| When LMX B39-8E units 8550 and 8596 showed up in New Orleans on this eastbound BNSF stack train, they were two of the last LMX units still in operation on that railroad. The train was parked on the New Orleans Public Belt's westbound main track near Walnut Street, with the Mississippi River levee on the left. The little rusty object on the left, between the tracks and the bicycle path, was a derelict log skidder. It was left over from when the Bisso company, on the other side of the levee, occasionally dealt in used railroad equipment. It had been here for well over 60 years and was scrapped by the NOPB soon after this photo was taken. There had once been a 2-track yard here, when the NOPB delivered coal to Bisso for use in its tugboats and ferries. |