The Holiday Express has left the UP Brownsville Sub and is now heading across their own trackage to recrew and make the final sprint into Laredo. Since then, the train has already made its second... (more)
The Holiday Express has quickly recrewed, toned up UP for their permission to swing around town onto their rails and head north. Initially, UP had cleared a path for them to run like the wind, bu... (more)
KCSM 4884 is on the point of a Corpus Christi bound manifest just east of Robstown.
A pair of KCS eastbound await crews at the Robstown terminal.
KCS 4814 awaits a fresh crew in the now triple tracked Spear Siding just outside the Robstown Interlockers. I originally had no intentions of photographing trains that day until I saw the sunset. ... (more)
All tracks on the KCS lead into Corpus Christi are jammed on a sunny Sunday morning. Each of the 3 or 4 trains lined up on this eastern terminus of the old Texas Mexican Ry. (including this JB Hu... (more)
An eastbound mixed freight from the Mexican border at Laredo approaches the siding at Speer, just outside of Robstown, with a yellow MW SD40-2 slug trailing.
Two Texas Mexican GP40-3s in their KCS liveries sandwich a "classic" TM geep in the grungy green and orange. Too bad these were on their way out when I had a chance to spend some time in Corpus C... (more)
One of the few, the proud, the GP28s. Not many built of this model, IC had most of them.
An east bound mixed manifest from Mexico holds outside of Robstown, TX waiting to get onto UP trackage rights towards Houston.