BNSF H NSILAL1 22 passes over the 17th Street Canal and a much used flood wall in the time since this picture was taken.

The easily accessible but seemingly lesser photographed Norfolk Southern bridge over the Industrial Canal hosts a short Chattanooga-New Orleans freight.

A relatively unusual Big Boy public passenger excursion departs New Orleans. Running along the Mississippi River levee, approaching the upriver (west) end of city’s ‘front belt’, the train s... (more)

BNSF train H CSXLAL1 21 crosses the 17th Street Canal, which pumps water out of New Orleans/Metairie into Lake Ponchartrain. This and approximately 100 other flood gates will be closed for Hurric... (more)

With the Northeast corner of Hurricane Ida set to hit New Orleans the afternoon of 08/29/21... here's to hoping the elevated signal cabinets will not be necessary.

Powered By Our People. In this case the engine was operated by other people, as Union Pacific Railroad 1111 (The Employee Pride Locomotive, née-UP 8362, SD70ACe, 5/2005) lead Norfolk South... (more)

Mission Accomplished! I was able to get the shot that I drove so far to get: The World's Largest Steam Locomotive Crossing the Huey P. Long Bridge.

Mission Accomplished! I was able to get the shot that I drove so far to get: The World's Largest Steam Locomotive Crossing the Huey P. Long Bridge.

Flood control is part of life in New Orleans, framing Job 104 pulling plastic pellet hoppers from TCI Trucking Cold Storage.

Train MLIGN 21, with transfer crew YAV10 22 at the helm, crosses the CSX Industrial Canal bascule bridge with a brand new AC44ACM in the lead.

Drain the swamp and Make New Orleans Great Again!!! UP train MLINSB 03 crosses the 17th Street Canal passing Pumping Station 6. Running over the NS New Orleans Terminal Company with outdated sym... (more)

Nuff said.

With the Veterans unit trailing, the Crescent throttles up after running restricted speed through a track light on #1 at Lakefront.

YAV40 03 transfer job drags train MLIWX 03 over the NS Back Belt, en route to CSX. Of note is the SD70M leader, two months shy of it's 20th birthday, but just pulled out of storage to assist with... (more)

YAV36 drags a heat exchanger/boiler thingy from Apodaca, NL to Red Level Jct, FL with a borrowed Norfolk Southern motor and a coil car spacer. Netting 373,000 lbs & grossing at 563000lbs, it requ... (more)