Fort Worth & Western Railroad FWWR

Nature of Firm:
The Fort Worth & Western and Fort Worth & Dallas Belt Railroads operate under corporate parent company, Tarantula Corporation, based in Fort Worth, Texas.

Present connections are made with UP, BNSF and South Orient. FWWR handles approximately 20,000 carloads annually. FWWR acquired 6.25 miles of former BN/Frisco trackage in Fort Worth, TX and started freight service in October 1988. An additional 1.5 miles were acquired from MP in 1988 followed by acquisitions from BN of 1.5 miles of track between Birds & Belt Junction which is now joint track between BNSF and FWWR. FWWR then purchased 1 miles of track in the Belt Junction area from ATSF. FWWR leased and purchased 3 miles of track from SP in 1994, bringing total trackage operated to 10.75 miles of track in Fort Worth. In May 1996, FWWR leased 28.5 miles of track from DART with SP Freight Rights between Fort Worth and Carrolton. FWWR's latest acquisition was made in December 1998 when they purchased 134 miles of track from South Orient Railroad between Belt Junction, TX (Ft. Worth) and Ricker, TX. This purchase also included trackage rights over South Orient's 15 miles of line between Cresson and Cleburne, TX and assumption of South Orient lease on 24 miles of track between Dublin and Gorman, TX. FWWR also obtained trackage rights over BNSF between Ricker, TX and San Angelo Junction, TX to maintain access with the South Orient on their Presidio line. Additional trackage rights include those over BNSF between Birds/Alliance, Birds/BNSF North Yard, and overhead rights on BNSF between BNSF North Yard and UP Peach Yard. Track capacity is 286,000 pounds.

Officers
Bob Roberson
Chairman & CEO

Jim Martin
President & COO

Richard Lesikar
Vice President-Marketing
e-mail: fwwrrll@onramp.net

Bob Lavery
General Manager-Operations
Phone: 817-222-9798
Fax: 817-222-1409

Location
Fort Worth & Western Railroad
6300 Ridglea Place, Suite 1200
Fort Worth, TX 76116
Phone: 817-763-8297
Fax: 817-738-9657

Revenue Requirements
Handling Carrier

Interchange Points
Carrollton, Fort Worth & Hodge, TX

Equipment Summary
13 engines

Information Exchange Method
Information is transferred through EDI, Fax, Phone, and e-mail with UP.

Customers Served
Amsco Steel
Balcones Recycling
Bowie Sims Prange
Bulkmatic
Bunge Foods
Champion Dairy Pak
Commercial Metals
Coors Distributing
Ferro Corporation
Felts Oil Sales, Inc.
Foxworth Galbraith
Gachman Metals
Harvest Supply
Heritage Bag
Hope Lumber Sales
LaLinda Foods
Liberty Carton
Lofland Company
Manville Corp
PCI Transportation
Plywood Co. of FTW
Quarles Lumber
Red River Warehouse
Rock-Tenn Company
Steel & Ornamental
Sunthetic Products
Tandy Cable Products
Toys R Us
TST Impresso
United Paper
Vincent Metals
Willamette Industries
Witco
Pesco Plastic
Thomas Plastic
Thornton Steel
Trinity Industries
Henson Lumber
TXI/Tex-Star
Rolling commodities
Anderson Feed Mill
Barnes & McCullough
Eades Commodities
Farmers Milling
Poston Feed
Randolph Ranches
Seam-Mac Tube
El Dorado Chemical
Farmland Industries
Gore Brothers Feed
Kuhlwein Commodities
American Plant Food
Gore Brothers Feed
Jimmy Gore Fertilizer
Moorman Manufacturing
D.P.C.
Mann Agricultural
Birdsong Peanut
United Blancher
Golden Peanut
Gorman Milling
Golden Oak Milling
Stephens Feed & Fertilizer