Today, as Amtrak begins its National Train Days celebration of rail travel, here’s a second video clip (see A Time Machine Named “Puffy”: Next Stop, 1896) of our cast-iron time machine, engine 2248, as it travels from today to yesterday, from Grapevine to the Stockyards, passing under I-35 and Long Avenue and crossing Northeast 23rd Street beside the Swift packing plant:
Giving equal time to the twenty-first century, here are Amtrak passenger:
and Union Pacific freight trains:
More train videos:
Still dream of steam? Watch two video clips of Union Pacific engine 844’s visit to Fort Worth: Pumping Iron: The Past Makes a Whistle Stop
And “I think I can, I think I can” remember this little train:
Forest Park Miniature Train: The Little Engine That Could
Still more train videos:
Cowtown in Motion: Rock Island Line
Cowtown in Motion: Slow Train Draggin’
Cowtown in Motion: Big Trains, Little Trains
Cowtown in Motion: “All Aboard!”
Cowtown in Motion: “May I Have This Dance?”: Engine 2248 on the Turntable
Other posts about Fort Worth’s railroad history:
11:23 a.m. (Part 1): Cowtown Gets Back on Track
11:23 a.m. (Part 2): “A Grand Jollification”
11:23 a.m. (Part 3): Panther That, Cougartown!
The 1899 T&P Depot (Part 1): “Finest Passenger Station in the Entire South”
The 1899 T&P Depot (Part 2): “Destructive Fire Breaks Out”
Art Decow: Cowtown’s T&P Passenger Terminal
Tower 55: The Crossroads of Cowtown
“The Rock Island Line Is a Mighty Good Road”
Buttermilk and Blood (Part 1): “I’ll Kill the First Man Who Touches This Engine”
Buttermilk and Blood (Part 2): “For God’s Sake, Don’t Shoot”
Once Upon a Platform: All Aboard for Venus, Maypearl, Italy . . .
T&P Engine No. 642: “Next Stop, Oblivion”
Turntables and Roundhouses: Where Dinosaurs Danced
Progress Plays Through at the Seventh Green
Once Upon a Time Table: Along Came a Spider (Part 1)
Once Upon a Time Table: Along Came a Spider (Part 2)
When Coal Was King and Katy Was a Lake
Grapevine Vintage Railroad website
More views of engine 2248:
