Another warm Polar. Amtrak operates Polar Express Trains from two different locations during the holiday season. Leaving several times daily, passengers can experience the Polar Express from New O... (more)

The St. Charles streetcar line of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority is a wonderful historical flashback thanks to classic cars built in the 1920s. Ninety-four-year-old NORTA car 926 carri... (more)

There's still no better way to get around town. Streetcars like the 900 Series made by Perley A. Thomas Car Works, and the replicas like the one seen here, are synonymous with New Orleans. And aft... (more)

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As far as trains are concerned, it don't get more New Orleans than a Riverfront Streetcar and the Public Belt.

Amtrak's Crescent rolls under an old cantilever signal bridge, the last of its kind west of Birmingham. So far, it has survived the PTC signal massacre, with no evidence of imminent replacement.

According to a friend, the southward absolute signals at Frenchmen Street are the last Southern riveted steel cantilever signal west of Birmingham and I believe it. Running as AV01 on NS, BNSF cr... (more)

QLIGNC 18 is stretched out over the magnificent Huey P. Long Bridge. Running with yard crew YAV26 19, this is the third Livonia, LA to CSX Gentilly Yard manifest of the day. Due to CSX no longer... (more)

The Crescent exits the New Orleans Terminal Back Belt Line and takes the wye onto the N.O.&N.E. District to Meridian, MS.

A New Orleans Public Belt job passes through one of the flood walls lining the "Industrial Canal" on the east side of town.

UP 1943 is climbing the west approach of the Huey P Long Bridge, leaving Avondale Yard, bound for display at Audubon Park in New Orleans.

UP 1943 has just pulled in and tied down for public display at Audubon Park as a New Orleans Public Belt job passes by on the mainline.

What a beautiful summer day in New Orleans... Too bad you can't feel the humidity in this photo! NOUPT is a station that serves both Amtrak and Greyhound.

A NOPB job works the small yard on the east side of town just south of the CSX interchange with a pair of veteran SW1500s and a MP1500D. Threatening storm clouds yielded a momentary sucker hole, ... (more)

New Orleans Public Service Inc. (NOPSI) streetcar 915 looks like it provided a fun ride to at least one young man. This was the original Canal Street line that would be abandoned not long after t... (more)