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Tower 55 as seen from the southeast, May 1996. - Photo by Steve Robinson

Tower 55 is located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. It was once controlled traffic flow between Union Pacific, Burlington Northern, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads. The first Tower 55 was built about 1897. The present Tower 55 was decommissioned in 1995.

Welcome to RWY XRDS - Online Magazine, published monthly by railroad folks in Fort Worth, Texas. For suggestion or comments contact the Editor, Cy Martin via E-Mail

• Marcel Derrick Air Brake & Train Handling

• Marcel Derrick Distributive Power Update

• Marcel Derrick Locomotive Short Time Ratings

• Mickey Cowling Know your Rules

• Mickey Cowling Answers to Know your Rules

Found: (1) Man's Gold Ring,
Found: (1) Camera Lens.

• Recognition Hotline November 1996

• Cy Martin Try This on for Cy's

• Charles Airhart Fort Worth SU Safety Stats.

• Dallas Car Shop Goes four Years without Injury.

• Mineola's T&P Railroad Museum

• Nick Fischer Restores Interurban Glass

• Steve Robinson PC Questions and Answers

• In Memoriam

• North Texas Chapter National Railway Historical Society

• Trinity Valley Railroad Club

• Those Old Recordsat The Melody Shop

• Age of Steam Museum Southwest Railway Historical Society

• Obituary David Mack "Dusty" Rhodes

• Scot Shelton Is October M/WEmployee of the Month

• Howard Edwards is September Employee of the Month

• Protection is Theme of M/W Safety Meeting

• Cy Martin Try This on for Cy's Too

• Standard Gauge Military Specs Never Die

• Eddie Exum Rules of the Way

• Lamberts Own Party Rental

• Duce Monkey Tails

• Locomotive Engineers Vacation Request

• Gloria Sample The Things Kids Say

• Robert Sample Sample This

• Stuff You Find - - On the Internet

• Dennis Mitchell & Jack Bausley Peer Support

• Your Story Could be in this Space

• Readers Internet Addresses

• Union Pacific Railroad UPRR

• Southern Pacific Railroad Historical and Technical Society

• Southern Pacific Lines Operations Training Center Home Page

• St. Louis - Southwestern Railway The Cotton Belt Historical Society

• BN-SF Railroad Burlington Northern - Santa Fe Railroad

• Kansas City Southern Railroad KCS

• Federal Railroad Administration FRA

• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers BLE

• The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
  Texas Legislative Board Webpage

• U.S. Railroad Retirement Board

• Webpage of theDemocratic Party

• General Code of Operating Rules By Dan Dawdy and Paul Veltman

Web Pages of UP Employees

• SP Folks At Mt. Shasta Mike & Sheila Rogers HomePage

• Take a Look Gary Redden's Web Page

• Interesting Resource Terryls' Web Page

• Another Resource Carman Gary Higgs Web Page

• Another Interesting Resource UTU Local 1778, British Columbia

Fort Worth - Dallas Rail Scene

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