Here is an artist's rendering of the view from a vantage point in the Morris Building, one of the taller buildings on Canal Street, some time after 1883 (when Christ Church was demolished; note the absence of its steeple). He did not draw in the turntable of the Magazine and Prytania lines, on the near side (the river side) of the Clay statue. But he does give us a good view of the Orleans RR loop around the Clay statue. We also have a good view of the trees which are between the inner tracks and the outer tracks on Canal Street from the Carondelet/Bourbon intersection outward.