{"id":3324,"date":"2023-04-30T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2023-04-30T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:37:17","slug":"photos-past-ln-turntable-at-gentilly-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/30\/photos-past-ln-turntable-at-gentilly-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Past: L&amp;N Turntable at Gentilly Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And there\u2019s more of this 1960s tour: in this view we\u2019ve moved a bit to the right. The trio of GP30s and the lone F unit are sitting on the turntable lead. The turntable is still in use (I even got to take a spin on it). Just a tiny piece of the brick roundhouse can be seen at the extreme right edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LN-at-Turntable-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LN-at-Turntable-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg\" alt=\"L&amp;N at Turntable, Gentilly Yard - Early 1960s\" class=\"wp-image-1195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LN-at-Turntable-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LN-at-Turntable-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LN-at-Turntable-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LN-at-Turntable-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These photos were taken while I was on an impromptu guided tour by one of the switchmen who was taking a break while the crew was on the spot. We walked through the entire service area, then through each of the units sitting on the turntable lead. How often do railfans get a tour like this today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L&amp;N Railroad Gentilly yard in New Orleans, Louisiana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And there\u2019s more of this 1960s tour: in this view we\u2019ve moved a bit to the right. The trio of GP30s and the lone F unit are sitting on the turntable lead. The turntable is still in use (I even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/30\/photos-past-ln-turntable-at-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-3324","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\/3324","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=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}