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A Railfan Guide to the Texas Panhandle 1 A Railfan Guide to the Texas Panhandle For the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society 26th Annual Convention Amarillo, Texas • July 20 - 23, 2006 Compiled by Keel Middleton, Jeff Ford and Jay Miller In addition to the Tour bus listing of Ross Street. DeBruce Grain is the Fort Worth & Denver Depot that is being handed out, these loca- former Continental Grain that is lo- The FW&D depot is in use by the tions are of interest to railfans at- cated off the Boise City sub West leg BNSF and sits under the Pierce tending the Amarillo convention. of wye and the ex Rock Island Lib- Street overpass. It serves as the Amarillo is a snapshot of the BNSF eral line. The large grain elevators North Yard (ex BN) yard office and merger with the former ATSF Trans- are located between NE Third Street crew change point and houses the con main line with all the intermodal and Amarillo Blvd (old Route 66). Terminal staff. This depot was also trains that it runs crossing the for- DeBruce has two Geeps for elevator built about 1910. It was original- mer BN line that became a primary power that they use to load and un- ly constructed with a red tile roof coal line. The crossing of the two was load cars. The Union Pacific brings complete with an ornate tower. It at East Tower where also the Santa most of the grain in to the elevator received a flat roof when the Pierce Fe had the secondary Boise City Sub and their power can bee seen on the Street overpass was built over it. join the Transcon. Since the merger, old Power Plant spur. There are ac- FW&D Roundhouse the Boise City and the BN north of tually two large grain elevators here The old roundhouse is still stand- Amarillo have become a directional that are both owned by DeBruce ing as a storage building east of the running pair of railroads between Grain, one was Continental and the ATSF/BN crossing on Philadelphia Amarillo and Pueblo. This part of other was Producers. Located next Street at SE 3rd. It is not much to the railroad handles coal, grain and to this, is the ATSF Grand Street see, but still exists none the less. Team track, a cement plant and a manifest traffic with the ATSF Boi- Rock Island Engine House se City sub being the southbound scrap yard, all still served by BNSF and the UP. For those listening in to Located in the former Rock Island track and the BN Dalhart sub being yard that is now part of BNSF North the northbound track. Southeast of the BNSF or UP, you will hear the crews talking about coming out on yard, this metal two stall building is Amarillo on the former BN, it has still standing and used as a Mainte- gained much traffic since the merger the West leg of the wye or out of Zone 9, or possibly even 901 track. nance of Way shed. This is north and with intermodal traffic running west east of the FW&D depot. of Fort Worth to the west coast. Us- Amarillo Stock Yards ing the former Rock Island mainline The Amarillo Stock Yards is located Rock Island Main line in Amarillo and the Million Dollar very near the elevators east of town. The Rock Island main Memphis to Connection and a new connection es- It is located between the former Tucumcari main line passed through tablished at West Tower, these inter- FW&D and Rock Island lines and Amarillo on an almost East to West modal trains now pass through Am- also had a spur off the Santa Fe that alignment. The BN took over a few arillo without changing crews. Those now serves a scrap yard. Of course miles of the line from east of town crews run from Clovis to Childress the stock yards no longer ships cat- near the Progress Rail Car shops to and are trains that were moved from tle by rail but is still in the original 15 miles west of Amarillo at Bush- the Slaton and Sweetwater subs. location and there is a feed elevator land to serve an elevator and helium The former ATSF line that was located off the Rock Island tracks plant. The two story depot used to heavily loaded with intermodal traf- (north of the stock yard). The Amaril- sit near Polk Street crossing but was fic with a healthy mix of automobiles lo Livestock Auction has a good café torn down after the BN took over the and manifest traffic, now is getting inside of it that is open during lunch line. The Rock Island crossed over a healthy load of grain traffic. Much and breakfast. The auction, estab- the BN just west of the depots on a of that terminates in the Texas Pan- lished in 1940, remains the largest grade separation. This overpass is handle for feedlots. Kansas City and livestock auction in the world. still in service near 3rd & Hughes Fort Worth are the only other places Streets. The Rock Island has a Santa Fe Depot bridge over 6th street that still has on the BNSF that have a similar Located on East 3rd and Grant traffic mix that Amarillo does. It is the Rock Island Logo on it. West of streets is the original 1910 ATSF 6th street the Rock Island is aban- not unusual for the BNSF to run 100 depot. It is now an upscale antique doned and is a walking trail. trains per day through Amarillo, so shop and auction gallery. The REA there are plenty of trains for the rail- Express building sits directly south Amarillo & North fan to see. of the depot. The old freight house Rocla Tie Plant tracks located south of the depot The Rocla plant is located near NE Amarillo Proper were recently torn up when the third 24th street on the former ATSF Boi- Zone 9 main track was added between West se City sub. Rocla ships out many Zone 9 is the area located north of Tower and Washington. Best place to NE 3rd street, south of Amarillo photograph the depot is at the corner concrete ties via rail. They ship for Blvd, west of Grand Street and East of E. 4th and Garfield of a morning. both BNSF, and UP. Most of the ties 2 This map shows the railroads of the Texas Panhandle prior to the big mergers. Most of the old Rock Island has been abandoned but much of the others remain. for the current 2nd main track ex- two power plants here, one is gas Canadian River Bridge pansion on the Panhandle Sub have fired and one is coal fired. This was Heading north out of Amarillo on US come from the Rocla plant in Ama- the Southwestern Public Service 287, you will encounter an unusual rillo. Rocla was also the location of a Power plant for many years. overpass 14 miles north of Amarillo. wooden tie recycling center that took Asarco The old highway which is the north- in the used ties and shipped them The Asarco Smelter is a shell of its bound lanes goes under the tracks back out to various power plants for former self after a recent Asarco while the new highway which is a fuel source. strike that shut the plant down for a the southbound lanes goes over the Xcel Energy Harrington Plant while. Asarco ships out boxcar loads tracks. The old ATSF bridge that Northeast of Amarillo is the Asarco of copper and gondola loads of cop- goes over the northbound lanes has Spur off of the Boise City sub just per ingots. The plant used to get in an ATSF logo on the bridge. At MP north of NE 24th street. The 5 mile several flat car loads of copper ingots 19, the ATSF crosses the Canadian spur leads to both the Asarco Smelt- from New Mexico for smelting into River on one of the largest bridges er and the Harrington Power plant. refined copper. Asarco had their own on the system. The only way to get The power plant receives approxi- SW900 that I believe is still there. to it is by driving a sand road up mately one trainload of Powder Riv- The Rock Island also served this the roadbed of the river where four er Basin Coal per day. (Since we had plant at one time from the east side wheelers often run. A good morning no idea what time the train would be of the plant. ATSF served the smelt- photo, however, can be made of a here and the distance from Amarillo, er from the west side. The Rock Is- train crossing the river bridge from this was not on the tour). Seeing the land track was part of the Liberal to the highway. Just to the south of the dumping trestle is a long way from Amarillo line that was abandoned bridge is an access road that enters a public road and the speed on the when Lake Meredith was formed open range where a gate is near the spur is 10 MPH. There are actually near Fritch, TX. highway on the southbound side. 3 Marsh & Exell Stratford collection of equipment has been do- Near MP 27 the ATSF again crosses Stratford is the crossing with the nated to the Amarillo Railroad Mu- the highway by going over it near former Rock Island Golden State seum that is located along US60 east Marsh.
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