In the same yard, more TFM locomotives are seen in the poor light of a vertical sun as they await transfer duties between the American railroads in Laredo, Texas, and TFM's new yard at Estación Sánchez, Tamaulipas, about 12 miles to the west on the highway toward Anáhuac, Nuevo León. Mexican customs and agricultural inspections, which were formerly done at the international bridge, have been relocated to Sánchez. Note that the second track holds a line of UP locomotives, while the far unit on the first track wears the vestigial FNM livery.

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Photo © 1999 Lowell G. McManus