A 12172’ long Dayton-Englewood freight pulls out of the Arrival Yard for headroom as it begins the long process of yarding the train.

CPKC grainer G39100204 has 9 loaded autoracks in front of the 119 empty system covered hoppers, taking a brief turn north up the West Belt on it's way from the Houston to Beaumont Subs.

A Port Arthur to Corpus Christie export pet coke train has a nice SD70ACU leader as it heads west, with CPKC M275 in the background, clearing just in time.

Hot times on the Hardy Toll Road, with MFWEW 03 to the left stopping and will tie down, while LHN40 04 has a new crew which brought the 5708 and will drag the transfer into Englewood Yard.

Job 173 drops 41 cars in the Port of Houston 'Storage Yard', with the large Hansen-Mueller grain elevator in the background.

Despite the train symbol, this is 100% steamship boxes from Settegast Yard to Barbours Cut. In the background is the soon to be closed LyondellBasell refinery... opened in 1918 by Sinclair Oil Co... (more)

Port Job 343 has borrowed UP power, as it departs North Yard, returning to Manchester Yard.

I'd heard the PTRA Centennial Units were still paired up in North Yard, but what were the chances they'd be assigned to an active job and working the south end of the yard during optimal morning s... (more)

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)

CPKC I18001, the new Bensenville, IL to San Luis Potosi, SL, MX intermodal & automotive train, has just begun it's first of two long stretches of UP trackage rights as it crosses from #2 to #1.

A road worn P42 leads #1, the Sunset Limited, into the station at Beaumont, TX.

A BNSF coal train is about to interchange back to BNSF in Shreveport. Due to southbound directional running on the Rabbit, aka UP Lufkin Sub required to Luminant's Martin Lake Power Plant in Tatu... (more)

A Wylie, TX to Meridian, MS/NS intermodal diverges onto the Meridian Speedway, while the other tracks leads to Lake Charles, or Beaumont and eventually Mexico.

A long Nashville, TN to North Little Rock, AR freight drags through Kentucky St after interchanging from CSX to UP about half a mile back.

From left to right, UP MNVNL 02, BNSF H MEMTOA1 02 & CN RJY30 02 are all visible. I was happy to catch a Death Star SD70 on this transfer, returning from NS.