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| Title: |
NS No. 194 |
| Description: |
The Southern Pacific-Norfolk Southern run-through train from Houston to Birmingham was on the NS subsidiary New Orleans Terminal Co. at Frenchmen Street. The motive power consisted of SD45R's 7406 and 7405 and SD45T-2 9395. The low-numbered 7400's were regularly used on these trains. |
| Photo Date: |
12/7/1985 Upload Date: 9/27/2017 6:07:13 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7406(SD45R) |
| Views: |
540 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SSW SD45-2 9397 |
| Description: |
Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9397, GP35 6505 and Espee B30-7 7870 were stopped at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge, with a run-through train for the Seaboard System. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1985 Upload Date: 8/6/2010 12:10:14 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 9397(SD45T-2) |
| Views: |
462 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Super Bowl Special |
| Description: |
At 4:03 on a dark and wet Saturday afternoon the Southern Pacific's 15-car special for Super Bowl XX was about to back in to New Orlean Union Passenger Terminal. However, the dreary weather nicely accentuated the number boards, Gyralight, headlight, extra lights and ground light. The train consisted of SDP45's 3207 and 3201, baggage cars 295 and 298, 10-6 sleeper 292, diner 290, lounge cars 291 and 289 CITY OF ANGELS, and office cars 117 TUCSON, 151 PINE BLUFF, 131 LOS ANGELES, 141 OAKLAND, 99 HOUSTON, 100 AIRSLIE, 106 OREGON, 110 STANFORD and 150 SUNSET. It was quite a train! |
| Photo Date: |
1/25/1986 Upload Date: 2/7/2010 8:19:16 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3207(SDP45) SP 3201(SDP45) |
| Views: |
2358 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SOU 2570 |
| Description: |
Six units -- four NS units and two SP -- lead an eastbound train along Washington Street, past the Iberia Parish Courthouse. The track was originally embedded in the pavement, but in now in a "trough" in the street. The train had SOU GP30 2570, NS GP30 2595, SOU B23-7 3993, SOU GP35 2700, SP SD45R 7406 and SP B30-7 7818 with 120 cars and SP caboose 4683. |
| Photo Date: |
4/8/1986 Upload Date: 6/25/2007 10:06:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2570(GP30) |
| Views: |
1863 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Former SP |
| Description: |
When the SP abandoned its branch line from Lake Charles to DeRidder in 1973, the ATSF acquired about a mile of track from the ATSF-SP crossing into DeRidder. This view, facing north, shows the end of the branch. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1986 Upload Date: 6/25/2007 10:37:07 AM |
| Location: |
DeRidder, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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723 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP AXNOT |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific SD40T-2 snoot 8321 and SD45s 7550, 7517, 8978 and 7546 were at the south end of the Norfolk Southern's OLIVER YARD in New Orleans. They had just delivered APL stack train AXNOT, and were about to return light to the the SP's AVONDALE YARD. The track in the foreground was a CSX line from their GENTILLY YARD to this Mississippi River. It had been built in 1954 by the Louisville & Nashville and was subsequently acquired by the Norfolk Southern. |
| Photo Date: |
7/13/1986 Upload Date: 11/30/2018 3:23:53 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8321(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
622 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train AVHOM |
| Description: |
The Southern Pacific’s AVHOM (Avondale to Houston Manifest) was leaning into the curve at Raceland Junction, Louisiana with EIGHT locomotives: SSW GP40-2 7632, SD40T-2 8569, GP40-2 7623, NS SD60 6629, NS SD50S 6504, and GP40-2’s 7645, 7661 and 7633. It was common for the SP to put two or three sets of power on this train, because there were more eastbound trains than westbound, and doing this got the extra power back to Houston. |
| Photo Date: |
9/3/1986 Upload Date: 9/25/2020 1:37:52 PM |
| Location: |
Raceland Junction, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 7633(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
214 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train AVHOM |
| Description: |
The Southern Pacific’s AVHOM (Avondale to Houston Manifest) was leaning into the curve at Raceland Junction, Louisiana with EIGHT locomotives: SSW GP40-2 7632, SD40T-2 8569, GP40-2 7623, NS SD60 6629, NS SD50S 6504, and GP40-2’s 7645, 7661 and 7633. It was common for the SP to put two or three sets of power on this train, because there were more eastbound trains than westbound, and doing this got the extra power back to Houston. |
| Photo Date: |
9/3/1986 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 2:36:31 PM |
| Location: |
Raceland Junction, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 7632(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
752 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound SP on Hey P. Long Bridge |
| Description: |
This westbound Southern Pacific transfer run was heading up the Huey P. Long Bridge behind 10 locomotives: SD45R 7546, SSW SD45 8978, SD45R’s 7517 and 7550, SD40T-2 8321, SSW GP30 5009, GP35 6653, GP20R 4102 and GP9R’s 3877 and 3816. Two hours earlier the first five units had delivered an American President Lines stack train to the Norfolk Southern’s OLIVER YARD. From there they ran light to the east end of the bridge, and then they coupled on to the five geeps on the transfer run for the rest of their trip back to SP’s AVONDALE YARD at the west end of the bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1986 Upload Date: 2/26/2021 5:38:06 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7546(SD45R) |
| Views: |
423 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Transfer Run |
| Description: |
A trio of Southern Pacific GP35 units – 6669, 6611 and 6653 – were shoving a transfer run out of the SP/ICG interchange yard at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge and onto the New Orleans Public Belt westbound main track. Once the train had backed past East Bridge Tower, which can be seen on the other side of the second and third units, it will reverse direction and head to Espee’s AVONDALE YARD at the other end of the bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
12/27/1986 Upload Date: 3/14/2024 8:18:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6669(GP35) |
| Views: |
30 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 7403 |
| Description: |
The power on a westbound Espee train enters the west siding switch at Bayou Sale to set out a bad-order car from the rear of the train. SD45R 7403 was the trailing unit on the train. The other locomotives were SP SD45R's 7402 and 7404, B30-7 7803, NS SD60 6583 and -- in the lead -- NS SD50 6522. The cut of cars heading off to the right are on the spur into Garden City. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/1987 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 2:31:00 AM |
| Location: |
Bayou Sale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7403(SD45R) |
| Views: |
1196 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP SD45R 7447 |
| Description: |
An Espee trainman throws a switch at Terminal Junction to line his train off of the Norfolk Southern BACK BELT and into the NS Oliver Yard. This is the American President Line stack train from Long Beach, California; and the cars will continue on to their destination in Atlanta on the NS. The locomotives are SD45R 7447, B30-7 7780 and GP35 6671. |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1987 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 10:38:24 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7447(SD45R) |
| Views: |
879 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SSW 6681 |
| Description: |
An estbound Espee train -- probably the HOSOM -- nears the end of its journey from Houston to New Orleans as it approaches Avondale Yard. The motive power was a pair of GP35's and GP49 4604, and the appearance of Cotton Belt 6681 -- the highest numbered SP/SSW GP35 -- makes quite a contrast with that of Southern 2670! The train had 151 cars and SP caboose 1903. |
| Photo Date: |
10/31/1987 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 7:38:27 AM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 6681(GP35) |
| Views: |
857 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SSW GP20E 4150 |
| Description: |
Devoid of its Gyralights and classification lights, Cotton Belt GP20E 4150 and a trio of Rio Grande geeps -- GP35 3031, GP30 3002 and GP40-2 3115 -- approach the Huey P. Long Bridge with a transfer run from the Illinois Central to the Espee's Avondale Yard. East Bridge Tower can be seen behind the train's first car. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/1989 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 10:08:07 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 4150(GP20E) |
| Views: |
657 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NS 8761 |
| Description: |
Westbound Espee train AVHOM (Avondale-Houston Manifest) rolls through Baldwin, Louisiana behind a trio of Norfolk Southern units: C40-8 8761 and SD40-2's 3224 and 3262. The train has 68 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1993 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 2:16:49 AM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8761(C40-8) |
| Views: |
905 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NS No. 393 |
| Description: |
Norfolk Southern train No. 393 was parked at Marconi Drive in New Orleans, waiting to be picked up by a Union Pacific crew. Southern Pacific SD40T-2 5378 was previously a Rio Grande unit of the same number. The train’s other locomotives were UP SD40-2 3627, GP60 5817 and NS SD40-2 3389, previously Conrail 6456 and still painted CR blue. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/2001 Upload Date: 2/6/2019 12:27:10 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 5378(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
722 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSX Q605-19 |
| Description: |
CSX Waycross-New Orleans train Q605-19 was parked on the Norfolk Southern's New Orleans Terminal at Marconi Drive, awaiting a Union Pacific crew. The motive power was SP SD40T-2 8494 and UP SD40-2 3143. |
| Photo Date: |
8/21/2001 Upload Date: 8/30/2017 11:00:43 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8494(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
577 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP SD70M 9818 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific SD70M 9818 was on a run-through train from the Norfolk Southern to the Union Pacific, and it was parked on the NS Outer Belt at Marconi Drive awaiting a UP crew. |
| Photo Date: |
10/18/2001 Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:59:34 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9818(SD70M) |
| Views: |
183 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP SD70M 9818 |
| Description: |
The Southern Pacific only owned 25 SD70M units, so finding one on the front of a train five years after the UP merger was pretty special. The 9818 was on a run-through train from the Norfolk Southern and was parked on the NS Outer Belt at Marconi Drive waiting for a UP crew. The train's other locomotives were SP B23-7 5113 and UP-patched SD50 5102, still painted in Rio Grande colors. |
| Photo Date: |
10/18/2001 Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:46:52 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SP 9818(SD70M) |
| Views: |
268 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP GP20E 4125 |
| Description: |
An eastbound transfer run from the Southern Pacific to the Louisville & Nashville waits on the Southern Railway BACK BELT at Frenchman Street for a clear signal to proceed onto the L&N at L&N Junction. The locomotives were GP20E's 4125, 4118 and 4109. |
| Photo Date: |
11/7/1980 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 9:21:32 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 4125(GP20E) |
| Views: |
1426 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SSW 4150 |
| Description: |
Four rebuilt GP20's sit on the Louisville & Nashville at the Southern Railway connection, L&N Tower. This is a transfer run from the L&N's Gentilly Yard to the Espee's Avondale Yard. An L&N crew has brought the train here, and it is waiting for an Espee crew to continue its run. The units are SSW 4150 with SP 4117, 4111 and 4109. |
| Photo Date: |
6/28/1981 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 8:04:40 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 4150(GP20E) |
| Views: |
646 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SSW 7776 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway train No. 194 passes under the remains of the tell-tale on the BACK BELT at Terminal Junction. The train arrived from Houston as Espee HOSOM, and is leaving for Birmingham. The locomotives were B30-7 7776, GP20R's 4124 and 4140, and GP35 6584, and the caboose was SP 4641. The cars on the left were in the Southern's Terminal Junction Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
2/14/1983 Upload Date: 1/26/2010 9:13:37 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 7776(B30-7) |
| Views: |
519 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SSW GP40-2 7248 |
| Description: |
One-year-old Cotton Belt GP40-2 7248 -- along with Espee SD40T-2's 8529, 8275 and 8323 -- was stopped on the east approach to the Huey P. Long Bridge. The 7248 had been the lead unit on an eastbound stack train which they had just delivered to Norfolk Southern, and then they returned here running light. After about 15 minutes, an NS crew arrived at the Central Avenue grade crossing with run-through train No. 193. Instead of sending a crew to pick up 193, these four units coupled on to the train -- which had SP B30-7 7764 and SD45R's 7405 and 7402 -- and it went across the river with seven engines.Cotton Belt 7248 was one of the last GP40-2's built. This group consisted of 34 units, SP 7240-7247 and SSW 7248-7273, built in October and November 1984. The only newer GP40-2's were Florida East Coast 432, built in December 1985; and FEC 433 and 434, built in December 1986. The caboose on the right, in the New Orleans Public Belt's East Bridge Yard, was MP 13815. |
| Photo Date: |
11/23/1985 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 9:21:02 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 7248(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1056 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Shrewsbury Road |
| Description: |
Three trains are on the west end of the Norfolk Southern's BACK BELT at Shrewsbury Road. Cotton Belt 8040 and Espee 8026 are on a westbound American President Companies (APC) stack train. These cars arrived from Atlanta on NS train No. 219 and are bound for Long Beach as SP train AVAXT. On the next track is KCS caboose 342 on KCS train No. 55. The KCS has just delivered the train to the NS, and it is on its way to the NS Oliver yard. On the right is KCS train No. 140, the BATON ROUGE TURN, departing from that railroad's West Yard. No. 140 has GP30's 4112, 4103, 4119 and 4106, 48 cars, and caboose 348; but one of the geeps will be set out up the road for use as a switch engine. The Espee train is waiting for a route through East Bridge Junction and onto the Huey P. Long Bridge, while KCS No. 140 needs to get onto the Illinois Central. Since 1985 KCS trains have used trackage rights over the IC to enter and leave New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
7/29/1989 Upload Date: 1/9/2010 5:52:35 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 8040(B40-8) |
| Views: |
1191 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP GP9R 3435 |
| Description: |
The Norfolk Southern's run-through train from Birmingham to the Espee passes through East City Junction on the NS BACK BELT. East City Tower, behind the lead locomotive, closed in July 1972; and the track on the right is the beginning of the NS Bernadotte Branch. Today's train is unusual in that it has a set of transfer units instead of road power. The train has SP GP9R 3435, EMD GP38-2's 830 and 766, and Rio Grande GP40 3066 with 96 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/1989 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 10:48:39 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3435(GP9R) |
| Views: |
623 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP S4 1811 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific S4 1811 was one of two Alco switchers parked outside the railroad's office in Gretna, Louisiana. This unit had been built in 1951 as SP 1483 and it was traded-in to General Electric in 1972. Up until the opening of the Huey P. Long Bridge in December, Gretna had been on the main line of the SUNSET ROUTE, but after that it was just an industrial branch. The tall building in the background was the Jefferson Parish Court House. (approximate day and month) |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1970 Upload Date: 4/7/2017 6:17:27 PM |
| Location: |
Gretna, LA |
| Author: |
James H. Selzer, Jr. photo |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 1811(S4) |
| Views: |
1074 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 1851 |
| Description: |
It's 8:35 A.M. along the Espee at West Tower in New Iberia, and the operator looks on as a crewman on a westbound train grabs his orders. The tower protected a crossing with the MP branch to the salt mine at Jefferson Island. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/1976 Upload Date: 12/19/2009 2:02:17 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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1436 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
SP 1932 |
| Description: |
A comfortably-clad trainman on the rear of Espee train First 241 grabs his train orders for operator Glenn Carrier at Raceland Junction. The "temporary" train order office had been placed here about 10 years earlier, after the real depot had been damaged by a derailment; and it remained in use until the introduction of Direct Train Control in 1985 eliminated the need for train order offices. |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1977 Upload Date: 12/19/2009 1:02:09 PM |
| Location: |
Raceland Junction, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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1798 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP 2298 |
| Description: |
It's a little after 6 P.M. and the New Iberia Night Switcher has just gone to work switching train No. 520, the local from the salt mine at Avery Island. Engineer Shirley Landry enjoys the fresh-but-warm early evening air on the front of his locomotive, as the ground crew is probably bleeding off the air from the cars. The 2298 was an SW9 built in December 1951 as Cotton Belt 1059, renumbered SSW 2205 in 1965, upgraded into SP 2298 in March 1973, retired in December 1986, and sold to Rail Switching Service in April 1988. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1976 Upload Date: 12/19/2009 2:23:08 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2298(SW9) |
| Views: |
2421 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP 2315 |
| Description: |
SP 2315 was tied up on the east side the depot at Baldwin, Louisiana; assigned to one of the two branch line locals that worked out of there. The locomotive was built as SP (T&NO) SW1200 124 in March 1957, renumbered 2220 in 1965 and upgraded into SW1200R 2315 in May 1974. It was retired in December 1986, sold to Precision National Corp. in October 1987, and resold to the Brandywine Valley in March 1988 where it became the 8205. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1978 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 5:28:01 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2315(SW1200) |
| Views: |
2196 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP 2959 |
| Description: |
Transfer power in the SP-ICG interchange yard near the east end of the Huey Long Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/1974 Upload Date: 5/22/2009 10:04:42 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2959(RSD12) SP 3140(C630) |
| Views: |
2593 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP 2967 |
| Description: |
Westbound transfer run on Southern Railway at Labarre Rd. |
| Photo Date: |
1/14/1975 Upload Date: 5/23/2009 5:03:14 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2967(RSD12) |
| Views: |
865 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Transfer Run |
| Description: |
Eastbound down the Huey Long Bridge, this was probably the 209 Job that went to the Southern Railway's Oliver Yard. The second unit was one of 20 Espee GP9's built with a low nose. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1975 Upload Date: 5/22/2009 10:06:13 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2967(RSD12) SP 3708(GP9) SP 3141(C630) SP 3140(C630) |
| Views: |
1567 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP 3141 |
| Description: |
Espee C630's 3141 and 3144 power a short westbound transfer run over the Southern Railway at East City Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
3/2/1974 Upload Date: 6/12/2008 4:28:21 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3141(C630) |
| Views: |
1659 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP 3142 |
| Description: |
It's 1:20 and an eastbound Espee transfer run is waiting at the east end of the Huey Long Bridge for the westbound SUNSET to clear East Bridge Junction and get on the bridge. The SUNSET left New Orleans Union Passenger terminal at 1:00 and will be here in about five minutes. This train has C630's 3142 and 3144, and is bound for one or more of the Espee's eastern connections. Look at all of those 40-foot boxcars! |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/1974 Upload Date: 5/22/2009 2:17:21 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3142(C630) |
| Views: |
1589 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 3144 |
| Description: |
SP 3144 was the trailing unit on an estbound transfer run waiting to get through East Bridge Junction. The train was on the east approach to the Huey P. Long Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/1974 Upload Date: 5/23/2009 5:07:25 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
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SP 3144(C630) |
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| Title: |
SP 3145 |
| Description: |
date approximate |
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4/1/1975 Upload Date: 5/23/2009 5:07:47 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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SP 3145(C630) |
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| Title: |
SP 3146 |
| Description: |
C630 3146 leads RDS12's 2967, 2960 and 2952 on an eastbound transfer run descending the Huey Long Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/1975 Upload Date: 5/22/2009 2:17:44 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
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SP 3146(C630) |
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679 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 3733 |
| Description: |
Eight geeps power a westbound transfer run over the Southern Railway, near Bayou St. John. The other units are GP9's 3358 and 3389, GP35 6670, and GP9's 3885, 3832, 3349 and 3437. |
| Photo Date: |
3/4/1979 Upload Date: 2/3/2009 1:29:12 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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SP 3733(GP9R) |
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766 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SSW 4032 |
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Amtrak's westbound SUNSET is at KCS Junction, 3 miles into its journey to California. Today, a Cotton Belt GP20 is substituting for an F-unit. The other locos are SP 6457, 8290 and 6459. The bridge in the background belongs to the KCS. |
| Photo Date: |
9/21/1973 Upload Date: 4/15/2007 1:10:32 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 4032(GP20) |
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2926 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP SD9 4359 |
| Description: |
SD9's were really rare in Louisiana, but here an Espee unit on an eastbound train. This unit was normally used around Houston. |
| Photo Date: |
11/16/1979 Upload Date: 2/3/2009 1:35:22 PM |
| Location: |
Lafayette, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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SP 4359(SD9E) |
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707 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 5105 |
| Description: |
Westbound SP train AVLFM (Avondale-Lafayette) pauses at Schriever with 26 cars. The train's caboose is parked next to the depot, right on the other side of the antenna tower. The Espee only owned 15 B23-7's, so finding one was always nice; and finding one of the front of a train on a sunny day was really special! |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1987 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 2:45:37 AM |
| Location: |
Schriever, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 5105(B23-7) |
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1340 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound Sunset |
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An A-B-B-A set of Espee F-units prepares to leave New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal with Amtrak's westbound SUNSET. The train had FP7A 6447, F7B's 8303 and 8290, and FP7A 6458 with 12 cars: baggage ATSF 3536, 11-bedroom sleeper 2265, 16-4 2011, an unidentified transcontinental 10-6, dormitory-lounge ATSF 1340, diner SP 10211, buffet-lounge UP 6201, counter-lounge 8381, and high-level coaches 9915, 9949, 9947 amd 9925. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1973 Upload Date: 4/15/2007 1:08:58 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6447(FP7A) |
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| Title: |
SP 6448 |
| Description: |
This was the trailing unit on Amtrak's westbound SUNSET at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/1973 Upload Date: 2/3/2009 2:03:00 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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SP 6448(FP7A) |
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650 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP FP7A 6454 |
| Description: |
Amtrak's westbound SUNSET was about five minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, as viewed from the Jefferson Davis Parkway overpass. The train consisted of SP FP7A's 6454 and 6457, F7B 8290, and FP7A 6447 with 14 cars: baggage car 1002, low-level coaches 5231, 4447 and ATSF 2826; high-level coaches 9910, 9932, 9943 and 9901; diner 8035, dormitory-lounge 3390, diner SP 10211, 11-bedroom sleeper STAR CREST, 16-4 SCL ORIOLE and transcontinental 10-6 2759 PALM SUMMIT. The SP F-units always smoked like this when they first left the station, after being parked all night. That's the Louisiana SUPERDOME under construction in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
8/24/1973 Upload Date: 7/4/2007 9:04:35 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6454(FP7A) |
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2132 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak No. 1 |
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At 1:00 on a Friday afternoon Amtrak's westbound SUNSET LIMITED was leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal behind a matched quartet of SP units: FP7 6457, F7B's 8290 and 8294, and FP7 6459. The 11-car train consisted of baggage car 1102, dormitory car 2013 ORIOLE, high-level coaches 9920, 9942, 9932 and 9900, counter-lounge 3360, diner NP 463, and sleepers 2351 REGAL INN, 2780 CUMBERLAND COUNTY and SOU 2016 ST. JOHNS RIVER. |
| Photo Date: |
10/5/1973 Upload Date: 1/18/2018 5:50:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6457(FP7A) |
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909 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP GP35 6631 |
| Description: |
SP GP35 6631 was parked at Baldwin, Louisiana assigned to work one of the two branch line locals that were based there. It was a Friday and it would be the last time the SP worked those branches, as the following Monday the Louisiana & Delta took over. The "5 CAB" lettering indicates that the cab has been modified to accomodate the entire crew on cabooseless trains. |
| Photo Date: |
3/13/1987 Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:16:13 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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SP 6631(GP35) |
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| Title: |
SP 6643 |
| Description: |
Two SP GP35's and a Chessie System GP40-2 are stopped on the Southern Railway "Back Belt" at Frenchman Street. The other units are SP 6538 and B&O 4298. The train is on its way from the SP Avondale Yard to the CSX Gentilly Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
7/23/1978 Upload Date: 2/3/2009 1:46:42 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
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SP 6643(GP35) |
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| Title: |
SP GP35 6646 |
| Description: |
SP 6646 was the lead unit on a westbound transfer run stopped on the NS BACK BELT at Marconi Drive. |
| Photo Date: |
12/13/1986 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 2:39:31 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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SP 6646(GP35) |
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633 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 7375 |
| Description: |
Espee SD40R 7375 and SD45T-2 9209 were parked on the old main line with an eastbound train in the Lafayette Yard. The new main line, which ran around the north side of the yard, is right on the other side of the train; while the tracks on this side of the train are Number 1 and 2. The small building on the left housed the electronic equipment for a weight-in-motion scale, and the tall signal helped a crew maintain the proper speed while weighing cars. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/1984 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 10:27:52 AM |
| Location: |
Lafayette, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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SP 7375(SD40R) |
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