While on vacation in the Big Easy, I lucked into an inspection train. Running along the flood wall, NOPB 3002 is hauling 6-axle heavyweight Pullman rear observation cars Louisiana & City of New O... (more)

The NS Oliver Yard to CN Mays Yard transfer returns home with a nice leader dragging 40 cars of general freight.

Somehow, this Southern RR riveted steel cantilever signal bridge still stands on the NS Back Belt. UP YAV17 13 brings train MLINSL 12 into NS Oliver Yard.

Palm trees, live oaks and streetcars running through the grass.

With the fleur de lis on the overpass, it's not hard to guess which city this photo is taken. Running on the NS Back Belt at UP07, UP transfer crew YAV07 10 is bringing train MLIGN 09 across Bayo... (more)

With 79 general freight from CN May's Yard, the NOPB is taking the west main to Cotton Warehouse Yard.

As far as trains are concerned, it don't get more New Orleans than a Riverfront Streetcar and the Public Belt.

Amtrak's Crescent rolls under an old cantilever signal bridge, the last of its kind west of Birmingham. So far, it has survived the PTC signal massacre, with no evidence of imminent replacement.

According to a friend, the southward absolute signals at Frenchmen Street are the last Southern riveted steel cantilever signal west of Birmingham and I believe it. Running as AV01 on NS, BNSF cr... (more)

QLIGNC 18 is stretched out over the magnificent Huey P. Long Bridge. Running with yard crew YAV26 19, this is the third Livonia, LA to CSX Gentilly Yard manifest of the day. Due to CSX no longer... (more)

The Crescent exits the New Orleans Terminal Back Belt Line and takes the wye onto the N.O.&N.E. District to Meridian, MS.

A New Orleans Public Belt job passes through one of the flood walls lining the "Industrial Canal" on the east side of town.

Luck was with me on the first morning of my Thanksgiving Vacation. The mostly cloudy weather forecast was completely wrong and New Orleans-Linwood 172 was the first of two NS trains fleeted out o... (more)

A Dayton, TX to CSX Gentilly Yard freight drops down the Eastward main as UP YAV97 26 utilizes the directional CTC on the Westward main, also heading East bound for NS Oliver Yard.

An SD40 passing an active tower in 2016, I dig it.