Here are a couple of train photos taken in College Station, Cat Spring and Sealy, Texas Saturday, April 13, 2002 plus a photo of a BNSF train in Brenham and a UP train in Hearne, April 14 and some shots of the Winsboro, Texas KCS restored depot. Included are a few shots of bluebonnets. I had wanted to get a shot of a UP train through my hometown of New Ulm, but by the time I heard the train come through, it was too late and I had to chase it to Cat Spring, about 11 miles away. I barely made it in time.

LEFT-Texas A&M's Kyle Field taken across the Union Pacific tracks from the McDonalds. RIGHT-UP 3199 heads a short string of cars just behind the McDonalds at 948 a.m. April 13.

Crossing George Bush Avenue with Kyle Field in the background. The train had a string of gondolas.

Field of Texas Bluebonnets just before entering Brenham, about noon.

LEFT-Bluebonnest in my father's backyard in New Ulm, Texas. RIGHT-Large area of used ties that UP replaced in the New Ulm area a few months ago. The tracks are way back of the trees. Does the UP own this much land in New Ulm?

This crossing on a little used street in New Ulm, Walnut Street, got crossing gates a couple of years ago. Back then the road was gravel on the other side of the tracks. I'd like to know how this warranted a signaled crossing, much less one with gates. Did the county, in this cast Austin County, come up with the money?

Sign on the shelter and crossing gates at New Ulm, Texas, Walnut Street. Notice that the Grade Crossing Hotline has a different 800 number than the sign on the signal. Would it make any difference which one you called?

UP 3238 crosses the main street at Cat Spring, Texas, 238 p.m. I missed the train in New Ulm, had to turn around and chase it on Highway 1094 at 65 mph, but as I was getting to the crossing in Cat Spring, the lights were already flashing. The old Katy tracks have a more direct line between New Ulm and Cat Spring and do not parallel the highway.

LEFT-UP 3238 at a crossing 2 miles west of Sealy, Texas, 252 p.m. RIGHT-Waiting for permission to go onto BNSF tracks at the interchange in Sealy. The green and silver unit was GCFX3065.

LEFT-UP's (ne. MKT's) interchange with the BNSF is located at Sealy. Here UP 3238 is waiting for BNSF permission to go onto the BNSF. View is looking toward the west from the Highway 36 crossing. RIGHT-From Highway 36 looking east toward Katy. The old KATY main is on the left and the crew of UP 3238 said the track from Sealy to Katy was limited to 10 mph. They were anticipating more rock trains to Katy should the expansion of Interstate 10 occur.

 
BNSF #xxxx on the rear of a chemical  train after just crossing Highway 109 near Brenham, Texas, April 14 at 558 p.m. This is the first time I've seen a helper unit on a tank car train. It was moving very slowly.

 
LEFT-CSX/UP/NS units head a waiting northbound train at Hearne, Texas, April 14 at 743 p.m. RIGHT-The restored KCS depot at Winsboro, Texas plus a KCS caboose.

 
More scenes of the restored KCS Winsboro depot, April 15, 2002.