sgtmatt wrote:
On a visit to New Orleans I was amazed at all photo opportunities there were. Here are a few candid shots I hope you enjoy. 1 is the skyline in the evening, 2 is a decorated bus stop, 3 and 5 are musicians in Jackson Square, 4 is horse drawn tours and 6 is the trolley.
Looks like you enjoyed yourself. I have only been to New Orleans once for a bit over an hour at night. December 1973 on our honeymoon cross country LA to Disney World, back up to my home town in Kentucky, then St Louis and back cross country to the NW and back south to LA. On a tight schedule and intended to have a late dinner in New Orleans but couldn't find parking near anything but truck stops on the interstate so we moved on.
One nit to pick, I know many people call them "trolleys" but being a long time member of the operations department of one of the largest Railway museums in the country it is a "Street Car" and the "trolley pole" is the pole arrangement on the top that contacts the overhead power wire. When they first appeared in the 19th century people called them "Trolley Cars" to distinguish them from the old horse drawn street cars. Just like the ones in San Francisco and other places that used a cable to pull them became "Cable Cars". In the UK and most of Europe as a group they are generically "trams".