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Mike Palmieri's
LOUISIANA·RAIL·SITE
"WHERE THE EAST MEETS THE
WEST IN THE
SOUTH"
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A · R I D E · O N · T H E · H-NWOBAR-1-26A
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P A G E T H R E E -- W E S T
O F A V O N D A L E
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MILEPOST 15
BNSF trains finally reach home rails at Live Oak, three miles
west of Avondale Yard. Here, the GE's are accelerating up to 55 mph. The
UP's former MP line can be seen on the other side of the train. The BNSF
and UP run side-by-side for several miles west of Avondale.
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MILEPOST 25
With clear stacks, the GE's roll under Interstate 310 at the west
end of Boutte Siding. This is former Southern Pacific track which the BNSF
acquired from the UP in December 1996, as a result of the UP-SP merger
earlier that year.
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MILEPOST 73
Looking out of the conductor's rear window, we cross Bayou Boeuf
on one of the five movable bridges along the BNSF's Lafayette Division.
That's a lot of opening bridges for a 191-mile line!
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MILEPOST 81
Our train has just crossed Berwick Bay on a large lift bridge,
passed through a floodgate, and is now stopping so the conductor can line
us into Berwick Siding for a meet. That's Morgan City on the far side of
the Bay.
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MILEPOST 83
We meet today's second — and last — eastbound BNSF merchandise
train at the west end of Berwick Siding. Our departure from Cotton
Warehouse Yard was delayed slightly waiting for the day's first eastbound
train.
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Our last view of H-NWOBAR-1-26A is
at the west end of Berwick Siding. What would have once been an unlikely
sight less than two years ago has now become commonplace — the BNSF in the
swamps of southern Louisiana!
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