Thursday, November 4, 2004 at Old Town Spring, north of Houston. I was on a tour sponsored by the International Quilt Festival and spend the few hours we had in Old Town Spring waiting for trains. To contact me, click HERE.

Map of this location:




BNSF 4505, 1:52 p.m. November 4, 2004. The location was near the Hardy and Main Street road crossings in Old Town Spring. It was heading out of the yard, northbound.


UP 9465, 2:13 p.m.


The track in the foreground curves to the northwest, then west.


A train heads toward the Spring yards on the sweeping curve from the west/northwest at 2:22 p.m.


UP 6768, 2:23 p.m.


Click on this photo to see and listen to a short 10-second MPEG movie of this scene. The squeaking sound of the wheels was deafening. It had stopped for 10 minutes.


A northbound train from a cafe.


The UP yards looking south. I didn't have a car here, so did not get any closer.


UP 4309, 3:34 p.m. with an empty autorack train.




This restaurant is in a replica of an old MKT depot. The original station was moved to Spring from Lovelady, but burned in 1999. They told me they rebuilt the entire station.


MKT sign on the wall of the restaurant. Did this survive the fire?