The Harvey to Gouldsboro job heads east with a solid train of 54 tank cars.

Transfer YAV10 returns home, rising above the pre-Christmas traffic of New Orleans.

Train A72 passes the old Southern RR East City Jct Tower as it returns from CN Mays Yard with with loads of Toyota vehicles assembled in Canton, MS ahead of chemicals & plastics.

Running as NS AV10 22 over the Back Belt, UP transfer crew YAV10 22 has MLIWX 21 is perfectly framed by a live oak as they close in on CSX's Gentilly Yard.

My first photo of the NOGC, after getting skunked multiple times.

Reflections of the way things used to be. NS C44-9W's are getting less and less common as they continue to be rebuilt into AC44C6Ms. But a GP38 leading a train on any class I railroad is much ap... (more)

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. NOPB Job 80 had stalled and was just getting moving as a sunspot opened up in between downpours. UP MLINSB 25 is behind on the East Main holding for ... (more)

Birmingham-New Orleans 355 skirts Lake Ponchartrain along the concrete levee. After crossing the Industrial Canal at Seabrook, he will drop the rear BNSF block on Main #1 before continuing into O... (more)

Jackson Square is decorated for Christmas as Job 104 switches cars along the waterfront, with the landmark St Louis Cathedral in the background.

BNSF H NSILAL1 22 passes over the 17th Street Canal and a much used flood wall in the time since this picture was taken.

The easily accessible but seemingly lesser photographed Norfolk Southern bridge over the Industrial Canal hosts a short Chattanooga-New Orleans freight.

BNSF H CSXLAL1 21 is almost on home territory, after running over CSX, NS and currently NOPB trackage that is dispatched by UP and running under UP symbol 2QEBLOJ 21.

BNSF train H CSXLAL1 21 crosses the 17th Street Canal, which pumps water out of New Orleans/Metairie into Lake Ponchartrain. This and approximately 100 other flood gates will be closed for Hurric... (more)

With the Northeast corner of Hurricane Ida set to hit New Orleans the afternoon of 08/29/21... here's to hoping the elevated signal cabinets will not be necessary.

Flood control is part of life in New Orleans, framing Job 104 pulling plastic pellet hoppers from TCI Trucking Cold Storage.