An eastbound UP manifest sits in the siding at Lissie, looking at a red signal on an "as yet to be replaced" SP tri-light signal. The eastbound is meeting this westbound empty rock train before continuing east toward Houston.
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With a clear (green) signal now displayed, this eastbound UP manifest prepares to release the brakes and throttle up. It will enter the single track main that will take it east to Rosenberg and, eventually, in to the yard in Houston.
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It takes many years...even decades...to replace all the old CTC signals across a railroad the size of Union Pacific. Indeed, many of the signals along the Glidden Sub in southern Texas have not been replaced. They are still the class SP tri-light signals that were used when the Scarlet and Gray came through here on the Sunset Route.
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A pair of UP GEs leads an eastbound manifest across the wooden trestle of the San Bernard River bridge, just east of the town of East Bernard.
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An eastbound UP train on the Glidden Sub crosses through the interlocking at Rosenberg where UP, BNSF, and CPKC trains all converge. The back half of the train is on a stretch of track where only UP trains (and Amtrak) can run. But the head end is UP track that includes tracking rights with Amtrak, BNSF, and CPKC!
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A northbound BNSF manifest has a fresh crew and is untying in the siding of Rosenberg. Once the crew is ready to go and the UP train in the background is clear, the UP dispatcher will get a signal for the train to proceed north out of the siding and across the UP diamond, continuing north on the Galveston Subdivision.
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