| The 1973 convention of the National Railway Historical Society was held in New Orleans, and the convention excursion train ran to Pascagoula, Mississippi and back over the Louisville & Nashville using Southern Railway equipment. Here is the train heading out of New Orleans over the Southern Railway at Marconi Drive behind 2-8-0 722, water car W.T 51, 2-8-2 4501 and W.T. 50 with 18 cars: sleeper 2422 LAKE PEARL, combine 726, coaches 1087, 1081, and 1086, commissary car CofG 405, coaches 3659, 1067, 1068, 1037, 1036 and 1034, commissary car 4061, coaches 1038, 1039, 1046, 1069 MISSIONARY RIDGE and observation car 1056 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. |