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4/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Michael Palmieri
Dates:1/1/1973 - 12/31/1999
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ATSF E3A 11
Title:  ATSF E3A 11
Description:  Santa Fe E3A 11 and an unidentified B-unit were at Dallas. The 11 had been built in September 1939 and was retired in June 1968.
Photo Date:  12/15/1966  Upload Date: 2/17/2021 4:56:12 PM
Location:  Dallas, TX
Author:  Coastlline Railroad Photos
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  ATSF 11(E3A)
Views:  841   Comments: 0
ATSF Train No. 15
Title:  ATSF Train No. 15
Description:  A pair of one-year-old Santa Fe U28CG units were on train No. 15, the southbound TEXAS CHIEF en route from Chicago to Fort Worth and Houston, as seen from No. 116, the Dallas-Gainesville section of the northbound train, at Dalton Junction, 25 miles south of Gainesville.
Photo Date:  12/23/1967  Upload Date: 3/19/2021 7:19:06 PM
Location:  Dalton, TX
Author:  Coastline Railroad Photos
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 350(U28CG)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
ATSF Train No. 115
Title:  ATSF Train No. 115
Description:  Santa Fe F7A 45L was on train No. 115, the Gainesville-Dallas section of the southbound TEXAS CHIEF, as seen from No. 116, the Dallas-Gainesville section, at Dalton Junction, 25 miles south of Gainesville.
Photo Date:  12/23/1967  Upload Date: 3/19/2021 7:19:36 PM
Location:  Dalton, TX
Author:  Coastline Railroad Photos
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 45(F7A)
Views:  371   Comments: 0
Southern Commissary Car 4061
Title:  Southern Commissary Car 4061
Description:  During the first several years of the Southern Railway's DEEP SOUTH STEAM EXCURSIONS from New Orleans to Hattiesburg and back, begining in 1971, I worked at the souvenir counter on commissary car 4061. Among other things, I was in charge of ordering and keeping inventory of the books, patches, post cards, goggles, gloves, watch fobs and all of the other nonconsunable things we had to sell. (Coffee, donuts, soft drinks, etc. were sold at a counter at the opposite end of the car.) Bob Scorsone captured me counting money, probably near the end of one trip, but the specific date and location were not recorded.
Photo Date:  11/4/1972  Upload Date: 12/18/2017 4:02:56 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  ROBERT SCORSONE photo
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  433   Comments: 0
 Eddie Litolff
Title:  Eddie Litolff
Description:  It's Labor Day 1973 and the photographer is photographing another photographer from the commissary car on a Southern Railway steam excursion while the train was being turned in Slidell. The track in the foreground is the siding, and the rack in the upper right is the south leg of the long-gone wye. This was one of the final activities of the NRHS national convention, which was held in New Orleans that year.
Photo Date:  9/3/1973  Upload Date: 4/5/2016 6:37:28 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  288   Comments: 0
SPCC RS11 13
Title:  SPCC RS11 13
Description:  Southern Peru Copper Corp. RS11 number 13 was in the Kansas City Southern's WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans, coupled to one of the railroad's 350-379 series homemade bay-window cabooses. No. 13 was built in September 1959 as Southern Pacific 5869, renumbered SP 5869 in 1965 and retired in May 1973. Here it was on its way from being overhauled by Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Idaho to export through the Port of New Orleans. KCS cabs 350-379 rode on Allied FULL-CUSHION trucks from former troop sleepers. The trucks were banned from interchange service in 1955, but that didn't seem to bother the KCS !
Photo Date:  6/25/1974  Upload Date: 9/6/2017 5:46:07 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SPCC 13(RS11)
Views:  833   Comments: 0
Weyerhaeuser Car Repair Shop
Title:  Weyerhaeuser Car Repair Shop
Description:  This was the Weyerhaeuser car repair shop at De Queen, Arkansas, located along Weyerhaeuser‘s De Queen & Eastern. Railfan Jim Selzer, from Slidell, Louisiana - with the white hard hat - was with a Weyerhaeuser employee.
Photo Date:  2/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/26/2022 4:00:36 PM
Location:  De Queen, AR
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  62   Comments: 0
Weyerhaeuser Shop Buildings
Title:  Weyerhaeuser Shop Buildings
Description:  Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern GP40 D-13, De Queen & Eastern GP35 D-6 and DQ&E GP40 D-7 were parked between some shop buildings along the DQ&E at De Queen, Arkansas.
Photo Date:  2/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/26/2022 4:04:13 PM
Location:  De Queen, AR
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  DQE D7(GP40)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
Weyerhaeuser Car Repair Shop
Title:  Weyerhaeuser Car Repair Shop
Description:  Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern and Southern Pacific woodchip gondolas were parked outside of the Weyerhaeuser car repair shop, which was located along the De Queen & Eastern at De Queen, Arkansas.
Photo Date:  2/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/26/2022 4:06:07 PM
Location:  De Queen, AR
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  74   Comments: 0
De Queen & Eastern
Title:  De Queen & Eastern
Description:  De Queen & Eastern caboose 81, DQ&E GP40 D-7, Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern GP40 D-14 and an unidentified woodchip hopper were parked along the DQ&E at De Queen, Arkansas.
Photo Date:  2/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/26/2022 4:08:21 PM
Location:  De Queen, AR
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  112   Comments: 0
TO&E GP40 D-13
Title:  TO&E GP40 D-13
Description:  Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern GP40 D-13 was at De Queen, Arkansas on 9 February 1975.
Photo Date:  2/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/26/2022 4:10:21 PM
Location:  De Queen, AR
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TOE D13(GP40)
Views:  134   Comments: 0
TO&E 547 and 566
Title:  TO&E 547 and 566
Description:  Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern work cars 547 and 566 were on the De Queen & Eastern at De Queen, Arkansas.
Photo Date:  2/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/26/2022 4:26:01 PM
Location:  De Queen, AR
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  73   Comments: 0
The Frisco
Title:  The Frisco
Description:  Frisco GP38AC 650 was on a 5-unit set of geeps and GE's in the yard at Mobile. The other locos were U25B 829, U30B 857, GP38-2 444, and GP38 638.
Photo Date:  5/25/1975  Upload Date: 12/31/2009 9:20:37 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SLSF 650(GP38AC)
Views:  1274   Comments: 4
The Frisco
Title:  The Frisco
Description:  Sand tower, etc.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 1/2/2010 10:12:14 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  655   Comments: 2
The Frisco
Title:  The Frisco
Description:  GP7's 573 and 566, with GP38 635.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 1/2/2010 10:12:45 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SLSF 573(GP7)
Views:  1042   Comments: 2
The Frisco
Title:  The Frisco
Description:  GP7 556 and caboose 1233 are on the near track, while GP7's 573 and 566 and GP38 635 are on the other.
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 1/2/2010 10:13:05 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SLSF 556(GP7) SLSF 573(GP7) SLSF 566(GP7)
Views:  1201   Comments: 2
The Frisco
Title:  The Frisco
Description:  Mobile Yard
Photo Date:  5/26/1975  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 11:12:17 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SLSF 633(GP38AC)
Views:  1061   Comments: 4
Southbound BN 6385
Title:  Southbound BN 6385
Description:  This Burlington Northern train was southbound on the Fort Worth & Denver at Acme, Texas. It consisted of SD40-2’s 6385 and 6913, FW&D SD7’s 815 and 810, 28 cars and FW&D caboose 157.
Photo Date:  8/2/1975  Upload Date: 9/25/2020 4:33:15 PM
Location:  Acme, TX
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 6385(SD40-2)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
D&RGW Train No, 17
Title:  D&RGW Train No, 17
Description:  At 7:45 on a Saturday evening D&RGW train No. 17, the westbound RIO GRANDE ZEPHYR, was dropping downgrade through Spanish Fork Canyon near Thistle, Utah as the train approached the end of its all-day trip from Denver to Salt Lake City. Today's train consisted of F9A 5771, F9B's 5762 and 5763, and eight cars: combine 1230, flat-top coaches (former 16-section sleepers) 1121 SILVER PINE and 1120 SILVER ASPEN, dome cars 1107 SILVER MUSTANG, 1108 SILVER PONY and 1105 SILVER BRONCO, diner 1115 SILVER BANQUET and dome-observation car 1145 SILVER SKY.
Photo Date:  8/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/14/2024 8:26:42 PM
Location:  Thistle, UT
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 5771(F9A)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
D&RGW Train No, 17
Title:  D&RGW Train No, 17
Description:  At 7:45 on a Saturday evening D&RGW train No. 17, the westbound RIO GRANDE ZEPHYR, was dropping downgrade through Spanish Fork Canyon near Thistle, Utah as the train approached the end of its all-day trip from Denver to Salt Lake City. Today's train consisted of F9A 5771, F9B's 5762 and 5763, and eight cars: combine 1230, flat-top coaches (former 16-section sleepers) 1121 SILVER PINE and 1120 SILVER ASPEN, dome cars 1107 SILVER MUSTANG, 1108 SILVER PONY and 1105 SILVER BRONCO, diner 1115 SILVER BANQUET and dome-observation car 1145 SILVER SKY.
Photo Date:  8/9/1975  Upload Date: 3/14/2024 8:29:24 PM
Location:  Thistle, UT
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 5771(F9A)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
Amtrak car 3344
Title:  Amtrak car 3344
Description:  Was there a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than by timing mileposts in the observation car of Amtrak's PANAMA LIMITED as the train made its way from New Orleans to Hammond, Louisiana? Here I am with a cold drink, a box of CRACKER JACK and two wrist watches in Amtrak observation-lounge car 3344, previously Seaboard Coast Line 5844 and originally Seaboard Air Line 6604. The train consisted of P30's 700 and 701, heater car 1918, deadhead coaches 6810 and 5805, baggage car 1093, 6-6-4 sleeper-dorm 2150 SILVER FLOWER, 10-6 sleeper 2601 PACIFIC BEACH, diner-lounge 8310, coaches 5408, 6020, 5804 and 6073, with observation car 3344.
Photo Date:  3/20/1976  Upload Date: 4/11/2018 5:36:31 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  315   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  The American Freedom Train rolls into Reserve, Louisiana on the Illinois Central Gulf, on its way from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. The train stopped here to pick up members of the press for a ride into New Orleans.
Photo Date:  5/2/1976  Upload Date: 2/14/2010 5:17:40 PM
Location:  Reserve, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  ICG 7702(GP8) AFT 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1501   Comments: 1
Freedom Train
Title:  Freedom Train
Description:  The American Freedom Train heads into the morning sun on the Illinois Central Gulf's Baton Rouge District at signal L438.3, between Destrehan and St. Rose, Louisiana. The photo was taken from the open platform of the last car on the 26-car train as it made its way from Baton Rouge to New Orleans behind former Southern Pacific 4-8-4 number 4449. The cars to the left of the signal are Display Cars numbered downward from 109. The cars to the right are Display Car 110, Exit Car 111, Power Car 200, Sleeper 201, Combine 202, Lounge 203, Hospitality Car 204 and Press Car 205. The signal is located on the 'wrong' side of the track because the signal system utilizes a single mast on one side of the track, with signal heads facing in both directions. The signals along this line were originally located on both sides of the track; but after the high-voltage power line was installed along the right-of-way, electrical interference required the the IC to replace the signal system.
Photo Date:  5/2/1976  Upload Date: 4/30/2010 4:19:55 PM
Location:  Destrehan, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  526   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  It's 7:09 A.M. as American Freedom Train 4-8-4 4449 and tool car 76 head north on the Illinois Central Gulf at Pass Manchac, Louisiana. When the American Freedom Train arrived in New Orleans on the Illinois Central Gulf's Baton Rouge District, it was pulled by this 4-8-4; but when it departed on the Louisville's & Nashville, it left behind a pair of GP38-2's because the 4449 was too heavy for some of the L&N's bridges. The 4449 -- accompanied by tool car 76 -- ran up the ICG to Jackson and then east to Meridian, and then over the Southern Railway to Birmingham, where they rejoined their train.
Photo Date:  5/13/1976  Upload Date: 2/21/2010 7:24:57 PM
Location:  Manchac, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1147   Comments: 1
CIE JT22CW 077
Title:  CIE JT22CW 077
Description:  CIE 077 was one of 18 JT22CW units built by EMD for Coras Iompair Eireann -- the Government-owned railway in the Republic of Ireland -- in July 1976. Numbered 071-088, the locomotives had a cab at each end and were powered by 2300-horsepower turbocharged 12-cylinder 645E engines. The 5-foot, 3-inch-gauge 3-axle trucks were shipped separately.
Photo Date:  8/8/1976  Upload Date: 2/22/2010 2:33:12 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CIE 077(Unknown)
Views:  1037   Comments: 1
Georgia NW2 903
Title:  Georgia NW2 903
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/9/1977  Upload Date: 5/24/2009 12:31:17 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GA 903(NW2)
Views:  946   Comments: 3
CRI&P Geeps
Title:  CRI&P Geeps
Description:  Rock Island GP38-2 4335 DAVID PRYOR and rebuilt GP7 4510 were parked at Hutchinson, Kansas.
Photo Date:  8/1/1978  Upload Date: 2/11/2010 10:35:27 AM
Location:  Hutchinson, KS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 4335(GP38-2) CRIP 4510(GP7R)
Views:  1290   Comments: 1
Frisco FSE
Title:  Frisco FSE
Description:  After a quick crew change, Frisco train FSE roars out of the Amory yard on its way to Birmingham. This sharp-looking set of GE's was U30B 857, B30-7 866, and U25B's 809 and 831. Almost all of the train was on its way from the UP at Kansas City to the SCL at Birmingham. On 21 November, less than seven weeks away, the Frisco would be merged into the Burlington Northern.
Photo Date:  10/4/1980  Upload Date: 1/9/2010 4:05:26 PM
Location:  Amory, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SLSF 857(U30B)
Views:  1232   Comments: 2
Northbound Katy
Title:  Northbound Katy
Description:  A quartet of SD40-2's and a GP40 were on a northbound Missouri-Kansas-Texas train at the railroad's shop town of Parsons, Kansas. The locomotives were the 625, 623. 632, 635 and 174, with caboose 113.
Photo Date:  3/28/1983  Upload Date: 1/12/2017 11:59:37 AM
Location:  Parsons, KS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MKT 625(SD40-2)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
BN B30-7A(B) 4025
Title:  BN B30-7A(B) 4025
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/30/1983  Upload Date: 2/27/2009 11:42:31 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 4025(B30-7AB)
Views:  592   Comments: 0
BN U30C 5389
Title:  BN U30C 5389
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/30/1983  Upload Date: 8/27/2010 5:43:26 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 5389(U30C)
Views:  714   Comments: 0
Rogers Bros. Heisler
Title:  Rogers Bros. Heisler
Description:  This 2-truck 42-ton Heisler, serial number 1513, was built in 1925 as Fisher Lumber Co. 3, and was photographed at the Rogers Brothers lumber mill.
Photo Date:  4/9/1983  Upload Date: 4/26/2011 1:53:52 PM
Location:  Ferriday, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  ROGERS 3(3-Truck)
Views:  965   Comments: 0
Eastbound Daylight
Title:  Eastbound Daylight
Description:  Former Great Northern observation car 1290 APPEKUNNY MOUNTAIN graces the rear of the eastbound WORLD'S FAIR DAYLIGHT at the Southern Pacific's Lafayette, Louisiana depot. The train spent the last night of its trip from Portland to New Orleans parked here. The reporting park on the observation car was GS 1290, for Grant Supply Co.
Photo Date:  6/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/21/2010 12:49:45 PM
Location:  Lafayette, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  2732   Comments: 0
Eastbound Daylight
Title:  Eastbound Daylight
Description:  The eastbound WORLD'S FAIR DAYLIGHT sits on the Espee at the Lafayette depot. The engine is being serviced for the final leg of its trip from Portland to New Orleans, and displays the train number once used by the ARGONAUT. The building on the left was the headquarters of the Lafayette Division, but not for long!
Photo Date:  6/2/1984  Upload Date: 2/21/2010 12:49:08 PM
Location:  Lafayette, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1149   Comments: 1
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4-8-4 4449 was on the WORLDS FAIR DAYLIGHT in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Earlier in the day, the locomotive had been moved from the fair site to NOUPT via the NOPB and ICG; and tomorrow morning the train will begin its trip back to Portland.
Photo Date:  6/8/1984  Upload Date: 3/4/2010 9:46:51 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  950   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  After spending a week at the 1984 LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION, ex-SP 4-8-4 4449 was being moved from the fair site to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Here is the little train on the ICG near Walnut Street, with the Mississippi River levee right on the other side of the tracks. The train consisted on ICG SW14 1459, combine PNWC 3300 MILN D. GILLESPIE, 4-8-4 4449, and ICG cabooses 199526 and 199041.
Photo Date:  6/8/1984  Upload Date: 3/4/2010 9:46:28 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1618   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  After spending a week at the 1984 LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION, ex-SP 4-8-4 4449 was being moved from the fair site to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Here is the little train along at the Walnut Street grade crossing, with the Mississippi River levee right on the other side of the tracks. The train consisted on ICG SW14 1459, combine PNWC 3300 MILN D. GILLESPIE, 4-8-4 4449, and ICG cabooses 199526 and 199041.
Photo Date:  6/8/1984  Upload Date: 3/4/2010 9:46:07 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 1459(SW14) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1403   Comments: 0
BN Train 765
Title:  BN Train 765
Description:  BN train No. 765 heads north from Pensacola to a connection with the railroad's Birmingham-Memphis main line at Amory, Mississippi. This was a former Frisco line, and all six of the locomotives were originally SLSF units: GP38-2's 2297, 2272, 2256 and 2263, GP15-1 1385 and GP38-2 2277.
Photo Date:  4/23/1985  Upload Date: 12/27/2009 11:10:28 AM
Location:  Cantonment, FL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 2297(GP38-2)
Views:  1513   Comments: 5
ATSF 2884
Title:  ATSF 2884
Description:  The Santa Fe only owned 63.5 miles of track in Louisiana and this is the only photo I ever took of an ATSF train on this trackage. This local had originated in Silsbee, Texas the previous day and worked its way 72 miles here to DeRidder, where the crew tied up. At 6:55 A.M. I found the train just as the crew had left it the previous evening, facing east just west of the KCS crossing.

This branch was constructed by the Jasper & Eastern -- a subsidiary of the Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe -- between 1905 and 1908. The CG&SF was chartered in 1873 and was unrelated to the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe until 1884, when it became a subsidiary of the AT&SF. The GC&SF incorporated the J&E in 1904 to build eastward from its Silsbee-Longview route at Kirbyville, Texas. Construction began in Kirbyville in 1905 and was completed to Oakdale (milepost 80.8) on 9 February 1908.

Throughout its history, the lifeblood of this line had been forest products: timber, lumber, crossties, naval stores, pulpwood and paper. In later years, all of the J&E's connections were with other Class I railroads: the Missouri Pacific at Bleakwood, Texas; the Kansas City Southern and the Southern Pacific at DeRidder, and the Missouri Pacific at Oakdale; but during the heyday of logging in southwest Louisiana, the J&E connected with at least a half dozen rail lines which were owned by lumber companies. In later years, the line's customers included a lumber mill and a chemical plant in Oakdale, a paper mill at Elizabeth, and a turpentine distillery, a wood treatment plant, an aggregate distributor, and a paper mill at DeRidder. Pulpwood was loaded at Pitkin and crossties at Merryville.

The J&E was absorbed into the GC&SF in 1948, and the GC&SF itself was absorbed into the AT&SF in 1965. The easternmost 40 miles of the branch -- from DeRidder to Oakdale -- was abandoned on 28 April 1986. On 31 December 1997 the Santa Fe merged with the Burlington Northern to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and in June 1998 BNSF sold the remaining part of the line to the Timber Rock Railroad, a new subsidiary of Watco.
Photo Date:  3/11/1987  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 5:03:12 PM
Location:  DeRidder, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ATSF 2884(GP35u) ATSF 2832(GP35u)
Views:  1864   Comments: 2
CMNW GP40 3521
Title:  CMNW GP40 3521
Description:  Chicago, Missouri & Western (CMNW) GP40 3521 was still painted in Western Pacific colors while on a westbound Southern Pacific transfer run in New Orleans. The locomotive had been built as the WP 3521 in August 1970 and was assigned Union Pacific 670 after the UP-WP merger in 1982, but it never received its UP number. Upon the expiration of its 15-year lease in August 1985 it was returned to its owner, and it was leased to the new CMNW in April 1987. It was assigned CMNW number 3004, but it was not renumbered before that railroad went bankrupt, and in January 1990 it passed to Gateway Western and was renumbered 3004. It was sold to the Wisconsin Central in September 1990 where it was rebuilt and repainted as WC 3004. The WC was acquired by the Canadian National in 2001 but it was never repainted for the CN. It went to Progress Rail in 2012 where it became PRLX 3104 and went to the Royal Gorge Route Railroad as the 3104 in 2017.
Photo Date:  9/20/1987  Upload Date: 4/3/2021 11:43:39 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CMNW 3521(GP40)
Views:  256   Comments: 0
ATSF Yard
Title:  ATSF Yard
Description:  In this view at the north end of the Belen yard, GP38 2347 is the yard engine, GP30 2730 and GP35 2909 are on a short piggyback train bound for Albuquerque, and GP50 3850 is on a westbound intermodal train being serviced, along with GP40X 3802, GP50's 3841 and 3835.
Photo Date:  10/6/1989  Upload Date: 12/13/2009 4:24:24 PM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ATSF 2347(GP38u)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
718 Train
Title:  718 Train
Description:  C30-7 8111 and SD45u 5383 are on a westbound 718 train at the north end of Belen yard.
Photo Date:  10/6/1989  Upload Date: 12/13/2009 4:30:13 PM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ATSF 8111(C30-7) ATSF 5383(SD45u)
Views:  607   Comments: 0
Extra 3814 East
Title:  Extra 3814 East
Description:  An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train just east of Belen, with GP50 3814, a pair of SD40-2's, and a C30-7.
Photo Date:  10/7/1989  Upload Date: 12/13/2009 4:35:44 PM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  ATSF 3814(GP50)
Views:  713   Comments: 0
Military Train
Title:  Military Train
Description:  An eastbound Santa Fe military train is about to enter the yard at Belen, NM behind a quartet of units in the red-and-yellow SPSF paint scheme. The locomotives are SD45u 5339, SD45-2u 5811, and F45u's 5960 and 5986.
Photo Date:  10/7/1989  Upload Date: 12/13/2009 3:16:36 PM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5339(SD45u)
Views:  516   Comments: 1
HELM GP40 3074
Title:  HELM GP40 3074
Description:  Helm Leasing GP40 3074 had been built in February 1970 as Illinois Central 3074 and it was the very last GP40 bought new by that railroad. The IC’s first 60 GP40’s were largely devoid of options, but the last 15 came fully loaded with dynamic brakes, big fuel tanks, L-shaped windshields, oscillating signal lights and snow plows as shown here. When the 15-year lease expired on this unit in 1985 it was returned to its owner and managed by HELM. Here it is on the SP-IC interchange yard at the east end of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE while on lease to the SP. From HELM it moved on to Morrison-Knudsen as MKCX 4302 and then to the Paducah & Louisville as the 2109.
Photo Date:  10/21/1989  Upload Date: 7/25/2019 7:06:40 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  HELM 3074(GP40)
Views:  359   Comments: 1
ATSF GP39-2 3410
Title:  ATSF GP39-2 3410
Description:  Santa Fe GP39-2 3410 was on an eastbound local at Evadale, Texas en route from Silsbee, Texas to DeRidder, Louisiana. The locomotive was built in February 1976 as ATSF 3627 and was subsequently 3127, 3410 and BNSF 2779.
Photo Date:  8/16/1992  Upload Date: 8/17/2018 5:34:58 PM
Location:  Evadale, TX
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ATSF 3410(GP39-2u)
Views:  343   Comments: 1
ATSF 3410
Title:  ATSF 3410
Description:  The Santa Fe local from Silsbee, Texas to DeRidder, Louisiana rolls east through the Piny woods of east Texas. The train has GP39-2 3410, GP38 2359 and 17 cars.
Photo Date:  8/16/1992  Upload Date: 2/9/2010 5:59:49 PM
Location:  Evadale, TX
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3410(GP39-2u)
Views:  861   Comments: 2
KCS No. 53
Title:  KCS No. 53
Description:  GCFX SD40M-2 3053 was parked on the CSX at the Louisa Street grade crossing in New Orleans on Kansas City Southern train No. 53, along with CSX SD50 8544, B36-7 5877 and Southern Pacific SD45T-2R 6815. A Norfolk Southern crew had brought the train here from their KCS connection at Shrewsbury, and the CSX would send a crew out from their Gentilly Yard to bring the train in when they were ready for it.
Photo Date:  7/29/2001  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 5:27:02 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GCFX 3053(SD40-2)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
Ellison Family Grave 1
Title:  Ellison Family Grave 1
Description:  This is the Ellsion Family plot at Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. It is lot number 35 on Sycamore Lane, between Aloe and Cedar. Eight people have been buried here: Frank and his wife Nellie, two sons, three daughters, and a son-in-law. The names on the left headstone are Frank Cararas Ellison 1887-1964, Louise Thedford Ellison 1923-1975, and Richmond Edward Ellison Oct. 17, 1930-Jun. 29, 1989. One the right are Donald Franklin Ellison 1916-1943, Nellie Jones Ellison 1890-1954 and Martha Ellison Blum 1912-1985. Listed across the bottom are Aubrey Becart Blum, Jr. Jul. 25, 1911-Mar. 5, 1995, on the left; and Eleanor Ellison Eddy Sep. 6, 1921-Jan. 15, 1992.
Photo Date:  3/12/2005  Upload Date: 4/15/2010 12:07:45 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  470   Comments: 1
Ellison Family Headstones
Title:  Ellison Family Headstones
Description:  This is the Ellsion Family plot at Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. It is lot number 35 on Sycamore Lane, between Aloe and Cedar. Eight people have been buried here: Frank and his wife Nellie, two sons, three daughters, and a son-in-law. The names on the left headstone are Frank Cararas Ellison 1887-1964, Louise Thedford Ellison 1923-1975, and Richmond Edward Ellison Oct. 17, 1930-Jun. 29, 1989. One the right are Donald Franklin Ellison 1916-1943, Nellie Jones Ellison 1890-1954 and Martha Ellison Blum 1912-1985. Listed across the bottom are Aubrey Becart Blum, Jr. Jul. 25, 1911-Mar. 5, 1995, on the left; and Eleanor Ellison Eddy Sep. 6, 1921-Jan. 15, 1992.
Photo Date:  3/12/2005  Upload Date: 4/15/2010 12:08:14 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  424   Comments: 0


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