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On a cool October morning, UP 5833 and friends roll through Houston's Sawyer Yards area with a train-load of rock for Port Arthur.
This location, formerly heavy industrial, has been repurposed in recent years. The largest of which is a rice elevator and accompanying warehouses (to the left), which have become art studios.
RMEPA 12 (Rock- Medina to Port Arthur, TX)
UP C44ACM #5833
UP C45ACCTE #5364
UP C45ACCTE #7713
Houston, TX
October 13th, 2025
A pair of former C&NW Dash 9s, now rebuilt and classified as C44ACM's, take Tampa bound ethanol train B631 ny the welcome to Bushnell sign along US 301.
UP 6475 and a fellow AC4400 lead a lengthy manifest eastward through Chaney Jct in central Houston.
MSALI 22 (Manifest- San Antonio, TX to Livonia, LA)
UP C44ACM #6475
UP C44AC #7167
(Mid-Train DPU) UP SD70ACe #8684
Houston, TX
December 23rd, 2024
UP's hotshot from Joliet, IL to Mesquite, TX races through the western Illinois countryside and down the Chester Subdivision. While rebuilt, the former AC6000CW was a nice leader in my book seeing as CSX disposed of theirs...
UP 6171 leads eastbound ZLBHO on the Passenger Main of UP's Houston Sub. These high-priority containers will soon pass the Amtrak Station and Downtown Houston on their way to UP's Settegast Intermodal Facility on the northeast side of town.
ZLBHO (Z Train- Long Beach, CA to Houston, TX)
UP C44ACM #6171
UP C44AC #6331
UP SD70AH #9029
Houston, TX
November 11th, 2024
With nothing to do on Sunday morning, I had the Santa Fe Junction webcam rolling at my place, and saw the above train roll overhead. From there, it's about a 50/50 guess for manifests as to whether or not they'll run west via Topeka, so imagine my surprise a few hours later when I checked up on it and heard "just by Newman four minutes ago." Well, time to head back out!
Here's an amazingly clean UP ACM rebuild, the 7212 leading the MNLNP into Topeka at CP Z067. It would stop in the yard to do work here before proceeding on to North Platte.
The 7212 was one of the AC44's that was built FOR the UP in July 1999, as opposed to having come from the CNW, SP, or GECX. It was rebuilt by GE in mid-'2022.
Despite being mid-morning, long winter shadows have crept onto the tracks from surrounding buildings here in central Houston. This is the area called "Sawyer Yards", a part of Houston's First Ward that has redeveloped much of what was formerly just industrial land.
But true to the "Yards" moniker, many trains per day still run right through on the Freight Main of UP's Houston Sub. Like this one, a loaded rock train destined to feed Houston's insatiable appetite for concrete.
Loaded Rock Train
UP C44AC #6582
UP C44ACM #6946
UP SD70AH #8865
Houston, TX
November 13th, 2024
As I was enjoying my day out me and my friend had again visited Grinter to just catch "Whatever". but what we didn't know is that a couple fresh's on point of a Manifest was due to our location rather momentarily. Once we had caught it once we would catch it again somewhere in Bonner. These look nice Rather New. It would seem a few others were on the run for these as well.
MNLNP 30
Muncie, KS
05/31/25
Six units lead a UP coal empty up the north edge of Big Ten Curve. It is pretty easy to play the "one of these things is not like the others" game. The fourth unit is a recently rebuilt C44ACM. The unit was an AC4400CW and it received a fresh coat of paint. Looks pretty great, despite being on a grungy coal train.
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The day is coming to an end and the crew of the 2MNPFR is about to clock off. However, this day is slightly different for the crew as awaiting them in Portola is the train that was in front of them for most of the day, UP 4014. Leading the way was a somewhat recently rebuilt C44ACM. The next crew would spend the night guiding the train down the Feather River Canyon.
When this manifest departed Grand Junction, it had four units (three on the point, one DPU) and 84 cars. When it departed Bond, three more units had been added to the head end, and 57 cars had also been added to the train! The 57 cars were from industries located on the Craig Branch in the Steamboat and Craig area. The train is making its way through the curves below Tunnel 1 and at Blue Mountain Drive.
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We left after scouting this spot out, saw the headlight of this train in the distance, then turned around and rushed back up. It felt like an oven with a temperature of 100 degrees and a hot wind blowing out here. Well worth it for this shot though. IG4SE 9.
The Bandini Bandits strike again.
Union Pacific 6153 and 5500 get a small ray of sunlight as they travel compass south for a brief stretch, as the Marion Arkansas bound extra intermodal gets underway again after a crew change at Tucson. At just over fifteen thousand feet in length this slow stack had quite a few "popped cans" on the train, either from point of origin or one of the many high theft areas along the urban hellscape that is the Union Pacific in the LA Basin and even the Low Desert. I will have to say though don't think I've ever seen one directly behind the power luckily it doesn't look like these assholes got anything most of it was loaded deep or palletized.
A single rebuilt AC4400CW, classified by UP as a C44ACM, brings UP train CNALC-30 up to Olive St on the North Main as it enters CPKC's Knoche Yard. Eventually, a CPKC crew will take the train south to Evergy's La Cygne Generating Station at La Cygne, KS via a spur at Amsterdam, MO off the CPKC Pittsburg Sub. Coal loads for Evergy's Hawthorne and La Cygne power plants have been riding on the UP for at least a couple of years now after running on the BNSF for years. 9/1/24.
Waiting for traffic to clear ahead between Chaney and Eureka, UP 6162 holds the main at Silver St just west of Downtown Houston. The signals in the distance protect Depot Jct, next door to the Amtrak Station.
RKBVRQ 09 (Rock- Beaumont to Quihi, TX)
UP C44ACM #6162
UP C44ACCTE #5975
UP C44ACCTE #6037
Houston, TX
March 10th, 2025
Frost clings to a clump of trees outside of Brant, Alberta, as a visiting UP C44ACM shoves on the rear of CP train 569.
With a year-old rebuild up front, an eastbound UP manifest splits buildings old and new in the part of Houston's 1st Ward that has been revitalized as "Sawyer Yards". To the left are older warehouses and the silos from a former rice elevator. To the right are a new apartment complex and the defunct Buffalo Bayou Brewing. Buff Brew had pretty good beer, good food, and a great view of the Houston skyline from its 3rd floor patio. Unfortunately its financial management wasn't so good; it went under in early 2024.
Eastbound UP Manifest
UP C44ACM #6931
(Mid-Train DPU) UP C45AH #8116
(Mid-Train DPU) UP C45ACCTE #7627
Houston, TX
February 14th, 2024
Shortly after completing their crew change, a UP intermodal heads west out of Tucson with four GEs on the head end. A monsoon that developed in the south end of the valley provides a dramatic background as the train catches a bit of sunlight at Twin Peaks.
On a cold and cloudy morning, UP 6367 rolls through southeast Houston on its way to the Texas coast with the LHB89 turn.
This is normally an overnight job, though it's not uncommon for this train to run late enough to see daylight.
LHB89 19 (Local- Houston to Texas City, TX and return)
UP C44ACM #6367
Houston, TX
February 20th, 2025
Having just departed Englewood Yard, this UP manifest bound for North Little Rock rolls through the crossovers at Tower 71 on the north side of Houston. This busy interlocking sees many movements on the triple-tracked West Belt between Tower 26 and Belt Jct.
MEWNL 13 (Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston, TX] to North Little Rock, AR)
UP C44ACM #6387
UP C45AH #2605
Houston, TX
August 13th, 2024
On the 102 track of the CSX Memphis Terminal Subdivision is UP 6995 (C44ACM) & UP 7355 (C45ACCTE) out front of a mixed freight The tracks in the foreground are a part of Union Pacific's Sargent Yard.
With its outbound crew on board, UP 7295 and its clean pair of wings sit on the northeast connection track at Tower 26 in Houston. The trail of the train is still back in UP's large Englewood Yard.
In 2023, UP double-tracked this connection as part of a project that triple-tracked the Sunset Route from Tower 26 to the west end of Englewood.
MEWFW 21 (Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston] to Fort Worth, TX)
UP C44ACM #7295
UP C45AH #2577
Houston, TX
July 21st, 2025
A Wabtec C44ACM rebuilt locomotive with "clipped wings", rolls eastward on the historic Los Angeles & Salt Lake Route at Lake Point, Utah on Sept. 26, 2023. The five-car West Colton - Council Bluffs passenger special will pause and swap crews in Salt Lake City, continue north to Ogden, and east on the Overland Route into Wyoming and beyond. In the background are the rugged Stansbury Mountains, including 11,031 ft. Deseret Peak.
While rolling by UP's Topeka yard on June 3rd, I noticed a pair of FRESH ACM rebuilds, but unfortunately, they were pointed the wrong direction for good afternoon photos. However, that situation changes completely once the sun set, and we become reliant upon the yard lights.
Here, under the distinctive glow of the yard's sodium-vapor lamps, the newly-rebuilt UP 5841 lays over on the 500 track near the yard office. There HAD been a pair of them here, but the 5856 got peeled away to power the MTPNS after its power ended up having problems.
The UP 5841 was built by GE's Erie shops in early 2002, and it was rebuilt by WABTEC's Ft. Worth shop in April/May, 2024. It, and the 5856 had been released to the UP on June 1st, just TWO days prior, so they were quite literally the freshest units on the property at the time.
UP 6621 leads a long (running 4x1) stack train eastbound through Topeka, KS on a snowy, February day. Clearly, nothing else had rolled through in a while, as evidenced by all of the powder it's kicking up.
The 6621 was built by GE for the UP (same number) in 1997, and rebuilt by them into an C44ACM somewhere in the 2019/2020 neighborhood, resulting in the wings on its nose. There are few things in railroading that get me less excited than the bare-nose UP AC's, so this is a welcome change to me.
Behind this was the Super Bowl special ( flic.kr/p/2n4dz3u ) that was deadheading back to Council Bluffs, and from what I hear, this thing had been running ahead of it for hundreds of miles.
For some lolz, I got some video (?) of this train. Well, sort of. Check it out here! youtu.be/zxNXzeiHmJQ
After crossing Quitman St, UP 6387 notches up a bit to keep its long, heavy train moving up the West Belt. UP 5417 has a Port of Houston-bound stack train waiting for the manifest to clear here at Tower 71, and the conductor has come out front to do a roll-by inspection.
MEWNL 13 (Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston, TX] to North Little Rock, AR)
UP C44ACM #6387
UP C45AH #2605
MHOBC 13 (Manifest- Houston [Settegast Yard] to Barbours Cut [La Porte, TX])
UP C45ACCTE #5417
Houston, TX
August 13th, 2024
MSSNP departs Farmington Siding as a mom and kid look at the item the conductor, who is one of my buddies, tossed them
With a Dash 9 rebuild up front, a Strang-bound manifest waits for a slot to open up in the yard ahead.
UP's Strang Sub runs alongside TX 225 in this heavily industrial corridor on the south side of the Houston Ship Channel.
MEWSR 01 (Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston] to Strang Yard [La Porte, TX])
UP C44ACM #9782
UP C45ACCTE #7794
La Porte, TX
November 1st, 2025
With the western visitors on this train I really wanted more of a side view and where better than this classic location. With the double mainline passing through a wide parklike strip between Ayer Rd and Front Street lined with homes on either side it is a rather bucolic and very popular photo location.
With the recrew on board Pan Am Southern train 22K (NS 47th Street Yard Chicago to PAS Ayer Yard) is only three miles from its destination as it approaches Benjamin Crossing on Main 2 at MP 39.3/313.3 on the Keolis/MBTA Fitchburg Line and Pan Am's Freight main.
Cab signal and ACSES equipped NS SD60E 6953 leads BNSF ET44C4 3842 and UP C44ACM 7211 over former Boston and Maine rails. Once the CSXT acquisition is consummated and NS begins to exercise its trackage rights from Voorheesville over the Berkshire and Boston Subs (ex Boston and Albany) this intermodal traffic will arrive in Ayer via the Worcester main instead of the Freight main meaning scenes like this will soon be a thing of the past.
Shirley, Massachusetts
Friday April 15, 2022
UP's MGJNY (manifest from Grand Junction to North Yard) is making a daylight appearance on the Front Range. Five units, elephant style, are approaching the west portal of Tunnel 1 on a beautiful March morning.
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The power consist pulling Union Pacific's ZDVLB 22 included three Wabtec C44ACM rebuilds on June 22, 2024. UP 5909, UP 9824 (ex-CNW C44-9W No. 8720), and UP 5733 are wearing UP's new simplified "clipped wings" paint scheme. The train is pictured at Stoddard Lane in Morgan, Utah along Interstate 84.
With buildings from Houston's skyline in the distance, a Strang-bound manifest rolls down UP's Galveston Sub after crossing the East Belt at Tower 85. Strang Yard lies at the far eastern end of the Houston Ship Channel and serves the many chemical plants and refineries in the area.
Additionally, this is one of the cleanest UP motors I've ever seen. It has a rebuild date of November 2023, so its paint is barely a month old at this point. Check out that plow!
MEWSR 28 (Manifest- Englewood Yard to Strang Yard)
UP C44ACM #6430
KCS ET44AC #5018
Houston, TX
December 28th, 2023
The Freight Main of UP's Houston Sub runs right down the middle of Winter St for a few blocks in the First Ward. This pseudo-street running makes for a cool sight on a fairly busy stretch of railroad.
Though on this Monday morning, the Freight Main gets an extra special visitor. The Big Boy, after public display at the Amtrak Station, runs right down Winter Street on its way out of town. It'll take a left at Tower 26 in a few miles to access the Toll Road for the route out of the city.
While most people who wanted to get a picture here had the wisdom to sit still, a pair in a pickup truck decided to try something a little different. Winter St is effectively an alley through here, but this pair blew down the street in an effort to pace the Big Boy, narrowly missing the numerous people lined up to see the massive steamer. Besides the reckless behavior that nearly injured others (and got in the way of their pictures), I can't imagine a shot so low and close to the locomotive could possible come out well.
PHOBR 07 (Passenger- Houston to Bryan, TX)
UP 4-8-8-4 #4014
UP C44ACM #9625
Houston, TX
October 7th, 2024
With the West Local airing up, about ready to return to Denver with a string of 41 gondolas that have been stored in the siding of Leyden for six months, the train will have to wait a little bit longer. A westbound UP coal empty charges west on the main track, a freshly painted C44ACM leading the way.
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UP 6242 has just pulled out of Salt Lake City North Yard. Unfortunately they would again come to a stop shortly after this. Something to due with cover not being secured.
Union Pacific 9812, a recent DC to AC conversion C44ACM is seen highballing Westbound through tiny Walker, KS with the St. Ann Catholic Church seen in the background.
This is on Union Pacific's old Kansas Pacific line through Western Kansas.
The train is a St. James. LA to Wash, UT empty Oil train with some filler empty Grain cars on the headend that will be setout at Park, KS.
UP C44ACM 6942 leads the Los Angeles bound 29S (UP ZAILA) across one of the many bridges south of Boligee, Alabama.
A UP C44ACM rebuild is a paired with a former Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 9 on BNSF train Q-ATGLAC6-29L at the former station site known as "Zarah" on the BNSF Emporia Sub in Shawnee, KS. This train was rerouted through Kansas City, entering town from Springfield, MO via the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub and now leaving town via the BNSF Emporia Sub.
They may be wide cab GE's, but it's defintely a nice change of pace seeing some color among the sea of orange out here on the Transcon. 1/31/23.
A C44AC (GE Model AC4400CW), 6880, is assisting on the rear of a westbound Union Pacific bulk train. Out of sight on the lead are two GE/Wabtec modernised C44ACM's, 7076 and 5878.
Archer Hill, Cheyenne, WY.
Friday, 25 October 2024.
Right around sunrise, but still in blue hour due to heavy cloud cover, UP 5761 rolls through the cool, damp morning air with a short manifest train. The manifests that run to & from Strang aren't lengthy runs, as it's only about 25 miles from the Port of Houston satellite yard back to the big yard at Settegast.
MSRHO 24 (Manifest- Strang Yard [La Porte, TX] to Houston, TX [Settegast Yard])
UP C44ACM #5761
Deer Park, TX
December 24th, 2024
Union Pacific's Roseville - North Platte manifest, 194 cars in length, rolls east into Echo, Utah with three GE locomotives on the point, including two new Wabtec C44ACM rebuilds. 9.29.2023
A pair of UP C44ACMs are in charge of a 18 car Officer Car Special as they move downhill in dynamic braking out of Shed 10 near Crystal Lake, CA.
A refreshed Union Pacific C44ACM sits in the Hoffman Avenue Yard in Saint Paul. This unit had a pair of wings on the nose and now has a simple Union Pacific herald. They are only this clean once...
Awaiting favorable signals ahead at Freight Jct and Belt Jct, UP 6948 sits just short of Cavalcade St on the West Belt in north Houston.
UP 6948 was built as as a 6000 hp C60AC (UP 7559), but was later de-rated to 4400 hp and renumbered to UP 6948. In April 2023, it was rebuild into a C44ACM and received a fresh coat of UP's new paint scheme, which no longer features wings on the nose.
UP Manifest
UP C44ACM #6948
UP C44ACCTE #5984
Houston, TX
June 8th, 2024
A GE C44ACM leads UP's priority ZDVLB 08 intermodal train through Echo, Utah the afternoon of April 8, 2023. Union Pacific 7247 is a recent rebuild by Wabtec in Fort Worth, Texas. Detail conscious viewers might notice the lettering along the engine compartment hood is an alternative to UP "Futura", and not the standard UP type style.
Rolling onto a bridge over the busy I-10 freeway, UP 5764 brings a Houston-bound manifest into the heart of the city on the West Belt. The signal in the distance is for the Carr St Connection at Tower 26.
The train is going the long way to Englewood, swinging south several miles past the yard to Tower 30 before coming back north on the Strang Sub to enter Englewood from the south side.
MFWEWB 24 (Manifest- Fort Worth, TX to Englewood Yard [Houston], Second Train)
UP C44ACM #5764
CSXT ES40DC #5493
(Midt-Train DPU) UP C45AH #2753
Houston, TX
February 25th, 2025
Having just departed the Houston Amtrak Station, UP 4014 is seen here shoving through Chaney Jct just west of Downtown Houston. Here at Chaney, the Big Boy will head forwards again onto the Freight Main (seen to the right) in order to access its route out of town via the Palestine Sub.
PHOBR 07 (Passenger- Houston to Bryan, TX)
UP 4-8-8-4 #4014
UP C44ACM #9625
Houston, TX
October 7th, 2024