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I should have looked at the great photos that were posted by Mike Gibbs before posting my last reply. Amtrak does not use the T&P station that is on the east-west T&P/MP/UP main line just west of the quadruple diamond. They use the 9th Street Intermodal station (former Santa Fe Station) that is on the north-south tracks about 1 mile north of the diamonds. Amtrak uses the UP line between Dallas and Fort Worth. To reach the Intermodal station Amtrak must use the connector track shown in the lower left corner of Mike's photos #6, 12, & 14 which heads it south. They stop, throw the switches and back north to the Intermodal station. The reverse is done for the northbound Texas Eagle. This little action add about 30 minutes to Amtrak's trip for the Texas Eagle. The Intermodal station is also the southern terminis of the Heartland Flyer between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City. While on the Dart board I worked hard to permit Amtrak to use the Trinity Railway Express (TRE) line between Dallas and Fort Worth to evade this backing motion. I believed that we should be looking at improving transit in the area regardless of who was providing the service. Unfortunately capacity limitations prevented accepting the Amtrak train except for when the UP main was out of service without really screwing up the schedules. TRE for the most part is a single track railroad. We are working to double track it, however this will not be done for an additional 5-7 years. Even with the single track line we have managed to pump up to 84 trains per day over the corridor. Besides TRE, three railroads have trackage rights over the corridor: UP, BNSF, and Fort Worth and Western. UP has a double track main between Dallas and Fort Worth about 3 miles south of the TRE line which they say is at capacity with the current 34 trains per day. We run 84 on a single track. What is wrong with this picture? <br /> <br />*** Watkins
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