Reproduction of a pen and ink drawing by UP Conductor - Artist Mike "Bigfoot" Fullington

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 built about 1938 and decommissioned in 1995.

Welcome to RWY XRDS - Online Magazine
Published monthly by railroad folks in Fort Worth, Texas.

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• Union Pacific Employees Given Stock Option

* THE HARSH WORLD OF THE RAILROAD *

Warning! RULES ALERT! Warning!

The FRA has severely critized UP for Radio Rules violations. "Coming to your neighborhood soon..."

RULE FOR THE DAY

Know the Rule for the Day How to Finding It

EDITORIALS and OPINIONS

We Need TCS on our Home Computers! By Cy Martin

The Evil-ution of our Book of Rules. I ... By Dan Reed
The Evil-ution of our Book of Rules, II ... By Dan Reed
A Little BS can Save your Life... By Dan Reed
Stress Relief with Style ... By Cy Martin
What Safety is all About ... By Dan Reed
We became World Class, then ... By Cy Martin

Letters to UP CROSSROADS

* RULES * SAFETY * OUR JOB

The FWSU is #1 in Safety on the UP for the 1st Quarter of 1998

• Gene Garrett FWSU #1 in Safety on UP

• Bob Hestes FWSU Testing Program

• Recognition Hotline

• Marcel Derrick Air Brake & Train Handling

• Mickey Cowling Know your Rules

• Dan Reed - Miller Yd, Broadway & Ennis The Miller Connection

• Gene Garrett A Word About Safety

• Eddie Exum Rules of the Way

• Cy Martin Try this on for Cy's

* HOBBIES*

• Steve Robinson PC Questions and Answers

* HUMAN INTEREST and SHORT STORIES *

• Duce Monkey Tails

• Robert Sample Sample This

• Gloria Sample The Things Kids Say

• Chuck Harris The last MoPac Passenger Train

* PERSONNEL CHANGES *

From Dayton, Texas Vic Johnston says "Goodbye"

• Dallas MOP becomes MTO Mark Luman

• New Bowl MYO Russel Stone

• New MYO at BOP Kenny Day

Help the Locomotive Hotline Help YOU

The Hotline Works. Locomotive Hotline

Jerry Davis' Safety Concerns Hot Line: 1-888-860-5511
E-Mail at jrdavis@notes.up.com

Jolene M. Molitoris, Administrator, FRA,
400 Seventh Street, SW Washington, D.C., 20590.
Phone: 202-632-3114, Fax: 202-632-370
E-Mail at Jolene.Molitoris@FRA.DOT.GOV

* OBITUARY *

• Retired Texas & Pacific Employee Thomas Earl Jacobs Sr, 83

• In Memoriam

* ACTIVITIES *

• Attend the Mineola Old-timers' Reuniont Saturday, June 13

• Retired Employees' Breakfast Every Month

• McKinney Avenue Transit Authority MATA Streetcars Showcased

• Mineola's T&P Railroad Museum

• Trolleymeisters Continue restoration of Fort Worth Streetcars and Interurbans

• Trinity Valley Railroad Club

• Age of Steam Museum SW Railroad Historical Society

* COMPUTER SITES *

You can look up reporting marks on your computer at:

• http://www.bluemoon.net/railpix/text/repmks.txt

• E-Mail Your Congressmen and Senator

• Your Story Could be in this Space

Web Pages of Railroads in the Fort Worth/Dallas Area

Pages of Interest to Railroad Labor

Railroad Pages Of Other Employees

BLE Division 944 Home Page

Fort Worth - Dallas Rail Scene

• Webpage of Executive Pay Pay Watch

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