We had a great time today. We took a tour of the Houston Ship Channel (which is free) and saw a lot of stuff. We had done this several times before with the boys when they were Cub Scouts. Houston is a pretty big port. The boat cruised down the channel and we got a pretty good look close up at a lot of merchant ships. As you can imagine, there is all manner of ships along the channel. It being a very large refining area, there are a lot of tankers. The most interesting to me was this one. They are loading a locomotive into the hold. I would guess that is a fairly dicy operation. Somebody somewhere is going to get a brand new locomotive.