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| Title: |
SP (T&NO) Train No. 12 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific (Texas & New Orleans) train No. 12 – the NEW ORLEANS LIMITED – was boarding the carfloat MASTODON at Avondale, Louisiana for a ride across the Mississippi River and a connection with the Illinois Central. The train was about 12 miles from its destination at Union Station in New Orleans. No. 12 was an overnight train from Houston and included sleeping cars from Minneapolis (via Rock Island’s MID-CONTINENT SPECIAL), Houston and Lake Charles. This was one of 12 passenger trains which crossed the river here each day, but the ferry was discontinued in December 1935, when the Huey P. Long Bridge opened. The locomotive was P-6 class 4-6-2 built by Alco-Brooks in 1913 as the 926; it was renumbered 616 in 1923 and was sold for scrap at Houston in 1953. (date unknown) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1925 Upload Date: 1/7/2022 7:15:24 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
unknown |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 616(4-6-2) TNO 616(4-6-2) |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 5 |
| Description: |
This Southern Pacific publicity photo from the early 1950's showed train No. 5 – the westbound ARGONAUT – heading across the Huey P. Long Bridge, near the beginning of its 2,000-mile journey to Los Angeles. The ARGONAUT was inaugurated on 24 June 1926 as the secondary train on the Sunset Route, running opposite the SUNSET LIMITED; but it was discontinued during the height of the Great Depression, from April 1932 until May 1936. When this photo was taken, No. 5 left New Orleans at 10:30 A.M. On 7 June 1957 the train was discontinued west of El Paso, then its last remaining sleeper was removed in October 1958 and it became an unnamed New Orleans-Houston local. The last remnant of the ARGONAUT was discontinued in 1963. (unknown date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1954 Upload Date: 7/26/2020 10:46:30 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Southern Pacific |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 208(PA1) TNO 208(PA1) |
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1048 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP train no. 2 |
| Description: |
In this Southern Pacific publicity photo from the early 1950's, a pair of Alco PA1 units lead the eastbound SUNSET through the West High Curve on the Huey P. Long Bridge. The train would have been about 20 minutes away from its 4:00 P.M. arrival in New Orleans. Because of the position of the bridge, the eastbound train was heading west into the afternoon sun! The 13-car train included a railway post office-express car, a baggage-dormitory car, a 48-seat divided coach, a 44-seat coach, a Pride of Texas coffee shop-tavern-lounge car, two more 44-seat coaches, two 10-roomette/6-double-bedroom sleepers, an Audubon Dining Room car, a French Quarter Lounge car, and two more 10-6 sleepers. (unknown date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1954 Upload Date: 7/26/2020 10:48:23 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Southern Pacific |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 202(PA1) TNO 202(PA1) |
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528 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
This publicity photo of the eastbound SUNSET featured a pair of Alco PA1 units led by the 202, with 12 cars. Train No. 2 was in the broad curve between Roanoke and Jennings, in southwestern Louisiana. (unknown date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1954 Upload Date: 7/26/2020 10:50:36 AM |
| Location: |
Jennings, LA |
| Author: |
Southern Pacific |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 202(PA1) TNO 202(PA1) |
| Views: |
807 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP No. 1 |
| Description: |
The high, midday summer sun made for poor lighting, but that didn't stop Joe Wilhelm from shooting the westbound SUNSET in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Train No. 1 was on track 12, awaiting its 12:01 PM departure, with E9A 6046, E7B 5909 and six cars: an unidentified deadhead, a baggage car, three coaches, and an AUTOMAT food service car. The 6046 was the first of the Espee's nine E9A units and was traded-in to EMD in February 1970, while the 5909 was the last of the railroad's 10 E7B's and was sent back to EMD in October 1968. A year after this photo, tracks 7-12 would be shortened by about 600 feet so that a bus parking area could be built here, and then scenes like this would no longer be possible. (approximate day) |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1968 Upload Date: 9/24/2016 9:48:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Joseph Wilhelm photo |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6046(E9A) |
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1307 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SSW SD45T-2 9300 |
| Description: |
Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9300 was on the westbound SUNSET LIMITED as it left New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, along with FP7 6447 and F7B 8290. The 11-car train consisted of baggage car ATSF 3536, three sleepers AMTK 2265 PLACID SCENE, AMTK 2011 CARDINAL, ATSF PINE SHORE, dormitory-lounge ATSF 1340, diner SP 10215, buffet-lounge UP 6200, and four high-level coaches AMTK 9915, 9949, 9947, and 9925. During the transition for former UP E-units back to ex-SP F-units in June and July 1973 SP freight engines were frequently used on the train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/11/1973 Upload Date: 8/28/2018 10:20:57 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 9300(SD45T-2) |
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1067 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP NW2R 1332 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific NW2R 1332 was parked at the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans, at the corner of Conti Street (off to the right) and Clay Street (behind the photographer). The SP kept one or more locomotives here for many years, to switch several miles of isolated trackage along the east bank of the Mississippi River. As traffic in this area declined, the SP turned over its few remaining customers to the New Orleans Public Belt around 1980. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1973 Upload Date: 12/15/2020 6:17:59 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SP 1332(NW2R) |
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367 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Train No. 1 |
| Description: |
Amtrak train No. 1 – the westbound SUNSET LIMITED – was awaiting its 1 a.m. departure from New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal behind Southern Pacific FP7 6457, F7B units 8290 and 8294, and FP7 6459. The 11-car train consisted of baggage car 1102, sleeper 2013 ORIOLE (being used as a dormitory car), high-level coaches 9920, 9943, 9932 and 9900, lounge car 3360, Northern Pacific dining car 463, and sleepers 2351 REGAL INN, 2780 CUMBERLAND COUNTY and Southern 2016 ST. JOHNS RIVER. Notice the missing icicle breaker on the engineer’s side of the 6457. |
| Photo Date: |
10/5/1973 Upload Date: 9/19/2021 6:59:41 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6457(FP7A) |
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283 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 194 |
| Description: |
The locomotives on Southern Railway No. 194, running today as Extra SP 6665 North, were stopped on the Gentilly Boulevard (U.S. 90) underpass as the train prepared to head out of New Orleans. This was the run-through train from Houston to Birmingham via the SP-SOU, and the train was stopped while crews changing on SP caboose 4402 back at Oliver Junction. The motive power was GP35 6665, U25B's 6735 and 6730, and GP35 6659; and this was the last time I photographed SP U25B's as most of them were withdrawn from service by the end of the year. |
| Photo Date: |
7/7/1974 Upload Date: 7/7/2017 5:59:41 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6665(GP35) |
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457 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP U25B 6735 |
| Description: |
SP GP35 6665, U25B's 6735 and 6730, and GP35 6659 were on Southern Railway No. 194 as it prepared to leave New Orleans. No. 194 was the Houston-Birmingham run-through train via the SP-SOU, and this was the last time I ever photographed SP U25B's, as most of them were withdrawn from service by the end of the year. |
| Photo Date: |
7/7/1974 Upload Date: 7/7/2017 6:00:15 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6735(U25B) |
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308 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP RSD12 2968 |
| Description: |
SP RSD12/DL702 2968 and C630 3144 are on the main line of the KCS just west of that railroad's West Yard, interchanging cars. |
| Photo Date: |
8/24/1974 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 9:47:53 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2968(RSD12) |
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1815 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Alcos |
| Description: |
Two pairs of 6-axle Alcos -- C630's 3142 and 3144 on the left, RSD12 2959/C630 3140 on the right -- rest in the railroad's East Bridge Yard. While these units were not very popular elsewhere on the SP, the railroad found them useful for dragging transfer runs across the Huey P. Long Bridge. All were gone from here by late 1977. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/1974 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:23:33 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3142(C630) SP 2959(RSD12) |
| Views: |
2305 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Alco Switchers |
| Description: |
Four Espee Alco switch engines -- C630's 3143, 3144, 3141 and 3146 -- were stopped on the Huey P. Long Bridge with a westbound transfer run. They were behind an MP train which was waiting for clearance to get into its Avondale Yard. Both railroads had yards at the west end of the bridge, and this causes trains to back up like this. Four-unit sets of C630's were not very common. This was actually two seperate trains which had been combined, so it had a mid-train caboose as well as one on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
12/22/1974 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 10:36:20 AM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3143(C630) SP 3144(C630) SP 3141(C630) SP 3146(C630) |
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2285 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP RSD12 2967 |
| Description: |
Espee RSD12 2967 and C630 3143 were on a short transfer run en route from the railroad's tiny Three Oaks Yard in Chalmette to its big yard at Avondale. Three Oaks Yard served the American Sugar Company's Chalmette Refinery, and this is reflected in the train's consist; the first car is a Domino Sugar tank car and most of the cars are Airslide sugar hoppers. The train is running over the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at Labarre Road. |
| Photo Date: |
1/14/1975 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 8:03:15 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2967(RSD12) SP 3143(C630) |
| Views: |
2154 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
SP caboose 661 |
| Description: |
At 7:20 P.M. on a Thursday evening Espee caboose 661 was bringing up the rear of Job 209. This transfer run from the railroad's Avondale Yard to the Southern Railway's Oliver Yard was on the Southern's BACK BELT at East City Junction. East City Tower, visible in the distance on the left, had been closed and boarded up for about three years. The track on the other side of the caboose is the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal EASTERN CONNECTION, and the signal protects the NOUPT-SOU switch. The freight train was getting under way after waiting for the southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT to enter the NOUPT track. Job 209 had three 6-axle Alcos -- C630 3146, RSD12 2963, C630 3143 -- and 62 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1975 Upload Date: 5/20/2010 3:55:00 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
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1219 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Noses |
| Description: |
These three locomotives provide a contrast in nose profiles as they lead an eastbound transfer run down the Huey P. Long Bridge. There was another C630 behind the 3141. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1975 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 7:31:03 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2967(RSD12) SP 3708(GP9) SP 3141(C630) |
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1185 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP GP9 3717 |
| Description: |
1959-model GP9's 3717 and 3703 and 1966-vintage C630's 3144 and 3141 power an eastbound transfer run over the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at L&N Junction. L&N Junction Tower, which closed in July 1972, is visible on the other side of the tank car. The large structure is the city incinerator on Elysian Fields Avenue. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1975 Upload Date: 8/6/2010 12:09:32 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3717(GP9) SP 3703(GP9) SP 3144(C630) SP 3141(C630) |
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2450 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP C628 3131 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific C628 3131, RSD12 2960 and a pair of GP9's power an eastbound transfer run over the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at Frenchman Street. The SP kept 6-7 modified C630's in New Orleans from early 1973 until late 1977, but this was one of only two modified C628's which I ever saw in New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1976 Upload Date: 9/20/2010 9:22:01 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3131(C628) |
| Views: |
1953 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Westbound SUNSET |
| Description: |
Cruising along at 70 MPH, SDP40F's 551 and 557 were powering the westbound SUNSET LIMITED passed the "temporary" train order office at Raceland Junction, as the operator gave the train a roll-by inspection. Steam generator car 1918 was tucked in behind the locomotives, which was very unusual. This "temporary" office was placed here soon after a freight train derailment wrecked the previous depot on 10 June 1967 and it remained here for almost 18 years, until the introduction of Direct Traffic Control (DTC) on 18 February 1985 eliminated the need for any train order offices along the SUNSET ROUTE between New Orleans and El Paso. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/1976 Upload Date: 4/14/2007 10:24:09 PM |
| Location: |
Raceland Junction, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 551(SDP40F) |
| Views: |
5759 Comments: 15 |
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| Title: |
Train Order Office |
| Description: |
This was the train order office and assorted other things at Bayou Sale, milepost 95.6 on the Espee's SUNSET ROUTE. It was closed after the introduction of Direct Train Control in 1985 eliminated the need for train order offices. |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/1977 Upload Date: 5/20/2010 3:51:08 PM |
| Location: |
Bayou Sale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
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839 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
L&N 3019 |
| Description: |
Westbound Espee train 2-241 had L&N GP40 3019 and a quartet of Espee units: GP9R 3697, GP20R 4139, and GP35's 6633 and 6664. |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1977 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 1:57:02 AM |
| Location: |
Paradis, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LN 3019(GP40) |
| Views: |
1344 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Roundhouse |
| Description: |
A C630 and a GP9 were the only occupants of the Southern Pacific's roundhouse at Avondale. The building was razed about 10 years later. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1977 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:17:47 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
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1141 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP 9323 |
| Description: |
A pair of Espee SD45T-2's -- 9323 and 9318 -- pull a southbound train under I-20 and out of the joint SP-SSW yard. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1977 Upload Date: 5/23/2009 1:53:00 AM |
| Location: |
Shreveport, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9323(SD45T-2) |
| Views: |
931 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Northbound Espee |
| Description: |
A northbound Espee train passes the abandoned platforms of Shreveport Union Station. The engines are SD40 8420, GP35's 6585 and 6644, SD45T-2 9246, and Conrail SDP45's 6689 and 6669 still in Erie-Lackawanna paint. |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1977 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 4:30:40 PM |
| Location: |
Shreveport, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8420(SD40) |
| Views: |
1339 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
L&N 2704 |
| Description: |
Three L&N units -- led by a former Monon U23B -- power westbound Espee train Second 241 past the New Iberia freight house and depot. The locomotives were U23B 2704, GP40 3002 and GP35 1128. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1978 Upload Date: 7/1/2007 1:41:55 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LN 2704(U23B) |
| Views: |
1112 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
L&N 2704 |
| Description: |
Three L&N units -- U23B 2704 (a former Monon unit), GP40 3002, and GP35 1128 (ex-C&EI) -- power westbound Espee train Second 241 past the New Iberia depot. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1978 Upload Date: 7/1/2007 1:59:06 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LN 2704(U23B) |
| Views: |
1103 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Engine Terminal |
| Description: |
MP15AC 2712, four 1200-horsepower EMD, and a pair of GP9's populate the Espee's engine terminal at Lafayette. The yard here only needs a couple of switchers, so the other units will be used on the branches the originate here and at nearby New Iberia. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1978 Upload Date: 8/21/2007 9:53:36 PM |
| Location: |
Lafayette, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SP 2712(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
1562 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
EB SUNSET |
| Description: |
It's 6 P.M. and daylight is fading fast as Espee train order oprator Molly Lalonde watches the fireman on Amtrak train No. 2 -- the eastbound SUNSET -- grab a set of orders at Lafayette Yard. The orders are actually for the crew who will board the train at the Lafayette depot, two and a half miles away. While the train is raising some dust, the speed limit here was only 25 MPH. The train had SDP40F's 573 and 537 with nine cars. |
| Photo Date: |
10/12/1978 Upload Date: 12/19/2009 12:16:04 PM |
| Location: |
Lafayette, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 573(SDP40F) |
| Views: |
1198 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SCL GP38-2 512 |
| Description: |
An eastbound Espee train leaves Lafayette, Louisiana with SCL GP38-2 512, SCL U36B 1783 and Southern Railway SD45 3131, 73 cars, and caboose 4303. SCL and Southern units were common on this end of the Espee, but not on the same train! The train is between Elks and Broussard, at the former location of Walroy siding, milepost 142.4. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/1978 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 1:50:43 AM |
| Location: |
Lafayette, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SCL 512(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
2047 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Meet |
| Description: |
On a dreary winter's afternoon, eastbound Espee train 242 -- with SD40 8440 and Southern Railway SD35's 3098 and 3051 -- was waiting in the siding at Cade, 131 miles west of Algiers, Louisiana; as the westbound SUNSET sped by with SDP40F's 572 and 527 and ten cars. The SUNSET's next stop would be Lafayette, 12 miles ahead. |
| Photo Date: |
1/19/1979 Upload Date: 8/21/2007 10:00:47 PM |
| Location: |
Cade, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 3051(SD35) AMTK 572(SDP40F) |
| Views: |
1580 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP SD9R 4392 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific SD9R 4392 paid a rare visit to New Orleans, on its way from Houston to Birmingham via the Southern. Here it was stopped on the Southern at Frenchman Street, between a very common GP35 and a rather rare SD35. |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/1979 Upload Date: 7/3/2017 10:18:26 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 4392(SD9E) |
| Views: |
472 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP SD35R 6951 |
| Description: |
One of the Southern Pacific's 29 SD35's was making an unusual appearance in New Orleans, en route from Houston to Birmingham via the Southern. It was stopped on the Southern at Frenchman Street, couple to an equally uncommon (for this area) SD9R and a very common GP35. |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/1979 Upload Date: 7/4/2017 12:47:48 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6951(SD35R) |
| Views: |
486 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP SD40T-2 8565 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8565 was on an eastbound run-through train on the Southern Railway's New Orleans Terminal Co. at Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans. It was with U33C 8667 and SD40T-2 8518. The locomotive was brand new and was retired by the Union Pacific in August 2001 without ever being renumbered UP 4505. |
| Photo Date: |
3/12/1979 Upload Date: 10/14/2017 11:37:02 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8565(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
568 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP U33C 8667 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific U33C 8667 was on an eastbound run-through train on the Southern Railway's New Orleans Terminal Co. at Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans. It was between SD40T-2's 8565 and 8518. The 8667 had been built in April 1970 and was retired on 25 April 1985. |
| Photo Date: |
3/12/1979 Upload Date: 10/14/2017 11:37:34 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8667(SD40M-2) |
| Views: |
638 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP MP15AC 2709 |
| Description: |
SP MP15AC 2705 was tied up along 4th Street in Gretna while assigned to the branch between Avondale and Algiers. |
| Photo Date: |
11/9/1979 Upload Date: 8/6/2010 12:58:17 PM |
| Location: |
Gretna, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2705(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
2025 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Westbound SP |
| Description: |
A westbound Southern Pacific train was rolling through Orange, Texas behind SD45 9005 and U33C 8596. |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1979 Upload Date: 9/21/2018 6:15:52 PM |
| Location: |
Orange, TX |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
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SP 9005(SD45) |
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| Title: |
SP GP20R 4125 |
| Description: |
Espee rebuilt GP20 4125 was on a westbound transfer run from the L&N to the Espee. It is parked on the L&N at the Southern Railway connection, waiting for an Espee crew. |
| Photo Date: |
12/26/1979 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 8:05:41 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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SP 4125(GP20E) |
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| Title: |
SP SD40T-2 8548 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8548 had been built in January 1979, and most of it was still shiney enough to reflect the afternoon sun as it was leaving Avondale Yard on a westbound train. The locomotive was assigned Union Pacific number 8658, but this was not applied before it was retired on 6 August 2002. It was subsequently GE Credit (GECX) 8548 and then Helm (HLCX) 6140. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1980 Upload Date: 9/4/2017 4:18:07 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8548(SD40T-2) |
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| Title: |
SP U33C 8739 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific U33C 8739 was between a pair of SD40T-2 units on a westbound train leaving Avondale Yard, near New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1980 Upload Date: 9/11/2017 6:04:44 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
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SP 8739(U33C) |
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469 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 2711 |
| Description: |
A switch engine rests in front of the Espee's office in Gretna, Louisiana. The track running along the street was the railroad's mainline to Milepost 0 in Algiers until the opening of the Huey P. Long Bridge in December 1935. |
| Photo Date: |
12/28/1980 Upload Date: 7/4/2007 11:17:52 PM |
| Location: |
Gretna, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Track |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2711(MP15AC) |
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1149 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP GP35 6676 |
| Description: |
SP GP35 6676 was tied up on one of the tracks that made up the small yard at Morgan City, having arrived on a local. The boarded-up buildings were the carman's shed -- on the left -- and the scale house. The cantilever signal in the background was a railroad landmark here for many years. |
| Photo Date: |
12/28/1981 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 6:49:12 PM |
| Location: |
Morgan City, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6676(GP35) |
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1276 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Schriever, Louisiana |
| Description: |
Here is an aerial view of the SP depot and yard. The track at the bottom of the photo is the branch to Houma. |
| Photo Date: |
2/8/1982 Upload Date: 7/4/2007 10:43:06 PM |
| Location: |
Schriever, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic,Track |
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| Title: |
Action |
| Description: |
GP20R 4121 is switching a caboose on the Houma Branch, while an eastbound train with B30-7 7869 and another GP20R sits on the siding. |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1982 Upload Date: 2/26/2010 3:59:47 PM |
| Location: |
Schriever, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 4121(GP20E) SP 7869(B30-7) |
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1067 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Espee |
| Description: |
We're facing west on the Espee main line at milepost 64.5. The covered shed on the left was used to transfer fish meal from a plant at Bayou Ramos -- about 10 miles west of here -- from trucks into boxcars and covered hoppers. The siding was worked by train No. 54, the Morgan City-Avondale Local. Today, the shed is gone and the track belongs to the BNSF. |
| Photo Date: |
8/13/1982 Upload Date: 6/25/2007 10:49:15 AM |
| Location: |
Donner, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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| Title: |
SSW B30-7 7796 |
| Description: |
Eastbound Espee train LAAVT -- the Los Angeles to Avondale Trailers -- had just finished doing some work at Morgan City, about 70 miles from its destination. The three B30-7's were Cotton Belt 7796 along with Espee 7814 and 7858. Notice that the 7796 still had the sound baffles mounted on the handrails next to its radiator intake. Right behind the locomotives was SP 513339, a part of the Espee's pioneering order for 42 articulated double stack container cars 513302-513343 delivered by ACF the previous year. (SP 513300 and 513301 were prototype cars built in 1977 and 1979.) This was the first time I ever saw a stack car, and when I took this photo SP 513300-513343 were the only stack cars in existence! |
| Photo Date: |
8/13/1982 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 10:23:48 AM |
| Location: |
Morgan City, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 7796(B30-7) |
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1214 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SATX Coal Train |
| Description: |
Two days after Easter 1983, Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9353 was leading a quartet of Burlington Northern GE's - C30-7's 5133 and 5538, U30C 5307 and C30-7 5512 - north along the former Colorado & Southern at Des Moines, New Mexico. This was a 103-car SATX train on its way from San Antonio back to the Powder River Basin, and the shot was taken from U.S. Highway 87. |
| Photo Date: |
4/5/1983 Upload Date: 1/9/2017 4:48:14 PM |
| Location: |
Des Moines, NM |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9353(SD45T-2) |
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280 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Transfer Run |
| Description: |
At 6:15 on a midsummer evening, the engineer on Southern Pacific MP15AC 2704 was easing back to pick up his caboose - Cotton Belt 60 - in the New Orleans Public Belt's COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD. The caboose was still coupled to the 19-car transfer run he had just brought over from his railroad's AVONDALE YARD, at the west end of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE; and he was now coupling up so he could return home with this 12-car train. The two tracks on the left were the Illinois Central Gulf's north- and southbound main lines; while the structure on the left was the PUBLIC GRAIN ELEVATOR, facing the Mississippi River. Notice the stored NOPB box cars on the right and in the left background. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1983 Upload Date: 1/24/2017 6:00:20 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2704(MP15AC) |
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526 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound |
| Description: |
B30-7 7801, SD45 9127, and B30-7 7817 lead an eastbound train off of the Mermentau River bridge and passed a rice mill into the town of Mermentau. |
| Photo Date: |
2/28/1984 Upload Date: 8/23/2007 4:56:37 PM |
| Location: |
Mermentau, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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SP 7801(B30-7) SP 9127(SD45) SP 7817(B30-7) |
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| Title: |
Looking South |
| Description: |
Just north of the Lafayette passenger station, the SP main lines turns west towards Texas, while the Alexandria Branch line continued north. In this view looking south, the westbound SUNSET is at the station. The crossing signals are at West Simcoe Street. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/1984 Upload Date: 6/30/2007 12:01:45 AM |
| Location: |
Lafayette, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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| Title: |
SSW train BEASK |
| Description: |
Cotton Belt train BEASK -- on its way from Beaumont to the Alton & Southern at East St. Louis -- was tied down in Cart siding, about three miles north of Bossier City, Louisiana. The 'K' suffix indicated that the cargo included hazardous material. The train was going to be here for a while, as there was no crew and it had been opened for a grade crossing a few cars back. Fortunately, someone was sweeping out the cab, so I was able to obtain the train's identity! The three GE's were B30-7's 7868, 7820 and 7848. That's the Red River levee to the right of the 8294's snow plow. |
| Photo Date: |
5/24/1985 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 7:23:42 AM |
| Location: |
Bossier City, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8294(SD40T-2) |
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1087 Comments: 2 |
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