Silhouettes from the Sunset Limited.
These scenes were part of the passing panorama as photographed from Amtrak’s Sunset Limited on December 17, 2018.
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Amtrak at Lafayette, Louisiana—Monday December 17, 2018.
Traveling on Amtrak’s Sunset Limited on our way from New Orleans to Houston, the train made a long station stop at Lafayette, Louisiana.
Well it was long enough for me to get out for a few minutes and expose a few photos.
It was 22 years and 11 months ago that I gave a lecture in Lafayette. That was my last visit here, and it seems like a lifetime ago.
Photos were exposed with my FujiFilm XT1 with 12mm Zeiss Touit lens, adjusted in Lightroom for contrast and saturation.
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Six Sunset (Limited) Views: New Orleans and Mississippi River.
Departing New Orleans, I settled in Amtrak’s glass-lined observation lounge.
Here I made photos as we navigated the maze of trackage on both sides of the massive Huey P. Long bridge over the Mississippi River.
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New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
NOUPT serves Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, Crescent, and tri-weekly Sunset Limitedplus the seasonal train ride styled as the Polar Express.It’s also the city’s bus terminal.
This station was among the very last city terminals constructed during the era when the private railroads ran their own passenger trains.
Only ticketed Amtrak passengers were permitted onto the railroad platforms.
Here are few views exposed the other day.
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Mississippi Twilight
On its final lap to New Orleans, Amtrak’s Crescentpauses at several smaller stations.
I made photos during these brief stops to capture the mood of these line-side communities in the evening glow.
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