We just returned from a quick trip to New Orleans. Most of what we were doing would be off-topic, but of course we did most of our traveling around the city by streetcar.
The 900 series cars are still running on the St. Charles line, as seen here at Lee Circle.
Lee himself has been evicted, however.
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The new line on Rampart Street is now in operation, so there are more routes. Not all of my pictures turned out, for some reason, but it is not unusual to see four or five cars at once taking turns at the intersection of Rampart/Elk and Canal. These are all the newest cars, in the 2000 series.
And the 400-series cars are still running on the riverfront line.
We spent most of a day at the WWII Museum. Near the entrance, there is a railroad car which serves as a theater for some introductory videos. Whether this was actually a UP car is anybody's guess. It's no longer on trucks.
The museum is well worth a visit, and I took a lot of pictures. There's a huge collection of interesting artifacts on display; for instance, in the picture below, the object at upper left is what's left of a prop from a kamikaze plane that struck a US carrier. It's amazing how many things like that survived into preservation.
