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Title: |
Heading Through the Crossovers |
Description: |
A UP manifest bound for South Texas has just left Englewood Yard and is traversing the crossovers at Carr St Jct (CP LF364) before taking the Carr St Connector to UP's West Belt Subdivision for the trip south. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:35:57 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7164(AC44CW) |
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179 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
New Vaders |
Description: |
New Vaders stand at the ready at Tower 26 (CP H232), which is where UP's Terminal Subdivision and West Belt Subdivision cross. The Vaders in the foreground will likely split the single crossover seen behind them from the Tower 26 CP into a separate CP. In the distance, more vaders can be seen, ready to replace aging searchlights. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:35:59 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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71 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Heading Around the Carr St Connector |
Description: |
UP 7164 leads a southbound manifest headed for South Texas past the signal protecting Main #2 at Lyons (CP H933). The train is on the Carr St Connector at Tower 26, and will be getting on the West Belt at Lyons in a few hundred feet. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:36:08 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7164(AC44CW) UP 4643(SD70M) UP 5057(SD70M) |
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175 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Tower 26 and New Signals |
Description: |
Looking north up the West Belt, the diamond at Tower 26 (CP H232) can be seen, along with new Vaders for both the West Belt and Terminal Subdivisions that are standing but not yet in use. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:36:12 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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63 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Lights and Gates |
Description: |
The lights begin to flash and the gates go down along West St where it crosses UP's Terminal Subdivision and the Brooks St Connector. The reason that the gates from both crossings are going down first is to protect traffic from getting stuck on the tracks as there is only about 100 ft between the two crossings. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:38:24 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
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53 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Double Reds |
Description: |
Double Reds are shown by the searchlight that guards Carr St Jct (CP LF364) on UP's Terminal Subdivision near Tower 26. This signal has, sadly, since been replaced. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:38:28 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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58 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Carr St Jct |
Description: |
Looking east at Carr St Jct (CP LF364) on UP's Terminal Subdivision, a southbound manifest can be seen leaving the Terminal Sub to head south on the Carr St Connector. The searchlights guarding the CP both show all reds, though they are on their last legs. They have since been replaced by new Vaders. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:38:33 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
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60 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Approaching the Brooks St Connection |
Description: |
UP 5873 heads through the switch onto the Brooks St Connection at Tower 26 in Houston with a grain train bound for export at the Port of Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:38:49 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6722(AC44CW) UP 5873(AC44CWCTE) UP 6527(AC44CW) |
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217 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rounding the Curve |
Description: |
UP 5873 rounds the curve on the Brooks St Connector at Tower 26 in Houston with a Port of Houston bound grain train. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:38:52 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5873(AC44CWCTE) UP 6527(AC44CW) |
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253 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6722 Side Shot |
Description: |
UP 6722 heads through the West St grade crossing on a loaded UP grain train bound for export at the Port of Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:05 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6722(AC44CW) |
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185 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Getting onto the Terminal Sub |
Description: |
A loaded UP grain train gets onto the UP Terminal Subdivision from the UP West Belt Sub at Carr St Jct (CP LF364) and has an Advance Approach (Flashing Yellow) at the Carr St X-Over (CP LF964) as it heads towards the Port of Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:07 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5873(AC44CWCTE) UP 6527(AC44CW) UP 6722(AC44CW) |
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256 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Around the Curve |
Description: |
A loaded UP grain train hops onto the UP Terminal Subdivision at Tower 26 in Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:08 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5873(AC44CWCTE) |
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142 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CNW 478267 |
Description: |
CNW 478267 rolls through the West St railroad crossing on the Brooks St Connector at Tower 26 in Houston on its way to the Port of Houston on a loaded grain train. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:10 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
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76 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Around the Brooks St Connector |
Description: |
A loaded UP grain train heads around the Brooks St Connector at Tower 26. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:11 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
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73 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Heading East |
Description: |
An eastbound grain train headed for the Port of Houston heads east on UP's Terminal Subdivision in Houston towards the Port. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:12 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
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55 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NAIX 100061 |
Description: |
NAIX 100061, a former KYLE hopper, heads around the Brooks St Connection at Tower 26 on a UP grain train headed for the Port of Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:13 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
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59 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CMO 13662 |
Description: |
CMO 13662 heads through the curve on the Brooks St Connector on a loaded UP grain train headed for the Port of Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:41:15 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
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75 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Downtown and Signals |
Description: |
This view looks west towards Downtown Houston and Tower 26 from Carr St Jct. The new Vaders standing on the other side of the diamond would soon (Along with some others) replace the aging searchlights at Tower 26. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:19 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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73 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Back to Back Searchlights |
Description: |
The old SP searchlights protecting the Carr St X-Overs and Tower 26 stand guard on borrowed time. They would be gone within the next few months. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:22 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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72 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Searchlights at the Carr St X-Overs |
Description: |
The SP searchlights guarding the Carr St X-Overs continue to do the job they were built to do even as they stand on borrowed time. Within a few months they would be gone. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:23 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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78 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"Approach" |
Description: |
This SP searchlight at the Carr St X-Overs beckons on oncoming train by displaying an "Approach" during its last few months of operation. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:24 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A Multitude of Signals |
Description: |
Looking east down Terminal Sub Main #1, a multitude of signals can be seen guarding Maury St, Tower 26, Carr St Jct, and the Carr St X-Over (CP's LF365, H232, LF364, & LF964, respectively). The signals are currently lined up for the eastbound AEYLI to head east across the diamond. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:24 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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59 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Underneath the Viaduct |
Description: |
NS 9965 leads the eastbound AEYLI (Autos- East Yard [San Antonio, TX] to Livonia, LA) under the Elysian St Viaduct just north of Downtown Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:32 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 9965(C40-9W) NS 8995(C40-9W) |
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98 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Through the Crossing |
Description: |
NS 9965 leads the eastbound AEYLI through the Maury St railroad crossing in Houston, TX on UP's Terminal Subdivision. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:35 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
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92 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Through the Crossing 2 |
Description: |
NS 8995 trails as the AEYLI heads eastward through Houston, TX on the UP Terminal Subdivision. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:37 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
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77 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The New & The Old |
Description: |
Old Searchlights and New Vaders stand guarding Tower 26 (CP H232) on UP's Terminal Subdivision Main #2 while the eastbound AEYLI rolls eastward on Main #1. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:40 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
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60 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Past the Old Searchlight |
Description: |
A brand new UP 'Auto-Flex' Autorack rolls through Houston, TX on the AEYLI. The Auto-Flex Autoracks are autoracks designed by UP that can shift between bi-level and tri-level compartments inside of the car, allowing for more flexibility. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 1:43:55 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
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63 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Looking East from Tower 26 |
Description: |
Looking east from Tower 26, the AEYLI rolls eastward on Main 1 of UP's Terminal Subdivision (now the Houston Subdivision). |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:32 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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56 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Looking West from Tower 26 |
Description: |
Looking west from Tower 26, the AEYLI rolls eastward on Main 1 of UP's Terminal Subdivision (now the Houston Subdivision). The new signals would soon replace the veteran searchlights at the interlocking, including the one in the distance. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:34 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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67 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Eastbound Past Tower 26 |
Description: |
Looking east from Tower 26, the AEYLI rolls eastward on Main 1 of UP's Terminal Subdivision (now the Houston Subdivision). |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:38 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
Locomotives: |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MP 706810 |
Description: |
A rusty old Missouri Pacific hopper, still with a visible Screaming Eagle logo, heads eastward on the AEYLI in Houston, TX, where this car likely might have run around back in its heyday. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:40 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action |
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53 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 211156 |
Description: |
A fairly new and still shiny UP coil car rolls through Houston, TX on the AEYLI. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:42 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Heading South Across the Diamond |
Description: |
BNSF 675 leads a BNSF Yard Transfer bound for the Port of Houston across the diamond at Tower 26 (CP H232) just northeast of Downtown Houston. The Vaders sitting near the diamond were to replace the aging searchlights at the diamond, which they eventually did in January 2014. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:52 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 675(C44-9W) |
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189 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LPG |
Description: |
A tank car full of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, better known as LPG or Propane, rolls southward through Houston, TX. This car was built February 2013, but already shows wear and tear on its sides. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:57 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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55 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UTLX 910722 |
Description: |
The reporting marks for UTLX 910722, a tank car built in May 1993 designed for carrying LPG. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:40:59 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GATX 62054 |
Description: |
The reporting marks on GATX 62054, a tank car built in December 1995 for carrying LPG. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:43:05 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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65 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Approach at Lyons |
Description: |
The signal protecting the interlocking at Lyons on UP's West Belt Sub displays an Approach for an oncoming train. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:43:13 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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58 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Blue Power |
Description: |
CSXT 5317 leads the southbound MPBBL (Manifest- Pine Bluff, AR to Bloomington, TX) through the under-construction Tower 71 on the Main 2 shoo-fly on the UP West Belt Subdivision on the north side of Houston, TX. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:43:17 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
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185 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Blue on the Side |
Description: |
CSXT 5317 heads southward across Lee St on the MPBBL in Houston, TX. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:43:22 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
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63 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Blue on the Side 2 |
Description: |
CSXT 3096 heads southward across Lee St on the MPBBL in Houston, TX. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:43:24 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track,Action |
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161 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A Little Jog |
Description: |
During the rebuilding on the interlocking at Tower 71 in 2013-2014, a southbound manifest takes a jog from the old Main 2 over to some of the new track to the right (on what would become Main 1). |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:43:31 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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51 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
All Dark at Thomas Gully |
Description: |
Although a train is approaching in the distance, for now the signals remain dark at Thomas Gully at the south end of BNSF's New South Yard in Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:45:36 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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52 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Clear to Head South |
Description: |
Looking south across T&NO Jct on the south side of Houston, a "Clear" signal beckons a manifest to head south out of Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:45:40 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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49 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Across the Diamond at T&NO Jct |
Description: |
CSXT 5317 leads the MPBBL (Manifest- Pine Bluff, AR to Bloomington, TX) across the diamond at T&NO Jct (CP SA005) on the south side of Houston as the train enters BNSF trackage on its way to South Texas. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:45:43 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 5317(ES44DC) CSX 3096(ES44AC-H) |
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173 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
All Reds |
Description: |
The signals at T&NO Jct and Thomas Gully show red as a southbound manifest passes through. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:45:50 PM |
Location: |
Houston, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
Signal |
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49 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Flying Through the Crossing |
Description: |
UP 7414 leads the QEWWC 30 (Quality Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston, TX] to West Colton Yard [Colton, CA]) as it flies through Rosenberg, TX on its way west to California. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:45:54 PM |
Location: |
Rosenberg, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7414(AC45CCTE) UP 7682(AC45CCTE) |
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225 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Racing Away |
Description: |
The DPU's on the westbound QEWWC 30 (Quality Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston, TX] to West Colton Yard [Colton, CA]) race westward through Rosenberg, TX. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:46:44 PM |
Location: |
Rosenberg, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 8359(SD70ACe) UP 7108(AC44CW) |
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234 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Waiting in the Yard |
Description: |
KCS 3951 holds a southbound KCS manifest in the yard at Kendleton, TX, which is about 40 miles southwest of Houston. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:46:49 PM |
Location: |
Kendleton, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 3951(SD70MAC) KCS 3910(SD70MAC) |
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361 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Grain Hoppers at Night |
Description: |
Grain Hoppers from an empty KCS grain train roll through a railroad crossing in Kendleton, TX, about 40 miles southwest of Houston. The train is returning empty from Mexico and is heading back to the Midwest for another load of grain. |
Photo Date: |
11/30/2013 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 4:46:51 PM |
Location: |
Kendleton, TX |
Author: |
Christopher Parma |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Night,Signal,Track,Action |
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72 Comments: 0 |
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