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The museum has an exhibit called "TrainTopia – A Railroad Odyssey in Miniature" in the Frisco Discovery Center next to the museum. [8] This is a 2,500-square-foot professionally-built G scale model railroad layout donated to the museum by the Sanders family; [ 9 ] a $300,000 donation from the Ryan Foundation funded moving the layout and ...
Much of the company's route originally belonged to the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, which began construction from Fort Worth in 1886 and reached Brownwood in 1891. In 1901, the FW&RG was bought by the Frisco Railway, which sold it to the Santa Fe Railway in 1937. The Santa Fe sold the line to an affiliate of the South Orient Railroad in 1994.
Passengers board at Grapevine's historic Main Street station and the train operates over a 21-mile (34 kilometer) route to the Fort Worth Stockyards on former trackage that was owned by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (aka the "Cotton Belt"). [1] The main run starts in Grapevine and goes to the Fort Worth Stockyards.
Fire Station No.1, Fort Worth former satellite museum of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, closed on February 19, 2016 [210] Hangar 10 Flying Museum, Denton; Hayden Museum of American Art, Paris, closed in 2010 [211] Owens Spring Creek Farm, Richardson, operated by Bob Evans Farms, Inc., closed in 2013 [212]
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 ...
In 1981, No. 610 returned to Fort Worth under its own power. The following year, it moved to a small museum complex for display. In 1986, it was moved again to the Texas State Railroad in Palestine, Texas. As of 2024, No. 610 remains in storage under Texas State Railroad ownership, and it is towed outdoors for display during occasional events.
Fort Worth & Denver Alco 2-8-0 No. 304 at the Wichita Falls Railroad Museum FW&D Engine 501 in Childress, Texas At the railroad's peak in 1944, during the World War II economic boom, the Texas Railroad Commission reported that the FW&DC earned $12,132,515 in freight revenue, $5,839,399 in passenger revenue, and $1,488,095 in other revenue.
Fort Worth Central Station (Amtrak: FTW) is an intermodal transit center in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. It serves two commuter rail lines ( TEXRail and Trinity Railway Express ), two (later three) Amtrak intercity rail lines ( Texas Eagle , Heartland Flyer and proposed Crescent (train) ), and Greyhound intercity bus .