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[quote user="CMStPnP"] I didn't know you were from Texas, thats interesting.   I thought the North South line to McKinney was former T&NO (Houston and Texas Central) or is that the wrong line?     I have troubles with tracking the former SP line history in Dallas though, probably I need to buy a local rail map.[/quote] I was reared in Altoona, Pennsylvania, but I moved to Texas 35 years ago and have never looked back.  Being from Altoona explains partly my interest in railroads.  When I was in high school, Altoona saw 38 passenger train movements a day.  It was a crew change point.  In addition, the shops in Altoona and Hollidaysburg employed more than 3,500 men and women even as late as 1957, which is the year that I graduated from high school.  Today Altoona has two passenger train movements per day (The Pennsylvanian).  The Norfolk Southern still does heavy locomotive overhauls in Juniata, whilst some of the other shops are occupied by relatively small companies, but most of them are gone, along with the thousands of men and women who worked in them. The Southern Pacific had a line that ran from East Dallas north to McKinney and Sherman.  It may have been the descendent of the TN&O.  It ran past White Rock Lake; most of it in the White Rock Lake area has been or is being converted into a bicycle trail. The Cotton Belt runs in a southwest direction out of Wylie and Farmersville, I think, and not McKinney. If I remember correctly, it cust across the northern tier of Dallas County.  It goes through Addison, just south of the airport, and eventually makes its way to the Fort Worth area.  Looking at the line on Google, I cannot see whether it goes beyond Grapevine.
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