The Empress making its way thru Englewood yard to its final stop for the day at Kendleton TX. Will continue on to Laredo TX on Memorial Day.

The 315 "yellowbonnet" was one of the 74 passenger F-units which had been leased to Amtrak for its trains operating on the Santa Fe. When the lease terminated, the units were converted... (more)

From another angle. All packed up and ready to go. Sold by a dealer to another industry, double reduction gearing and friction bearings dictate that it must ride to destination on other wheels. ... (more)

All packed up and ready to go. Sold by a dealer to another industry, double reduction gearing and friction bearings dictate that it must ride to destination on other wheels. Photo by Jim Satter... (more)

UP SD40-2 holds down some cars for a local to be integrated into the UP system at the east end of formerly SP Settegast Yard.

Galveston Railroad Museum took delivery of their ATSF-inspired F-units in style, with an Amtrak-chartered passenger special from Houston.

KCS MSHSZ08 leaves Houston behind, getting through town relatively quickly.

A sad looking ACe leads the first section of the Freeport train south past old HB&T searchlights under the modern skyline of Houston.

Port 162 will dump this train in Penn City Yard Track 810, rather than taking all the way to Cargill in Jacintoport. This was BNSF G MKSPTN9 04 and will soon be unloaded and heading back for anot... (more)

KCS 5019 brings southbound manifest MSHSZ04 through Allen's Landing Park in downtown Houston, crossing the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou on Main 2 of UP's Houston Sub.

Amtrak 3 pulls the Sunset Limited into its station stop in Houston on a chilly Sunday morning

Running "Southern" style, NS 9485 takes a UP local west out of Fauna on the UP Houston Sub in northeast Houston.

Sunset On The Sunset Limited. On July 18, 2020, the Amtrak Sunset Limited arrived in Houston, Texas at sunset with Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleepe... (more)

Illuminated by the morning sun, UP SD70M 3813 brings Settegast to Strang yard transfer MHOSR12 down UP’s West Belt Sub and under a set of tri-lights at CP Nance.

As the evening sky is illuminated by the sunset, a southbound BNSF manifest departs Houston via trackage rights on UP’s West Belt Subdivision. We see them framed here at CP Rusk with a pair of f... (more)