A UP Public Affairs special deadheads toward Laredo, TX behind some clean EMD and GE power as it passes a northbound in the hole at Gardendale. The Eagle Ford oil/gase shale of this area is alive... (more)

A long way from the mainlines of the Great Northern, this old soldier continues to earn its keep switching frac sand, crude oil, pipe, and other products of the Eagle Ford Oil Shale formation in s... (more)

A few feet away, the railroad was being pulled up. Once a Missouri Pacific branch, the Crystal City had been abandoned circa 1994 and sold for scrap.