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Sunset Limited Through Sawyer Yards

Amtrak Train #1, the westbound Sunset Limited, rolls past the former rice silos at Sawyer Yards just west of Downtown Houston.

 

The train here is on the Freight Main of UP's Houston Sub, having missed the Amtrak Station due to an alternate routing from Beaumont today (the station is on the Passenger Main, about a quarter mile to the south and a mile to the east of here). Today #1 took the normally eastbound-only Beaumont Sub (former MP) to get to Houston, which doesn't allow direct access to the Houston depot. So at Chaney Jct ahead, #1 will throw it in reverse and shove back a mile & a half to make their station stop.

 

AMT1 12 (Westbound Sunset Limited)

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Houston, TX

February 12th, 2025

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