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

My pal BobE arrived in New Orleans via air on the evening of Friday 5 December 2008 in advance of a work-related conference the next week, just as he had done the same weekend the year before when we met up so that he could see what action KCS had to offer in the New […]

[Jimbaux was spending his time waiting for the one . . . or the four . . . or the five.] Another 2008 Thanksgiving Week Day on the Mudbug Sub We are back where we were yesterday, with local trains and such on the Lafayette Subdivision, and, yes, we have more from Death Magnetic. 4 […]

Where were you when the 45-year anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination took place?  If you are like Jimbaux (and pity to you if you are), you were foaming, and that’s what we see here in these pictures taken on Saturday 22 November 2008, my first train pictures in almost a month, the previous being the […]

Classic New Orleans Railroading Today’s visual trip to the past takes us to the Norfolk Southern Railway’s “Bernadotte Line” that diverges from NS’s “Back Belt” line across New Orleans at a place called East City Junction.  The Bernadotte Line, under NS successor Southern Railway, once had a roundhouse at Scott Street in Mid-City and went […]

You saw an NOPB passenger special on the first day of Steam Fest III yesterday, and now you actually see the SP 745 – actually see steam – here on day two of the festival, Sunday 5 October 2008.  First, on the way to the festivities, we see some streetcar action on St. Charles Avenue. […]

[Jimbaux wants all of your hopes to turn to wishes, and all of your wishes come true.] These pictures were taken in June and July, but this post is being typed in late September; so, the pictures represent the time two and three months before the mood reflected in the writing does.  We are now […]

And The Only Pictures Taken Were Taken In The State In Between After my epic last full day in Memphis the night before, when we saw the Lorraine Motel, the FEMA-Amtrak train to New Orleans to bring the Gustav evacuees home, many MATA trolleys, a few Norfolk Southern trains,  and Central Station and the sinkhole, […]

Day 2 of my Memphis Hurrication Gustav started with my friend HAFMO at work, me out on my own taking pictures, the remnants of the hurricane from which I escaped catching up with me, and a train that normally passes through New Orleans detouring through Memphis because of the storm.  Last time, we got some […]

[Jimbaux is wondering if you are wondering where do we go now?] Or, The Beginning of My Out-Of-State Gustav Hurrication For the second consecutive post, the headline might be confusing to some.  A full reading of this piece should explain it, and subsequent posts should remove all doubt. Where Were We? Last time, you saw […]

Hurricane Gustav was approaching southeastern Louisiana on 28 August 2008 when I took these few train pictures in New Orleans before train movements stopped because the floodgates that cross the tracks were closed.  Hurricane Gustav was a big deal for me and for folks back in the homeland – Cajunland – southwest of New Orleans, […]

The Mid-City Marine and his wife JMS were in town at the beginning of August 2012, and my woadie and I got together for an entire Sunday, beginning the day with a Sunday Sermon of yet-to-be published photographs (but that may be published by the time some of you are reading this), then a trip […]

[Jimbaux can’t pass up this opportunity to make himself absurd . . . ] Or, The Consolation Prize? The Northtown To Grand Forks Manifest The real kicker about today’s story is the great opportunity that I gave up by going on this chase and taking these pictures, and today’s song is very appropriate on many […]

[Jimbaux is deprived of his conscience . . . ] Okay, so, it was Independence Day, and TI and Zzannie had us over to their house in West Fargo for a celebration.  So, that’s where our pictures are.  Before we get to the train pictures, here’s your correspondent pouring caramel on some ice cream in […]

[Jimbaux knows that when you’re on the edge and falling off, it’s all over for you.] On the evening of Friday 29 June 2008 in North Dakota, Jimbaux photographed his first moving Canadian Pacific Railway train, making at least one train of all of the “Big 8” railroads of North America his photographic subjects, the […]

This is Day 4 of Jimbaux’s five-day outbound trip of his Great Northward Pilgrimage of the summer of 2008.  Just like with Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3, most of what is written below was written in North Dakota a few weeks after the pictures were taken, and, as stated before, photo essays like […]

[Jimbaux knows that it’s not too late, it’s never too late.] Yes, “Never Too Late” – a brilliant song indeed – and the rest of the Three Days Grace album One-X was new at the time of the Great Northward Pilgrimage of the summer of 2008, and it played plenty in my truck on that […]

So, yes, the UP 1983 – the Western Pacific heritage unit (the “heritage” fleet came about a decade ago when UP honored several of its predecessor railroads by painting one locomotive in each of the selected predecessor’s paint scheme, well, actually, an new paint scheme to honor the old paint schemes) – made its way […]

[Jimbaux is expecting just a little bit too much from the wounded, but he sees, sees through it all, sees through, sees you.] Yeah, so, as you saw yesterday, I was in Monroe along the KCS’s Meridian Speedway the first weekend of June 2008 for the KCSHS convention.  The Stroe Man and I foamed together […]

[Jimbaux knows that success is his only option; failure is not.] Back To Trains So, you didn’t care for the sentimental pizza post?  Hey, I’m going to miss my whoadie William, but although we do have trains in this post, we also have several other indoor pictures of another project as well as some pictures […]

[Jimbaux knows that everything changes.] Hey, everybody!!  How are you doing?  Jimbaux has been up and down, and Wednesday was his first day in the weight room since January, the first time in the weight room since the back issues were bad.  Rest assured, we are only doing light weight here.  There are some exercises […]

[Jimbaux is almost fine again . . . or maybe not.] May You Live In Interesting Times Hi.  It’s been a few weeks.  Even though the condition with my back seems to be improving thanks to two epidurals, I’ve just been too busy to write here.  Times that I would normally have spent blogging and […]

Warning: Too Many Pictures Welcome to Day 2 of Jimbaux’s 2012 Spring Road Trip.  All of these pictures were taken on Saturday 31 March 2012.  Day 1 can be seen here. From Heavener, Up Rich Mountain, Back to Heavener, Northward Through Pittsburg, To El Rancho Grumpo Hello, there.  Yes, I will present a ridiculous amount […]

So, y’all liked those 2006 northern-central Texas pictures?  Well, I did too, and it made me miss being in places like that.  Tonight, I’ll take you back even further, to the latter half of 2005 to the very beginning of my DSLR camera days, and we’re going to go across the length of the “Lower […]

No, there aren’t 2,006 pictures in this post.  There are only five.  They were just all taken in the year 2006, June 2006 to be specific, and all on a trip to Texas and northern Louisiana.  Texas has been on my mind plenty lately, especially northeastern Texas, though plenty has been on my mind lately, […]

Does This Count As A Hat Trick? You tell me, as we will see three trains in one afternoon – the afternoon of 20 March 2008 – circular commute, but you’ll only see the head ends of two of those trains. Raising Cane’s First, we see the ILBNO – which would become CSX train Q192 […]

[Jimbaux is digging his way to something better . . . ] Except that, one year after these pictures are taken, digging would probably be against the orthopedist’s orders.  Then again, maybe not, if done the right way.  Heck, I don’t know. Anyway, here are some pictures taken under cloudy skies on 12 March 2012 […]

[Jimbaux is just giving you the same old story, same old song and dance . . . ] Same Old, Same Old . . . These pictures were taken Sunday 24 February 2008. A photographer friend writes to me . . . Ah, after a few years all your train photos look the same to […]

[Jimbaux reminds you that a pretty face can hide an evil mind.] Do you think that Johnnie Rivers intentionally pronounced the “g” weakly so that people would think that he was saying “secret Asian man”? Beware Of Pretty Faces That You Find Here are a few pictures, not really all that great but also not […]

Jimbaux sees you at the crossroads, crossroad, crossroads . . . Here’s a look at the railroad action in New Orleans on Saturday 9 February 2008, a post that is brief but which shows some variety despite its brevity.  Much-if-not-most of the railroad action in New Orleans is interchange traffic among the major railroads that […]

The early afternoon of Sunday 29 January 2012 finds Union Pacific Railroad train IAVLB emerging from the siding in Baldwin, Louisiana, on the BNSF Railway’s Lafayette Subdivision, formerly of the Southern Pacific Railway, and appropriately, therefore, a patched SP locomotive – UP 6345 – is the sole power leading this intermodal train (hence the “I” […]

[Lately, Jimbaux finds that he should be the one behind the wheel.] The End Of The End (But Not The End Of The End Of The End) One month ago, you saw the last ever railroad delivery to Valentine Paper, not only some of my best train pictures, but, put all together and with the […]

[Jimbaux is crawling in the dark.] After our Tennessee-Mississippi trip (Day One, Day Two, and Day Three) I spent that night in bayouland, but the next day, I headed back to Woadieville and got these pictures along the way, as is my customary fashion.  We’ll start with a westbound train at Chacahoula, specifically westbound BNSF […]

[Jimbaux visited the Lake of Fire, well, at least something terrible like it.] This is Part 2 of a three-day journey that The Duke and Jimbaux took to northern Mississippi and western Tennessee in late December 2007; Part 1 can be seen here. And Now For Something Completely Different I have for you today something […]

[Jimbaux never cared for what they do, never cared for what they know . . . ] A Heavenly Time of Year So, how do you like the Sully Erna on piano version of that song? And Jimbaux Said, Let There Be Light, Homie Though not quite like my shots of the Transit of Venus […]

[Jimbaux is going home, knowing that on this day Earth shall ring.] Well, It’s A Nice Story, At Least Yes, kiddies, it’s the feast of Saturnalia, as the winter solstice is upon us, or as some ultra-modern and hip people like to call it, Christmas.  It’s a nice story, and it has helped to inspire […]

[Jimbaux wants you to smile and pretend that he’s not here.] That’s not an erroneous use of a double negative in the title of this post, my friends, as you will hopefully understand when you read the brief story below, but, if you haven’t already done so, I implore you to check out what I […]

[Jimbaux is the master of disaster, wondering if all his dreams are dead inside.] Hosting A Canadian-American Shadowing the KCS For a Day BobE is a big KCS fan, and he wanted to see everything on the KCS in New Orleans that he could in one day here, which gave me as his host the […]

[Jimbaux is wondering how much difference does it make?] I’m Still Here This one will be quick. I have plenty to say, both in words and photographically, but that will have to wait. I need to publicize my pictures of the Santa Fe painted F-units going to the Galveston Railroad Museum, and I have plenty […]

[Jimbaux should fight the good fight every moment, every minute, every day.] It’s Your Only Way Isn’t that song awesome? For those of you who have come here only for my Presidential election predictions, you can skip down until you find the appropriate subheadline. Getting Back To The NOGC, Finally Schedules of work, work, work […]

[Jimbaux knows that all that he can do is write about it.] You might have noted (or seen on the Facebook fan page) that Tuesday was the one-year anniversary of Rie’s abrupt death.  Well, it was a year ago tonight – Wednesday 26 October 2011 – that I broke down crying when I read her […]

[Jimbaux wishes happy trails to you, ’til we meet again.] The 6th of October 2007 was another photographic Saturday in New Orleans for Jimbaux. We Begin Where We Will End That has multiple meanings now, doesn’t it?  Anyway, we’ll start with a rare shot of the front end of a train with a now extinct […]

[Jimbaux must be sleeping.] Recently, I’ve been showing some pictures that indicate that changes were coming to the Kansas City Southern Railway in New Orleans in the later summer 2007.  Well, here are some images of Railworks employees at work at KCS New Orleans Yard – still called “West Yard” by crews – on Saturday […]

[Jimbaux wants you to experience the warmth before you go.] Hurricane Isaac is on its way.  On Sunday afternoon, I photographed what appeared to be a combination of a normal CSX-to-KCS movement on the New Orleans Public Belt Railway and an effort to drag cars from the low-lying France Yard – and it’s outside the […]

[Jimbaux is doing the best he ever did, now go away.] And I Wonder, Day To Day . . . Whatever.  Actually, I do have plenty to say right now, but I just lack the energy to say them; I’ve been very busy lately doing, among other things, challenging people’s never-ending stupidity and trying to […]

[You save Jimbaux from all that he is.] The End Is Near, In The Thick Of It Don’t you hate when you have so much to say but can’t or don’t say it?  I had so much to say to go along with this now-week-old Sunday Sermon, but I’ve forgotten plenty of it and don’t […]

[Jimbaux did not see a black dog, but he saw a black cat.] Omens And Distractions Well, here’s a fairly quickly-posted post considering the timeliness (or lack thereof) of recent postings.  Here are pictures from the Friday afternoon drive from Bayouland to Woadieville, Friday 13 July 2012, to be specific, and, yes, there was a […]

[Jimbaux knows that the highway song is as lonely as the road he’s on.] On And On . . . The Time Is Drawing Near, Oh, Baby, I Wish You Were Here Hey, everybody!  I have some bayou pictures and sugarcane field pictures for you, and some Chip pictures, all taken during the Friday afternoon […]

[Jimbaux sure does get a kick out of that Beavis & Butthead show.] Poetry, Prose, And The Intentionality Behind Them You might recall that a week ago, our Sunday Sermon was written in a rhyming, poetic fashion.  This is the second such post on Jimbaux’s Journal, the other being this year’s 4/20 posting. Anyway, recent […]

Whenever Two Or More Are Gathered In My Name . . . Greetings, dear parishoners, and we’ve finally determined, that we will publish this month-old Sunday Sermon. ‘Twas the warm Sunday morning of June the 3rd, and Jimbaux was up like an early bird, but unlike most times when he goes out to foam, this […]