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Prolific poster 1,154 posts arthurhouston Prolific poster 1,154 posts
arthurhouston
This is video shot from rear of Amtrak's City of New Orleans as it pulls out of UPT July 2012. You will see the NEW ORLEANS ARENA and SUPERDOME To the left side of picture. The throat of the terminal goes to one track today at one time it was ten tracks wide. REA was in area were Arena is Dome sits on all of the old IC RR property.
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numbersmgr Frequent poster 566 posts
numbersmgr

Cool Video

Art

Thanks for the video.  It was cool watching the scenery change.  When our son comes home for visits he rides the City of New Orleans from Chicago to Carbondale, IL where I pick him up.  

Jim Dixon    MRM 1040

A great pleasure in life is doing what others said you were not capable of doing!   
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David Calhoun Frequent poster 820 posts
David Calhoun

SAD

My family is from there and it's sad to see where the IC used to run a double track main line in the heyday of rail now gone. Thanks for a great video and some good memories. Would love (as you probably would have) to have had the camera in the cab looking forward.

Chief Operating Officer

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arthurhouston Prolific poster 1,154 posts
arthurhouston

Old IC main into NO still visible

As the train goes through s curve going into Jefferson Parish with Airline Hwy on Left. A short time about half mile after that when train strightens out you look stright back under over pass and you see the old main line of the IC RR going into N O. Very visible.
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