HUMP YARD ACTION with drone views! Union Pacific's Settegast and Englewood rail yards, Houston, TX

11/24/2022 Houston, TX. I went to Texas for Thanksgiving to visit family and got some rail yard action while there! The Settegast yard was an old MoPac yard which the UP took over in 1982. The merger actually became official in 1997. It was my last day there so the fog had to do in this video. After the Settegast yard I visited the Englewood yard and got some "hump' action! The UP took over the SP in 1996 and the Englewood yard was connected to the Settegast yard.

[@kens.3729]

Peregrine Falcons here in the STL just Love to Feast on the Pigeons and there is never a shortage of them. 😬👍

[@kens.3729]

Very Cool Hump Operation in Action. That’s something we don’t get to see very often. Very Interesting how it slows the cars down. 👍

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Ken! Most of that stuff is automated. I think the only manual part is the guy pulling the coupler pin.

[@mrdisco102]

Great video, thank you for sharing it.

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Jared!

[@fallingup90]

Another great one! Loved seeing all the standard cabs and that hump yard in action

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks fallingup90! 1000 miles from home on that one.

[@warrendarrah2555]

Reds Iowa train videos has it all. I have been to a hump yard and not had as good a view as with your drone. Great job.

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Warren! Definitely don't see that in Iowa.

[@thomasmackowiak]

Thank you for this video of Union Pacific action in Houston, Texas on 24 November 2022, Red! The views of both Stettegast Yard and Englewood Yard were entertaining. The hump yard action at Englewood Yard was fascinating to watch. I saw the pin puller several times as the drone caught the cars near the top of the hump. Englewood Yard is probably the southern equivalent of Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska.

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

You're welcome Thomas! Yes that yard is huge. The only manual part left on the hump yard is probably that guy pulling the pin! I was at Bailey yard a few years ago, very impressive.

[@robrees8382]

Thank You Red for another awesome look at rail yards and how they work!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

You're welcome Rob!

[@CSXFan5496]

Nice video!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Alex!

[@brandonreeves5979]

Awesome footage brother! I often forget just how big that yard is. Thanks for visiting the lone star state. Y’all come back you hear. Lol! #blessyourheart

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Brandon! I like everything about Texas except the traffic🤣It's amazing how they keep all those cars organized. I'll visit again, most likely on 2 wheels next time👍

[@brandonreeves5979]

@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 yeah traffic does suck down here ESPECIALLY in Houston. That’s a good choice 👍🏻

[@nancyhodges444]

Awesome yard action from down south Red. Shame about the weather, but still not a bad job.👍🏼🚂

[@AbelG8781]

I live in Houston, there's not a day that goes by in this season where the sun shines, it's always cloudy and gloomy

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Nancy! I had to take what I could get for video. The hardest part about it was Houston traffic😆

[@AbelG8781]

@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 🤢🤢🤢 our traffic is horrible u don't have to remind me lol and I know for a fact that the neighborhoods around Settegast made you a bit nervous lol it's pretty bad on the Eastside of Settegast.

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

@@AbelG8781 Oh yeah, those neighborhoods seemed pretty rough. Amazing how many stray dogs running around. The cold Iowa winters keep our population down and lots of open road!

[@AbelG8781]

@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 yeah gotta be real careful around there. Glad u enjoyed your visit! Maybe next time we can meet up at Ole reliable, Tower 26! Even worse neighborhoods but with dozens of trains in a short period of time lol

[@Phantom-Signal]

Now that's just awesome buddy. Keep her going!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Phantom!

[@garymiller5937]

Cool video Red! I like big railyards. So much powe, so many cars, so many places to put them. ❤😊😊 Thanks 👍.

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

You're welcome Gary! You went back aways there. I was a 1k miles from home on that one👍

[@ghostgarden8032]

That's a whole lotta track in that yard, and the tracks crossing over the highway cool veiw on the drone

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

That was the biggest yard I've seen other than the Bailey yard in Nebraska.

[@scottmmafan925]

Love the drone footage of the Englewood hump!!! Keep it up, Red!!!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Scott! I could have hung out there for hours😁

[@michaelbuss5731]

Excellent road trip videos Red!!!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Michael!

[@keith4884-yyz]

Great video, thanks for sharing! How nice to visit family and see trains!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

You're welcome Keith!

[@AgentMulder1805]

Really cool video Red! Never seen the hump action before fascinating! Thanks Mate 👍

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Agent Mulder! Lots of stuff going on at once👍

[@bekleidungu.ausrustung7068]

Good detailed look see on how a hump yard works. Enjoyed all the action. The fog didn't detract from the video quality at all, imo!!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Glad you liked it Bekleidung! There's a lot going on at once there for sure👍

[@corey294]

Very cool, thanks for sharing! 👍

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

You're welcome Corey!

[@ronaldrondeau7870]

great to see how they work on the hump yard love to see more

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

I'd love to get more hump yard footage, unfortunately those yards are a long ways from Iowa!

[@stretchlimo7275]

That was awesome Red, very interesting! Without the drone you’d never see this type of action! Keep up the good work Red👍🏼😁🇺🇸

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks STRETCH LIMO! That was a long way from home, glad I got the footage I did👍🇺🇸

[@paulsmith5398]

Darn crappy weather! But you sure know how to get the views with that drone!👍👍😃😃❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸😀😀❗❗Nice diversion from the high speed line in your area!

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks Paul S! I was 1k miles from the high speed Montour spot😲

[@centraliowarailproductions2810]

Nice catches!

[@kens.3729]

Houston, TX, is a Huge City. A Southern Pacific Yard down in Houston was Bottlenecked for Many Months after UP bought the SP. It was a Huge Cluster****

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Yep, the UP tied the Settegast and Englewood yards together after the take over.

[@kennethmeyers5008]

my parents live in settegast... and my dad worked for SP for 35 years....he started out at the cresote yard and because a inspector...i remember as a kid going to englewood yard and see my dad at wk and watch trains....ima railfan till i die! also i was in that area when the explosion happened in the 70's i thinkk

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

That's cool Kenneth! I'd like to visit those yards again on a nice day. Too bad it's a 1k miles from home for me.

[@davidpierce1837]

Great video Red, i like the way the cars go to certain tracks to join up to make a train . A lot of stuff going on there

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks David! Yes it's amazing how they keep all that stuff straight👍

[@gregblanton9386]

Great seeing new places, good action for a Thanksgiving for sure!

[@robinroberts3335]

Hello Red . Interesting yard view . That what my father did tower yard master for cn north of Toronto . Mac yard . It was a cool job . Great drone shot foggy no worries . 👍🏻be safe Robin . 🇨🇦🇺🇸

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Yo Robin! That was a huge yard for sure👍

[@johnandrews9312]

Great video Red! That drone video makes all the difference, and you do a great job!! Man, that's a big yard Thanks for sharing

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks John A! Yes that was a huge yard, I think the fog even hid some of it!

[@v1-vr-rotatev2-vy_vx31]

All the railroads are refurbing those sd40-2s and still getting a lot of use out of them

[@kens.3729]

The Union Pacific Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, is the Largest Rail Yard in the World with two (2) Humps going around the clock. 👍

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

It sure is! I rode there a couple years ago and hung out at the Golden Spike Tower👍

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

Interesting some of the Engines are slugs no fans or exhaust on top. Also if you have time sometime do a review of you voice recording and the drone you are using. You have the best voice recording on train videos I have heard.

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Yes Otto, I noticed the lack of fans and exhaust on those yard units too. I would guess they are also remote control. I actually use my other camera for the audio and surrounding sounds for drone shots. I tie the drone and audio together on my editor👍

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 Do you use a mic for audio?

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

@@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on Nope, just the mic on the ground view camera. Sony ax43.

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 Wow that picks up sound nicely. You do a good job over dubbing the sound when you have drone video.

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[@paulbergen9114]

Sorry you got stuck with bad weather on the vacation but the Gulf area is kind of unpredictable. Even singularly these yards were big and I'll double up they're plain mega sized. Those pigeons are problems everywhere but the fog luckily stayed just high enough. Those power sets are everywhere and the SD40 certainly is still popular along with the Slugs though I wonder why so many carry a GE with them. Is it for extra HP when working the hump or are those the DPU you carry around to attach to the rear of the train? The width of the hump bowl is about three times the width of what Milwaukee Road had here in town and note the super abundance of tank cars and covered hoppers for plastic pellets. Those two box cars going over the hump actually look out of place. As a side note my friend Paul Schneider in the early and mid-70s hoboed through both these yards with some frequency and his photos showed MP as mostly SD40 and GP 7\9\18 while the SP was loaded on SD45\U33C\GP35. Where else can you find a hump your Tower squeezed in between freeways and rivers?

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Yes the weather wasn't ideal, but I took what I could get. Not sure about the GE power, DPU help sounds probable. Sounds like the neighborhood around Englewood yard is trying to sue the UP for cancer cases. The SP apparently left a mess for the UP. I'd like to find a hump yard closer to Iowa and get more footage👍

[@stampingdieguy147]

Great stuff Red! Excellent footage of the hump yard, I've never seen one operate in person or on video. I'm pretty darned curious what those EMD SD series locos with a GP15 looking long hood are. I know they aren't a SD40T or any other EMD SD tunnel motor. Reporting marks UPY and number boards with Y4XX from what I can make out, can't find a thing about them other than they're yard switchers. Thanks for another excellent video!

[@AbelG8781]

Slug locos. Ex-SD38s.

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

Thanks stampingdieguy! I wish it would have been dry that day. I could watch that yard for a long time👍I noticed those strange locos too. The giveaway that they are slugs is the fact that they don't have any exhaust.

[@zman_o7]

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[@AbelG8781]

When were you in Houston! As much as I'd like to fly over the yard, it's actually very illegal to do so in TX unfortunately 😕

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

I was there for Thanksgiving Abel. My folks moved down there after retiring. My Dad worked for the UP and helped connect those rail yards. He apparently had no idea it was illegal. Guess that's my last video of a Texas rail yard😲

[@cjbeyer8340]

I sure enjoy your videos of the UP!!! It is the greatest railroad in America!

[@AbelG8781]

@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 unfortunately our lawmakers here are strictly against drones. Sad and rather pathetic if u ask me 😠😠

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

@@AbelG8781 I can see having rules about flying over petro chemical plants and such, but not rail yards. Sounds like a lot of people getting cancer near the Englewood yard. I saw it on the national news after getting home. They want to sue the UP over contaminated dirt I guess.

[@AbelG8781]

@@redsiowatrainvideos6645 yeah Texas considers railyards as Critical Infrastructure so sadly I won't find out for myself lol also. Yes, UP is in hot water because of what the SP left behind in the 96 merger. I pass by there when I railfan and the whole area is fenced off to prevent trespassers. I sure hope one day they get it all under control.

[@garymiller5937]

They may have to work Thanksgiving but I'm guessing they're getting paid handsomely. 😊😊

[@johnniebellamy5912]

Union Pacific converted some sd-40s into slugs

[@paulsmith5398]

And they also had 6 SD-38-2s from the now defunct C&IM railway in Illinois, that were also converted to slugs. Dont know if those are still around.

[@KTHKUHNKK]

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[@lamarkusjones7559]

That by my house

[@redsiowatrainvideos6645]

That's a busy spot! I get to Texas every couple years or so.