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Michael Palmieri's Collection
 
12/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: St Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt)
Model:EMD GP40Built As:SSW 7607 (GP40)
Serial Number:31490Order No:7860
Frame Number:7860-8Built:3/1966
Other locos with this serial:  SSW 7607(GP40) UP 1444(GP40-2) SSW 7966(GP40R) UPY 3001(Unknown)
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Cotton Belt Units
Title:  Cotton Belt Units
Description:  This trio of Cotton Belt locomotives was photographed from the westbound SUNSET LIMITED as it passed AVONDALE YARD, at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. These were GP40 7607, which had been built in March 1966; SD45 8966, which had been built in February 1968; and the nose of GP9 3645, which had been built in October 1957 as the 824 and was still in its original paint scheme.
Photo Date:  9/30/1970  Upload Date: 4/30/2021 5:31:35 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 7607(GP40) SSW 8966(SD45)
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