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Good detective work. I lived in Beaumont for several years and this is Gilbert Street. A couple of corrections on the trackage: this train is on the KCS mainline, which goes directly through downtown Beaumont. The MP (GCL) physically never went east of Beaumont, joining the KCS at Wall Street and using KCS tracks to reach DeQuincy, LA. The SP mainline ran north of downtown with their own lift bridge over the Neches River. The MP and SP were later consolidated into a single railroad corridor through Beaumont using portions of both SP and MP alignments, and both of those railroads using the KCS alignment through downtown and across the Neches River.
