The freshly tilled earth gives reason to the name of this subdivision - Red Rock. 509 and 582 race towards Pearland Texas through Oklahoma with time sensitive auto shipments.
BN 6267 sits in the esacpe track by the 2A building at Argentine.
A close look at UP 2821 reveals that this is a non -2 leading the eastbound train over BNSF's Marceline Sub.
BNSF 4084 has just come to rest in receiving yard track 4026 at Argentine with the day's M-NSIKCK train.
BNSF 6292 and 6267 are regular hump motors at Argentine.
BNSF 9988 leads a Thomas Hill coal train onto the Brookfield subdivision at Maxwell, where the BNSF leaves the NS.
Brand new CNW 8670 shines in the morning light as it leads a loaded coal train towards Shawnee Junction.
It is the day after Christmas, 1994, and Conrail 5551 is a long way from home rails as it sits in UP's Avondale, LA yard.
Before the UP 2400's were SD60s, C30-7 2433 rests in one of the small yards in Houston.
Back when we sought out SP C44-9Ws because they were new, not because they were unpatched, 8113 looked sharp leading a westbound train towards Houston.
SP GP40P-2 7601, one of three such creatures on the Espee roster, is seen in local service in the Houston area shortly after the UP-SP merger.
All 20-cylinder versions, SD45T-2s SP 6852, SP 6795, and SSW 6871, look good as the swing a train through Englewood Yard.
MPI motors like the 9049 seen at Englewood were common on the Espee lines in Louisiana and Texas in 1996 and 1997.
SP 8688 leads SD40 7310, which wears a very unique style of lettering, through the maze of trackage in Houston.