This ended up being one of my favorite chases of the year, for numerous reasons. The Holiday Express with "Shreveport" leading back to Shreveport.

A Conrail SD50 works the former Southern Pacific yard in Victoria, TX. The SD50 and an SP Dash 8 have just uncoupled from a classic SP bay window caboose, while an SP EMD waits in the distance. ... (more)

2816's excursion departs Victoria

Commodity Switching Co. 616 with a stunning Christmas sunset in the background.

Commodity Switching Co. 616 with a stunning Christmas sunset in the background.

An empty CCTX coal train has just began its journey after leaving the Coleto Creek Power Station as it crosses over the Dry Creek Trestle, just north of Victoria, TX.

A loaded CCTX coal train on the final miles of its journey, crosses over the not-so-dry, Dry Creek Trestle, just north of Victoria, TX.

KCS 2902 idles away at dusk awaiting it's next assignment at the local Caterpiller Plant in Victoria, TX.

KCS 2902 idling away in the predawn darkness. This unit still sports the grey "safety stripe" scheme, an ever fading sight on the KCS system.

NS 9502 leads ASPBVR out of Victoria, Texas

A Mexico bound KCS stack train is rounding the sharp connection from KCS line to SP trackage rights at Victoria

SSW 7292 West is passing through the small community of Guadalupe between Victoria and Placedo on the Port Lavaca Sub. This area has changed quite a bit with the widening of the adjacent highway ... (more)

KCS 4624 leads a southbound grain train through downtown Victoria, TX.

A pair of gray KCS(M) AC4400CWs lead this southbound across the former SP Macaroni Line, soon to enter UP trackage for the run to Robstown, TX, where the train will re-gain KCS tracks for the jour... (more)

A southbound Kansas City Southern freight approaches the junction with Union Pacific’s Cuero Subdivision at Victoria, Texas, on March 13, 2013. KCS uses trackage rights on this line southward to... (more)