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ft worth stockyard station was one of the biggest livestock shipping pens in the west, mostly hogs and sheep.

inside, the main drag is touristy restaurants & shoppes, but interestingly much of it is left as is.

 

http://www.stockyardsstation.com/More-Information/History.html

 

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side view of stockyards station from up on swift armour plaza hill

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these were known as” subways” – which means ft worth once actually had two subways running!  :laugh:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Center_Subway

 

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a swift-armour station office

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here are a few historic photos they had posted around inside

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outside are a few other old stockyard related warehouses left to ruin

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a look toward downtown ft worth from the stockyard station rails

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haha - back to the mall part!  :laugh:  actually, they had a good cowboy/vaquero record store:

http://www.fortworthstockyards.org/business_page.aspx?fwsy_id=6&sort=87

 

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***  that’s all from dfw texas this summer, next visit i hope to hit ne texas cajun country ***

 

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