A rock train crosses Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston. The bridge on the left is the former Katy line that crossed the current UP route at what is formerly known as Tower 108.

Downtown Houston is Vacant due to the corona virus fears which allowed me the opportunity to get a shot of a train crossing the buffalo bayou since I could get a parking spot when the all parking ... (more)

UP 5996 and UP 6471 head south at Runnels with train MEWFO-05 (Manifest; Englewood Yard - Formosa, TX)

A Vulcan rock load heads south on the UP West Belt sub past BNSF's New South Yard south of downtown.

KCS 4185 heads past the Mesa crossovers at the east end of Englewood Yard in northeast Houston.

UP may, for all intents and purposes, own Houston... but there are a lot of trackage rights. Case in point is BNSF grainer X PTNFCN9 10 heading south on the West Belt, passing KCS IMYDA09 running... (more)

PTRA Job 281 takes 90 loads of diesel & gasoline to North Yard for interchange to KCS. It'll become train QHOQR10, bound for Queretaro, QT. Mexico getting rid of the Pemex monopoly has opened up... (more)

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)

Small pockets of ex-Southern Pacific searchlight signals exist throughout the city. With almost every signal in the state of Georgia replaced, it's refreshing to see something other than a hooded... (more)

The daily Englewood to Pasadena freight crosses Bray's Bayou on a beautiful fall day.

BNSF H TEAPTX1 09 has made it through the CF that is Houston and has just a few more miles on the UP Strang Sub to reach PTRA Pasadena Yard.

Port Job 182 takes the West Main past Crossover No. 1 on it's way from North Yard to American Yard with 50 cars of general freight.