Looking east on the SP Sunset Route at the crossing of the Houston Belt & Terminal at SP Englewood Yard. Orders are out and signals lined up for the Sunset Ltd. This area has changed a lot in the ... (more)

Northbound ATSF on Southern Division. SP Sunset Route on the left. Connection to SP Victoria branch on the right. Tower 17 - the last manned tower in Texas - is rumored to be closing in September ... (more)

Southbound coal train on the Santa Fe Southern Division

This ex-passenger unit is southbound at Augusta

The Tex-Mex operated their own passenger service for a while between Corpus Christi and Laredo. The Tex-Mex Express is westbound near Alice.

At North Tower near Union Station,#11 was rebuilt from 10-6 sleeper Crystal River in 1971 (originally used on the Colorado Eagle).

As the Lone Star awaits an early morning departure from Houston - every day one (and sometimes two) mail trucks loaded mail for Chicago.

The tower was closed a couple of years after this shot.

Chessie business car #25 at the ex-C&O yards

Westbound on CSX ex-L&N Mobile-New Orleans line.

an ex-railway post office/baggage heavyweight car in work service

The line to the left is the Missouri Pacific (ex-T&P) line to Texarkana while #3266 is on the MP (ex-T&P) line from Shreveport,La.

This MP freight is passing a few Rock Island units at the entrance to the Houston Belt and Terminal shops.

Eastbound around the Flatonia area - between San Antonio and Houston.

It's late evening as this eastbound passes an old water tower on the Sunset Route in west Texas.

Working on the former Akron Canton & Youngstown RR

Near the ex-SP station at the Alamodome

These ex-C&O units are "protecting" Southern (CP) #2839 as it prepares to be turned on the turntable.

On the point of the eastbound Sunset Limited passing Tower 115 (crossing of the SP Eagle Lake branch). The tower was out of sevice by 1990.

On a special freight run between Rusk and Palestine,Tx

The local is on ex-B&O Washington-Chicago trackage. The two tracks on the right are the ex-Erie Lackawanna New York-Chicago line.

The local is westbound on ex-B&O Washington-Chicago trackage crossing the ex-Erie Lackawanna New York-Chicago line at JO interlocking.

East of Denver on the ex-CB&Q route.

Looking north on the Hillsboro-Dallas Katy route. Waxahachie is about 30 miles south of Dallas.

Southbound on the Ft. Worth & Denver between Waxahachie and Corsicana.

Only a couple of years old at the time.

One of the early runs of the "streamliner" Texas Limited which ran between Houston and Galveston mostly on weekends. Ex-Louisiana & Northwest #100 (along with F7 #200) were eventually repainted. T... (more)

The SP business car is probably the Alamo.

The Gulf Breeze - northbound on CSX ex-L&N line a few miles south of Atmore on the Mobile-Birmingham run.

On an excursion between Denver and Laramie.

A couple of Southern business cars are being moved.

Leaving Houston headed to New Orleans with the Worlds Fair Special

These units were working their last assignments on the "hump" train -- pushing cars over the crest at Englewood yard into the classification area.

ex-NYC observation Wingate Brook. Built by Budd in 1949 as a 5 double bedroom buffet lounge observation. I believe it ran on one of the two last Twentieth Century Ltd in 1967.

First section of the westbound Lake Shore Ltd

ex-EL unit

This was during the '79 NRHS convention out of Washington DC.

between Dallas and Shreveport

Eastbound on the SP Sunset Route headed to New Orleans for display at the Worlds Fair

southbound on the Ft.Worth & Denver RI/BN joint line

The San Antonio and Houston sections of the InterAmerican switching on the Santa Fe at Temple.

Westbound on the Southern RR Chattanooga to Memphis line. The line curving off to the left is the southbound ex-L&N Nashville to Birmingham route.

Northbound on the SP Houston-Dallas line about 40 miles nw of Houston.

This ex-passenger unit is southbound on the now abandoned Santa Fe Sealy-Matagorda "Cane Belt" branch with a weed killing train.

I believe this was the Three Rivers -- westbound on the ex-PRR New York-Chicago line just west of Pittsburgh.

The departing Lone Star is "weaving" its way thru the throngs of railfans. #4449 (on Amtraks Transcontinental Steam Excursion) will depart for San Antonio.

ex-PRR signal on the Chicago-New York line

The Alco PA units weren't the only Alcos the D&H sold to Mexico. Victoria is about 130 miles SW of Houston and +- 200 miles from Mexico.

Westbound Rio Grande Zephyr

Eastbound on the ex-PRR Chicago-New York line about 25 miles west of Pittsburgh

After coming off the Galveston-Ft.Worth main - #2053 is headed south on the now abandoned Sealy-Matagora branch.

A freshly painted SP unit - quite rare!

ex-CP observation Algonquin Park on the eastbound Canadian. Built in 1954 by Budd as a dome bar lounge with 3 bedrooms and a drawing room.

A little street running on the SP New Orleans-Houston Sunset Route

A lazy Sunday at Eureka Yard. Just a few months before the UP takeover.