[PRCo] Re: Dallas film on YouTube

[Schneider Fred]

Find Union Station on the north end.   Pick the east-west street  
parallel to the tracks in front of the station.   It ramped up and  
eastward and then curved southward across the railroad from there.    
Some of the piers are still intact on the south end because DART uses  
the TE line up the hill toward their shops.


On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:

> Speaking of Dallas, Fred, maybe you can help me with the following.
>
> I was doing some "satellite roadbed chasing" of the Texas Electric.  
> I found
> the general location of the Trinity River Viaduct, but I can't  
> pinpoint the
> exact location.
>
> Would you know where the bridge ends were located, i.e., closest  
> street
> intersections?
>
> K.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:36 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Dallas film on YouTube
>
>
>> Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority has posted today on their own
>> news website a 1953 film of trolleys, mostly at the Texas State Fair
>> in Dallas.   There are some PCCs included.  Trolley service in Dallas
>> ended three years later.  Yes ... I know ... its 8 mm film ... not
>> sharp ... but the railfans in those days were in the north or in
>> California.    This is really the first film I have ever seen from
>> "Big D little a double ll as."   George Roush may have been the only
>> one active in Dallas then ... he was the only one in the NRHS
>> directory that I can remember.
>
>