A Muggy Winter Night in New Orleans
New Orleans is a city that really has to be experienced to be understood. What else would compel me to be out at 11pm on a Saturday on South Carrollton Avenue near the very end of the Saint Charles Line? History. While time marches on around it the seldom thought about streetcar is plodding through the thick fog of a New Orleans night. Almost a century ago the Perley A. Thomas car works began churning out an order of 35 streetcars for the City of New Orleans to use on the Saint Charles line. This 953 streetcar is mere months from celebrating its centennial anniversary in continuous service. The remarkable survival of the streetcars along this line is only predicated by the line itself. While the streetcars approach a centennial, the Saint Charles line itself is approaching a Bi-Centennial. 187 years ago the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad began steam service between the, at the time, separate cities of New Orleans and Carrollton. Since its 1835 inception the line has seen continuous service. If it sounds impressive it indeed is. The Saint Charles Line has the distinction of being the oldest streetcar line anywhere on earth. So with all of this in mind I raise my camera into the foggy night and make some photos. The thick, humid, atmosphere drips with mood. Magnolia by JJ Cale is on the radio, and all is right in the world as Saint Charles Line 953 slips off into the misty night.... South Carrollton at Spruce... DEC 2022.
A Muggy Winter Night in New Orleans
New Orleans is a city that really has to be experienced to be understood. What else would compel me to be out at 11pm on a Saturday on South Carrollton Avenue near the very end of the Saint Charles Line? History. While time marches on around it the seldom thought about streetcar is plodding through the thick fog of a New Orleans night. Almost a century ago the Perley A. Thomas car works began churning out an order of 35 streetcars for the City of New Orleans to use on the Saint Charles line. This 953 streetcar is mere months from celebrating its centennial anniversary in continuous service. The remarkable survival of the streetcars along this line is only predicated by the line itself. While the streetcars approach a centennial, the Saint Charles line itself is approaching a Bi-Centennial. 187 years ago the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad began steam service between the, at the time, separate cities of New Orleans and Carrollton. Since its 1835 inception the line has seen continuous service. If it sounds impressive it indeed is. The Saint Charles Line has the distinction of being the oldest streetcar line anywhere on earth. So with all of this in mind I raise my camera into the foggy night and make some photos. The thick, humid, atmosphere drips with mood. Magnolia by JJ Cale is on the radio, and all is right in the world as Saint Charles Line 953 slips off into the misty night.... South Carrollton at Spruce... DEC 2022.