this building is unknown, but the contractors were David Smith and John Bardon. The building has served many of...
Santa Fe Freight Station, built 1938.
Constructed in 1938 as one of the improvements to the Fort Worth Union Depot, this depot housed inbound and outbound freight, cold storage, and offices. This building's design is utilitarian; however, it does feature decorative brick work, a stepped cast...
This station first opened for passenger train service on 31 Dec 2001 with free Trinity Railway Express (TRE) runs between Fort Worth and Dallas. It officially opened on 12 Jan 2002 and replaced the Union Depot as the AMTRAK station in 2002. It is also served by various taxi, bus and trolley...
The Texas Eagle, powered this day by AMTRAK 135 P42DC, backs out of Fort Worth Station past Tower 55 before taking the wye east to Dallas on it way to Chicago. 17 Aug 2007
Abandoned trackage at North Fort Lewis, WA. This is the route the 1975-1976 American Freedom Train took at the display site for Tacoma, not to mention numerous troops trains over several years.
A contracor takes away the ties of CN's Fort Garry Industrial Park #1 trackage. I haven't seen a train there ever since I started railfanning two years prior, so it's fair to say that not much has been lost. There weren't even any cars in the industrial park, not to mention 2/3's of the tracks...
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UP 8584 SD70ACe turning southbound at the Tower 55 interchange in Fort Worth, TX. The unusually wet summer has kept the flowers in bloom, not a typical sight in the Texas August heat. August 18, 2007.
This CN truck has the distinction of being the last piece of CN equipment on the former Fort Garry Industrial Park #2 trackage, since he's the wrecker. Although I've never seen any traffic or cars on the industrial tracks, at its peak (early 90s?) the 1 mile spur off of CN's mainline had 3 stub...
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