I was hoping to bag some good train shots today, but friendship won out, thankfully, as I returned home for the first time in only three days! I really didn’t understand friendship until the Trump Era, though. I did get some railroad pictures and even photographed one moving train, though. I learned about Rock 97.7.
I arrived in Morgan City late in the morning, and the westbound Amtrak Sunset Limited already was late. So, I went to the port.
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Yeah, there is nothing special happening there, but it’s good to see tonnage still there, given that the Louisiana & Delta Railroad’s Schriever job has been abolished and just runs on the extra board now.
I headed back west toward the Atchafalaya River.
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This part of Morgan City is interesting.
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So, of course, I am set up at – where else? – Oregon Street in Berwick.
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We will know that the train is getting close when the bridge span gets lowered.
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I got a cell phone shot of the camera setup.
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Here comes the train, leaving Morgan City. Amtrak 201 and Amtrak 190 were the locomotives.
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Yes, it’s overdone. Yes, I am tired of this shot, actually.
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But I am here, so is the train, and it’s a pretty day.
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It’s interesting, I guess, but it’s less interesting when you’ve done it for 15 years.
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Okay, it’s time to get back on the highway to head east. Let’s go to Schriever!
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So, here I am in the location of my mystic past.
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Here is what is about the most interesting thing in railroading today.
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This is a BNSF Railway centerbeam flatcar loaded with Douglas Fir.
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This shipment is presumably bound for Dufrene Building Material.
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I wish that I could see a train of just a few of these moving on a local branchline.
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That could have happened if the branch had been saved up to the location of the old Thibodaux Boiler Works, which is very close to Dufrene Building Material’s facility.
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This is what remains of the old Houma Branch.
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I have dreams of building a business for centerbeam shipments.
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This is what remains of the old Houma Branch.
So, it was time to leave Schriever to return to another special place nearby. On the way there, I saw this.
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That is what remains of another special place from my past!
Anyway, here is the nearby special place.
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That tree was important.
I visited with an old family friend.
There was a Chaney Lumber truck one street over on WC.
Then, I went by the end of the Texas & Pacific Railway branch and hung out with a childhood friend, whom I had wanted to see – and accidentally did see – when I came here three days ago.
Then, I went eat.
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Then, I returned to the track.
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But there was no train. I never heard about or saw the Union Pacific local train that I was seeking all day.
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And, really, that’s okay.
That’s all.
Jim