Ft.Worth's Double Diamonds

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I’m looking for info on the double diamonds and switching yards around Ft. Worth’s short southeast side.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,LC.

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Don’t know the specific yard you mean, but Microsoft has a great site for aerial photos that might help you locate it and see yard layouts. It helps to have a good road map to reference while you use this site. These are a series of photos laid out like a map but you would have to know your position, much as a pilot would. (You can’t zoom close enough to read road signs!)
http://terraserver.microsoft.com

You can zoom in close enough to see railroad cars and easily see the track & switches. This is a small yard in Fort Worth:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=4&s=11&x=1705&y=9060&z=14&w=2
Clicking on the photo will zoom in, or use the zoom tool on the left side.

Wayne

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Hey Muddy Creek–great link–I think those photos are actually of BOP yard in Arlington. The yard services the GM plant. BOP=Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac. I think they build SUV’s there now.

Ichounds, is the info you’re looking for the yard just east of Tower 55? I believe it is called “Ginny”, possibly a reference to the the really old I-GN (International Great Northern) a Missouri Pacific subsidiary.