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We had an outstanding experience at Le Richelieu Hotel on Chartres a couple of years ago. It was a cab ride from the train station, but the cost was worth it. It was a quiet part of the quarter but only a very quick walk to the not-quiet parts! :giggle: We're threatening to go back this...

From the Amtrak 2009 Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements, page 44, under the heading Property & Depreciation...

Y'all, those are gorgeous. Kodachrome, and it's magic, belongs to the ages now, I guess. :)

I use 2X4 (non-pressure treated) and molding and a few parts from the local hobby shop to make wooden trains. I've actually just switched to all diesel models - after the scale 4-8-4 Northern I decided that I couldn't do anymore steam power with all the parts (unless I have children, and then...

The trick my wife and I used when we went in the summer a few years ago was to ride out the hot part of the day with a late long lunch and a nap back at the hotel, and then back out for dinner and dancing (the foxtrot still counts, right?) or concert or just bumming around the Quarter or...

About a year ago my wife and I rode the City down from MEM to NOL for a few days of eating our way through the French Quarter. We stayed at a place called Le Richelieu (http://www.lerichelieuhotel.com/) that I can't recommend highly enough. They were everything we hoped for - clean, friendly...

George, do you happen to know what route the Tennessean followed? Somehow I seem to have never heard of that train.

So, they'd change motive power every time the carriages changed lines? In my current line of work, I'm pretty sure we'd call that a process with multiple potential failure modes. But then, I guess the process by which the rail network was built wasn't actually designed for maximum efficiency.

Thanks for that. I thought the article was pretty fair. Anytime kids like those two show up in our local paper the attitude is usually "they need a haircut and a job."

Bill, is that one of the trains they ran with a 4-8-4 Northern, except that they called it a 'Dixie' because even 70 years after the (ahem) Unpleasantness they still couldn't bear anything too Yankee? :rolleyes:

Hi gang! I've been lurking here since last August when my wife and I took our first trip by rail. We rode the CONO from Memphis to NOL for a weeks worth of vacation and what turns out to be a terrible infection of both the New Orleans bug and the train bug. While it was our first train trip...

Hi Bill, Where was the railyard to handle that much traffic? Is that where the new (new-ish?) football stadium is now? MrFSS, are those the apartments way out on Lyndon Lane? If so, it's near my first apartment on Westport Road, a block and a half from the crossing. It was a dump, but you...