The northbound Crescent heads over Lake Pontchartrain with a matched pair of Phase VII Chargers.

EMDs On The Delaware. NJ Transit is shifting its preparations into high gear for the upcoming 40th Anniversary events. On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 27, 2023, NJTR GP40PH-2 4108 ... (more)

The Sunset Limit has just crossed the Mississippi River outside of New Orleans. The train is only 35" into their 1995 mile trip from New Orleans to Los Angeles. The Mississippi River bridge, ... (more)

Double Heritage. On Friday, September 30, 2022, Amtrak Train 20 (Crescent) had 2 of Amtrak's anniversary engines for power. P42DCs AMTK 161 (Phase I, 50th Anniversary) and AMTK 145 (Phase I... (more)

In an early Amtrak scene circa 1973, 3 E8s lead Amtrak #58, the City of New Orleans, at Orleans Junction in Kenner Louisiana. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

The last day of 2021 was a good one! The Phase I heritage unit came down on train #59 (City of New Orleans), and I just so happened to be going to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. Here's a shot of... (more)

Repairs to the drawbridge on parallel US-11 allowed me to get a close up of "North Draw" as the Crescent crosses Lake Ponchartrain.

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.

Next stop - New Orleans! Just after leaving the Slidell, Louisiana station, Amtrak Train 19 (Crescent) crosses Lake Pontchartrain on the evening of Thursday, July 16, 2020. This is the longest rai... (more)

The southbound Crescent about to cross Lake Pontchartrain after its last station stop in Slidell, LA before reaching New Orleans.

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)

Jazz cruise after the Polar Express? @amtrak 72 (P42DC) parallels Interstate 10 on its return to the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal past dusk on the evening of Friday, December 13, 2019. Ste... (more)

"Sunset Limited on the Huey P. Long" Amtrak's westbound Sunset Limited head west over the Huey P. Long Bridge shortly after starting it's run from the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.... (more)

Southbound City of New Orleans

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.