Federal Road runs north and south between the American Yard and the Armco comples. The Manchester Yard and North Yard are major staging areas for deliveries to the port. North Wayside drive runs west of the North yard and give easy access to photographers. Until recently, SP also had a line that paralleled Texas 146 from LaPorte to Galveston, but that line has been abandoned because of the Clear Creek bridge at Kemah. Texas 225 generally parallels the line.
Traffic is light.
Texas 3 closely parallels the line. This was the route of the Texas Limited passenger train in the past, and plans called for that service to be restored with a new service from Union Station downtown when the baseball stadium is built there. The Limited is currently stored at the Galveston RR Museum and rumors also have the F units being donated to them. The tracks to Union Station have been removed. The ATSF main from Galveston to Temple bypassed Houston, but this line comes north from Alvin.