Western Railroad Discussion > Dallas, way up high

The lovely Mrs Murphy and I celebrated our 46th annivarsary at
the Hyatt Recency Hotel in Dallas, and had a supper way up in Reunion
Tower.  My seat had a good view of her and the trackage below of 
Dallas Union Terminal (1912 Beaux Arts passenger station).  Funny it is
called a terminal yet has always been a pass through station arrangement.

(1).  BN train coming into DUT off the Burlington-Rock Island joint track
       with a DART train coming into Dallas on the Green Line.

(2).  UP train arriving DUT from the west on the former T&P

(3).  50 story Reunion Tower



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/26 13:19 by WrongWayMurphy.

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Was there many years ago!  How's the food up there?  Nice images.

texchief1

NorthStar train on the TRE helping out in anticipation of World Cup crowds 

TRE on the TRE

DART on DART

These from the Hyatt

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A couple vintage juicers on the McKinney Ave trolley line with Museum Tower behind
and a generic DART train from our Hyatt window.

Food in the tower is pricey and quite good.  One pays for the view, mostly.

The ball used to spin one revolution per hour, but now is static.

 

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Great photos! Happy anniversary! You got us beat by a year - we're gonna celebrate our 45th in September! The years certainly fly by!

WrongWayMurphy Wrote:
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> The ball used to spin one revolution per hour, but
> now is static.
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Bearing troubles?

PHall Wrote:
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> WrongWayMurphy Wrote:
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> > The ball used to spin one revolution per hour,
> but
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> Bearing troubles?


I was told management wanted the bar to have  downtown as its backdrop 24/7 so it was
shut off with the bar seats facing the skyline.  Not sure how true that is though.  My thought was
that it needed work and the cost was going to by "sky-high" so they pulled the plug from the wall socket.

 

Arriving Dallas on Texas Eagle 21/421 last month train went through a long concrete trench with overhead stringers between the walls. What is this? Something Texas and Pacific constructed.

CP8888 Wrote:
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> Arriving Dallas on Texas Eagle 21/421 last month
> train went through a long concrete trench with
> overhead stringers between the walls. What is
> this? Something Texas and Pacific constructed.

Not a trench, the convention center expansion was built over the tracks, 
in the late 90's as I recall, not a T&P creation.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/locomotive-fire-downtown-dallas-brings-trains-brief-halt