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

“At the east end of the cavernous Louisville & Nashville train shed at the New Orleans depot, L&N Pacific #261 heads up a heavyweight consist. Movie and railroad buffs can see this station immortalized in A Streetcar Named Desire on the big screen. (Photo from the collection of Harold K. Vollrath)”

I did a little digging for more information on this locomotive. The photograph was recorded by Max Miller on May 30th of 1948. She was a Class K-4B locomotive, and was one of eighteen built at the L&N’s South Louisville shops in 1920. She had 69″ drivers, and her boiler fed 200 psi steam to a pair of 22″ x 28″ cylinders. This produced 33,389 lbs of tractive effort.