Moving around the Big Easy

[casualcollector]

Liz and I visited New Orleans, Louisiana, USA for her son's college graduation recently. Here's a few from the trip.



Streetcar named St. Charles. Olympus OM-10, 50/1.8 Zuiko, Kodak 400.



Hauling freight along the bank of the Mississippi. This is the New Orleans Public Belt Railway. I've been an avid train buff most of my life, never saw this locomotive type before. OM-10, 50/1.8, Fuji 400.



Sailing at sunset. Sternwheeler Natchez. OM-10, 75-205/3.8 Vivitar zoom. Fuji 400.



Ship and Ferry pass on the Mighty Miss. OM-10, Vivitar zoom, Fuji 400.

All photos from the river bank near Jackson Square.

[casualcollector]

You hit the marque, Stephen. I googled them earlier and they are MK's successor Motive Power. The trucks(bogies?) and fuel tanks give away their EMD heritage but they sound nothing like EMDs.

N.O.P.B. is a local road for interchange between the major roads coming into New Orleans. CSX, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific all serve New Orleans.

That is a small car ferry with very few cars on it. Don't know for sure what the ship is. I'm guessing a bulk commodity carrier on its way for another load.

[casualcollector]

Conrail gobbled up my home road, a shortline called the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. It ran in southern New Jersey and was the bastard child of the Pennsylvania Railroad and competitor Reading Lines. It was a consolidation of competing lines in service from Philadelphia (Actually Camden, NJ) to Atlantic City.

When I moved to Vermont, I became familiar with some very short short lines and became acquainted with several workers. The Green Mountain Railroad ran a portion of the defunct Rutland Railway, about 50 miles. The Claremont-Concord is the last two miles of a line that stretched from the Connecticut river, southeasterly to Concord, New Hampshire. It now delivers lumber, road salt and cement to a co owned distribution center.

Model Power is an American distributor of model rail products from several European and Asian manufacturers. They built their line by taking over distribution of unsuccessful importers products. I probably have a few of their pieces among my stuff.

I'm really surprised at the amount of steam power British enthusiasts restore, maintain and operate. Back in '99 or 2000 my sister and brother in law took me on a day trip to Didcot. I was suitably impressed!

Bill

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MK used to rebuild all the locomotives in shops in Boise, Idaho near here. We would see the engines passing through to the rebuild yards. MK is now Washington Group and it seems like the rebuilding was sold off to someone. I don't thing the shops are operating in Boise but I'm not positive.

[minoltaman]

Great shots, well done!! I can see why alot of photographers rave about that Zuiko 50mm lens.

[renaldo]

My favorite shot, as it brings back childhood memories, if of the old trolley or streetcar as we knew it then.

No turning around at the end of the line. The operator merely disconnected his controls from where he was driving and connect them to the consul at the opposite end of the car. The passenger seatbacks also would shift so you could be facing the way the streetcar was going.

2 front ends...or 2 backends.

And it seemed like every few times you rode, the electrical pole would jump off the wire and the operator would stop of course and go out reset it on the wire.