NB local arriving Baton Rouge from New Orleans

The trio of KCS F-units lead CPKC’s Christmas Train east across Crew Lake in Start, LA. on their way to Jackson, MS. For their first stop of the 2024 holiday tour.

The trio of KCS F-units lead CPKC’s Christmas Train east through Simsboro, LA. on their way to Jackson, MS. For their first stop of the 2024 holiday tour.

The trio of KCS F-units lead CPKC’s Christmas Train east through Simsboro, LA. on their way to Jackson, MS. For their first stop of the 2024 holiday tour.

While my trailer was being unloaded at Western Electric, I had a chance to bobtail to several locations to shoot the KCS, and the SP. Just after the sun cleared the buildings I catch SP, Southern ... (more)

When in rains in northern LA it really RAINS. I got to California too late for the great SP F-units. Thank goodness a few got a second life a this little country shortline. Rain is streaming do... (more)

The Harvey Yard to Gouldsboro Yard job trundles down 4th Street, one of two sections of active street running in town.

Train MNOEWB 21 drifts down the west side of the Huey P. If you know New Orleans, you know billboards for Morris Bart.

End of the line, at the South Claiborne Stop. Glad for those who had the foresight to preserve the St Charles Streetcars, making it a fixture of New Orleans and the oldest continuously operated s... (more)

Job 87 drags 113 general freight from CSX Gentilly Yard. Much of the traffic will continue on to CPKC.

NS 055 is easing down grade as the unit train crosses over the Mississippi River on the Huey P Long bridge at Bridge City, La on the NOPB heading to the BNSF Avondale Yard. The pipe loads we're m... (more)

1:48 Scale. An O-Scale model of the Canadian Pacific H1b Class Hudson Locomotive #2816 provides a graphic, side by side comparison of 1/4" to the foot railroading vs. the 12" to t... (more)

Remote control switch job at the south end of the yard

Kansas City Southern, KCS GP38-2 4010 -F7A 4062 at the south end of Deramus Yard, Shreveport, Louisiana. September 15, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

The northbound Crescent is dwarfed by Lake Pontchartrain. This day marked the the return of a Viewliner Diner on this train since COVID-induced consist downsizing.