One of the last Missouri Pacific Texas Eagles to arrive at the T&P station in Fort Worth, Texas in February 1969.  I had just begun working for the Weather Burean (now National Weather Service) at the time in Fort Worth and walked to the station from downtown. As I remember, it was cold and drizzly. Only a handful of passengers got off the 2-hour late train. The photos were dark and the color was off.
   Karl D. Spence of the Railspot list sent the following: "In Sept of '68 the Texas Eagle ran coaches, a diner coach and a sleeper from St Louis to Ft. Worth. By the time you took the photos the sleeper must have been discontinued. The train in Sept split at Longview with a section going to San Antonio and Laredo and another section from Palestine to Houston. Your train was actually #21 but still called the Texas Eagle. I guess the service to El Paso was dropped earlier. I remember the through slumbercoach and sleeper from Washington to Dallas via the National Limited. I used to see it all the time at Silver Spring."


Engine 31 was on the lead, an E-8 I believe.




All in February 1969 at Fort Worth.