Passenger Trains > Joint Midwest & Deep South Trip Summer 2013: Part 4

Now that my time in NOL is finished, this album will show pictures from my trip on the Amtrak City of New Orleans from NOL-CHI, some railroad and subway scenes around Chicago, a ride on the South Shore from CHI-South Bend Airport, and then the Capitol Limited from SOB-Rockville.

These three pictures were taken both inside and outside of New Orleans Passenger Rail Terminal.

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Pictures 1 and 2 are of the Amtrak Northbound City of New Orleans Train at its namesake terminal with P42 # 206 in the lead. Picture 3 is of the Superdome.

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1. Pepsi Can Unit in NOL.

2 and 3. running along and crossing Lk. Ponchartrain, one of the most scenic views along the CONO route.

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1 and 2. scenes along the lake

3. Hammond, LA Station

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1. McComb Station

2. Hazelhurst Station

3. CN Freight train somewhere in Mississippi

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1. Departing Brookhaven, MS Station

2. Hazelhurst Station

3. Approaching Jackson

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Amtrak CONO train at Jackson, MS Station

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1. Interior of Jackson Station

2. Rear of Amtrak Train # 58 at Greenwood Station

3. Departing Yazoo City Station on Train # 58

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1. Yazoo City

2. Greenwood

3. Looking north at Greenwood Station, with Amtrak Train # 58

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1. Looking south at Greenwood Station, with Amtrak Train # 58

2. Memphis Amtrak Station with Train # 58-looking north

3. Head end of Amtrak Train # 58 at Memphis Station

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1. Interior of Memphis Amtrak Station

2. Amtrak Train # 58 at Champaign-Urbana Station

3. Champaign-Urbana Station-looking north

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1. Unknown Location

2. Passing through Gilman

3. Unknown

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1. Kankakee Station

2. University Park, Illinois

3. Passing a Metra Highliner Set at University Park Station

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1. Metra Yard of Highliners(presently retired) and Gallery MUs in University Park

2. Homewood Station

3. Old Illinois Central Right of Way

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1. Kensington Metra Station

2. St. Charles Airline

3. Amtrak Chicago Yard-viewed from the St. Charles Airline

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1. Amtrak CONO at CUS

2. Interior of Chicago Union Station

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Nice.  Feels like I just took that trip with you.
Yazoo City looks just like Zig Ziglar described it from his youth!

I love "out the back window" railanning but I have to say, some of those shots of the "Main Line of Mid America" down south look like some second rate regional's track.  I guess I'd expect a more robust looking main line.

Your depot shots are great.  I'd forgotten how simple, streamlined, and functional NOUPT is.  I've been there a couple times, but it's been a while.

And the girl in the red shirt on the bench at Jackson is giving you quite the inviting smile.  Or maybe she's your travel partner...

Great set of photos.

Andy

Continued thanks. The rear window out of the Superliner cars is great, especially when its clean. I really appreciated the tracks behind us when we ran along Lk. Ponchartrain. Now for a few hours in Chicago before taking the South Shore to the end.

After leaving CUS, I stopped by Roosevelt Road overpass for a couple of minutes to get some shots.
1. some Superliners

2. An Amtrak owned F59PHI for Cascades service with a P42. The Amtrak owned F59PHI is now in its new home shown in the picture, operating on Metra.

3. Metra commuter train heading out of CUS with an F40PH-2 in the lead.

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1. Amtrak Wolverine arriving into CHI.

2. One of the entrances to Chicago Union Station

3. CTA Rapid Transit Train at Randolph/Wabash St on the Loop stretch of tracks

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