Elsewhere in New Orleans

The Canal Street line was put into operation since we last visited New Orleans, and is being expanded; construction of a branch along Rampart will begin soon.   In several places there are switches heading off the active routes to the proposed extensions.  This line uses newly-built cars, although I believe all of the cars could run on any of the lines.

 

Here we are at the end of the line to City Park.  Check your poles, that's always good advice.

City Park is big and has a lot of interesting features, such as an excellent art museum, a great botanical garden, a modern sculpture collection, an amusement park, and so on.  

To save space, I'll spare you the art and botany, but modern sculpture is always an uplifting experience.

 

  You meet all sorts of people.

The park has a large loop of 15" gauge track with the usual gas-mechanical 4-2-4 engines.  They were not running for passengers, but a couple of guys were running the locomotive to check out the line.

And then there's the "Train Garden", a large LGB outdoors layout, also not operating on this particular day.

Of course, the streetcar system used to be a lot bigger.  This is over across the river, in the historic Algiers Point neighborhood.

And finally, there's the Union Passenger Terminal, and the Amtrak train to Chicago.   We've got to back again soon!