Recent Digital Photos
by Mike Condren
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53 Years of Railroad Photography |
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March 8, 2013
| On our way to Tulsa, we got stopped in Wagoner, OK by this empty unit coal train returning from the power plant at Ft. Gibson, OK. |
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March 12, 2013
| This was at Tony's Diagnostics in Tahlequah, OK when I went to pick up our car. It is owned by Green Country Funeral Home in Tahlequah. It was in for a power sterring problem. |
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March 14, 2013
On our drive to New Orleans for our daughter wedding, we spotted this unit oil train at Graady, AR. We could not shoot the lead units but I got this shot of its DPU. |
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| Before I got back into the car, the train was "attacked" by this dive-bomber. |
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| In McGehee, AR I caught the North Louisiana & Arkansas #21 working the yard. The NL&A is part of the Arkansas Shortline Railroads of long time friend Bill Robbins. Note that the boxcars are lettered DR for the Dardanelle & Russellville, the original shortline of the ARS group. |
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| This is the former Missouri Pacific station in McGehee, AR. |
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| This Arkansas Midland loco and caboose were parked in the yard at McGehee.. |
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| This classic MP caboose was in the park across from the station in McGehee, AR. |
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| This beautiful old movie theater was across the highway from the park. |
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| The next point of attraction was the water town at Transylvania, LA. Note that it is only 1/4 full of water. I hope that they have a good supply of BLOOD!!!!!!!!!! |
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| They had moved the 2 CF-7s of the Delta Southern to a leg of the wye to the Madison Parrish Port at Talla Bena, LA. |
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| This track equipment was along the "main"(??) line. As we got closer to Tallulah, LA, the track got "somewhat" better as it was in service. |
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| We got stopped at the KCS mainline in Tallulah, LA by an eastbound UP stack train. I made this attempt to shoot the DPU. |
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| We stopped at the Mississippi Welcome Center in Vicksburg and I had much better luck with the headend of that stack train. Flagman "Berry" tells me that he had to go down those stairs each morning to set his red flags and then climb those stairs. He then had to repeat the process each evening while he was flagging for the work on the tunnel under my feet. |
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March 15, 2013
| This is the view from our 7th floor room in Kenner, LA. |
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March 16, 2013
| I am a "transportation nut". The opportunity was too great for some shots of the departure of a Southwest flight. |
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| I headed to Central Ave with my lunch in hope of seeing something and getting both Amtrak "City oF New Orleans".The first train was a westbound BNSF. |
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| The next train was an eastbound UP stack train. |
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| Where I parked I noticed this broken rail in a new switch awaiting installation. |
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| The next train was a NOPB transfer from the CN-IC. It stopped and the engineer got off and we visited until the north bound "City" appeared in the distance. |
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| Here comes the northbound "City of New Orleans". |
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| The engineer got back on his train. |
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| I then shot the tower at East Bridge Jct. |
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| The next train was the southbound "City of New Orleans". |
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| The NOPB train started to move. |
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March 17, 2013
St. Patrick's Day
| The entrance to the cruise ship port is along the Riverfront line of the street cars. The entrance to the Carnival Cruise line port is opposite the west end of the Riverfront street car line. |
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| As a "transportation nut" I must shoot ships. In this case my daughter and new son-in-law are sailing off on their honeymoon. The wedding was on board (the reason for our trip to NOLA). I took "mother" to the daughter's apartment, changed cloths, and headed back to shoot the ship heading out. For more shots of the ship, click on Ship |
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| Lets get back to trains. On my chase to shoot the boat, this NOPB transfer had been trailing me from Jax's Brewery area. It finally caught up and stopped briefly before proceeding. The gap in the sea wall was not quite wide enough for a single shot of the whole unit. During the chase, it had met a westbound NS general freight at about the French Market. For reference, the Lower Ninth Ward is on the other side of the canal behind the building seen in the last shot of this train. |
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