| Here is a helicopter view of the New Orleans riverfront, looking downstream but facing north! The blue transit shed on the left is the Celeste Street Wharf, the yellow is the Market Street Wharf, the orange is the Orange Street Wharf, and beyond that are the Robin Street and Thalia Street wharfs. One of these wharves covers a railroad ferry landing which was abandoned in 1942, after T&P and MP trains began using the Huey P. Long Bridge. Behind the wharves on the left are the unused Market Street power station and the New Orleans Public Belt's Race Street Yard. The large white area between the NOPB yard and the Mississippi River bridge was the main parking lot for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, which can been seen right on the other side of the bridge. The parking lot was on land leased from the UP, and had been the MP's Race Street Yard up until early 1984. The open area on the left, right on this side of the bridge approach, had been the MP's intermodal yard; and up until 1954, this had been the site of the T&P-MP passenger station. |