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Three F40PH units and an Ex-Santa Fe Hi-Level lounge (Budd 1956).
Sept 85 

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Thanks for posting more good photos.
Bob

1985 was the year Katy Ind. agreed to sell the rr to UP.  It was a couple years later the sale was implemented,
but those MKT cars were on borrowed time.  Somewhere I have photos of that string of cars on the left track of
your photo, out on the line on an inspection of the railroad.

Those F40s look good!  I miss that paint scheme.

Andy

Nice shots  Old Santa Fe RR Gainesville, TX based passenger train and engine crews  worked to and from Dallas. Corrections are welcome!!
 

Train certainly had plenty of power.  The passengers are an interesting group.
Thanks for the Amtrak photo posting.
ALLEN

Wow, so much has changed, aside from the Amtrak train itself. In the first photo, the two tracks the photographer is standing between now have catenary over them and is solely used for DART trains. The track Amtrak is on is primarily used by Trinity Railway Express commuter trains to and from Fort Worth. Amtrak today primarily uses the next track over from that. And the Reunion Arena in the background was torn down several years ago.

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Didn't those cars end up on the Georgetown Railroad?

I miss the Gifford Hill rock trains.

Ricky
Austin, TX

 

TexasEagle77 Wrote:
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> Didn't those cars end up on the Georgetown
> Railroad?
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> I miss the Gifford Hill rock trains.
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> Ricky
> Austin, TX
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Yes - those were the Georgetown cars on a visit to Dallas.
Here are a few shots I posted earlier ----

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4974391,4974391#msg-4974391

Gary