| Louisville & Nashville train No. 7 was arriving in New Orleans from Montgomery behind 4-6-2 280. No. 7 was a long-distance local and usually ran with just five cars, but today’s train has at least two sleeping cars on the rear. The train was coming off of the median of Elysian Fields Avenue, crossing North Peters Street and would run along the Mississippi River until it got to the railroad’s station about a mile away. The automobile next to the pole on the left was headed for the Third District Ferry landing, and the two wharves on the right occupy the site of a former Southern Pacific train ferry landing which was abandoned when the Huey P. Long Bridge opened in December 1935. An unidentified Lykes Lines vessel is docked on the right. (approximate date of photo) |
| Date:
3/1/1951 |
Location:
New Orleans, LA Map  |
Views:
638 |
Collection Of:
 
Michael Palmieri |
| Locomotives: |
Author: William T. Harry photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection
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| Picture Categories: Steam,Passenger |
This picture is part of album: WILLIAM T. HARRY |