Houston, TX: BNSF/Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Milby Yard

Turntable: (Satellite, saving the location of another turntable because the yard is now abandoned.)

Street View, Nov 2022

Erin Bristow posted 11 images with the comment: "BNSF has abandoned their yard/shop on Milby street in downtown Houston. Stopped by today, turntable is flooded and sadly the homeless have already moved in.  Construction crews are prepping for demolition soon.  Its the only turntable in the Houston area.  Wish it could be saved by the future developer and kept as an historical landmark.  🫤"

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This yard probably initially serviced locomotives for passenger trains to Union Station and then locomotives for freight trains that were handed off to the Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad.

1955/57 Settegast and Park Place Quads @ 24,000

In case a developer wipes this yard clean, this is what it looked like.

Satellite

I knew that CB&Q had a route from Colorado to Texas, but I thought that route terminated in Fort Worth, TX. So how did BNSF get to Houston? The answer appears to be the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, which went from Fort Worth to Galveston. That railroad was serious about the "Gulf" part of their name, the railroad went west and south of Houston to get to Galveston. It did have a branch going North from Alvin to access Houston.

1956/63 Houston Quad @ 250,000