{"id":3317,"date":"2023-04-16T10:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2023-04-16T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T15:54:50","slug":"photos-past-ln-railroads-gentilly-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/16\/photos-past-ln-railroads-gentilly-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Past: L&#038;N Railroad\u2019s Gentilly Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ll shift gears again. Here\u2019s a view taken from roughly the center of the L&amp;N Railroad\u2019s Gentilly yard in New Orleans, Louisiana back in the early 1960s. My dad took me here several times to do a little railfanning. In those days the rail crews didn\u2019t seem to mind that you were in the middle of their yard as long as you stayed put in a safe space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Off to the right you can catch a glimpse of the locomotive servicing area. The arch on the turntable is visible, and just a tad of the brick roundhouse can be seen at the edge of the image. The top of the sand tower is visible just above the blue boxcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg\" alt=\"L&amp;N Gentilly Yard - Early 1960s\" class=\"wp-image-1185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-447x300.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This view is looking roughly to the east.  There wasn&#8217;t much around the east and south of this yard back in this time, mostly just marshland.  It was speculated that the smoke in the distance might have been a marsh fire (quite common back then in unsettled areas of New Orleans East).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll shift gears again. Here\u2019s a view taken from roughly the center of the L&amp;N Railroad\u2019s Gentilly yard in New Orleans, Louisiana back in the early 1960s. My dad took me here several times to do a little railfanning. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/16\/photos-past-ln-railroads-gentilly-yard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}