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.
Now that PTRA is painting their GP38s in multiple interesting schemes, it makes it easier to be happy capturing the 'GATX Leaser' era.
Job 173 drops 41 cars in the Port of Houston 'Storage Yard', with the large Hansen-Mueller grain elevator in the background.
Port Job 343 has borrowed UP power, as it departs North Yard, returning to Manchester Yard.
I'd heard the PTRA Centennial Units were still paired up in North Yard, but what were the chances they'd be assigned to an active job and working the south end of the yard during optimal morning s... (more)
Port Job 133 drags pneumatic covered hoppers past storage tanks & underground pipe markers. At least the motor is in the more elegant, classy GATX paint scheme versus the simple light blue & whit... (more)
There is a certain beauty in the industrial clutter surounding the Houston Ship Channel, it reminds me of downriver Detroit. Here, Job 134 heads south passing Job 134 switching Pasadena Yard.
PTRA's Job 141 heads north along UP's Strang Sub in east Houston, crossing the bridge at Harrisburg over Brays Bayou. This morning's transfer from Manchester Yard to North Yard sports 4 of PTRA's ... (more)
PTRA Port Job 235 accelerates up the UP Strang Sub off the Sims Bayou bridge and out of the vast industrial areas in the Port of Houston.
Palm trees & the Port. Port Job 173 has just been relieved and fresh crew of Port 282 drags the train into North Yard. I've always thought it a touch of class that the PTRA paints their whistles... (more)
Port 135 puts his train away in Pasadena Yard, in what for me is an archetypal scene of of Houston... PTRA in front of the Petrobras refinery.
Combining all three paint schemes, PTRA's heritage painted locomotive leads Port 264 dragging 87 tank cars from Pasadena Yard to North Yard.
Sunday morning off.
At home among the stacks.
Sorting tankers and covered hoppers under a beautiful Texas January sky.
