Galveston, Texas

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Galveston Wharves Switcher

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This picture was taken from the Pelican Island Causeway. The switcher is no longer there. Photo by Greg Harrison.

In 2002, this AIMCOR switcher could be found on the main thoroughfare between Galveston and Pelican Islands. Here it is seen serving as a bumping post at the end of a long storage spur on Galveston Island proper. It was reportedly pushed completely off the end of the rails and was leaning in the sand at a sharp angle in 2003. A year later, the old switcher was dismantled and scrapped in place over the course of three days.

That wasn't a Galveston Wharf Terminal switcher, it's most likely an ex-SP unit (look at the number board atop the hood) that was used for one of the now-closed industries in Galveston.

GWT only ever rostered SW-1s and SW-1001s.

Eli
Houston, TX
8/29/2010

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along the pelican island cause way on the ground to the right very hard to see is a another rail tracks that go to the bridge that connect the ports on the island if u go south to the main island follow harbor side harbor dr. at the corner of harbor side and 37st is ground plans to what was GW round house

matt
houston, TX
10/19/2010

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There was a railroad spur, overgrown, running very close to the causeway that once went out to Pelican Island and curled around to the end. I saw the abandoned line in 2005, but it looks like according to this Google Maps image, much of it has been stripped. Curiously, I STILL can't figure out how it connected to the main line...

PS3D
College Station, TX
5/5/2011

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The Pelican Island line went over the east side of the causeway to Pelican Island, I believe to service the Todd Shipyard that existed there. It was gone by the mid-to-late 1980.

A lot of Galveston has changed since the 1980s, it used to be much more commercial, where there are now businesses were all railroad yard serving a busy port.

Eli
Houston, TX
8/14/2011

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