From north to south:
#106: (3D Satellite, looking West) Also named North Tower
Station: (3D Satellite, looking West)
#107: (3D Satellite, looking East) Also named South Tower
Tower #106
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| 1 of 7 images posted by Roger H Mitchell Cory Behrendt: Tower 106. http://txrrhistory.com/towers/106/106.htm [This also has a history of Union Station.] |
Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station
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| Street View, May 2022 |
"The terminal company ownership was expanded to eight railroads, each having a 12.5% share: the Texas & Pacific; the Frisco; the Rock Island; the Cotton Belt; the Southern Pacific; the Santa Fe; the Katy; and the Trinity & Brazos Valley (T&BV). The T&BV ownership share was later sold to the City of Dallas." [txrrhistory]
As we have come to expect, the waiting room is now an event space.
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| UnionStationDallas |
And they have other spaces as well.
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| UnionStationDallas |
Tower 107 The tower on the right is called Reunion Tower, and it is an observation tower.
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| Street View, Jan 2018 |
Not only has the amount of tracks changed, but so has the grades.
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| 1958 Dallas Quad @ 24,000 |
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| John W Barriger III National Railroad Library via txrrhistory Tower 107 sits beside an interurban bridge (with overhead wires barely visible). The photo was probably taken sometime in the late 30's or early 40's. The staircase in the background provided pedestrian access to the Houston St. Viaduct to Oak Cliff. |
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| John W Barriger III National Railroad Library via txrrhistory Tower 106 looking north. |
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