AMTK 718

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Greg Slaton	General	What a day! Pat O'Briens was serving a special blud cocktail onboard, best described as Windex mixed with Ty-D-Bol.	3/24/2010 10:45:10 AM

Greg Slaton	General	This was the East New Lrleans, LA Amtrak stop, located at Crowder Rd and the tracks(behind the fruit stand). Station cost about $100,000 to build(paid for by World's Fair), designed by the late architect/rail advocate Charles Apffel. Stop was only used for the original GCL, 4/84-1/85.	3/24/2010 10:52:07 AM

Earl Hampton	General	I think it is still there, but in terrible disrepair due to lack of'use and Katrina.	3/24/2010 11:36:45 AM

AMTK 718
The World's Fair train headed west to New Orleans makes a station stop in Gentilly, LA after departing Biloxi, MS. This train would eventually become the east leg of the Sunset Limited.
Date: 4/28/1984	Location: New Orleans, LA Map	Views: 767	Collection Of: Jerry Sires
Locomotives: AMTK 718(P30CH)			Author: Jerry Sires

Picture Categories: Station,Passenger,Action		This picture is part of album: Amtrak

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