MNOEWB 21 with YAV10 21 yard crew handling the New Orleans transfer, crossing the Huey P Long Bridge... I'm pretty sure it's the steepest railraod grade in Louisiana and also the highest railroad ... (more)
Delivered. On July 17, 2020, former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (Webb Rail's WEBX 801044) was delivered to the New Orleans Public Belt Central Avenue locati... (more)
Job 82 returns from CN with a short 20 car train, crossing over one of many drainage canals in the region.
NOPB Job 80 trundles down the West Main with interchange for Union Pacific's Avondale Yard across the Mississippi. Yes, that is an intoxicated male lying in the gauge of the Eastbound Main... the... (more)
It Pays To Stay Trackside. After Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 4014 (Big Boy) crossed the Mississippi River over Huey P. Long Bridge on the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, a decisi... (more)
Big Boy And The Big Easy. On the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 4014 (Big Boy) crossed the Mississippi River over Huey P. Long Bridge with the city o... (more)
Handoff at the junction. On October 4, 2019 Webb Rail LLC - WEBX's former New York Central Railroad Budd built Pullman (observation/diner/sleeper) "Babbling Brook" (WEBX 800007) and former Norther... (more)
KCS' Shreveport to New Orleans/CSX freight is one of the few, if not the only, through trains that still use the Public Belt through town. Here it's curving off the CN over Hoey's Canal onto the ... (more)
The Louisiana Steam Train Association yard in Jefferson (West of New Orleans) Houses some interesting equipment. Before becoming under ownership of the Bisso Towboat Co, The locomotive was built b... (more)
AMTK #71 leads the Sunset with a standard consist up the Huey P. Long approach at Central Avenue.
A friendly engineer wearing a cowboy hat rolls towards the crossing at Central Avenue
A couple of "Yellow Bonnets" pass East Bridge Tower on a hot day in June, on their way up the Huey P Long Bridge.
SP 8754 leads a train towards the Huey P. Long Bridge.
Agnes is not in great shape--indeed, she's missing her short hood--but this old Alco Diesel handles switching duties in the LASTA yard. See www.LASTA.org.