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ABOVE: Train FWDU has just began its jour- ney towards Dublin and is vaulting across the Trinity River bridge at Fort Worth on February 10, 2011. RIGHT: At the east end of Cresson Yard, former C&NW GP50 2011 looks on as FWDU arrives with a heavy cut of loaded “frac” sand cars. The sand is transloaded into trucks for final delivery to the numerous drilling sites that dot the surrounding land- scape. OPPOSITE: With the Fort Worth skyline in the distance, Job 103 switches at the 8th Street Yard on March 1, 2011. A steel finish- ing plant and a plastic pellet transload facility are the major customers switched in this area.


ic’s more direct Baird Subdivision to Sweetwater, Texas, where West Coast- bound trains reconnect with the former AT&SF main. The Dublin Sub was ini- tially sold to Cen-Tex Rail Link (a sub- sidiary of the South Orient Railroad) in May, 1994. Also sold at this time was the 18-mile Cresson Sub between Cle- burne and Cresson. With the South Orient having tough times, FWWR purchased these lines from them in De- cember 1998, including trackage rights from Ricker through Brownwood to San Angelo Junction.


Current Operations Operations are conducted seven days


a week with weekends tending to be lighter traffic days. Corporate head- quarters for the company are in Rid- glea Place Tower in West Fort Worth where dispatchers authorize main line movements by track warrant control.


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Train crews are based out of Fort Worth, Cresson, and Dublin with each job designated with a three number symbol. Fort Worth crews are based out of Hodge Yard, a former Cotton Belt fa- cility located on the city’s north side un- derneath Interstate 35W. Locomotives are serviced here in an open-air type structure. Jobs operating out of Hodge Yard in-


clude yard Jobs 101 and 201 that build local freights which serve customers in the Fort Worth area; interchange runs


are made to exchange cars with the BNSF at its nearby North Yard, and with the UP at Peach Street Yard just north of downtown Fort Worth. The large Carter Industrial Park in south suburban Everman is served by Jobs 102 and 202 serving such customers as Green Bay Packaging and a large Miller Brewing plant. Each weekday morning Job 103 leaves Hodge Yard serving customers along the main line through Fort Worth and the southwest side industrial area surrounding 8th


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