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)
KMTX 3001 and KMTX 3000 heads east out of the Lyondell Basell Refiner in Pasadena with a load a coke for the Kinder Morgan Deepwater facility in Deer Park Texas.
KMTX 2022 heads out of the soon to be closed Lyondell Basell Refinery on a cold morning in Pasadena with a load a coke for the Kinder Morgan Deepwater facility in Deer Park Texas.
KMTX 3001 pulling from Lyondell with a loaded coke train heading east on its short trip to the docks at the Kinder Morgan Deepwater Terminal in Deer Park.
KMTX 2022 leading the empty coke train from Deepwater back into Lyondell
KMTX 3002 leads the daily coke shuttle out of the Lyondell Basell Refinery at on the PTRA tracks at Sinco Junction
Every morning on the Houston Ship Channel the PTRA Railroad runs at coke train on a short 8 mile trip from the Lyondell Basell Refinery in Pasadena to the Kinder Morgan Deep Water Terminal off Bel... (more)
There is a certain beauty in the industrial clutter surounding the Houston Ship Channel, it reminds me of downriver Detroit. Here, Job 134 heads south passing Job 134 switching Pasadena Yard.
Port 135 puts his train away in Pasadena Yard, in what for me is an archetypal scene of of Houston... PTRA in front of the Petrobras refinery.
Sunday morning off.
At home among the stacks.
Sorting tankers and covered hoppers under a beautiful Texas January sky.
With the official flower of Houston sprouting in the foreground, the Port 264 Job banks into a curve on the UP Strang Sub, with the PTRA Heritage Unit leading the way. The unit has the current re... (more)
