Mockingbird Yard
Cityplace Dallas Jct. Tenison
Victory Fair Park
DART Shops
Browder Yard
MP Jct.
Cadiz Yard
Yard Downtown Dallas
Illustration by Otto M. Vondrak. Not all lines, and stations shown. Not an official map. ©2016 White River Productions
0 1 MILES Oak Cliff Morrell Tyler-Vernon Trinity Jct. Belt Jct. Sargent Ennis Jct. 2 8th/Corinth Forest Ave.
AMTK - Amtrak ATSF - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe BNSF - BNSF Railway CRIP - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific DART - Dallas Area Rapid Transit DGNO - Dallas, Garland & Northeastern FWD - Fort Worth & Denver KCS - Kansas City Southern MKT - Missouri-Kansas-Texas SP - Southern Pacific SLSF - St. Louis-San Francisco SSW - St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) TP - Texas & Pacific TRE - Trinity Rail Express UP - Union Pacific
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Briggs
Illinois
LEFT: A DART train headed for the station at Cedars departs DUPT as a UP stack train from the west coast, powered by a quartet of SD70Ms, roars into view on October 1, 2010. Beyond the UP power stands the blue, mirrored glass of the Hyatt Regency.
Miller Yard
route is now a vital link between the West Coast and Southeast. Why are there four double crossovers in
Memorial National Historic Landmark District. The entire Dallas Sub is Two Main
Track CTC, from SP Junction in Dallas to the west end of Davidson Yard in Fort Worth. From east to west, crossovers in downtown Dallas are located at Forest Avenue, Reunion, Industrial Crossover (just west of DUPT), and Browder. This stretch of track doesn’t see a lot of traffic, and reverse-signaled CTC and
four crossovers give the dispatcher a lot of options, but traffic jams do occur. This is especially true when Amtrak 21 or 22 is close or a DGNO transfer is stopped or switching on one of the mainline tracks. The Dallas Sub sees a fair number of double-stack (symbol “I” on the UP) and Z trains stemming from the merger of UP and Mopac in 1982. The merger led to the revitalization of the Texas & Pacific across west Texas into Dallas, and this
this stretch of railroad that is only three- and-a-half miles long? First, despite the presence of other trains, the dispatcher needs to ensure the Texas Eagle gets to the track next to the outermost platform at DUPT. Doing so requires ample operating flexibility. Second, DGNO trains have a habit of occupying one of the two main tracks while switching Cadiz and CJ Yards a little west of the Dallas Convention Center (“Reunion” on the railroad), and its trains often will sit there for a good 15 minutes or longer while the brakeman throws switches. Third, when a BNSF freight comes onto UP’s Main 1 at JFK Junction, the UP dispatcher will often cross it over to Main 2 at Forest Avenue so it can then diverge onto the Waxahachie (or simply “Waxie”) lead of the DFW Sub. However, if another move is using Main 1 near Forest Avenue, the dispatcher can cross
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Medical/Market
TRE Jct. JFK Jct. UNION STATION Convention Center Reunion
Cedars
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DART (SP)
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