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<p>[quote user="BNSFandSP"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">Sam1</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <p>If Amtrak could convince the TRE to allow the Eagle to use its right-of-way regularly, as opposed to the UP line between Dallas and Fort Worth, it could eliminate the backing into and out of the FITC, which is a relatively complicated procedure.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer">I believe TRE was deterred when Amtrak required TRE to take full responsibility for any Amtrak derailment on their line.</div> <p>I am also curious as to how they are turning the consist. Are they wyeing in Dallas and having a TRE pilot loco from Dallas to Fort Worth? [/quote]</p> <p>The Texas Eagle is back on the UP between Dallas and Fort Worth, which means that Number 21 has to back into Fort Worth whilst Number 22 has to back out of the station.</p> <p>For the two months that the Eagle ran on the TRE, it ran through from Dallas to Fort Worth.  The Amtrak P42 was the only power that I observed on the trip that I made.</p> <p>The equipment lay overnight in Fort Worth. The locomotives where turned, but as I remember it, the train was not. So the sleepers were on the front of the train into Fort Worth, but they were on the back of the train when returning to Chicago.</p>
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