A leased Citirail GEVO leads a BNSF mixed freight toward the Ferromex interchange at the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, TX. In the distant background, Lackland/Kelly AFB can be seen with many C-17... (more)

A BNSF customer special lays over at the San Antonio Amtrak depot, far from its own rails and accessed only via trackage rights. The special will entertain industry representatives the next day r... (more)

Still a rarity these days, it was in 2012 as well, but UP's E's lead an office car train east on the Sunset Route toward Houston from San Antonio. This train should've been led by UP 844, but acc... (more)

A deadhead UP passenger special heads for home, bound for Council Bluffs, IA from San Antonio, TX. The Tower of the Americas can be seen on the left and the Alamodome on the right above the train... (more)

UP's Rockport Sub local passes along the Mission's Trail to switch several frack sand yards at the south end of the line.

UP's Rockport Sub local heads south along the branch en route to its first industry just a mile or so ahead behind an eclectic mix of 4-axle power.

A Union Pacific RC yard job switches the ex-MP Sosan Yard on a warm January day with a somewhat rare ex-MP GP38-2 that still sports a red frame stripe. Not many engines on the UP roster have made... (more)

UP's local to serve industries along the Rockport Sub passes a stopped westbound on the Sunset Route as it traverses downtown San Antonio. Today's "Geep Time" consist is punctuated with... (more)

On a miserably hot late July day, a long Englewood Yard (Houston), TX to El Paso, TX manifest train scoots down Union Pacific's Del Rio Subdivision through the downtown San Antonio area with a gen... (more)

GPapalooza as I call it. UP's Rockport Sub local accelerates south along S Presa St. with five GPs of various lineages including one of the few remaining unpatched Cotton Belt GP60s. The train i... (more)

Running under a mess of urban power lines and various poles, a southbound autorack re-position move for Laredo, TX rolls down Union Pacific's Del Rio Subdivision behind a lone Dash 9 on a miserabl... (more)

The SP 794 sits stuffed and mounted along the platform of the the San Antonio Amtrak Station, awaiting a restoration that will allow it back on mainline rails.

An empty rock train makes the curve off the Sunset Route at Tower 112 and on to the Rockport Sub. The shuttered Lone Star beer brewery sits idle in the background providing an interesting backdro... (more)

UP's local from the Toyota Tundra truck plant comes back into San Antonio on the former ex-MP Corpus Christi Sub behind a pair of rebuilt SD40-2s.