I received an email from a friend, Forrest Becht, this morning.  Forrest has done lots of rail photography over the years, and the email contained a half dozen images that he had captured during the time that he was the General Manager of the Louisiana and Delta Railroad.  Two of the photos caught my attention and, with Forrest's permission, I'm posting them here along with his captions for the pictures.

This is a rather unusual method of transporting rail traffic (see caption below photo):

Per Forrest Becht:  "SSW 78791, loaded with rice is, in-turn, loaded on a low boy and getting ready to be hauled over-the-road to Erath where we will put her back on the rail so it can continue it's trip to Budweiser in Houston.  The reason?  A 165 foot long timber trestle between Kaplan and Abbeville was torched by vandals.  Kaplan, LA, 5/19/1989.  Because of the low traffic volume of Liberty Rice at Kaplan, LDRR decided to abandon the line segment.  We, and Riviana Rice, in Abbeville assisted in helping Liberty build a transload in Abbeville so they could continue shipping their brewers rice.

Below another pic of the move."

"This is another "railroad" scene which modelers may be interested in depicting on their layout."

I agree, this would be something unique to model.