The City of New Orleans is blasting by the former depot in Gilman on their way North to Chicago on a Sunday morning in rural Illinois.

The City of New Orleans. 450 and 451 were test engines, Amtrak acquired none. The second unit in the picture, smoking it up from the soot built up while idling in Union Station, is 194, a GP40TC.

On our way to visit the Kankakee, Beaverville, & Southern, a brief pit stop in Gilman yielded this reward in the golden early morning light.

The City of New Orleans flies over Canal Street just minutes away from its final destination.

The City of New Orleans sits just north of the CN Yard in Jackson on the Grenada Sub going no where fast.

Northbound City of New Orleans (189/515) pulls into Hammond LA. Passengers cling to the shade with a heat index topping 100.

The City of New Orleans departs New Orleans.

City of New Orleans arrives over the St. Charles Air Line.

Northbound City of New Orleans with 514 on point and 45/76/354

The day is just beginning in Memphis as the City of New Orleans takes on fuel on a cold January morning.

Once common power: a pair of F40PHs, AMTK 368 and AMTK 393, lead the northbound City of New Orleans through Kenner, Louisiana.

Before Genesis motors and Superliners, Amtrak's City of New Orleans sported F40PH's, GP40's, heritage equipment, and even a dome car. On this day, Amtrak 222 does the honors as the Northbound "Ci... (more)

A gentleman on the platform speaks to the engineer of tonights "City of New Orleans" before it departs northbound from Memphis.

Amtrak 16 sits with train 59, the southbound City of New Orleans, at Hammond while the crew makes a cut 5 cars from the rear. The head end will then pick up three cars from the team track and hea... (more)

The last southbound City of New Orleans to turn at Hammond and the first to travel to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina split at Hammond. AMTK 16 and AMTK 11 have cut away with the N.O. portion... (more)