On Tuesday I had lunch with a friend at a fairly new BBQ restaurant called Jambo’s, and it was worth the drive!
After lunch since I was on the east side of Fort Worth I decided to try to catch Amtrak 21 and 22 now that they have moved off the UP Dallas Sub and now run over the Trinity Railway Express between Dallas Union Station and the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center. I put the radio on the TRE road channel and sure enough within a few minutes I heard Amtrak 21 getting ready to leave Dallas as they got clearance from the TRE dispatcher in Irving. This day I decided to catch Amtrak 21 crossing the Little Fossil Creek just east of Carson Street.
I arrived at the location a few minutes before 1:00pm. Trains are moving at the 79mph track speed here so I set my camera for shutter priority at 1/1600 of a second at ISO 400. First up was TRE Train 2923 with faded locomotive #569 leading at 1:06 pm.
At 1:37 pm Amtrak 21 led by locomotive #69 and cab car #90222 with nine cars trailing cut through the tranquil scene like an arrow.
At 1:53 pm the train set with locomotive #569 now in push mode raced across the bridge eastbound towards Dallas.
I checked the Amtrak app on my phone and saw that Train #22 was due into the Fort Worth ITC around 2:30 pm. TRE westbound Train #2927 would leave the Richland Hills station at 2:33 pm, so I decided to catch it passing the open field just west of the station since it would be a train set I had not yet photographed this day. I drove up there and read for about 30 minutes before catching Train #2927 with locomotive #126 and three cars in good light at 2:34 pm.
The Amtrak app showed Train #22 should leave the station just before 3:00 pm, so I drove down to the Trinity River levee just off of South Sylvania Avenue. At 3:03 pm I captured these three views as the train with locomotive #57 up front left Fort Worth for Dallas.
As you can see clouds were starting to roll through from the west, so I departed for home with thoughts for other days and locations on the TRE to catch this new Amtrak action.
