Re: (rshsdepot) New Orleans

[Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>]

rshsdepot
Friends:
Prior to the building of N. O. Union Passenger Terminal (owned jointly by
IC/L&N/SP/MP-T&P/GM&O/SR) ca 1953, there were, if memory serves, either four or
five New Orleans passenger stations including separate ones for L&N (foot of
Canal St., I believe), SP, IC, and, I think, Southern.  I believe MP-T&P and
GM&O went into one of the other stations.  The great railroad photographer
James G. LaVake (the Donald Duke or Richard Steinheimer of the east)
photographed trains and stations in and around N. O. prior to the building of
NOUPT.  He photo'ed that building through the various stages and just after
opening, so I have some wonderful GM&O "Rebel" and other early passenger train
shots in the predecessor buildings and at NOUPT.  You are all welcome to see
them at any such time you are down hereabouts.

Dherbert53_@_aol.com wrote:

> rshsdepot
> I read an article in Trains years ago that said New Orleans had several
> stations that were all consolidated into a single Union Terminal  half a
> century ago.  Similar to Cincinnati in that regard.  So I assume that there
> is only one New Orleans station.
>
> Be careful looking around N.O.,  not one of the safer cities in the U.S!
>

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