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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]
In the first four decades of the 20th century, the FW&DC built or acquired a number of feeder lines in its territory, so that by 1940, the Burlington-owned system operated 1,031 mi (1,659 km) of main track in Texas in addition to the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad. [6] The Fort Worth and Denver City leased the Fort Worth and Denver South ...
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 ...
Timetable of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway in 1890, when it terminated at Dublin. The GC&SF was merged into corporate parent Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on August 1, 1965. [ 4 ] The Brownwood-Brady segment (44 miles [71 km]) had been abandoned in 1959, and the Brady-Menard segment (31 miles [50 km]) was abandoned in 1972.
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 .
Other railroads, such as the Santa Fe and Rock Island Lines, stopped at the nearby Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station. [5] The Texas & Pacific ran the Louisiana Eagle from New Orleans to Fort Worth, until 1963. [6] A successor night train and a successor day train ran on the route to New Orleans as late as 1968. [7]
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1881–1961 Texas and New Orleans Railroad (acquired the TT) 1901–1904 Red River, Texas and Southern Railroad; 1902–1964 Saint Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railroad (nickname Frisco, absorbed the RRT&S) 1903–1932 St. Louis Southwestern Railway; 1903–1980 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad; 1925–1982 Fort Worth and Denver Railway