Back in October of 2017 upon arriving in Hammond, Louisiana, I had reached the last leg of a rail-fanning trip I’d made that day. There I captured this view of a southbound Canadian National freight train as it was picking up speed while approaching the depot. It had been in the siding beyond waiting for northbound Amtrak train #58 to clear.

The Hammond depot is at milepost 859 on the McComb Subdivision of the CN, this line running between Chicago and New Orleans. The track curving to the left is the start of the Hammond Subdivision, and it runs west to Baton Rouge.