| The LOUISIANA SUPERDOME, just barely visible on the extreme right, opened on 3 August 1975; and the Ringling Brother Circus made its first appearance in the building the next month. It was Ringling's first visit to New Orleans in many years; and during its stay here, the BLUE TRAIN was parked in the Illinois Central Gulfs Poydras Yard. In this view, taken from the South Broad Street overpass, the cars were the 158, and the 156 through the 138, in numerical order. Cars 119-127 and 130-134 were parked on the adjacent track, but these were not in numerical order. The nearest car was previously Southern Pacific 4-bedroom/4-compartment/2-drawing-room sleeper 9100, and the little windows were for the upper berths in the compartments. The other cars on this track came from the Baltimore & Ohio, Rock Island, New York Central and SP. |