[Jimbaux is wondering if you can take him higher.]
We Don’t Need To Talk About It Anymore
Here are a few train pictures from New Orleans today.
First, we see the Union Pacific’s QLIHL (Quality – Livonia, La., to CSX New Orleans to Hamlet, NC) parked on the Huey P. Long Bridge behind another train that was also waiting to come off of the bridge.
A yard crew was aboard the QLIHL, which was on its way to CSX’s Gentilly Yard in New Orleans.
It’s A Shame I’ve Got To Live Without You, Anymore
If you haven’t seen the photo essay I put on the NOLA Post a little bit more than a year ago about the eminent demolition of the Kansas City Southern Railway’s yard tower and office in New Orleans, you really should check it out. I’m still sad that the tower is gone, but this view would not be possible if the tower was still there.
I’d still much rather the tower be there.
What’s with those blue crescents on those new tank cars? Anybody know?
After this, I had to go to a meeting.
It’s Never Over
I got out of my meeting just in time to hear CSX’s job y305 getting permission to leave the Canadian National Railway’s former Illinois Central yard, Mays Yard, which you see happening at 09:43. Yes, if his symbol is Y305, it’s a third trick job, meaning that this crew had been on duty since about 23:00 and didn’t have any time to spare in getting back home across town. Mays Tower did say that these guys were on really short time. Here he is crawling across Central Avenue, and it looks like the crew improvised in dealing with that oppressively bright summer sunlight.
He had clear sailing until he got to his home rails.
Don’t Say Goodbye; Say You’re Going To Stay Forever
And stay forever it seemed to do once I got to Alvar Street, one of my favorite photo locations, where I hoped to shoot for the first time in 2011. As I should have known would happen, the train hog-lawed right at Louisa Street, and all I could manage was this shot, this interpretation that I’m still having trouble interpreting.
What’s your interpretation of my interpretation? Just so that I could present different interpretations, I present this rendition as well.
Bah! Notice that he’s parked on the southbound mainline (even though he’s northbound.) The QLIHL, which you saw at the top of this post, was now at NE Tower (where the NS and CSX cross) on the northbound mainline with a CSX yard crew aboard (which had brought a CSX-to-UP westbound to Marconi and swapped crews with the UP yard crew that brought the QLIHL there), but Oliver Tower decided to jack him by telling the NS 141 to come all the way to Florida Avenue. Dammit! That’s why my tired, hot, hungry, thirsty self decided to abandon my position, seek air-conditioning, food, and water, and a life.
Thanks.
Jimbaux
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