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Relco Shop |
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This was the Railway Equipment Leasing Co. (Relco) shop at St. Gabriel, Louisiana; located along the Illinois Central Gulf between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The two NW2's are former Frisco/BN units waiting to be repainted for the Acadiana Railway. The first unit is still in its Frisco paint scheme and displays its BN number -- 412 -- on its number boards; but it wears a Dixie River Railroad (DXZE) emblem on its cab and is crudely lettered AKDN 101. The other unit -- former BN 403 -- wears the DXZE blue-and-white paint scheme, and would become AKDN 102. The DXZE was incorporated to acquire the former UP/MP line between McGehee, Arkansas and Vidalia, Louisiana; but it was unable to obtain the necessary financing and the sale never took place. |
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6/1/1990 Upload Date: 8/2/2010 12:19:33 PM |
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Saint Gabriel, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AKDN 101(NW2) AKDN 102(NW2) BN 412(NW2) |
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AKDN NW2 102 |
| Description: |
In 1990, the Acadiana Railway purchased two disconnected sections of trackage from the Union Pacific and a short piece of line from the Southern Pacific, all in southwest Louisiana. Operations over these lines began on 1 June 1990 using a pair of former Burlington Northern NW2’s. The 101 had a crawfish on its cab while the 102 had a shrimp, and here was the SHRIMP UNIT with its windows boarded up. It was EMD frame number E1093-1, built in December 1948 as Colorado & Southern 153, then became Burlington Northern 403. It went to the stillborn Dixie River as the 403 and then to the Acadiana as the 102. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/2000 Upload Date: 2/17/2021 5:27:32 PM |
| Location: |
Opelousas, LA |
| Author: |
TOM BLACKWELL image |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
AKDN 102(NW2) |
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| Title: |
AKDN NW2 102 |
| Description: |
In 1990, the Acadiana Railway purchased two disconnected sections of trackage from the Union Pacific and a short piece of line from the Southern Pacific, all in southwest Louisiana. Operations over these lines began on 1 June 1990 using a pair of former Burlington Northern NW2’s. The 101 had a crawfish on its cab while the 102 had a shrimp, and here was the SHRIMP UNIT. It was EMD frame number E1093-1, built in December 1948 as Colorado & Southern 153, then became Burlington Northern 403. It went to the stillborn Dixie River as the 403 and then to the Acadiana as the 102. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/2001 Upload Date: 2/17/2021 5:32:43 PM |
| Location: |
Opelousas, LA |
| Author: |
TOM BLACKWELL image |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
AKDN 102(NW2) |
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