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The Santa Fe sold the line to an affiliate of the South Orient Railroad in 1994. The FWWR began operations in 1988, with 6.25 miles (10.06 km) of track that it had bought from the Burlington Northern. [2] By the mid-1990s, the railroad operated 10.75 miles (17.30 km) of track, the result of numerous minor acquisitions. [2]
The FW&D's former main line through the Texas Panhandle and North Texas is now a heavily used route of BN's successor, the BNSF Railway, primarily for coal and intermodal trains between Fort Worth and the western United States. [8] Additionally, the Union Pacific Railroad has track rights on this line from Fort Worth to Dalhart. [9]
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of ...
Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Fort Worth and Denver Terminal Railway: CB&Q: 1890 1952 Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Fort Worth and New Orleans Railway: SP: 1885 1901 Houston and Texas Central Railroad: Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway: ATSF: 1885 1948 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: Fort Worth Stock Yards Belt Railway: MP: 1895 1903 ...
Aerial view of Fort Worth Central Station. The station has twenty bus bays and three rail tracks. TEXRail boards from Track 1 regardless of direction, while TRE boards from either Track 1 or 2. Amtrak trains board from Track 3. Greyhound buses board through a separate terminal on the opposite side of the building.
The rail line was initially envisioned to run along the existing Cotton Belt Railway Corridor [a] from DFW airport to the Fort Worth Stockyards, head South along Union Pacific owned track to the Fort Worth Central Station, and continue along Fort Worth & Western Railroad tracks to Benbrook Lake. [14]
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This listing includes current and discontinued routes operated by Amtrak since May 1, 1971. Some intercity trains were also operated after 1971 by the Alaska Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Georgia Railroad, Reading Company, and Southern Railway.