NE Tower or NO&NE Interlocking, depending on which railroad you ask, is the crossing of NS & CSX lines out of New Orleans, just a few miles after they split. The tower, like many other structures... (more)

82 boxcars of Mexican beer on the train, take one down and pass it around... the line of standard 50' boxcars do look cool as UP crew YAV40 02 drags MLIWX 02 over to CSX where the entire 127 car t... (more)

I may have bought a 44oz frozen hurricane and convinced my GF to sip & stroll along the levee, just in case. While I prefer the NOPB 'belt' logo, beggars can't be choosers and the fleur-de-lis wa... (more)

They may not be original, but they're still cool.

UP train MLIWX 01 with transfer crew YAV10 02 crosses from the Northbound to the Cutoff at the CSX Industrial Canal drawbridge.

A first for me, the Downtown Job ran all the way to the end of the Burma West spur to grab a plastic pellet covered hopper. This was also my first photo of the new GP38-2s.

Shortly after sunrise, the eastbound Crescent crosses the Industrial Canal in the Little River area of New Orleans. Seabrook is the less famous & photographed of NS' Louisiana bascule bridges.

KCS 4002, sporting the old white paint scheme, rests in the New Orleans yard a few days after Christmas as storm clouds build.

Clean Is Better. Before departing the next day on Amtrak Train 1 (Sunset Limited) from New Orleans, LA, a trip to the wash was in order on Friday, July 17, 2020 for Webb Rail's former North... (more)

Parlor Seating. As part of the restoration and upgrade process of Webb Rail’s former Northern Pacific 549 (WEBX 801045 dome/coach) the coach seats were removed in one end and replaced with full ... (more)

Banana engine. Progress Rail 7209 (EMDX 7209, SD70ACe-T4) makes even the KCS "Southern Belle" scheme seem subdued as the mixed lashup sits near the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad offices in New ... (more)

The reveal. When Webb Rail LLC - WEBX former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044) came out of the shop on the pre-dawn hours of Friday, July 17, 2020, it was ... (more)

No passengers please. Amtrak 36 (P42DC) leads seven other P42s in the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans, Louisiana on Friday, July 17, 2020. But they are not going anywhere anyti... (more)

A few words on design. When Budd built the bulk of its streamlined stainless steel rail cars from the 1940s-1960s, it worked at the direction of its customer railroads, who in turn were designing ... (more)

Sunrise on the Sunset Limited. The tri-weekly Amtrak Sunset Limited (Train 1, P42DCs 45 and 28) has just begun its journey of 1,995 miles from New Orleans, Louisiana to Los Angeles, California on ... (more)