View On Black I've long been fascinated by Houston's history as a major port, a port made possible only by a tortuous path to the Gulf of Mexico, and, critically, after 1900, being dramatically more sheltered than Galveston from the worst that that Gulf has to offer. Houston's port, though, would have been useless without the railroads, fanning out from the city, like spokes on a wheel, spokes like this one, heading north (behind me in this photo), the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas…