Last Light Return
The low hanging sun illuminates the flanks of an early returning KCS local train along the Bonnet Carre spillway in Norco, La. The consecutively numbered KCS SD40-2's 3205 and 3206 held this job down for the better part of a calendar year here. A healthy train of west yard bound cars trails the power on a bitterly cold afternoon along the Mississippi River Valley. The permanent ten mph restriction for trains on this bridge will be done away with soon as CPKC plans to build a brand new structure across the length of the floodway here. In years of heavy flooding this normally dry and wildlife filled lowland will be flooded with excess Mississippi River floodwaters that will find a new home in Lake Ponchatrain, and an additional later exit through the Rigolets Pass into the Gulf of Mexico. On this beautiful winter day it is business as usual however as the KCS Baton Rouge turn heads for an early quit in New Orleans just ahead.
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Last Light Return
The low hanging sun illuminates the flanks of an early returning KCS local train along the Bonnet Carre spillway in Norco, La. The consecutively numbered KCS SD40-2's 3205 and 3206 held this job down for the better part of a calendar year here. A healthy train of west yard bound cars trails the power on a bitterly cold afternoon along the Mississippi River Valley. The permanent ten mph restriction for trains on this bridge will be done away with soon as CPKC plans to build a brand new structure across the length of the floodway here. In years of heavy flooding this normally dry and wildlife filled lowland will be flooded with excess Mississippi River floodwaters that will find a new home in Lake Ponchatrain, and an additional later exit through the Rigolets Pass into the Gulf of Mexico. On this beautiful winter day it is business as usual however as the KCS Baton Rouge turn heads for an early quit in New Orleans just ahead.
Thanks for looking!