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A four unit set of black & gray SD-9's C&S 829, 824, 830 and FW&D 850 with a southbound freight running on the Colorado & Southern near Denver on January 22, 1969. Photo by Ken Crist
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A four unit set of black & gray SD-9's C&S 829, 824, 830 and FW&D 850 with a southbound freight running on the Colorado & Southern near Denver on January 22, 1969. Photo by Ken Crist
FW&D 409 Vernon, Tex by John B Charles Via Flickr: The last main line steam operation on the FW&D was a combination Steam Train Excursion - Football Special operated from Dallas to Childress, Texas on August 15, 1959. The power was FW&D 2-8-2 No 409, with an extra tender for a water car and SD-7 859. The train left Dallas early in the morning and made stops at various stations along the way to pick up passengers. The trip was well advertised so local people also turned out just to see the last steam run. It returned to Dallas well after dark with diesel power. I was a passenger on the train all the way from Dallas to Childress and return. Here we see the train making it's only photo runby at Vernon, Texas, late in the afternoon.
FW&D train, engine number 461, engine type 2-8-2 Southbound, freight train; 22 cars, 40 MPH. Photographed: near Amarillo, Tex., April 17, 1937.
Flood duty for a “foreign” 2-8-2 When flooding from the Red River west of Alexandria, Louisiana, covered Texas & Pacific’s main line in 1957, the dieselized T&P borrowed a 2-8-2 from Fort Worth & Denver to drag trains through the water that would damage diesels’ traction motors. To guard against a repeat, T&P in January 1958 bought a different FW&D Mikado and gave it the number 400. During the 2-8-2’s one call to action, in May ’58, it’s seen replacing F7s on freight 54. Other diesels will take over beyond the flooded track. A.E. Brown
FW&D train, engine number 751A + additional diesel unit, engine type EMD F7 Southbound freight train. Photographed: near Castle Rock, Colo., 1960s.
Burlington Route, Houston, TX, 6/1965
Sam Houston Zephyr E8 9981B ready to depart Union Station. Houston, TX, 6/1965.
Cars from train No. 4, 'Sam Houston Zephyr', being switched to train No. 2, 'Texas Zephyr', for the Dallas - Fort Worth portion of the trip. Dallas, TX August 15, 1958
Just a little after sunrise, C&S number 2, with mostly head-end cars behind a Fort Worth & Denver E8A, is scurrying along Santa Fe Drive headed for a 7 a.m. arrival at Denver Union Station. Mail service was discontinued a month ago. In three more months the train will itself be history. July 07, 1967