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MP Sugarland TX yard office in 1975
Title:  MP Sugarland TX yard office in 1975
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1975  Upload Date: 3/13/2009 11:52:43 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Michael Spoor
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  681   Comments: 0
Rock train parked
Title:  Rock train parked
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/19/2006  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 12:07:35 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 7575(AC60CW)
Views:  902   Comments: 0
UP 3953
Title:  UP 3953
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/2007  Upload Date: 3/29/2010 8:53:33 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Shaun Ortolano
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3953(SD70M)
Views:  804   Comments: 0
UP 9736
Title:  UP 9736
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/2007  Upload Date: 3/29/2010 8:53:43 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Shaun Ortolano
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9736(C44-9W)
Views:  758   Comments: 0
UP 9736
Title:  UP 9736
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/2007  Upload Date: 3/29/2010 8:53:44 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Shaun Ortolano
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9736(C44-9W)
Views:  736   Comments: 0
UP 9736
Title:  UP 9736
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/2007  Upload Date: 3/29/2010 8:53:45 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Shaun Ortolano
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9736(C44-9W)
Views:  729   Comments: 0
CSX 9006
Title:  CSX 9006
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/27/2007  Upload Date: 3/29/2010 8:52:04 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Shaun Ortolano
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  CSX 9006(C40-9W)
Views:  1088   Comments: 0
Empty Grain Train
Title:  Empty Grain Train
Description:  A eastbound Tex-Mex grain train with a 'naked Belle' heads past the Imperial Sugar plant on UP's Glidden Sub.
Photo Date:  2/17/2008  Upload Date: 2/20/2008 8:39:20 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4699(ES44AC)
Views:  1004   Comments: 0
KCS 3201
Title:  KCS 3201
Description:  Just an ordinary overcast afternoon with one more Tex Mex on the Glidden sub. But wait, consecuative Southern Bells?
Photo Date:  3/31/2008  Upload Date: 3/31/2008 5:34:22 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Mark Heidorn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCS 3201(SD40-2) KCS 658(SD40-2) PCRC 1870(SD60) PCRC 1871(SD60) PCRC 1872(SD60)
Views:  2427   Comments: 0
PCRC 1870
Title:  PCRC 1870
Description:  I would invite comments and positive identification on model and history.
Photo Date:  3/31/2008  Upload Date: 3/31/2008 5:35:01 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Mark Heidorn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PCRC 1870(SD60)
Views:  3641   Comments: 4
PCRC 1871
Title:  PCRC 1871
Description:  I would invite comments and positive identification on model and history.
Photo Date:  3/31/2008  Upload Date: 3/31/2008 5:35:40 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Mark Heidorn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PCRC 1871(SD60)
Views:  2599   Comments: 2
PCRC 1872
Title:  PCRC 1872
Description:  I would invite comments and positive identification on model and history.
Photo Date:  3/31/2008  Upload Date: 3/31/2008 5:36:10 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Mark Heidorn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PCRC 1872(SD60)
Views:  2705   Comments: 2
KCIAT-17
Title:  KCIAT-17
Description:  UP's KCIAT-17 heads through Sugar Land early in the morning.
Photo Date:  7/19/2008  Upload Date: 8/12/2008 10:50:36 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3860(SD70M)
Views:  869   Comments: 0
KCIAT-17
Title:  KCIAT-17
Description:  A trio of SD70M’s are on UP’s KCIAT-17 (Priority Manifest City of Industry,CA-Atlanta, GA) as it heads east as Sugar Land, TX.
Photo Date:  7/19/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2017 3:26:25 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3860(SD70M)
Views:  783   Comments: 2
LHT47-19
Title:  LHT47-19
Description:  UP's Eagle Lake Road Switcher works an industry at Sugar Land.
Photo Date:  7/19/2008  Upload Date: 8/12/2008 10:51:43 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 345(GP38-2) UP 355(GP38-2)
Views:  1049   Comments: 0
RBMGO-18
Title:  RBMGO-18
Description:  A unit UP rock train sits in the siding at Sugar Land.
Photo Date:  7/19/2008  Upload Date: 8/12/2008 10:55:36 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7561(AC60CW) UP 7534(AC60CW) CSX 8664(SD50-2)
Views:  1426   Comments: 0
Waiting At Sugar Land
Title:  Waiting At Sugar Land
Description:  UP's RBMGO-18 waits at Sugar Land.
Photo Date:  7/19/2008  Upload Date: 8/12/2008 10:56:11 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7561(AC60CW)
Views:  760   Comments: 0
Sugar Land Local
Title:  Sugar Land Local
Description:  A pair of GP38-2’s are on a UP Local that’s working a customer at Sugar Land, TX. The UP 355 was built as Missouri Pacific #939 in February 1973. And the UP #345 was built as Missouri Pacific #954 in May 1973.
Photo Date:  7/19/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2017 3:26:38 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 355(GP38-2) UP 345(GP38-2)
Views:  943   Comments: 1
Eastbound Loaded Rock Train
Title:  Eastbound Loaded Rock Train
Description:  A loaded rock train with an AC6000CW on the point is sitting at Sugar Land, TX.
Photo Date:  7/19/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2017 3:26:54 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  UP 7561(AC60CW)
Views:  708   Comments: 1
KCS Westbound with Imperial Sugar in the background
Title:  KCS Westbound with Imperial Sugar in the background
Description:  KCS westbound on the ex-SP line through Sugar Land. The Imperial Sugar complex makes a nice backdrop. I'm gonna have to try this shot again when the sun isn't hiding behind clouds.
Photo Date:  8/23/2009  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 11:56:12 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Tim Huemmer
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4515(AC44CW)
Views:  1057   Comments: 5
PRSX PR22B 2006
Title:  PRSX PR22B 2006
Description:  Caught a Progress Rail Service demonstrator lashed up behind some UP power today, rolling through Sugar Land, TX at 45 mph
Photo Date:  12/14/2010  Upload Date: 12/16/2010 3:47:36 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Scott Head
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PRSX 2006(PR22B)
Views:  1105   Comments: 0
BNSF 757 West
Title:  BNSF 757 West
Description:  A westbound BNSF manifest on trackage rights over the UP is heading west at Sugar Land, TX, just west of Houston. The Wayside Horns at the right are part of Sugar Land's Quiet Zone.
Photo Date:  12/27/2011  Upload Date: 5/30/2012 12:11:58 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 757(C44-9W) BNSF 987(C44-9W)
Views:  703   Comments: 0
ASPEGR
Title:  ASPEGR
Description:  UP 5535 leads the ASPEGR (Autos- Spring, TX, to Eagle Pass, TX, Reposition) along UP's Glidden Sub at Sugar Land, TX.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:00 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5535(AC45CCTE)
Views:  682   Comments: 0
Clear at SA025
Title:  Clear at SA025
Description:  The ex-SP searchlight at Sugar Land (CP SA025) shows clear for an approaching train.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:02 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  450   Comments: 0
Clear at SA025 2
Title:  Clear at SA025 2
Description:  The WB signal at Sugar Land (CP SA025) shows a Clear, and a pretty good look at the switch and EB signals can be seen.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:03 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  447   Comments: 0
Wayside Horn
Title:  Wayside Horn
Description:  A wayside horn in Sugar Land, currently off, and not making any ear-splitting sounds.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:06 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  430   Comments: 0
Wayside Horn and Crossings
Title:  Wayside Horn and Crossings
Description:  A wayside horn in Sugar Land, currently off, and not making any ear-splitting sounds.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:09 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  409   Comments: 0
Approaching Sugar Land
Title:  Approaching Sugar Land
Description:  UP 7361 leads a westbound manifest through several crossings in Sugar Land as it approaches me.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:00 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7361(AC45CCTE)
Views:  657   Comments: 0
UP 7361 into the Crossing
Title:  UP 7361 into the Crossing
Description:  UP 7361 leads a westbound manifest into the a crossing in Sugar Land, TX, as it flies west at 55 mph.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:02 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7361(AC45CCTE) UP 7440(ES44AC)
Views:  829   Comments: 0
Approach Diverging at Sugar Land
Title:  Approach Diverging at Sugar Land
Description:  The WB signal at Sugar Land (CP SA025) shows an Approach Diverging, indicating the next train will be going into the hole at Harlem.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:17:12 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  458   Comments: 0
String of Tank Cars
Title:  String of Tank Cars
Description:  A string of tank cars flies through Sugar Land behind BNSF 757 through Sugar Land, TX.
Photo Date:  12/28/2011  Upload Date: 8/1/2013 11:16:57 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  418   Comments: 0
KCS de M 4664
Title:  KCS de M 4664
Description:  eastbound trailing on UP Sunset
Photo Date:  2/1/2012  Upload Date: 2/2/2012 7:02:02 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Bob Carter
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCSM 4664(ES44AC)
Views:  707   Comments: 0
UP 1918
Title:  UP 1918
Description:  The Eagle Lake Local is switching the Nalco Chemical Plant on the old spur to the old Imperial Sugar Mill. The Eagle Lake local switches the Industries from Houston to Eagle Lake (about 70 miles west) daily.
Photo Date:  3/14/2012  Upload Date: 5/22/2012 10:46:23 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1918(GP60) UP 1938(GP60)
Views:  1033   Comments: 0
Eastbound
Title:  Eastbound
Description:  Looking at the old Imperial Sugar plant.
Photo Date:  6/17/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 5:36:06 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Scenic,InCab,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  406   Comments: 0
KCS 4831 East at Sugar Land
Title:  KCS 4831 East at Sugar Land
Description:  KCS 4831 leads an eastbound manifest through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston. The track on the right, which a KCS grain train with KCS 4110 on the rear is sitting in, is Sugar Land Siding. However, UP is working on double-tracking the Glidden Subdivision through here, which is why new intermediate signals are standing by.
Photo Date:  4/11/2015  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 9:10:10 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4831(ES44AC) KCS 4154(SD70ACe) BNSF 4542(C44-9W) KCS 4110(SD70ACe)
Views:  906   Comments: 0
Around the Curve
Title:  Around the Curve
Description:  KCS 4831 leads an eastbound manifest around a curve in Sugar Land, TX on UP's Glidden Subdivision.
Photo Date:  4/11/2015  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 9:13:19 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4831(ES44AC) KCS 4154(SD70ACe) BNSF 4542(C44-9W)
Views:  822   Comments: 0
Excavators on Flats
Title:  Excavators on Flats
Description:  A string of Texas-built CAT excavators roll eastward on flatcars in an eastbound KCS manifest in the city of Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston.
Photo Date:  4/11/2015  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 9:18:43 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  394   Comments: 0
BNSF 9820 West
Title:  BNSF 9820 West
Description:  BNSF 9820 leads an empty oil train westward on UP's Glidden Subdivision through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston. Behind this train is a loaded KCS grain train waiting for a new crew.
Photo Date:  4/11/2015  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 9:30:20 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  Bridge,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9820(SD70MAC) BNSF 9575(SD70MAC)
Views:  697   Comments: 0
The Sunset After Dark
Title:  The Sunset After Dark
Description:  AMTK 157 leads westbound Sunset Limited #1 after dark through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston. I used a one second exposure to give the train motion blur as it passed.
Photo Date:  4/11/2015  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 10:05:34 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Night,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 157(P42DC) AMTK 190(P42DC)
Views:  538   Comments: 0
Streaking Superliners
Title:  Streaking Superliners
Description:  The Superliners making up westbound Sunset Limited #1 fly through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston, TX. I used a one second exposure to give motion blur to the train as it passed.
Photo Date:  4/11/2015  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 10:08:09 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Night,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  395   Comments: 0
AMTK 145 at Sugar Land
Title:  AMTK 145 at Sugar Land
Description:  AMTK 145 leads eastbound Sunset Limited #2 through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston. The train has 3 locomotives on this trip, because, in addition to the train's normal 6 cars, it also has a baggage car and 8 private cars on the rear, being taken east from San Antonio after the 2015 AAPRCO Convention.
Photo Date:  4/24/2015  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 7:58:17 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 145(P42DC) AMTK 181(P42DC) AMTK 60(P42DC)
Views:  532   Comments: 0
Passing the Imperial Sugar Building
Title:  Passing the Imperial Sugar Building
Description:  UP 8783 leads an eastbound manifest across Oyster Creek in front of the Imperial Sugar Building in Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston.
Photo Date:  7/6/2015  Upload Date: 7/30/2015 12:08:06 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Bridge,Track,Action
Locomotives:  UP ?783(ž<*0§@e) UP 4147(SD70M) UP 7402(AC45CCTE)
Views:  902   Comments: 0
Late Afternoon Local
Title:  Late Afternoon Local
Description:  GMTX 2617 leads the eastbound LHT47 04 on UP's Glidden Subdivision through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston. The LHT47 works the Glidden Subdivision out of the yard at Eagle Lake, TX (About 70 miles west of Houston), working eastward to Sugar Land and then returning to Eagle Lake.
Photo Date:  8/4/2015  Upload Date: 8/22/2015 2:32:44 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives:  GMTX 2617(GP38-2) HLCX 1029(GP38-2)
Views:  913   Comments: 0
Accelerating Past CP SA025
Title:  Accelerating Past CP SA025
Description:  AMTK 10 accelerates Amtrak Train #2, the eastbound Sunset Limited, past the east siding switch of Sugar Land, CP SA025. The train is running about 7 hours late, and the fact that this train had to hold for a local wasn't helping.
Photo Date:  8/4/2015  Upload Date: 8/22/2015 11:35:15 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 10(P42DC)
Views:  434   Comments: 1
Late Sunset Limited #2
Title:  Late Sunset Limited #2
Description:  AMTK 10 leads Amtrak Train #2, the eastbound Sunset Limited, through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston. The train is running about 7 hours late, having departed LA 4 hours late (Due to having to wait for the Coast Starlight) and then lost more time due to poor handling on the UP (As usual).
Photo Date:  8/4/2015  Upload Date: 8/22/2015 11:36:54 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 10(P42DC) AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  560   Comments: 0
Passing the Spreader
Title:  Passing the Spreader
Description:  AMTK 10 leads Amtrak Train #2, the eastbound Sunset Limited, through Sugar Land, TX, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston. The train is passing a UP MOW Spreader on the left, which is on location as part of UP's work to add a second main track to the Glidden Subdivision in the area.
Photo Date:  8/4/2015  Upload Date: 8/22/2015 11:40:29 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 10(P42DC) AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  514   Comments: 0
DOTX 216
Title:  DOTX 216
Description:  DOTX 216 rolls eastward on Amtrak Train #2, the eastbound Sunset Limited, as the train makes its way through Sugar Land, TX on its way to its next station stop of Houston.
Photo Date:  8/4/2015  Upload Date: 9/16/2015 8:09:33 PM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Christopher Parma
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  594   Comments: 0
Sugar Land TX
Title:  Sugar Land TX
Description:  UP Glidden Sub
Photo Date:  10/10/2015  Upload Date: 10/22/2015 8:16:03 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  296   Comments: 0
IMPX 1843
Title:  IMPX 1843
Description:  Scale Test Car
Photo Date:  10/10/2015  Upload Date: 10/22/2015 7:31:03 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  329   Comments: 0
IMPX 1843
Title:  IMPX 1843
Description:  Scale Test Car
Photo Date:  10/10/2015  Upload Date: 10/22/2015 7:31:09 AM
Location:  Sugar Land, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  332   Comments: 0


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