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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 Southwest Railway Crossroads ~ Online Magazine, published monthly by railroad folks in Fort Worth, Texas. For suggestion or comments contact the Editor, Cy Martin via E-Mail

• FWSU Leads UP In Safety

• Voting Early in Tarrant County

• Mineola T&P RR Museum

• Marcel Derrick Air Brake & Train Handling

• Mickey Cowling Know your Rules

• Mickey Cowling Answers to Know your Rules

• Highways or Dieways Filmed in Fort Worth

• Charles Neyman's 10 Top Reasons
  for Locomotive Air Conditioning

• Cy Martin Try This on for Cy's

• Steve Robinson PC Questions and Answers

• Danny Sisson The Texas Eagle

• In Memoriam

• Railroad Family Trees

• Eddie Exum Rules of the Way

• Short Notes to the Editor

• Lettersto the Editor

• Duce Monkey Tails

• Texas State Railroad Fall Special Trains

• Gloria Sample The Things Kids Say

• Robert Sample Sample This

• Elvis Lewis Safety Theme - Take Care of Yourself and your Tools

• Cy Martin The Employee's Internet

• Things You Find - - On the Internet

• Dennis Mitchell & Jack Bausley Peer Support

• The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
  Texas Legislative Board Webpage

• Webpage of theDemocratic Party

• Early Voting Placesin Tarrant County

• 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

• U.S. Railroad Retirement Board

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

• Webpage of theDemocratic Party

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

Cy Martin's Page

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