A couple of old heads holding a 1st shift weekday local use their belt packs to both enjoy the nice morning Gulf breeze on the return from Basin Yard to Glass Yard.
A welder was in the middle of multi-hour repairs on the Katy Neck, forcing this Galena Park to Booth Yard transfer to shove onto the Strang Sub and then make another shove into Booth Yard... but a... (more)
BNSF Y HOU1851 10 crosses Bray's Bayou with the wildflowers showing no signs of relenting on this well above average 91 degree day.
Combining all three paint schemes, PTRA's heritage painted locomotive leads Port 264 dragging 87 tank cars from Pasadena Yard to North Yard.
Consisting almost completely of FPAX tanks & plastic pellet hoppers, the Formosa Fapper crosses from #2 to #1 at Runnels, around MOW working just behind us.
Returning from the Port of Houston to Falls City, NE; X PTNFCN9 10 starts back up to change crews at South Yard.
Houston-Spring LHN40 is about to take the wye onto the West Belt, while a BNSF grainer G ENILDH9 07, running as UP GRNGPJ 09, diverges off the West Belt to the Houston Sub on it's way to PTRA Nort... (more)
An extra San Antonio Kirby Yard to Livonia freight comes around the Maury St Connection onto #1 of the West Belt at Tower 71.
The Sunset Limited has completed it's station stop and passes some Southern Pacific searchlights that have survived into full PTC implementation.
Shuttling cars from Eureka Yard to Eagle Lake, TX; this former SSW unit is still living it's best life hauling freight on the Sunset Route.
KCS QKOTUL13 is hauling 75 tank cars of gasoline from Korf, TX to Toluca, EM; rolling through Houston on UP's Houston Sub. We were in search of searchlights this day and managed to lens 3 differe... (more)
MKT SD40-2 616 and 600.
Searchlights in the heart of PTC... UP's Houston Sub, formerly the Terminal Sub, still has a grove of searchlights a few miles west of Englewood Yard.
