Busy Tower 55, Pre-Merger | Fort Worth

You're inside, and outside, of a very busy Tower 55 in Fort Worth. See new tower equipment and traffic both day and night worth. This is a real throwback to a different time in railroading. No AI was used to bring this show to you. Read about our AI Policy and how we get videos ready for YouTube at: Pentrex.com/AI About Pentrex: For 40+ Years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel! Pentrex also owns the railroad video entertainment brands Highball Productions, Green Frog, Valhalla Video, Donner Rails, WB Video, Main Line Motion Pictures, Broken Knuckle Video, Midwest Video and distribute Revelation Video. We have nearly 1,000 railroad videos and all will be uploaded to YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss any rail action! About this show: Interlocking towers played an important role in the safe operation of our country's railroads. They acted as traffic coordination centers at busy railroad junctions, allowing the safe passage of trains. Perhaps the busiest tower in the western U.S., with an average of over 100 movements in a 24 hour period, was Tower 55 located in Ft. Worth, Texas. Also known as the "Mixmaster" by locals, the tower utilized state of the art railroading technology up until its closing on May 15, 1995. We go inside the tower just a year before it was closed. Pentrex camera crews captured the nonstop action of Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Burlington Northern, Southern Pacific, and Amtrak trains at this famous Texas landmark prior to its abandonment. You'll also see fascinating interior shots of the control panels and computer screens that were in use during operation. As a bonus, exciting video sequences from the 1980s are also presented, as well as some striking night scenes of trains passing the Mixmaster. The current structure, which had seen over 50 years of service, has now been demolished with a web of interstate lanes over the still busy diamonds. The endless parade of passing trains is now controlled remotely from a nearby tower. Another railroad era has come to an end, but you can still experience the inner workings of an interlocking tower as passing trains pay their respects to Tower 55! Get this show on DVD, without the YouTube compression, at Pentrex.com: https://pentrex.com/DVD-Tower-55-DVD_... 0:00 Introducing Tower 55 1:10 MKT Green & Yellow! 2:02 1960s through 1980s 3:02 Map of the complicated trackage 7:02 View from the tower 8:11 Inside the tower/operations 10:49 UP and BN 13:47 EMD lease unit 15:42 Southern Pacific transfer job 17:41 SP's 4-point turn with map 21:27 Amtrak's Texas Eagle 25:25 Night falls, traffic doesn't 29:39 The sun returns with a parade of trains 31:42 Santa Fe and Union Pacific 33:43 UP's 4% grade out of Peach Yard 39:16 A BN & ATSF sandwich 41:00 More EMD lease units on BN 42:37 A Santa Fe SDF40-2 44:33 Warbonnets on a TOFC 46:28 6 UP units with a freight 47:20 The end for T55