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Commuter rail line in the Dallas/Fort Worth area

Trinity Railway Express
EMD F59PH at Dallas Union Station in November 2004
Overview
Status	Operating
Owner	Dallas Area Rapid Transit (50%) Trinity Metro (50%)
Locale	Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
Termini	Union Station, Dallas T&P Station, Fort Worth
Stations	10
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Operator(s)	Herzog Transit Services
Daily ridership	8,200[1]
History
Opened	December 30, 1996
Technical
Line length	34 mi (55 km)
Track gauge	4 ft8+ 1⁄2  in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route diagram Legend Union Station Victory Medical/Market Center Downtown Irving/ Heritage Crossing West Irving CentrePort/DFW Airport Bell Richland Hills Fort Worth Central Station T&P Station All stations are ADA accessible Detailed diagram Blue Line to UNT Dallas . Red Line to Westmoreland Union Station Blue Line to Downtown Rowlett . Red Line to Parker Road . Green Line to Buckner SH Spur 366 Woodall Rogers Freeway Victory Green Line to North Carrollton/Frankford . Orange Line to DFW Airport station Dallas North Tollway Medical/Market Center I-35E Trinity River Loop 12 E.C. Junction Downtown Irving/ Heritage Crossing W.C. Junction SH 356 West Irving Pres. George Bush Turnpike Maintenance facility Dallas County Tarrant County CentrePort/DFW Airport SH 360 Bell Trinity Lakes (Proposed) I-820 Richland Hills Trinity River Dalwor Junction I-35W 6th Street Junction SH Spur 280 Fort Worth Central Station T&P Station This diagram: view talk edit

The Trinity Railway Express (TRE) is a commuter rail line in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It was established by an interlocal agreement between Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Trinity Metro. Each transit authority owns a 50% stake in the joint rail project and contractor Herzog Transit Services operates the line. The TRE began operating in December 1996.^{[2] [3]}

As of the fourth quarter of 2014, the TRE has an average weekday ridership of 8,200 passengers per day and is the fifteenth most-ridden commuter rail system in the United States.^[1] In 2014, the TRE carried 2,293,500 passengers.^[1]

Before 2006, the TRE was typically shown as a green line on DART maps and therefore was sometimes referred to as the "Green Line," but this was not an official designation. In 2006, DART chose green as the color for its new light rail route, the Green Line. Since 2006, the TRE has been shown as a dark blue line on DART maps.

History [edit]

Named after the Trinity River, which flows between Fort Worth and Dallas, the TRE was launched on December 30, 1996,^[2] shortly after the inaugural service of Dallas' DART Light Rail system, operating from Dallas Union Transit Station to the South Irving Transit Station.^[4] It runs along a former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad line that the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth purchased in 1983 for $34 million.^[5]

Service initially operated only in weekday rush hours, but midday and evening service was added in December 1997,^[5] and Saturday service was added in December 1998.^{[5] [6]}

On September 18, 2000, the line was extended to the suburb of Richland Hills^[5] and, for the first time, there was rail service available between downtown Dallas and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. On November 13, 2000, the West Irving Transit Station also opened. On December 3, 2001, the TRE was extended to its current terminus at the T&P Station in downtown Fort Worth.^[5]

Route [edit]

The eastern terminus of the TRE line is Dallas Union Station on the west side of downtown Dallas. The line runs northwest, past the American Airlines Center and Southwestern Medical Center, through Irving, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Hurst, and Richland Hills before ending with two stops in downtown Fort Worth (Fort Worth Central Station at 9th and Jones Streets and T&P Station on Throckmorton Street). There are a total of ten regular station stops, including a stop at Victory station (which until the opening of DART's Green line in September 2009, was used only for special events). Not all trains are through trains – a number of trains either terminate or originate at the CentrePort/DFW Airport station.

Rolling Stock [edit]

Class	Image	Type(s)	Top speed		Number	Built
			mph	km/h
EMD F40PH		Diesel Locomotive	110	177	2	1981-1985
EMD F59PH		Diesel Locomotive	110	177	7	1988–1994
EMD F59PHI		Diesel Locomotive	110	177	2	2001
Bombardier BiLevel Coach		Passenger coach Control Car	95	150	25	1976–77 2003 2007 2009
Former fleet
Budd Rail Diesel Car, type RDC-1[7]		Diesel Multiple Unit	85[7]	137	13	1954–58

Diesel locomotives [edit]

TRE has a fleet of 9 locomotives.

• EMD F40PH(1981-1985)

There are two leased EMD F40PH locomotives 310 and 330 which are acquired from Larry's Truck Electric.

• EMD F59PH IV (1994)

There are seven EMD F59PH IV locomotives that were acquired from GO Transit.  The original numbers for these were #525, #527–528 and #565–568. These were overhauled in late 2010 by the Norfolk Southern Railway and RELCO Locomotive to meet EPA standards and renumbered 120–126.^[8]

• EMD F59PHI (2001)

There are two EMD F59PHI locomotives that were purchased from EMD. The numbers for these are #569 and #570.

Coaches [edit]

• Bombardier Transportation and Hawker Siddeley bi-level cabs and coaches

Former fleet [edit]

Until 2011, the TRE fleet included diesel multiple units, in the form of 13 Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs) built in the 1950s for Canadian Pacific (9), Canadian National (3) and Boston & Maine (1).^[9] They were purchased used from Via Rail Canada in 1993. All were remanufactured by GEC-Alsthom in Montreal. They entered service in March and April 1997^[10] – after trains leased from Amtrak and the Connecticut Department of Transportation temporarily provided initial TRE service when the RDCs were not ready in time for the inauguration of TRE service^[4] in December 1996 – and thereafter provided all service for the line's first two to three years. They remained in service for about 14 years, the last cars being taken off of TRE service in March 2011.^[11] In 2010–2011, 11 of the 13 cars were leased to Denton County Transportation Authority for operation on the A-train. They were returned in 2012 and placed in storage at the TRE shops in Irving, Texas. In spring 2017, 12 RDCs were sold via auction to AllEarth Rail,^{[11] [12]} a Vermont-based private company that intends to use them to operate commuter rail service connecting the Vermont cities of Montpelier and Burlington.^[12] AllEarth subsequently resold two of the TRE cars to TriMet, of Portland, Oregon,^[13] before they had left Texas, and those two Dallas RDCs (Nos. 2007 and 2011) were moved in August 2017 from Texas to Oregon, where TriMet planned to use them on its WES Commuter Rail service.^[14] The other 10 RDCs were moved to Vermont the same month.^[13]

Train consist [edit]

Information from the Trinity Railway Express Train Facts page

Each train includes at least one locomotive unit and one bi-level cab car. Typically, one or two additional coach cars are included between the locomotive and cab car. Each cab car (and thus each train) has a restroom and passengers may move between cars during the trip. The trip from Union Station to T&P Station takes just over an hour, with scheduled trip times ranging from one hour, three minutes to one hour, eleven minutes. Track improvements are currently^{[ when? ]} underway which should offer an improvement in travel times by double-tracking certain stations and sections of the route. Currently,^{[ when? ]} portions of the route are single-track, requiring eastbound and westbound trains to meet only at certain points and requiring some eastbound trains to hold for 5–7 minutes to wait for a westbound train to get to the passing area.

Stations [edit]

Gallery [edit]

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  The TRE stops at the historic T&P Station in Fort Worth

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} APTA (March 3, 2015). "Transit Ridership Report Fourth Quarter and End-of-Year 2014" (pdf). American Public Transportation Association. Retrieved January 1, 2016 – via http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Pages/ridershipreport.aspx.
2. ^ ^{a b} Dickson, Gordon (November 26, 2016). "20 years later, there's plenty to love (and not) about the TRE". Star-Telegram. Fort Worth, Texas. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
3. ^ Mueller, Sarah (February 16, 2010). "Dallas woman killed Monday by TRE train identified". Dallas Morning News . Retrieved February 16, 2010.
4. ^ ^{a b} Cumbie, Jim (Spring 1997). "Dallas—Phase 2". The New Electric Railway Journal. pp. 12–13.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} Van Hattem, Matt (July 2, 2006). "Trinity Railway Express: The commuter railroad linking Dallas and Fort Worth". Trains . Retrieved August 10, 2018.
6. ^ Wolinsky, Julian (March 1999). "Commuter/Transit [regular monthly news section]". RailNews. p. 30.
7. ^ ^{a b} Wallace, Rich (March 1997). "Dallas Welcomes Trinity Commuter Railway". RailNews. p. 13. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
8. ^ "Trinity Railway Express receives upgraded F59PHs". Trains Magazine. December 13, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
9. ^ Metroplex mover Trains May 1999 pages 50-52
10. ^ Wallace, Rich (May 1997). "Questions and Answers for Dallas' Commuter Rail". RailNews. pp. 11–12. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
11. ^ ^{a b} Fancher, Julie (April 14, 2017). "DART is selling these cool vintage railcars". The Dallas Morning News . Retrieved August 10, 2018.
12. ^ ^{a b} "Vermont solar panel company buys RDCs". Trains. April 10, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
13. ^ ^{a b} Hall, C.B. (August 15, 2017). "AllEarth's commuter rail Budd cars pull into Vermont". Vermont Business Magazine . Retrieved August 10, 2018.
14. ^ "Worldwide Review [regular monthly news section]". Tramways & Urban Transit. UK: LRTA Publishing. October 2017. p. 394. ISSN 1460-8324.

External links [edit]

Route map:

KML is from Wikidata

• Media related to Trinity Railway Express at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

What Management Company Run Trinity Bell Gardens In Fort Worth

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Railway_Express

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