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no002.jpg (110383 bytes) A CSX train crosses Read Blvd. in New Orleans East. no003.jpg (81335 bytes) Engines idle at UP's Avondale engine facility.
no004.jpg (106318 bytes) A SP container train speeds west from Avondale. no005.jpg (94353 bytes) This UP train waits alongside I-610 about to cross Canal St.
no007.jpg (94754 bytes) The west bank of the Mississippi river is the setting for many UP and SP (now BNSF) trains. no008.jpg (111367 bytes) Amtrak's Crescent stops in Slidell about 40 miles east of New Orleans.
no009.jpg (82535 bytes) Southern Pacific Police is something you don't see around anymore. no010.jpg (86954 bytes) The Crescent runs along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
no012.jpg (95703 bytes) A mixture of engines assembles at UP's Avondale yard. no013.jpg (93331 bytes) Along IC's line west of Kenner into the swamps, a railfan may meet a planefan near the airport. Watch out for the
alligators and killer mosquitoes!
no014.jpg (122681 bytes) On the same tracks, the City of New Orleans glides by. You can see the I-310 overpass on the distance. no015.jpg (98438 bytes) A KSC business car sits at the KCS yard.
no019.jpg (102371 bytes) An old C&NW engine leads a UP train west of Avondale. no020.jpg (36696 bytes) Skirting the south west shore of Lake Pontchartrain, this IC train throttles up!

All photographs on this page were taken by Christopher Rigol

 

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