Included:
1) UP 7377, 3798 (New Ulm, Texas)
2) GMTX 2609 (New Ulm, Texas)
3) UP 8580, 9551, 3984, 3865, 7685 (Sealy, Texas)
4) BNSF 4910, 4834 (Sealy, Texas)
5) NS 9745 (Brenham, Texas)
6) BNSF 8210 (Brenham, Texas)
7) AMTK 71, 88, 166 (Brenham, Texas)
8) Consist of the AAPRCO private passenger car train is next to the photos of that event below
9) Santa Fe Cafe, Brenham
New ties had been put on UP's Smithville Sub between Smithville and Sealy, Texas, including these in New Ulm. Taken October 15.
Old ties on the lot next to the tracks in New Ulm.
Looking east from the road crossing in New Ulm toward Sealy and Houston. I used a strong zoom lens, which exaggerates the depth of the valley and curvature of the track. Like all such pictures, the tracks look worse than they are.
A north/west bound train approaches at 9:21 a.m. Oct 15.
This was a stack train.
Looking into the sun, UP 7377 crosses .... street at 9:24 a.m.
UP 3798.
On Sunday, October 16, UP's Katy Local zips across a private crossing next to New Ulm Fireman's Park at 3:12 p.m. headed by GATX 2609. It is headed east.
For a movie of this scene, click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5EbOZsuQaE
Only a 3-car train.
Now I'm in Sealy with a fellow railfan who lives in this area. This UP train, headed by UP 8580, is getting on the Smithville Sub and heading west toward Smithville and points west. I was told is was the IEWLG, the Englewood Yard Houston to Long Beach, California stack train. It got to this point by using trackage rights over BNSF's Galveston Sub. It is now 5:46 p.m.
The tracks in the foreground connect from the BNSF to UP's Smithville Sub.
UP 8580, 9551.
UP 3865 and 3984 (right below under UP's steamer 3985 in the numbering system)
Red and blue containers under a dark blue sky.
UP 7685 was the DPU.
BNSF 4910 leads a BNSF train northbound out of Sealy at 6:48 p.m.
BNSF 4834.
A solid tank train.
A Texas sunset.
Santa Fe Cafe in Brenham, Texas October 17, 2011.
NS 9745 southbound on the curve in Brenham, 1:00 p.m. October 17.
NS 9745 and the Santa Fe Freight Depot. Amtrak used to run here until 1981. Brenham is a 'quiet zone' city.
Crossing the former SP line near Peabody Street. This SP line now handles a BNSF local once in a while to haul milk to the Blue Bell Ice Cream plant.
Northbound BNSF 8210, 1:32 p.m.
Looking into the sun.
Faded Santa Fe markings.
Amtrak 71 leads the 20-car passenger special northbound at 4:02 p.m.
Amtrak locomotives 71, 88 and 166 lead the train.
To view my HD movie of this train passing here, click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-kogwPtyrQ
The consist of this train was:
AMTK 71, AMTK 88, AMTK 166
01 - 800149 Evelyn Henry
02 - 800148 Warren Henry
03 - 800045 Caritas
04 - 800114 Yosemite Falls
05 - 800710 Northern Dreams
06 - 800588 Northern Sky
07 - 800275 Sierra Hotel
08 - 800732 Puget Sound
09 - 800482 Oliver Hazard Perry
10 - 800736 Birch Grove
11 - 800043 Chapel Hill
12 - 800355 Pacific Sands
13 - 800636 Scottish Thistle
14 - 800156 Santa Fe 56
15 - 800464 Wisconsin
16 - 800313 Virginia City
17 - 800591 Burrard
18 - 800713 Federal
19 - 800504 Vista Canyon
20 - 800724 Promontory Point
