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AMTRAK - TRE dispute may have both loosing ?

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[quote user="blue streak 1"] <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/fort-worth/headlines/20120807-fort-worth-s-t-rail-stays-mum-on-legal-dispute-with-amtrak.ece">http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/fort-worth/headlines/20120807-fort-worth-s-t-rail-stays-mum-on-legal-dispute-with-amtrak.ece</a> It is amazing these liability issues keep croping up all over the country. [/quote] Switching the Teax Eagle from the UP to the TRE for the run between Fort Worth and Dallas or vice versa would not allow the train to avoid completely the Tower 55 bottleneck in Fort Worth as stated by the writer of the article.  But it would cut in half the number of moves through the bottleneck. Currently, Number 21 pulls around Tower 55, which is no longer operational, and backs through the crossover into the Fort Worth Intermodal Transit Center (ITC).  After being serviced, it again pulls through the junction to resume its southbound journey to San Antonio.  Number 22 moves through the junction to stop at the ITC.  After it is serviced, it backs out of the station, through the crossover, and then runs around the crossover to resume its northbound journey to Chicago, although between Fort Worth and Dallas the trains are running east/west. If the Eagle could run over the TRE, it would avoid the backing movements in Fort Worth, thereby making it possible to improve the schedule time between Big D and Cow Town, although by how much is difficult to say since the current schedule is padded heavily.  It would also allow Amtrak to stop at Centre Point, which is a convenient connection point for DFW Airport.  This change has been discussed for at least six or seven years.  I am not sure whether double tracking the TRE is the real issue.  Except from West Irving to Dallas, where the TRE hoists BNSF runs coming off the old Frisco line, the traffic density does not appear on the surface to be an impediment to running the Eagle on the TRE. There may be some hidden agendas here.
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