Crew of Job 102 (PB102) wait for MOW to fix switch near devastated France Road Terminal on Industrial Canal. Job will pick-up damaged boxcars on hospital run.

North bound "City of New Orleans" rolls past Clara Street Tower leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The tower can be seen above the middle of the train, UPT is to the right.

Six weeks after Hurricane Katrina, the Insta-Gator and other pleasure craft remain on the NOPB right of way where they were left by the massive storm. This track is an industrial spur on the West... (more)

The 3rd northbound Crescent to depart New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina rumbles over a still-flooded Canal Blvd in East City. Debris and advertisements for demolition and construction still lit... (more)

Cab interior of the KCS4 at the beginning of it's new, but short, career pulling the Belle.

Hurricane Katrina flood waters rose past the lights on RTA 2020. All RTA street cars and busses at the Canal St. location were flooded.

Cars were lifted from their trucks when the flood wateres poured into New Orleans East.

Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina washed this string of cars off the track next to Gentilly Yard. Most all of the water from this area has now receeded.

A scene that is "Naturally Nawlins" a glance into the mirror on P32 504 reveals two superliners on the Gulf Coast Limited as we swing onto NOUPT trackage at East City Junction by the cemetaries an... (more)

It is the day before Christmas, and Los Angeles to New Orleans train LANOF eases over Louisa Street in New Orleans East as it prepares to cross the Industrial Canal and enter CSX Gentilly Yard.

Everything is wet, including Illinois Central's executive E-units, as this train pulls around the wye along Earhart. Once clear of the switch, this train will back into New Orleans Union Passenge... (more)

Brand new Amtrak P42DC 40 and a P32BWH ease train 58, the City of New Orleans, onto NOUPT's "Western Connection" at Carrollton Junction.

Hurricane Katrina assisted in washing out the tracks where the locomotives were stored during the storm. This switcher is leaning but keeping it's footing. There were others more off center but I... (more)

6 days after Hurricane Katrina devistated New Orleans, the Norfolk Southern line is still partially under water. These tracks lead to CSX Gentilly yard while the crossing tracks go to NS Oliver Y... (more)

My (the engineers view) sitting behind another train on the continent's longest (4.5 mile) Huey P Long railroad bridge just a few days before Hurricane Katrina. The bridge opened in Dec 1935. The ... (more)