FLOOD '98
Victoria, Texas





Union Pacific employees work to repair rail lines leading southwest of Victoria, Texas. The rail line loss approximatly 17 miles of track from the South Texas floods. In many places, the gravel bed, on which the tracks rest, was washed away, loosing as much as 7 feet.
Washouts such as this one located at the Pickering Basin of the Victoria Barge Canal were widespread in the flooded zones of the Guadalupe River. Local ranchers were being forced to move cattle from flooded grazing lands by the threat of drowning and starvation from lack of grazing land available. Many cattle were headed to auction rather than the costly alternative of hay feeding. Union Pacific employees work to repair railroad tracks. Traffic along the southern rail lines have backed up due to the massive floods that swept South Texas.
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