| In this view looking south across North Claiborne Avenue and under I-10, NS warehouse C is on the right. Warehouse B is on fire, and on the other side of this would have been Warehouse A. These had been some of the Southern Railway's inbound freight houses. To the left of these were outbound freight houses H, G and F. Warehouse H was next to C, and is gone; but G is visible in the center distance. The steeple of St. Louis Cathedral can be seen in the background. Additional information according to the 1940 Sanborn map revealed: moving left from St. Louis Street, you had Inbound Freight Houses A-C, 5-6 tracks, Outbound Freight Houses F-H, and 3-4 more tracks. Over on the extreme left would have been the two main tracks into Terminal Station on Basin Street and a third track. The track arrangement here changed and shrank several times between the closure of Terminal Station in 1954 and the complete removal of all track, which likely took place shortly before these photos were taken. Major changes were the construction of the current street connection between Orleans Ave. and Basin Street, and the construction of parking for the Municipal Auditorium. |