Illinois Central's 333 steam engine at the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot
IC-333, a 0-6-0 steam engine formerly owned by the Charles Black Sand & Gravel Company of Fluker, LA, is on display just outside the building. Several passenger cars previously on display have been removed. As of 2011, IC-333 and its tender have been removed from the site as well.
Passenger service
In 1949 passenger service consisted of the Illinois Central's Planter, an all-coach train from Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans via Vicksburg, Mississippi (along the Yazoo (main line, rather than the IC main line). The station hosted an additional two trains to and two trains from New Orleans.[6]
In the station's final years of use, it was not used by the Illinois Central but instead by the Missouri Pacific, the unnamed successor to the Houstonian night train on the Houston - New Orleans route.[7][8] This was not the final train in the city; the Kansas City Southern Railway continued the Southern Belle until 1969 at that company's own station in Baton Rouge.[9][10]
Louisiana Art and Science Museum
The museum contains many exhibits and galleries, as well as a planetarium.
A gallery for the solar system, including displays on astronomy and meteors. In 2018, the museum was also loaned a Triceratops skull from a private collection, nicknamed Jason.[12]
^"Illinois Central Railroad, Table 16". Official Guide of the Railways. 82 (3). National Railway Publication Company. August 1949.
^"Illinois Central Railroad, Table 15". Official Guide of the Railways. 98 (8). National Railway Publication Company. January 1966.
^"Missouri Pacific Railroad, Table 5, reporting the March 1965 timetable". Official Guide of the Railways. 98 (8). National Railway Publication Company. January 1966.
^Carter, Thad Hills (2009). Kansas City Southern Railway. Images of Rail. (Reprint of an article by Philip Moseley originally published in the May 1986 issue of Arkansas Railroader). Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Portsmouth, NH; San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Publishing. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7385-6001-4.
