CPKC's Final Spike train heads over Caddo Lake as it approaches Shreveport. To the right sits the historic 1914 Caddo Lake drawbridge, which was notably visited by Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower an... (more)

A trio of KCS EMD's in the form of SD40-2 #3205, GP40-2 #2951 & SD40-2 #3206 bring local LL60 across the Bonnet Carré Spillway on their way back to NOLA from Baton Rouge, LA.

Kansas City Southern's Holiday Express speeds across the wooden trestle at Crew Lake near Start, LA nearing its next stop at Monroe.

KCS's Holiday Express on its run south from Shreveport to La Place

Transfer run A72 returns from CN Mays Yard. Can somebody please investigate adding the signal bridge to the National Register of Historic Places before it's gone?

Public Belt Job 104 works Claiborne Yard, with it's namesake street overhead.

Amtrak #20, The Crescent, passes under one of two remaining Southern Railroad riveted lattice girder cantilever signal bridges that I'm aware of. If it lasts much longer, someone needs to add it ... (more)

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

After upgrading to a new computer system, the Public Belt had cars staged everywhere. Job 300 is returning light from the CPKC, passing yesterday's Job 87, which dumped their train and tied down ... (more)

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)

With 87 tank cars on the drawbar, NOGC's Harvey-Gouldsboro Job trundles through the streets of Gretna.

Two classics side by side. Looks like one has a little wrinkle and bump on its face. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Glass at the Pass. Southbound CN Coal Buckets slow roll over Manchac Pass, Louisiana, on a calm spring afternoon. This C738 was running headlong into the wake of an Amtrak-fueled mess that saw t... (more)

The Kansas City Southern F units lead the Office Car Special on the return trip from Laredo, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana through Anacoco, Louisiana.

Built in January 1971 (53 years ago!) as Baltimore & Ohio GP40 #3755, KCS 2853 was recently converted by KCS from a GP40-3 into a GP32ECO. It sits with two other KCS geeps in the small CPKC yard i... (more)