"Travel Talks" with James FitzPatrick and pre-WWII New Orleans

[NP Eddie]

ALL:

I watched a pre-WWII "Travel Talks" visit to New Orleans. The Roman Numbers were too small to read. The first scene shows a TNO (SP) train on the Huey Long Bridge. The train number was either 2 or 4--again the scene was too far way to read. The train number tells me it was a TNO train and had about 14 cars. Train 2 was the "Sunset" and train 4 was an accommodation train from Houston to New Orleans. Quite a site, but only about 15 seconds long.

Ed Burns

[Firelock76]

I've seen James FitzPatrick's "Travel Talks" on Turner Classic Movies myself and LOVE the things!  Every one's a wonderful little time capsule.

I wish TCM would put them all, or at least the best of them, out on DVD.  Just the ticket for those nights when "nuthin's on,"  which seems to be more and more the case these days.

[NP Eddie]

Firelock76 and ALL:

If this was the "Sunset" would the SP power continue east of El Paso or the the train receive TNO locomotives?  Was "Texas and New Orleans" painted on the tenders or just "Southern Pacific Lines" with TNO below the locomotive number on the side of the cab?  I assume that the TNO had a seperate numbering series from parent SP.

Ed Burns

[Firelock76]

Sorry, I don't know, I certainly know who the Espee was but I'm not that knowlegeable about it.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

T&NO had a separate numbering system well into the diesel era.  I'm not sure about steam, but T&NO diesels were numbered below 1000 and were lettered for Southern Pacific with T&NO sub-lettering.

[rcdrye]

Steam had "Southern Pacific Lines" on the tender for most of the steam era.  I don't remember diesels being sublettered - you had to know the number series.