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Espee AVHOK |
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An amply-powered Espee Avondale-Houston train AVHOK had just passed the Morgan City train order office and was ascending the east approach to the bridge over Berwick Bay at the 1st Street underpass. The train was usually the AVHOM, but the 'K' suffix was used when the train was handling hazardous material. The consist included six DuPont 29700-series 8-axle tank cars and Celanese 6-axle tank car 10417, but these were all empties. The train had SD45R's 7441, 7434, 7411, 7403 and 7400, SD40R 7369 and B30-7 7865 with 158 cars and caboose 4737 (9,252 tons and 8,922 feet).Because the Espee's traffic into New Orleans usually exceeded the westbound, AVHOM/AVHOK was frequently used to move excess locomotives back to Houston. The three middle units probably came from the Southern Railway on their run-through train 193. The raiting of an SD45 was 15,160 tons between Avondale Yard and Echo, Texas. At one time, a siding ran along the base of the embankment and through the area in the foreground to serve the waterfront along Berwick Bay. |
| Photo Date: |
5/21/1984 Upload Date: 2/17/2010 12:30:09 PM |
| Location: |
Morgan City, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7441(SD45R) |
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932 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP LAAVT |
| Description: |
Eastbound Espee train LAAVT -- the Los Angeles to Avondale Trailers -- casts its reflection in a pond just west of the Schriever depot, about 45 miles from the end of its trip. The three B30-7's were Cotton Belt 7796 along with Espee 7814 and 7858. 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. |
| Photo Date: |
8/13/1982 Upload Date: 3/5/2010 9:27:17 AM |
| Location: |
Schriever, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 7796(B30-7) |
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694 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP 7867 |
| Description: |
A trio of B30-7's -- SP 7867 and 7804 with Cotton Belt 7779 -- head east out of New Iberia along East St. Peter Street (Highway 182) at the Evangeline Street grade crossing. The locomotives have just passed the speed board when the speed limit goes from 25 to 40 MPH. Back when this photo was taken, trios of B-Boats were common power on the SUNSET ROUTE in Louisiana.For 60 years, the open area between St. Peter Street and the Espee had been the right-of-way of another railroad. The Iberia, St. Mary & Eastern was incorporated in 1909 to build a line from New Iberia east 48 miles to Patterson; and ran right next to the Espee for much of that distance. The IStM&E was leased by the New Iberia & Northern in 1911, which was then controlled by the Frisco; and both railroads became a part of the Missouri Pacific in 1924. The old IStM&E track here was abandoned in 1970, when the MP obtained trackage rights over the SP between New Iberia and Garden City; but MP service east of New Iberia ended in 1980 and the railroad stopped operating into New Iberia in 1982. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1984 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 4:38:29 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7867(B30-7) |
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951 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
SP 8472 |
| Description: |
Espee SD40 8472 was on an eastbound welded-rail train in front of the Lafayette depot, while SW9E 2301 was switching the freight house. |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1978 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 2:09:20 AM |
| Location: |
Lafayette, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8472(SD40) |
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1368 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP First 241 |
| Description: |
The head-end brakeman on westbound Espee train First 241 was poised to snag his orders at the Raceland Junction train order office, as a couple of young railfans and their mom looked on. These folks had come out to see Amtrak's TRANSCONTINENTAL STEAM EXCURSION, with FREEDOM TRAIN 4449, which had just passed a few minutes earlier. The locomotives on First 241 were U33C's 8659 and 8664, along with SD45 9095. Later in the day - at Lacasine, Louisiana - First 241 would overtake the excursion train and the 9095 would be cut in behind the 4449 because of a problem with the steam engine. The tracks in the foreground are the beginning of the Lockport Branch. |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1977 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 2:02:14 AM |
| Location: |
Raceland Junction, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8659(U33C) |
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1176 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP 8727 |
| Description: |
Westbound Espee train First 241 rolls down Washington Street behind U33C 8727, SD45T-2 9236 and SCL GP40 1635. The street work was to remove the former westbound main line, which had been unused for 25 years. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1978 Upload Date: 6/25/2007 10:18:36 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8727(U33C) |
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1213 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Sunset |
| Description: |
Cotton Belt SD45 8976 - with UP-style number boards - and Amtrak's TRIPLE NICKEL - SDP40F 555 - were powering train No. 1, the westbound SUNSET, away from Carrollton Junction on the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal WESTERN CONNECTION. The right-of-way in the foreground had been the inbound track for IC, KCS, MP, SP and T&P trains, but this was removed in 1969. U.S. Highway 61 was on the other side of No. 1. |
| Photo Date: |
6/5/1974 Upload Date: 12/18/2017 4:43:29 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 8976(SD45) AMTK 555(SDP40F) |
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674 Comments: 0 |
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