The only bridge, the noted river, never a torrent, sort of a ditch here and now a rolling anachronism is making it’s whirring, rattling screaky transit, sun coming in between the spokes, rattlin... (more)

Trundling along amongst the members of the rubber-tired species.

Shoving a boxcar toward the brewery. It must have contained packaging as Pearl was pretty much a regional brand. Nevertheless few would admit to touching the stuff.

Shoving a boxcar toward the brewery. Train is moving away from the photographer.

An SP local with unrebuilt units is working the interchange. The diminutive TXTC unit could only push 2-3 cars up the tracks to SP which necessitated several runs daily, on no particular schedule.

Yet another short string of cars at the SP interchange on a hot south Texas day.

With three cars in tow, about its limit, #1 is approaching notoriously abrupt Sherman St. crossing, know for catching eighteen wheelers. It was closed permanently not long afterwards.

Here is the Pearl Brewery Texas Transportation Company electric locomotive leaving the SP interchange and crossing Alamo Street as it enters the street trackage on E. Jones Avenue on the way back ... (more)

Here the 73 year old unit is pushing some tanks cars into the brewery. The railroad had about another years to go. The Brewery was bought by Pabst and closed. Sad to lose the railroad, Pearl be... (more)

My MP pal, who undertook to offer a welcome to a young Air Force guy by showing me around the oddball (on MP) GE behind him. In the few weeks I was there I got a couple of cab rides around the te... (more)

A familiar sight around the city for years.

Amtrak's Sunset Limited prepares to depart San Antonio while Southern Pacific Mikdao 784 looks on.

Westbound stopped to pick up a crew member.

Using the balloon track on the western side of UP's East Yard, a mixed freight train goes about switching cars on a sunny afternoon in the "Drive-By City" as framed by the signal bridge for Tower ... (more)

A fast moving east bound intermodal train composed of domestic and international containers rolls through Tower 112 atop the west bound mainline. A ratty looking AC4400 provides pushing power as ... (more)