Today is Saturday 29 February 2020, Leap Day; I went to New Orleans today, the first time that I go there since permanently moving out of there a month ago.
I stopped in Baldwin and shot the L&D power parked there.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053187-RGB-w-©-LDRR-1846-and-LDRR-1850-Baldwin-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
Next, I stopped in Morgan City and finally saw a car parked on the stub of the old loop track.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053193-RGB-w-NW-190772-gondola-on-stub-remain-of-old-loop-track-Morgan-City-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
Hey, here is the westbound Sunset Limited! It snuck up on me!
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/007836-RGB-w-westbound-Amtrak-SUNSET-LIMITED-Myrtle-Street-Morgan-City-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
This is Myrtle Street.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/007839-RGB-wjj-©-westbound-Amtrak-SUNSET-LIMITED-Myrtle-Street-Morgan-City-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
I cannot get accustomed to the #1 running on a Saturday! even though it’s been almost a decade now!
I stopped in Schriever, of course.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053196-RGB-w-LDRR-1847-parked-Schriever-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
That’s the LDRR 1847 at this sacred place.
Here are empty centerbeam flatcars on what remains of the Houma Branch.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053200-RGB-w-FDDM-200264-and-another-empty-centerbeam-flatcar-on-old-Houma-Branch-stub-Schriever-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
A local building material retailer offloads building material here.
Here are the hopper cars, offloading either potash or some kind of salt, in Raceland.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053209-RGB-w-hopper-cars-being-unloaded-on-post-office-track-Louisiana-Street-Raceland-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
This place isn’t as cool as it once was. Maybe it never was cool.
Next, I am in Bridge City, looking at the bridge.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053213-RGB-w-western-approach-to-Huey-P-Long-Bridge-Louisiana-Highway-18-Bridge-City-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
Across the river, I am in Jefferson, at Elmwood, and there is a westbound Union Pacific Railroad manifest train climbing the Huey P. Long Bridge.
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053215-RGB-w-westbound-Union-Pacific-Railroad-manifest-train-climbing-the-Huey-P-Long-Bridge-Jefferson-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
This looks like a train that comes from the Norfolk Southern Railway, with those neat NS-family steel cars!
![](https://jimbaux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/053217-RGB-w-NS-family-coil-cars-and-gondola-cars-on-westbound-Union-Pacific-Railroad-manifest-train-climbing-the-Huey-P-Long-Bridge-Jefferson-Louisiana-USA-29-February-2020.jpg)
I got a haircut, where I had been getting my haircut for years, and I won’t be able to maintain this anymore!
I had a hub problem with the truck and heard the friction as I drove back to the homestead after meeting with a well-known scholar.
Okay, that’s all for the day, and the month.
Jim
You must log in to post a comment.