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East Yard and Ginnie Yard just to the east of Tower 55 were always a good spot for MP photos back in the 1970’s.  On August 6th in 1978 two SD40-2’s and a caboose, better known as a “caboose hop”, were waiting for north-south traffic to clear up before heading on west to Centennial Yard.

A year later on September 5th in 1979 two SW1200’s paused in their switching moves as the southbound Amtrak “Inter-American” pulled by two SDP40F’s is arriving from Dallas.

Amtrak’s train passing this location 28 years later is now the ”Texas Eagle”, and what remains of these yard tracks see little use except to park trains.