The St Charles Streetcar has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operated streetcar line in the world, first opened in 1835. The line uses equally historic trolleys built in 1923-24 ... (more)

The class unit drills cars in the Public Belt's France Yard.

NOPB Job 80 trundles down the West Main with interchange for Union Pacific's Avondale Yard across the Mississippi. Yes, that is an intoxicated male lying in the gauge of the Eastbound Main... the... (more)

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.

The conductor on IATDA30 gives a roll-by to IZLCAI28. I shouldn't have been surprised to find solid NS & UP powered intermodals meeting on the Meridian Speedway.

Shreveport-Bossier City turn LBC202 returns home with three GP38-2's and three GP32ECO's hauling 63 cars of local traffic across the Red River to Deramus Yard.

UP southbounds take a long and winding road through Shreveport. Here a St Louis-Houston manifest has crossed the Red River and is running back north, turning west onto KCS trackage rights to cont... (more)

In an early Amtrak scene circa 1973, 3 E8s lead Amtrak #58, the City of New Orleans, at Orleans Junction in Kenner Louisiana. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

Trains 27 and 28. When Webb Rail acquired former New York Central Railroad Budd built Pullman obs/diner/sleeper "Babbling Brook" (WEBX 800007), its original tailsign had been lost... (more)

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)