Amtrak 3 pulls the Sunset Limited into its station stop in Houston on a chilly Sunday morning

Running "Southern" style, NS 9485 takes a UP local west out of Fauna on the UP Houston Sub in northeast Houston.

Sunset On The Sunset Limited. On July 18, 2020, the Amtrak Sunset Limited arrived in Houston, Texas at sunset with Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleepe... (more)

Illuminated by the morning sun, UP SD70M 3813 brings Settegast to Strang yard transfer MHOSR12 down UP’s West Belt Sub and under a set of tri-lights at CP Nance.

As the evening sky is illuminated by the sunset, a southbound BNSF manifest departs Houston via trackage rights on UP’s West Belt Subdivision. We see them framed here at CP Rusk with a pair of f... (more)

UP MEWFP12 snakes through CP Rusk and past a pair of former Houston, Belt & Terminal searchlights on UP’s West Belt Sub led by a clean ES44AC.

Union Pacific's 2021 Toys for Tots excursion partnered with the UPVets' Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter and the U.S. Marine Corps heads south down UP's Galveston Subdivision in Houston, TX. The train o... (more)

Union Pacific's 2021 Toys for Tots excursion partnered with the UPVets' Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter and the U.S. Marine Corps heads south down UP's Galveston Subdivision in Houston, TX. The train o... (more)

As the Houston skyline provides a backdrop and a searchlight signal stands to the side, we see UP SD70M 3813 leading Settegast to Strang Yard transfer MROSR12 around the curve at South GH&H Juncti... (more)

CAPTURED AT THE INTERSECTION OF HEGAR RD. AND OLD HEMPSTEAD HWY IN HOCKLEY, TX AS IT WAS MAKING ITS WAY FROM HEMPSTEAD, TX TO HOUSTON, TX.

PTRA's Job 141 heads north along UP's Strang Sub in east Houston, crossing the bridge at Harrisburg over Brays Bayou. This morning's transfer from Manchester Yard to North Yard sports 4 of PTRA's ... (more)

Beginning the day's run to Beaumont, Texas, as part of its 2021 tour to New Orleans, the Big Boy slowly chugs up the West Belt out of downtown Houston, under the Collingsworth Street overpass.

Texas & New Orleans GP9 434 and 443 delivered from LaGrange with parent Southern Pacific markings in October 1956, waiting for its next assignment at Houston's Diesel Facility on March 17, 1957.... (more)

PTRA Port Job 235 accelerates up the UP Strang Sub off the Sims Bayou bridge and out of the vast industrial areas in the Port of Houston.

KCS 4005 leading an empty northbound grain train through the Houston Terminal. Amazingly, some of these 60+ year old signals have stood the test of progress into 2021, soon to also succumb like ma... (more)