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Resource Type:
Photograph
County:
Orleans Parish, LA
Decade:
1930-1939
Collection:
Rescuing Texas History, 2007
[Ferry Barge and Passenger Train in New Orleans]
Date: c. 1930
Creator: unknown
Description: Southern Pacific's ferry barge, the "Mastodon" with passenger train aboard, is taken in tow by tugboats for the crossing of the Mississippi River at New Orleans.
Contributing Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28915/
[Ferry Barge and Passenger Train in New Orleans]
Date: c. 1930
Creator: unknown
Description: Southern Pacific's ferry barge "Mastodon" - with accompanying tug boats - awaits passenger train moving aboard to be ferried across the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana.
Contributing Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28916/
["Gouldsboro" ferry boat]
Date: c. 1938
Creator: unknown
Description: Texas and Pacific Railway's "Gouldsboro", a steam powered ferry boat, transports a passenger train across the Mississippi River at New Orleans, circa 1938.
Contributing Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28630/
["L.S. Thorpe" crossing the Mississippi]
Date: c. 1938
Creator: unknown
Description: Texas and Pacific Railway's train ferry "L.S. Thorpe" crossing the Mississippi River at New Orleans, circa 1938.
Contributing Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28629/
["Sunset Limited" crossing the Mississippi River]
Date: c. 1930
Creator: unknown
Description: Southern Pacific's "Sunset Limited" train No. 1 westbound, aboard the ferry barge "Mastodon" accompanied by Engine No.73, a steam switcher, type 0-6-0, with a slope-backed tender - is being ferried across the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Avondale, Louisiana.
Contributing Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28914/