Returning CN Mays Yard with interchange traffic, third trick yard job Y305 passes Pump Station 6 on trackage rights over the NS Back Belt.

MNOEWB 21 with YAV10 21 yard crew handling the New Orleans transfer, crossing the Huey P Long Bridge... I'm pretty sure it's the steepest railraod grade in Louisiana and also the highest railroad ... (more)

KCS 3961 leads a westbound mixed train through Sibley Louisiana crossing over one of the many bridges just west of town.

Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It covers an area of 630 square miles with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet. Its roughly 39x24 miles wide and length, a... (more)

Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It covers an area of 630 square miles with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet. Its roughly 39x24 miles wide and length, a... (more)

The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley, located in St. Charles Parish, LA. The spillway allows floodwaters from the Mississippi River to flow into ... (more)

Trio of BNSF Pumpkins are seen on Huey P Long Bridge towing mixed freight over Mississippi River.

BNSF 7178 crossing the swing bridge over Calcasieu River on the UP Lafayette Sub, with Lake Charles beyond and I-10 above and beyond. Would like to know more about this location. What the co... (more)

Here is a picture of the west bound mixed train led by an EMD SD70ace-t4 on the Huey P Long Bridge. Both (East and West Bound) Amtrak's Sunset limited use this bridge to cross the Mississippi rive... (more)

Mismatched Geeps. Union Pacific Railroad GP40N 1364 (née-DRGW 3109, GP40-2, 12/1972) and 1080 (née-SP 9732, GP60,5/1991) were headed from Westlake towards towards the UP yard in Lake Char... (more)

After a mostly cloudy day a small group of us gathered at the western end of the Kansas City Southern's Bonnet Carre Spillway bridge to shoot the outbound business train as they began their deadhe... (more)

When you begin meeting trains in New Orleans at one pm, and don't escape the confines of UP and CN at their various snared junctions, you tend to end up much later out of town than you thought. Su... (more)

KCS 1 and company look wonderful in the beautiful morning sunlight as they cross a small wooden trestle near Anacoco, Louisiana. The Business train is on day 3 of its multi-day trip to Laredo, Tex... (more)

A loaded grain train, 2x1 Dp-d, passes over the Quachita River in downtown Monroe as they work west on the Vicksburg Sub. They are following a slow moving MARSH. They both met the hot IDAAT here a... (more)

The KCS Business Train toured the Beaumont Sub enroute to Shreveport on May 4th. The weather this day made things interesting and train traffic moving slowly. This hotshot would have to meet a loa... (more)