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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

• Engineer Struck by Bottle Bottle Thrower Arrested

• Railroad Day 120th Anniversary of T & P's Entry into Fort Worth

• Alfredo Cantu Retires

• Crash at Crush Excursion

• How the Human Body Controls Heat

• Railroad Day 120th Anniversary of T & P's Entry into Fort Worth

• Marcel Derrick Air Brake & Train Handling

• Marcel Derrick Distributive Power Update

• Mickey Cowling Know your Rules

• Mickey Cowling Answers to Know your Rules

• Steve Robinson PC Questions and Answers

• In Memoriam

• Cy Martin Try this on for Cy's

• Duce Monkey Tails

• Gloria Sample The Things Kids Say

• Robert Sample Sample This

• Union Pacific Railroad UPRR

• Southern Pacific Railroad Historical and Technical Society

• 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

Web Pages of UP Employees

• 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

To send comments or suggestions, contact the Editor, Cy Martin via E-Mail