New Year, Same Searchlights
As 2025 begins, Niles Jct in central Houston still hosts searchlight signals the SP installed 50 years ago. And although UP put up replacement Vaders last March, these searchlights still prove useful for another trip around the sun. Unfortunately, this will likely be their last.
Here is an eastbound CPKC manifest rolling through Niles Jct on the Freight Main of UP's Houston Sub. The train is utilizing former KCS/TexMex trackage rights to bridge between CPKC rails at Rosenberg and Beaumont, TX. Trailing third-out is KCS's specially-painted "Safety Starts Here" locomotive, affectionately called the "Silver Sausage".
CPKC Manifest
KCS SD70ACe #4116
CP DRF-44 / ES44AC #8790
KCS ES44AC #4859
Houston, TX
January 6th, 2025
New Year, Same Searchlights
As 2025 begins, Niles Jct in central Houston still hosts searchlight signals the SP installed 50 years ago. And although UP put up replacement Vaders last March, these searchlights still prove useful for another trip around the sun. Unfortunately, this will likely be their last.
Here is an eastbound CPKC manifest rolling through Niles Jct on the Freight Main of UP's Houston Sub. The train is utilizing former KCS/TexMex trackage rights to bridge between CPKC rails at Rosenberg and Beaumont, TX. Trailing third-out is KCS's specially-painted "Safety Starts Here" locomotive, affectionately called the "Silver Sausage".
CPKC Manifest
KCS SD70ACe #4116
CP DRF-44 / ES44AC #8790
KCS ES44AC #4859
Houston, TX
January 6th, 2025