dallashistory

Looks like this renovated railroad right-of-way has recently opened for the urban hike-and-bike crowd:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 05bd6.html

If you go to the website of the Friends of the Santa Fe Trail you can view a map of the trail. At the north end it starts at White Rock Lake. Actually it uses part of SP's Belt Line. At the south end, it will make a T using the old T&P mainline. Part of the T will segue into Fair Park.

Once completed, you can walk or bike on four different railroad roadbed segments:

1) Katy's White Rock spur (not officially part of this trail)

2) Belt Line (SP)

3) Santa Fe (Dallas-Paris) line

4) old T&P mainline


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Dennis
Thanks for the links. I saw something about this on TV but didn't get the details.
I've hiked a few Texas railroad trails, most notably the one between Weatherford and Mineral Wells and they are pretty easy walking with few steep grades and wide well attended easements and rest stops. The hard part comes in the distances. The Weatherford-Mineral Wells trail is 20 miles.
It takes a bit of time to walk these distances but the scenery makes it worth it.