Rock loads Kerr--Koy Concrete, Katy
Cemex, Katy--Dittlinger empties, with UP 8795 and approx. 100 empties. Departed norhtbound at 1235.
This part of the MKT is abandoned and under concrete as part of the I-10 expansion. Most of the open area is now shopping centers and subdivisions
about 25 miles west of Houston
8013 was (or still yet to be?) the last SP B39-8E to be renumbered and/or repainted by UP. She would visit again over a year later. Photo taken in summer of 2001.
Photo taken in summer of 2001.
SP SD40T-2 8559 and SP B39-8E 8013 rest at the end of track in Katy on UP's Smithville Sub. Behind 8559 used to stretch the remainder of the ex-MKT mainline from Smithville to Houston. Photo tak... (more)