Central Ave. is located a few miles west of New Orleans. Several railroads terminate in New Orleans and this is where they come together. Here, on the east bank of the Mississippi river's Huey P. Long bridge, you can see trains from Union Pacific, Illinois Central, Kansas City Southern, CSX, Norfolk Southern and BNSF (ex Southern Pacific trackage). These trains are transfers between their yards (Still full size trains), they are fun to watch!

	The end of the day can come at anytime. Witness the crew change of this train headed by a Rio Grande engine.		Amtrak's City of New Orleans arrives from Chicago.
	A UP train descends the Huey P. Long bridge approaching Central Ave.		A "Kodacrome" SP SD45 sits on a interchange track at Central Ave. Christmas day 1996.
	Two high-nose NS engines wait at the base of the bridge.		IC piggy-back train passes Central Ave. on it's way to the intermodal yard on the river.

All photographs on this page were taken by Christopher Rigol

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