Photography and random writings from some crazy Cajun with a camera!

The morning, Friday 1 November 2019, was quite frosty. I feel things. Upon discovering that all of the cars by Mill #2 had been removed, I went to New Iberia and ended up skipping the gym. I saw this Cotton Belt hopper car that appeared to be loaded on the runaround track at the beginning […]

Jimbaux hears the dogs of doom are howling more. They Carry News That Must Get Through Hi. Today is Saturday 26 October 2019, and Tropical Storm Olga just came through New Orleans. It was rather windy and wet! I got out this morning and got some pictures of the debris. The RTA streetcar is just […]

Jimbaux, though complex, is a simple man. There were 10 empty rice hopper cars at the rice mill in Abbeville this afternoon as I returned to New Orleans today, Tuesday 22 October 2019, and I stopped in Schriever, the sacred place. Wow, the old chairs are gone, and this bench, recently installed, replaced them, apparently! […]

So, after a weekend in that crappy city, I returned eastward, and I once again stopped at the Lake Arthur Sonic, once again for a Bacon Cheeseburger Toaster, and once again was treated well. Later, David Perkins got this neat shot of a KCS military train going up the Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge. […]

Finality No, it’s not the end of this branch or the end of my life or the end of the world, but there was finality, in more ways than one, on this day, Thursday 10 October 2019. For the first time in 13 days, the Louisiana & Delta Railroad’s Abbeville Branch was served. As I […]

It’s Friday 4 October 2019, two days after my big, memorable chase of the neat UP 1015 leading the New Iberia Turn from Avondale to Saint Mary Parish and five years to the day after my “Reliefs And Rationalizations” outing. My knee is feeling better. Because the last Abbeville Branch train ran one week ago […]

Jimbaux is still living with your ghost. Yes, I am publishing out of order, and, yes, I am aware of it, but it’s the end of September, and I have gone for all of 2019 without making a 2019 blog article, as I am so busy adding to the backlog, working on so many pictures, […]

Jimbaux is terrified of these four walls,These iron bars can’t hold his soul in. Impeach Me Yeah, I am posting this out of order. Sue me. It’s the least that I can do lately with my dwindling capacities, even as I strengthen in other areas. Actually, no, I am not posting this out of order. […]

Peartree Is Still Kickin’, But Is Jimbaux? The Abbeville Branch was served just three days ago, on the same day that I chased the UP New Iberia Turn into New Iberia and discovered that the branch had been served, but, since that UP local train brought four empty hopper cars to New Iberia, I figured […]

Ending A Wide-Angle-Lens Week It’s the afternoon of Friday 6 September, and I am ending, if we count this past Saturday, a week in which, contrary to my usual heavy reliance on the telephoto lens, most of the many pictures that I took were with the normal lens and shooting wide-angle. I am heading back […]

Well, what a heck of a month August was, right? Four days after I chased the Union Pacific Railroad’s New Iberia Turn westward as I was on my way from New Orleans to the homestead, I was, today, Wednesday 4 September 2019, trying to get a shot of it and its neat lead locomotive again, […]

Hi. Today is Wednesday 28 August 2019, 12 years to the day that I photographed a traffic jam on Fourth Street in Gretna, and I am headed east. Because I had to be in that crappy city far to the west for a “closing,” I wasn’t able to see the next Abbeville train after the […]

It’s late Thursday afternoon, 15 August 2019, and I am in New Iberia, scoping out what is happening on the track, mainly trying to ascertain when the Abbeville Branch might be served again, since it was last served one week ago today, but soaking up whatever scenes and information I can while I am here; […]

The Duke and I ventured north from the crappy city, after doing our duties there, for a diversion. We went to Dequincy, a neat junction place on the Kansas City Southern Railway, the first time that I had been there. Unfortunately, we were greeted with a few racist signs in Dequincy; I have to remember […]

Today is Saturday 3 August 2019, 10 years to the day after I got an image of a Canadian Pacific Railway potash train crossing the Thompson River at Lytton, British Columbia. I got a large set of images of trains on the Abbeville Branch and on the BNSF Railway mainline at Berwick night before last, […]

Greetings, and welcome to the August 2009 Sampler. Most of the images that you will see in this piece are components of my very intense summer of 2009, samples of the images of which can be seen in the June 2009 Sampler and July 2009 Sampler essays, and this August 2009 essay picks up right […]

Today is Thursday 25 July 2019, three days after I got some post-Hurricane-Barry pictures with the shrimp boats at Intracoastal City. I am still waiting to hear back from that job interview that might save my life, but it is looking hopeless; so, too, therefore, is my life. I went out looking for the Abbeville […]

Hi. It’s Tuesday 9 July 2019. At the homestead in the middle of a hot day, The Duke alerted me to the sound of train horns off in the distance. So, I went in search of a train, and I found this. The LDRR 1709 had just pulled those five hopper cars at right from […]

Greetings, and welcome to the July 2009 Sampler.  Like the June 2009 Sampler article, this one is comprised almost entirely of scenes outside of my home of Louisiana, but, completely unlike the June 2009 Sampler article, all but one of the non-Louisiana scenes are from outside – and far outside of the Deep South. The […]

While I was driving in Lafayette today on my way to lunch with Megan, I got a message that I will have a second interview for the job for which I interviewed three days ago! Like I have said, this might be my last chance to stay in New Orleans; I have exhausted both my […]

A Deep South Month Greetings, and welcome to the June 2009 Sampler essay.  As promised at the end of the May 2009 Sampler essay, this essay and the one for the following month will have an increase in both quality and quantity, especially if you determine quality by variations from my usual southern Louisiana subject […]

Picturewise, this will be very brief, and I will compensate for the photographic brevity by previewing the very voluminous June 2009 Sampler and July 2009 Sampler articles, which will help explain why this one is so brief. Sometimes, I can show you only slices of my life, like this May 2 image. So many great […]

Jimbaux feels decayed. This essay will contain a slightly different flavor of material than that which you are accustomed to seeing in these monthly “sampler” essays, but, first, I need to say something about these essays, which is just a vociferous repeating of what I have already said about them. Now Hear This – A […]

Jimbaux needs the end to set him free. What is this? On the morning of Friday 8 March 2019, I awoke at the homestead and soon-to-be place of exile to head east to return to New Orleans. Yesterday, I made a colossal set of images of the Louisiana & Delta Railroad’s Abbeville Branch. Since I […]

In the midst Jimbaux think of you, and how it used to be. It’s Lundi Gras, and it’s time for me to head west from New Orleans for Mardi Gras week, less than a month after being evicted from my home, for a few days in my new place of exile. I was supposed to […]

Greetings, and here is the March 2009 Sampler photo essay, showing one image from each of the days in March 2009 in which I made a presentable and publicationworthy image.  I hope that you enjoyed the February 2009 Sampler, and its different content; we are now back fully in Louisiana for the month of March […]

Greetings, and welcome to the February 2009 Sampler. I am pleased that you are here. This essay, showing one picture from each day in February 2009 that I took pictures worth sharing, includes some scenes that are different than the usual fare, though I have already published most of these images elsewhere. I hope that […]

Jimbaux asks, Can you remember when When we used to live Never in distress? I hate to sound morbid, but, if I ever died by suicide, I think that I know about where it would happen. This society is so unforgivably hostile to everyone, but especially and particularly to those with autism and those who are […]

There is a reason that, in December 2013, when I was, on the five-year anniversaries of each set of images that I made in December 2008, posting most of the images that I made on those days of December 2008, I did not publicize those that I made on 30 December 2008, the day after […]

Good evening, and Merry Christmas.  Yesterday, I showed you a few scenes of the sugarcane harvest on Christmas Eve, and, today, here are a few pictures that I took today while on holiday travel in rice country. Heaven will come to Earth when humans decide to treat each other and the rest of life with […]

On a cold and wet December afternoon in New Orleans, I caught Norfolk Southern Railway train 345 at East City Junction on the NS Back Belt line on Tuesday 9 December 2008. That track at right is the beginning of the Bernadotte Line. I think that I was intrigued that this mainline road train was […]

Jimbaux was here like a chalk outline On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away, wash away. This week before Thanksgiving was a bittersweet week for me.  It started with such promise; it also ended with promise, but it also contained some crushing news. My long-awaited and long-delayed rewhoadification is finally happening, even after […]

On Tuesday 4 November 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States Of America, and, on that day, being back home in bayouland so that I could, among other things, vote, I stopped by the depot at Schriever and photographed some maintenance-of-way hopper cars parked on the old house track. At that […]

Here are three insipid – almost not worth posting – images from the afternoon of Friday 3 October 2008, the day after I got a couple of interesting shots of a BNSF Railway Geometry train on the Union Pacific Railroad’s Gouldsboro Subdivision. I am on L&A Road at the eastern (railroad south) end of the […]

Here are eight images that I made on Saturday 27 September 2008 of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad’s rolling party going up and down the eastern (northern) approach of the Huey P. Long Bridge in Jefferson, Louisiana. That new span at left in the above image had been installed earlier that year in preparation […]

As New Orleans experienced the winds and rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay, Union Pacific train QLINSB is, on 24 August 2008, fewer than a thousand feet and 10 minutes from its interchange with the Norfolk Southern Railway, as we see it passing under Interstate Highway 10 at 15:32 CDT. This Q-train (“Quality”) […]

Jimbaux doesn’t care any more. Hi. Why Do I Still Do This? I have a few train pictures for you, taken in New Orleans on the afternoon of Friday 13 July.  After the pictures, I have some other things to discuss with you; I wish to discuss site news, introversion, and some ideological matters. I […]

When it comes to taking pictures, the thrill is gone for Jimbaux. Obligatory February Photography Hello.  Today, Saturday 21 February 2015, I took some SLR photographs for the first time in more than one month; the last time that I took any images other than a few cell phone snaps was on January 7 when […]

[Jimbaux sent himself searching.] A Rare Find 11 January 2014 ‘Twas a special day indeed!  Knowing that my chance to do these long, out-of-the-way, day-long foam trips well into Mississippi would soon come to an end, and wanting to really see and photograph some action on most of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad […]

[Jimbaux never wanted to be sick of life.] After yesterday’s big day on the Abbeville Branch, it was, on Wednesday 7 January 2015, time for me to make my way back east.  This article has ‘only’ 49 pictures; that’s plenty, but it’s only half the number of pictures from yesterday.   My first stop was […]

Hello.  On Saturday 4 January 2014, Deacon Nitro of Nitro Pics fame and I ventured to Gulfport, Mississippi, in the hopes of chasing the Kansas City Southern Railway’s turn that operates from Gulfport to Hattiesburg and back, which I had photographed several times before, perhaps most notably in December 2008.  Things did not eventuate quite […]

Jimbaux is taking a sentimental journey. Hello.  Yesterday, you ‘enjoyed’ pictures from Acadiana, and, today, we are “back” in Whoadieville.  I have some pictures for you because, as I said recently, despite my decreased interest in taking pictures, it’s about all that I can do right now. We start with this stopped eastbound BNSF manifest […]

Jimbaux is walking away from things that he can’t hide . . . or find . . . or something like that. My e-mail backlog has grown large once again, and this situation will get worse before it gets better for two reasons that I do not yet care to mention but that probably will […]

Jimbaux is in the flesh, baby, but you can’t see him, nor can you see much else. Chances are, you have many times in your life been unfairly judged, and, chances are, you have done the same thing to others (usually without realizing it, else you might not have done it.)  Today’s photo essay, in […]

Jimbaux wonders what he has become. HTFYI? Hello.  Here’s a weird set, not one of my best, but different enough to be good.  These pictures were all taken on Wednesday 29 October 2014 (which I say for future readers who might care about such things, but remember that all caption information for pictures on this […]

Jimbaux wonders if this is just real life, or if this is just fantasy. Thanks to some osint in the foam world, I was alerted to the fact that Norfolk Southern’s Go-Rail locomotive, which I photographed in New Orleans in April, was leading a Kansas City Southern Railway military train into New Orleans on the […]

Jimbaux is digging his way to something better. I went to Slidell today – Sunday 05 October 2014 – to meet with my videographers to work on my “That’s How We Survive” music video that we started videoing two weeks before, a project that I will need to yet again shelve due to yet again […]

Jimbaux needs to make you see . . . Hello.  How are you doing?  Wasn’t this weekend gloriously photographic? especially yesterday?  I think so. Tres Coming off of a much more photographically climactic weekend, I did manage to get a few not-so-inspiring pictures this afternoon.  Let’s see them. A Different Same View We start in […]

Jimbaux knew that they could never tear us apart. Or can they? whoever “they” are? Some New Orleans Non-Frontin’ Frontin’ This is the first day of a special weekend.  In positive ways, it was something of a taste of the past and simultaneously a likely taste of the future; this weekend is a mountain in […]