(HD) Tower 55 Fort Worth Action: 10 Trains. Freight and Passenger: UP Amtrak BNSF Trinity

10 Trains at Tower 55 and Fort Worth Amtrak station on Sunday, September 30, 2012 on a windy and rainy day.
Scene 1. BNSF 4433 accelerates from Saginaw Texas headed towards Tower 55 southbound with a Stack Train.
Scene 2. South of Tower 55, a Northbound Union Pacific Manifest Freight lead by 8244 heads past Tower 55 in pouring rain.
Scene 3. Shot from the shelter of the Interstate overpass, a eastbound Trinity Rail Express heads east.
Scene 4. A northbound manifest freight lead by BNSF 4675 and a CSX unit goes into emergency and ends up blocking the busy crossing.
Scene 5. From the north side of the crossing, BNSF 4675 and the CSX unit are stopped as the conductor walks the train looking for the reason in went into emergency. As the camera pulls back, one can see traffic is now waiting for it to clear.
Scene 6. A eastbound Trinity Rail Express stops at the Fort Worth Amtrak/TRE station.
Scene 7. A westbound TRE train with F40 120 stops at the station. Good sound departing.
Scene 8. The Amtrak train from Oklahoma City arrives coming in from the north on the former Santa Fe mainline, uses a sharp S curve connection to arrive at the Amtrak Fort Worth Station. Three Superliners, sandwiched by Amtrak 74 and 72 come in on the connection,pass the switch and reverse into the station. Crows zoom on to the Amtrak 74 pilot looking for road kill.
Scene 9. A northbound Union Pacific manifest freight lead by seven locomotives, with UP 6758 in the lead, but including KCS 4638, UP SD-40-2 Snoot, long nose 1685, and leased ex UP GP38-2 LLPX 2286, as interesting members of the consist.
Scene 10. As the long UP manifest clears the interlocking just south of Tower 55, the Amtrak Texas Eagle is seen waiting to head past Tower 55 and make a sharp left into the Fort Worth Amtrak Station. Amtrak 194 leads seven Superliners north, with the engineer giving the photographer a friendly horn salute.
Scene 11. After Amtrak's Texas Eagle clears the Tower 55 interlocking, a long UP grain trains heads south at full power lead by UP 3473. Watch the crows feasting on the grain on top of the first few covered hoppers.
Shot September 30, 2012.

[@coolcherie]

Very nice catches.
Also at tower 55 you can park in the dirt lot of tower 55 it offers some nice shots.

[@rwhitenight]

Excellent video James. Lots of locations provide a great overlook of the area.

[@arlingtontrains7]

Great stuff

[@ammoguy5]

I will be there Real Soon!! I can't Wait!!

[@railjames]

Thanks Rusty Rail, you are right, my bad!

[@davidbarnett9312]

Thanks for the Texas action. Re the Eagle, a month ago, a northbound Eagle was involved in a truck/train accident. The driver of the truck was killed. This happened within the Temple, Tx city limits. The local tv station didn't show the engine, but the trailer of the truck was up against one of the coaches.

[@railjames]

David, glad you enjoyed the video. That sounds like a bad accident, I can recall a number of bad Amtrak/truck accidents!

[@davidbarnett9312]

railjames
In my younger days, I worked as a brakeman for the SP. I was on the head end when we hit a tractor trailer rig in Houston. I was also on the head end when the 'local' hit a winch truck coming out of Houston. Unfortunately, I was on the head end when we hit two deer on the local. We stopped to switch at Navasota, Tx, and I had to uncouple the engines. The deer had drug under the engines and smacked into the first car. Talk about guts and stink. lol

[@railjames]

David Barnett David, I once was on a northbound Eagle, that struck a semi truck loaded with melons just north of Jonesboro Ark. The P42 cut the trailer in half, right in the middle, and luckily no one was hurt. It happened in the middle of the night, and I felt the train come to an emergency stop, turned on my scanner and heard the engineer call the dispatcher and call it in, left my sleeper compartment and headed to the empty high level lounge car and saw all the emergency equipment arrive. The train smelled like melons! Got to Chicago 5 hours late.

[@ammoguy5]

I was visiting Texas this last July. I was in Ft Worth and I found Tower 55, The Parking lot was fenced off and looked like some construction stuff in or near the parking lot. I went to the west side possibly near where Your video was shot, Under the Highway bridges. I didn't stay because I wasn't sure if I was trespassing or not.
Where is a good place to video from and does the Railroad allow You access? I will be returning to Texas again and would like to try again.

[@railjames]

Sorry, you are mistaken, it was a Sunday, they were running specials that day for people going to the Texas State Fair.

[@SriniK16]

Any one know at what time BNSF train cross Tower 55. We would like to take some good pictures. Please suggest good timings and if any other good spots to take BNSF train pictures.

[@STiGuy]

those were Superliners...Viewliners are single level & only run on the eastern seaboard.

[@railjames]

Srini, my impression was that it was random, anything at anytime.

[@rhntx]

fYI the TRE does not operate on Sunday. So this could not have been filmed on a Sunday.

[@daviddowling9830]

Richard Alan Hicks oh yeah they do,for sure they do buster.

[@Random.Channel_]

12:11 Santa Fe war bonet

[@Random.Channel_]

Do you live in tx

[@Gramcracker115]

pigeons taking a train ride. That's funny.