For this first posting in the month of February, I decided to feature another photograph from the 1986 calendar published by the Louisiana State Railroad Museum, it being for their month of February. I’ve paraphrased the caption for the image below.

In May of 1943 the country is at war and Southern Consolidation #6591, ex-Alabama Great Southern K class 296, is working some head end business at the New Orleans Basin Street Station of the Southern Railway. The depot, the tracks, the engine and the palms are long gone, having been replaced by statues and greenery.

From the collection of Harold K. Vollrath.