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Southern Pacific Passenger Car #TrainThursday
This Southern Pacific passenger car operated on the Sunset Limited. Southern Pacific passenger car A Budd corporation built passenger car operating on the Southern Pacific's "Sunset Limited" train. The Historic New Orleans Collection dates this photo as prior to 1941,...
Biloxi Depot 1925 #TrainThursday
The L&N Railroad operated Biloxi Depot in 1925. Biloxi Depot 1925 photo of the the railroad depot at Biloxi. According to the Biloxi Historical Society, the Biloxi Daily Herald reported that the plans for the depot were in the hands of T.J. Rosell & Company as...
Street Railways of Algiers and Gretna #podcast
Street railways connected Algiers with Gretna and even Marrero. Westbank Streetcars I had the privilege of speaking to the Algiers Historical Society last month, on the subject of street railways on the Westbank. I'd spoken to the group on East Bank subjects in the...
Travel West via Through Cars #TrainThursday
Travel across the Western United States in the 1920s involved Through Cars. Through Cars from New Orleans Passenger railroads dominated long-distance travel in the United States in the 1920s. On 5-June-1926, the Times-Picayune newspaper presented a number of ads...
Private Cars on Amtrak’s Crescent 🌙 (1)
Private cars on Amtrak's Crescent are a wonderful treat. Springtime brings out the private railcars all across the country. With three Amtrak long-haul passenger routes converging on New Orleans, we see a wonderful variety of privately-owned heritage railcars. This...
Archbishop’s Palace 1875
The Archbishop's Palace was original the Ursuline Convent Archbishop's Palace Illustration of "The Archbishop's Palace," by J. Wells Champney, in The Great South: A Record of Journeys... by Edward King. The illustration shows what New Orleanians have come to call,...
Christ Church 1845
Christ Church was the first Episcopal congregation. Christ Church, 1845 Illustration of Christ Episcopal Church, corner of Canal and Bourbon Streets, in Norman's New Orleans and Environs, 1845. The artist is unidentified. Benjamin Moore Norman describes the church...
St. Charles Street, 1880
St. Charles Street in 1880 Canal and St. Charles The 100-200 blocks of St. Charles Street, looking up from Canal Street, 1880. This is one side of a stereoscope card from S. T. Blessing Studios on Canal. The foreground shows the 100 block of St. Charles. Meyer The...
Streetcar Parade Changes 1950
Streetcar parade changes happened to keep the streets clear. Streetcar parade changes Ad in the Times-Picayune, 20-February-1950, outlining the "Changes in Streetcar and Bus Routes during Carnival Parades" for Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras that year. In order to clear the...
LSUNO to the University of New Orleans (@uofno)
LSUNO lost the "LS" in the name in 1974 LSUNO gets a name change Newspaper article from 3-February-1974 reporting on the passage by the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors of the name change for LSUNO. By an 8-2 vote, the university became the University...
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