KCS-CSX interchange train with KCS 657/689/645 crawls over CSX bridge and on to NOPB connector. Tracks are restored, road to bridge is not.

NOPB 2003 and EMD SW1000 105 leaving CSX yard after dropping cars. Both NOPB and KCS have resumed Gentilly service with opening of CSX tracks to Mobile.

NS 3200(CNO&TP) and 3300 (AGS) SD40-2 pull into NS Oliver Yard with FEMA train -roughly 150 house trailers for Katrina emergency housing

NS 3200(CNO&TP) and 3300 (AGS) SD40-2 head to engine servicing area after delivery of FEMA train O41

Westbound train about to enter UP Avondale Yard with UP 5176 4051 4312 4887 900(GATX) 9804 9701 9634 3459

Gentilly Yard with MP15's 1144 1140 looking like pre-Katrina days. Bridge transfer train from UP's Avondale Yard enters yard to right.

NS FEMA train about to enter NS Oliver Yard with CEFX 3134 NS 7087 NS 3218 power

Looking somewhat like a EMD switcher, NOPB's Boise MP2000D heads toward the Huey Long Bridge, long-hood first. It will deliver 8 cars to UP's Avondale Yard.

Sunset Ltd heading west over Huey Long Bridge

BNSF power leads CSX detour train via CN with rocks for repair work along Gulf coast

Rare sight before Katrina, NOPB power transfer 8 cars from New Orleans to UP. Berfore storm virtually all bridge transfers used Class I RR power.

NOPB old EMD SW's 105 and 151 (SW1500) push cars into the Central Ave Yard

Amtrak P30CH 707 sits among the rest of the recently mothballed P30CH fleet at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel facility on Christmas Day, 1991.

New Orleans was the gathering place for the P30CHs as Amtrak placed them into retirement. Here the 705 sits on Christmas Day 1991, never to pull a passenger train again. The sun is finally settin... (more)

It is Christmas Day, 1991, and an interesting assortment af Amtrak power calls the NOUPT Diesel Shop home for the Hollidays. Brand new B32-8WH's 506 and 505 gleam as GP40s 651 and 652 sit on adja... (more)