Union Terminal Station in New Orleans is nice, built in a 1954 midcentury style with streamlined touches, and colorful murals with New Orleans history scenes in the waiting room.
As we left NOLA, passed the Superdome, City Park, above-ground cemeteries and the Industrial Canal which links Lake Pontchartrain with the Mississippi River through the Ninth Ward, then crossed Lake Pontchartrain and went through bayous to the east. So far Mississippi has consisted mostly of scrubby green woods close in on both sides of the train under glowering skies.
The trains in the eastern U.S. have one-level Viewliner cars rather than the bi-level Superliner cars in the West. So far the track is rougher, and the vast sweeping views have changed to a much more confined landscape.
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| Amtrak ticket counter, Union Terminal Station, New Orleans |
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| New Orleans cemetery |
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| Breakfast east of New Orleans |
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| Lots of woods in Mississippi |
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