Katy GP7's working Houston yard. Bill Folsom photo from my collection.

CPKC M28011 rounds the corner on the Houston Sub. CPKC is definitely growing business into Mexico.

Olmito bound freight, just departing Englewood and making the turn South.

An intermodal transfer to Port of Houston Barbours Cut Terminal rolls under old MoP signals on the West Belt.

A Long Beach intermodal passes the Houston Skyline on it's way to Settegast Yard.

CPKC Q57401013 has a mix of gasoline & diesel headed from Korf, TX to Salinas Victoria, NL, MX with a Mexi-Belle in the lead.

Brown Eyed Susans were out in force for CPKC M28010 passing with former SD9043MAC #9115 leading. I'm glad CP re-built these orphan EMD's, providing much needed variety to their ubiquitous GE's.

CPKC C87100212 heads from Port Arthur to Corpus Christie with 98 loads of export petroleum coke. This run is much better than the prior shuttle within Port Arthur.

Recently converted from standard 50' to highcap 60's, Mexican Cerveza is riding shotgun on the MSALI.

PTRA Job 141 doubles it's 127 car train out of North Yard, pulling all the way to Buffalo Bayou with one of their Centennial painted units in the lead.

With a freshly re-painted SD70M leading an AC4400CW past a searchlight signal, the skyline is perhaps the only giveaway that this is 2024 instead of 25 years earlier.

CPKC train G37400109 passes the old signals at Chaney Jct. I'm told the replacements were just cut-in a year later in the summer of 2025.

A long hood forward SD40 crosses Brays Bayou on it's way to work customers along the Strang Sub.

Searchlights & SD70Ms, almost a scene out of 2004.

Houston is significantly more fluid than I've seen in the past 30 years and one reason is utilizing more of the legacy trackage. Case in point, BNSF H TEAPTX1 10 takes a left off the West Belt to... (more)