In Sept. 1989 some enterprising Houston businessmen began operating “The Texas Limited” about 4 days per week between Houston and Galveston on the SP. The following month, Oct. 14, 1989, the ... (more)

Passing over a small trestle at De Costa, Texas, a northbound Kansas City Southern freight is traversing Union Pacific’s Cuero Subdivision between Placedo and Victoria on March 13, 2013.

The Galveston Railroad Museum special nears the end of its journey as it runs next to the bay, approaching the causeway that serves as the sole rail access to Galveston Island.

A northbound UP freight traverses the old MP bridge across Onion Creek in the waning minutes of light on a gorgeous summer day.

The third unit asphalt train for Martin-Marietta in Greenville, Texas rocks over a old wooden trestle east of Ridgeway on a soggy afternoon. Six axle locomotives and unit trains are still a bit of... (more)

A factory-fresh ES44C4 from the Fort Worth GE plant races west towards Amarillo on the Red River Valley Subdivision hauling a nice train of domestic containers through the Texas panhandle region.

UP's empty rock train from Millet, TX crosses the Medina River on its way north for another load of rock for the booming Eagle Ford shale region.

A peaceful morning on the bank of the Colorado River is rattled to life by the passing of the Smithville Local.

A set of GCSR power crosses Brady Creek heading back to the yard.

UP power leads an empty Powder River Basin coal train from San Antonio's plant at Elmendorf, crossing over the San Antonio River. Only a few miles north from here on the river is the famous River... (more)

A UP local departs the ex-MP Sosan Yard in San Antonio bound for some frac sand plants on the Laredo Sub where the sand is distributed to drilling sites in the booming Eagle Ford shale in south Te... (more)

UP 8813 East crosses a small canyon on its way to the next crew change at Del Rio, TX as it traverses barren west Texas. The bridge in the foreground is the old US 90 crossing.

UP's Fort Worth to San Antonio road freight departs Corbyn Yard, continuing south on the Austin Sub for its destination at the ex-MP Sosan Yard.

An otherwise tranquil morning on the Colorado River is greeted with the passing of the Sunset Limited. A locomotive dedicated to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces is leading the ... (more)

Crossing the Colorado
A northbound Kansas City Southern freight crosses the Colorado River (not the same river in Colorado) at Wharton, Texas, on the afternoon of March 14, 2013. This b... (more)