CP grainer G39201703 rolls over highways I-10 & I-45, catching the last rays of sun on its way through Houston.

A 12172’ long Dayton-Englewood freight pulls out of the Arrival Yard for headroom as it begins the long process of yarding the train.

Hot times on the Hardy Toll Road, with MFWEW 03 to the left stopping and will tie down, while LHN40 04 has a new crew which brought the 5708 and will drag the transfer into Englewood Yard.

Job 173 drops 41 cars in the Port of Houston 'Storage Yard', with the large Hansen-Mueller grain elevator in the background.

Despite the train symbol, this is 100% steamship boxes from Settegast Yard to Barbours Cut. In the background is the soon to be closed LyondellBasell refinery... opened in 1918 by Sinclair Oil Co... (more)

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)

CPKC I18001, the new Bensenville, IL to San Luis Potosi, SL, MX intermodal & automotive train, has just begun it's first of two long stretches of UP trackage rights as it crosses from #2 to #1.

A road worn P42 leads #1, the Sunset Limited, into the station at Beaumont, TX.

With a relatively new ACe, a buffer & 92 tanks of vinyl chloride, a unique Plaquemine, LA to Freeport, TX unit train passes under the 3 track SP era signal bridge at East Echo.

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)