Scenes from Amtrak 11B

Sorry but the program I am using uploads them in reverse order - so imagine this is what our ride looked liked on the way home only we arrived in New Orleans in the evening and left New Orleans in the morning two days later. All of these photos are from our trip down, leaving Greenville, SC station at 5:01 am and arriving at 7:35 pm (CT) New Orleans.

New Orleans Skyline from our Sleeper Car 11B

Cemetaries above ground because you can't bury stuff in water-

the caskets just kept rising to the top.

Water & Sewer Dept - one of the busiest places during Katrina

View of the Back of the train from the mirror in our room

View of the front of the train as it rounds the corner headed into New Orleans

Hard hit 9th Ward area

Lake Ponchartrain at Sunset

Lake Ponchartrain at Sunset

This Lake is HUGE!

6.2 miles across the Lake we rode

The Lake is 630 acres

The view from our sleeper car

The walkway to our car

1911 - Train 19, Sleepere Car 11, Our Room B

Slidell Station was called Beignet Station

Between Slidell & New Orleans

Carolyn and Allen Detiveaux of Houma, Louisiana - our dinner companions

Louisiana Swamps

The closest we were to a real highway the whole 15 hours

Dixie stuff EVERYWHERE

Hotel Meridian - touting FREE Air Conditioning & FREE Showers!

Meridian Mississippi Station

Check out the conductor and his body double in the background

Going over Drawbridge

Tuscaloosa Station - I almost missed getting this photo!

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

The signs says Graduate to a Better Life and it is posted just before

you see all the homeless people sleeping under the bridges

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Homeless under bridge on mattresses

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Outside Atlanta

Atlanta Station looking South

Me moving from Coach Car to Sleeper Car in Atlanta

The dining car

Looking towards Georgia's Blue Ridge area

Buford, GA

Buford, GA

Yummy omellete, sausage, hashbrowns, and croissant

Our Waiter, Roxroy

The Coach Car - our ride from Greenville to Atlanta

Boarding in Greenville

Starting Point - Greenville, SC - Free Parking at Amtrak