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| Title: |
Super Bowl XX |
| Description: |
Surrounded by Amtrak P30CH's and a Goodyear blimp, Seaboard System F3A 116 and FP7 118 enjoy the January sunshine at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal engine terminal. The two F-units had come in on a special train for Super Bowl XX, which was taking place right behind the locomotives in the Louisiana Superdome. Mike Ditka's Chicago BEARS beat the New England PATRIOTS 46-10. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1986 Upload Date: 11/26/2009 11:14:33 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 118(FP7A) SBD 116(F3A) |
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1790 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
ICG No. 53 |
| Description: |
ICG caboose 199308 and IC cab 9417 bring up the rear of southbound intermodal train No. 53 near the end of its trip from Chicago. Uptown Square Shopping Center is on the left and the Mississippi River levee is on the other side of the tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1982 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 5:46:43 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
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1065 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
L&N E7A 780 |
| Description: |
It's Saturday 1 May 1971, and at midnight Amtrak had taken over or eliminated almost all of the country's long distance passenger trains. Louisville & Nashville E7A's 779 and 780 had just brought the very last L&N passenger train into New Orleans, and were resting at the NOUPT sand tower. In a couple of hours, they would back into the station and then leave with all of the L&N's passenger cars that were still there. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1971 Upload Date: 3/3/2010 10:53:53 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
LN 780(E7A) |
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2211 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
USL Stack Train |
| Description: |
A trio of freshly-painted Seaboard System U-Boats - U33B 5624 and U36B's 5773 and 5752 - power an eastbound United States Lines stack train towards the railroad's Gentilly Yard on the east side of New Orleans. The train originated on the Missouri Pacific in Houston as train XHOAV and is bound for Savannah, Georgia. At Gentilly Yard it will become SBD train 202. SBD - and later CSX - power usually ran all the way from Savannah to Houston and then back to New Orleans, where the locomotives would be replaced by freshly-serviced units. The train was discontinued in late 1986 after U.S. Lines entered bankruptcy. |
| Photo Date: |
11/16/1985 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 4:23:47 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 5624(U33B) |
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635 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SBD-SP Meet |
| Description: |
A trio of Seaboard System U-boats on an eastbound United States Lines container train meet a trio of SP/SSW units on an SBD/SP run-though train. We are on the SBD (former L&N) at the Louisa Street grade crossing, about a mile west of the SBD Gentilly Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
11/16/1985 Upload Date: 12/27/2009 10:13:52 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 5624(U33B) |
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720 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NOPB SW1000 103 |
| Description: |
New Orleans Public Belt SW1000 103 was on a transfer run to the KCS at Burdette Street. Someone is standing between the locomotive and the first car, so hopefully the train isn't moving! |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1984 Upload Date: 1/16/2010 5:21:48 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NOPB 103(SW1000) |
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882 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SOU 7062 |
| Description: |
Here we have a meet on the NS (SOU) Back Belt at the Frenchman Street crossover. On the left is SP train AXAVT, the APL stack train from Long Beach, on its way to Atlanta via the Southern Railway. Meeting it is Southern No. 193, the run-through train from Birmingham to Houston, with GP50 7062 and SP SD45R's 7409 and 7402. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 12/23/2009 1:10:12 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 7062(GP50) |
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834 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP AXAVT |
| Description: |
We're on the Southern Railway BACK BELT at Frenchman Street where the brakeman on SP train AXAVT had just "pulled the pin" and was signaling for his engineer to pull ahead. The AXAVT was one of the country's earliest dedicated stack trains; and when this photo was taken, it was one of the few then in operation. It ran from the Port of Long Beach to New Orleans, and handled American President Line containers exclusively, mostly on blue APLX cars. In this view, the cars were being delivered to the Southern Railway for delivery to their destination in Atlanta as a part of train No. 222. The locomotives were GP38-2 4802, GP35 6593, GP38-2 4830 and GP35M 4160. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:17:01 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 4802(GP38-2) |
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1052 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Oliver Junction |
| Description: |
Casting their reflections upon the water of the Peoples Avenue drainage canal, a pair of Norfolk Southern run-through trains meet at Oliver Junction. Number 393 -- on the left -- is stopped and waiting for No. 314 to clear the single track connection between Terminal Junction, on the BACK BELT, and here, on the NS main line. No. 393 is headed for the Southern Pacific and has Espee SD45T-2's 6841 and 9333 with B40-8's 8065 and 8040. No. 314 is coming from the Union Pacific with NS GP50 7067, C30-7 8052 and SD40-2 6110. Both of these trains run between Houston and Birmingham. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/1991 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 10:17:28 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6110(SD40-2) SP 6841(SD45T-2R) |
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815 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 3553 |
| Description: |
Apparently someone at the Espee's Avondale Yard didn't think an Alco C630 and three RSD12's would have enough power to get this transfer run over the Huey P. Long Bridge, so they added GP9 3553 just to make sure! The train is eastbound on the Southern Railway BACK BELT at Shrewsbury Road; and the KCS crossing is just ahead, below the Causeway Boulevard overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1975 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 7:10:49 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3553(GP9) SP 2952(RSD12) |
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2331 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SSW 5002 |
| Description: |
The SP-L&N-SCL run-through train from Houston to Jacksonville is passing through New Orleans on the L&N with locomotives from four different railroads: SSW GP30 5002, SP GP35 6535, SCL U33B 1724 and L&N GP30 1049. The lead unit is crossing the Peoples Avenue Canal, and the train is about to cross the main line of the Southern Railway at N.E. Tower. |
| Photo Date: |
5/9/1977 Upload Date: 11/26/2009 8:42:37 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 5002(GP30) |
| Views: |
2108 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
SP U33C 8792 |
| Description: |
You wouldn't know it from looking at this set of power; but we were along the Louisville & Nashville at the Read Boulevard grade crossing, a few miles east of the railroad's Gentilly Yard in New Orleans. SP U33C 8792 was heading east and running light with Southern SD45 3130 and SD35 3040, on their way to get a train which had been parked on the long siding east of the yard because SP couldn't accept it. This was a very common occurrence back then! |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1978 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 6:30:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8792(U33C) |
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1108 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
West Bridge Junction |
| Description: |
SP caboose 1966 rolls across the MP and past West Bridge Junction Tower on the rear of the run-through train from the Southern Railway, which has just gotten off of the Huey P. Long Bridge. Both the MP and SP Avondale yards are right on the other side of the train. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/1978 Upload Date: 2/15/2010 4:48:48 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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1213 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bump |
| Description: |
On a foggy morning in October low-nose SP GP9 3712 pushes the ICG's New Orleans wreck train into the West High Curve of the Huey P. Long Bridge. Just beyond the wrecker, and on the opposite track, is SP GP9E 3387 and - sticking up in the air - SP caboose 1274. The 1274 was on the rear of a westbound train that was stuck on the bridge behind an MP train. For some reason, the MP could not take their train into their yard; so the SP decided to send some engines over from the east side of the river and pull their train back off of the bridge. Anyhow, it was a dark and foggy night, and SP 3387 coupled into the 1274 just a little too hard, causing it to jack-knief like this; and now the ICG wrecker has come to make things right! |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1978 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 4:32:18 PM |
| Location: |
Bridge City, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3712(GP9) |
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1643 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
SP SD40T-2 8321 |
| Description: |
SP SD40T-2 'snoot' 8321 and four SD45's sit at the south end of the Norfolk Southern's Oliver Yard. They have just delivered APL stack train AXNOT, and will return light to the the SP's Avondale Yard. The SD45's are 7550, 7517, 8978 and 7546. |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1986 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 10:49:21 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8321(SD40T-2) |
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1172 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Shrewsbury Road |
| Description: |
Two sets of light power wait on the Norfolk Southern BACK BELT for a route through East Bridge Junction. Both sets are probably headed to their respective yards at Avondale, at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. SP MP15AC's 2702 and 2703 are returning from the Norfolk Southern's Oliver Yard, while MP 3291, UP 4277, MP 3125 and UP 3265 -- all SD40-2's -- are on their way back from the CSX's Gentilly Yard. SP 2702 and 2703 were the very first MP15AC units built by EMD, and the first dozen of these began their careers in south Louisiana. Although initially operated in cab-to-cab sets, nose-to-nose operation was later adopted. |
| Photo Date: |
11/14/1987 Upload Date: 1/9/2010 5:51:51 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2702(MP15AC) SP 2703(MP15AC) |
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2170 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
NS No. 193 |
| Description: |
Norfolk Southern No. 193, the run-through train from Birmingham to the Espee at New Orleans, sits on the NS BACK BELT at the Marconi Drive overpass. The train is waiting for a clear route through East Bridge Junction and onto the Huey P. Long Bridge, about five miles ahead. The locomotives are SP SD45T-2 9309 with VMV SDP45's 6688 and 6689. The VMV units still wear the blue paint of their former owner Conrail, and originally belonged to the Erie-Lackawanna. The 6688 was rebuilt with SD45-2 radiators after an accident. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1988 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 10:49:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9309(SD45T-2) |
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868 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Katy Geeps |
| Description: |
A trio of UP GP40's - MKT 198, 194 and 170 - power a westbound transfer run over the NS Back Belt at Shrewsbury Road. The 127-car train is on its way from the CSX Gentilly Yard, on the east side of New Orleans; to UP's Avondale Yard, at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1989 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 10:28:26 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
MKT 198(GP40) |
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657 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Fair Train |
| Description: |
Almost every Friday during the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition the Union Pacific ran a special passenger train from Houston to a siding at the fair site in New Orleans. It's 4:35 and one of the Fair Trains nears the end of its trip, operating over the New Orleans Public Belt behind Audubon Park. This is a typical example, with MP GP50 3515 and ex-Rock Island GP40 612, staff car CABARTON, sleeper OMAHA, lounge car 6203, and office car 102. The photo was taken from the Mississippi River levee. |
| Photo Date: |
9/28/1984 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 9:32:46 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3515(GP50) |
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608 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
The New U.P. |
| Description: |
It was a couple of years after the 1982 MP-WP-UP merger before Union Pacific and Western Pacific locomotives became common on the Missouri Pacific around New Orleans, so it was a real treat to find units from all three roads outside the diesel shop at Avondale yard. From left to right are WP GP40 3531 (with UP SD45 No. 21), UP SD40-2 3785, and MP GP38-2's 2166 and 2205. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1984 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 4:07:36 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
WP 3531(GP40) UP 3785(SD40-2) |
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1194 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
East Bridge Yard |
| Description: |
The New Orleans Public Belt's East Bridge Yard is located next to the east approach of the Huey P. Long Bridge, which can be seen on the left. The yard itself has been used by several railroads to interchange cars, and the NOPB has facilities here for maintaining the bridge. The locomotives are UP GP40-2 905 and GP40 664, with MP GP38-2 2133 and B23-7 4657. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 2/11/2010 10:36:40 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
UP 905(GP40-2) |
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868 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Streetcar Mishap |
| Description: |
We're not sure what misfortune has befallen New Orleans Public Service car 923, but the big truck parked on the other end of the car and the large contingent of sidewalk supervisors indicate that something is amiss. We're standing on South Carrollton Avenue facing the outer end of the line at South Claiborne Avenue. The car on the right has changed direction, and is ready to head back to Canal Street. The inbound car in the background is the 914. Plum Street is behind us and Willow Street is right on the other side of the 914. |
| Photo Date: |
8/18/1978 Upload Date: 2/4/2010 8:00:11 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
NOPSI 923(Trolley) NOPSI 962(Trolley) |
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1230 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NOPSI 954 |
| Description: |
This photo was taken at the outer end of New Orleans Public Service's St. Charles Line, on South Carrollton Avenue at South Claiborne. Car 954 was just beginning its trip to the Central Business District. Tulane Route AM General bus 438 would also be going to the CBD, but via a different direction. In the background, car 907 was moving up to take the 954's place at the end of the line. Car 962 was already at the bumper, but the motorman hadn't yet reversed its poles for the inbound trip back to Canal Street. |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/1980 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:18:47 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
NOPSI 954(Trolley) |
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492 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Trackwork |
| Description: |
A contractor for the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority was replacing the double crossover and other trackwork at the outer end of the St. Charles Line, on South Carrollton Avenue at South Claiborne. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1988 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:19:12 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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361 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old Rail |
| Description: |
Some old rail was piled up next the the St. Charles Street Car Line's histoical maker on South Carrollton Avenue, near the intersection with St. Charles. On the other side of the Shell gas station are Leake Avenue, two Illinois Central tracks, two New Orelans Public Belt tracks, and the Mississippi River levee. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/1988 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:19:38 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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473 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Track Machine |
| Description: |
This five-foot-two-and-a-half-inch gauge Tamper track machine and some other maintenance equipment was on the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority's St. Charles Line. The equipment was on the inbound track on South Carrollton Avenue, between Birch and Green streets. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/1990 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:20:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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476 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Regional Transit Authority |
| Description: |
We're on the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority's St. Charles Line on South Carrollton Avenue at Birch Street, facing the outer end of the line at South Claiborne Avenue. A five-foot-two-and-a-half-inch gauge track machine and some other equipment were on the inbound track. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/1990 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:20:21 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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423 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Streetcar Line Reconstruction |
| Description: |
We're on the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority's St. Charles Street Car Line, facing out between State and Webster Streets during the reconstruction of the line. The fresh crossties are African azobe. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/1990 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:20:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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357 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Trackwork |
| Description: |
These workers are installing new trackwork at the intersection of South Carrollton Avenue and Willow Street. The track on Willow provides access to one side of the Carrollton Station streetcar barn. The work was a part of the complete reconstruction of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority's St. Charles Line. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/1990 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 2:09:14 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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634 Comments: 0 |
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