The second in this series of photographs, this scene is at the old Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad station located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana right next to the Mississippi River levee.\u00a0 The Y&MV was a subsidiary of the Illinois Central Railroad until merged into the IC in the late 1940s.\u00a0 After the demise of rail passenger service to Baton Rouge, the building changed ownership and became the Louisiana Art and Science Museum.<\/p>\n
This is the scene on the north end of the depot under the covered platform.\u00a0 A glimpse of the “new” Mississippi River bridge can be seen in the background.<\/p>\n
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