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By:Michael Palmieri
Dates:1/1/1975 - 12/31/2099
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WILLIAMS STATION DAY
Title:  WILLIAMS STATION DAY
Description:  Atmore, Alabama’s very first WILLIAMS STATION DAY event was held along the CSX on 24 October 1992. The equipment on display along the CSX included Amtrak F40 242, Superliner coach 34058 and coach/baggage 31011, CSX exhibit car 10 WEST VIRGINIA and Burlington Northern SD60M 1991. Williams Station was the original name of Atmore, before it was renamed in honor of Charles P. Atmore, general passenger agent for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Louisville in 1897.
Photo Date:  10/24/1992  Upload Date: 1/8/2026 11:28:57 AM
Location:  Atmore, AL
Author:  Steven Palmieri Image
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  AMTK 242(F40PHR)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
WILLIAMS STATION DAY
Title:  WILLIAMS STATION DAY
Description:  Burlington Northern SD60M 1991 was on display at the very first WILLIAMS STATION DAY event along the CSX in Atmore, Alabama.
Photo Date:  10/24/1992  Upload Date: 1/8/2026 11:32:28 AM
Location:  Atmore, AL
Author:  Steven Palmieri Image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1991(SD60M)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
WILLIAMS STATION DAY
Title:  WILLIAMS STATION DAY
Description:  Atmore, Alabama’s very first WILLIAMS STATION DAY event was held along the CSX on 24 October 1992. The equipment on display along the CSX included Amtrak F40 242, Superliner coach 34058 and coach/baggage 31011, CSX exhibit car 10 WEST VIRGINIA and Burlington Northern SD60M 1991. Williams Station was the original name of Atmore, before it was renamed in honor of Charles P. Atmore, general passenger agent for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Louisville in 1897.
Photo Date:  10/24/1992  Upload Date: 1/8/2026 11:34:36 AM
Location:  Atmore, AL
Author:  Steven Palmieri Image
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  BN 1991(SD60M)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Depot
Title:  Depot
Description:  This little shelter was built by the City of Kenner in the early 1980's for a commuter train demonstration project using a BRE-Leland railbus. Kenner also hoped to become an Amtrak stop, but that never happened and the structure was eventually razed.
Photo Date:  10/25/1992  Upload Date: 1/12/2025 6:32:03 PM
Location:  Kenner, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  568   Comments: 0
UP DDA40X 6936
Title:  UP DDA40X 6936
Description:  At 11:45 on Mardi Gras (23 February) 1993 – while most visitors to New Orleans were out enjoying holiday festivities – this Union Pacific inspection train was roaring across Live Oak Blvd. in Waggaman, on its way out of New Orleans on the former Texas & Pacific main line. The 9-car train consisted of DDA40X 6936, power car 207, staff car CABARTON, sleeper NORTH PLATTE, office car FEATHER RIVER, sleepers PORTOLA and GREEN RIVER, dome lounge HARRIMAN, diner OVERLAND and track observation car IDAHO. The train had arrived in Avondale Yard at 2:30 the previous morning, so perhaps its passengers did get to enjoy some Lundi Gras activities!
Photo Date:  2/23/1993  Upload Date: 6/21/2025 4:37:24 PM
Location:  Waggaman, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6936(DDA40X)
Views:  533   Comments: 0
MSRC GP18 1801
Title:  MSRC GP18 1801
Description:  This westbound MidSouth Rail train was facing south in the railroad’s Vicksburg yard, as seen from the Lee Street Bridge. The train consisted of GP10 1082, GP9 9002, GP10 1028 and GP18 1801 with 61 cars. It would head south one mile and then turn west (right) to cross the Mississippi River into Louisiana. The main line east to Jackson is on the embankment on the left.
Photo Date:  4/4/1993  Upload Date: 1/18/2025 5:59:45 PM
Location:  Vicksburg, MS
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MSRC 1801(GP18)
Views:  754   Comments: 0
Acadiana Railway GP30 701
Title:  Acadiana Railway GP30 701
Description:  Acadiana Railway GP30 701 was originally Union Pacific 701 and then Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Eastern 701 before coming to the AKDN. It was frame number 7648-2.
Photo Date:  4/8/1993  Upload Date: 8/28/2024 5:20:02 PM
Location:  Opelousas, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AKDN 701(GP30)
Views:  868   Comments: 0
RVRR GP16 1705
Title:  RVRR GP16 1705
Description:  Rio Valley Railroad 1705 was in the New Orleans area, on its way from the CSX to the UP for delivery to the RVRR at Harlingen, Texas. The locomotive was built as Clinchfield GP7 907 in December 1950 and was rebuilt for the CRR by the Illinois Central Gulf into the 4605 in June 1979. It was subsequently Seaboard System 4605, then SBD 1705 and CSX 1705 before being retired in August 1991 and going to the RVRR. The ICG identified this model as a GP11, but CRR/SBD/CSX called it a GP16.
Photo Date:  4/9/1993  Upload Date: 1/23/2025 7:24:29 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVRR 1705(GP16)
Views:  660   Comments: 0
RVRR GP16 1705
Title:  RVRR GP16 1705
Description:  Rio Valley Railroad 1705 was in the New Orleans area, on its way from the CSX to the UP for delivery to the RVRR at Harlingen, Texas. The locomotive was built as Clinchfield GP7 907 in December 1950 and was rebuilt for the CRR by the Illinois Central Gulf into the 4605 in June 1979. It was subsequently Seaboard System 4605, then SBD 1705 and CSX 1705 before being retired in August 1991 and going to the RVRR. The ICG identified this model as a GP11, but CRR/SBD/CSX called it a GP16.
Photo Date:  4/9/1993  Upload Date: 1/23/2025 7:23:27 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RVRR 1705(GP16)
Views:  745   Comments: 0
RVRR GP16 1705
Title:  RVRR GP16 1705
Description:  Rio Valley Railroad GP16 1705 was deadheading west on a CSX train behind a trio of CSX units in three different paint schemes: C30-7s 7067, C30-7 7053 and SD40M-2 8364. The train was stopped at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge while being delivered to the Union Pacific. RVRR 1705 was previously CSX 1705 and was on its way from CSX to the RVRR at Harlingen, Texas.
Photo Date:  4/9/1993  Upload Date: 4/21/2025 5:31:54 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  RVRR 1705(GP16)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
IC SD40-2 6763
Title:  IC SD40-2 6763
Description:  Illinois Central SD40-2 6763 was leaving the railroad’s MAYS YARD outside of New Orleans on New Orleans-Chicago train NOCH. The locomotive was previously Burlington Northern 6763 and would be repainted as IC 6153. This was one of 61 former BN SD40-2’s built in 1976 and acquired by the IC in 1991 and 1992, after their original leases expired. The 6153 was upgraded by VMV in 1999 and renumbered 6260.
Photo Date:  4/10/1993  Upload Date: 1/12/2025 6:12:54 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 6763(SD40-2)
Views:  708   Comments: 0
AMTK GP40 661
Title:  AMTK GP40 661
Description:  AMTK GP40 661 was leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal on train No. 58 – the northbound CITY OF NEW ORLEANS – near the end of its brief career with Amtrak. The locomotive entered revenue service on No. 58 in September 1991 and was now leaving on one of its last trips. It was one of 15 GP40’s (AMTK 650-664) leased from Helm Financial Services in 1991-93 and based out of the diesel shop at NOUPT.

Amtrak decided not to exercise its purchase option on these locos, so most of them were returned to Helm via the Illinois Central at New Orleans and sent to the VMV Shops at Paducah, Kentucky. The 661 was delivered to the IC on 27 May 1993. It had been built in December 1968 as Penn Central 3246 and was subsequently CR 3246, B&M 341, AMTK 661, HLCX 661, HLCX 4404 and HCRY (Huron Central) 3802.

Photo Date:  4/17/1993  Upload Date: 10/27/2025 5:14:50 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 661(GP40)
Views:  367   Comments: 0
AMTK GP40 654
Title:  AMTK GP40 654
Description:  Former Amtrak GP40 654 was at the Illinois Central’s MAYS YARD on the west side of New Orleans. The locomotive, along with the 661, was on its way from Amtrak back to its owner Helm Financial via the VMV shop at Paducah.
Photo Date:  5/28/1993  Upload Date: 6/17/2025 12:33:51 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 654(GP40)
Views:  635   Comments: 0
AMTK GP40 661
Title:  AMTK GP40 661
Description:  Former Amtrak GP40 661 was at the Illinois Central’s MAYS YARD on the west side of New Orleans. The locomotive was on its way from Amtrak back to its owner Helm Financial via the VMV shop at Paducah, Kentucky. It had been built in December 1968 as Penn Central 3246 and was subsequently CR 3246, B&M 341, AMTK 661, HLCX 661, HLCX 4404 and HCRY (Huron Central) 3802.
Photo Date:  5/28/1993  Upload Date: 10/27/2025 5:17:28 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 661(GP40)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
SP SD40R 7323
Title:  SP SD40R 7323
Description:  Southern Pacific SD40R 7323 was leading a westbound train across New Orleans on Norfolk Southern’s BACK BELT at Canal Boulevard.
Photo Date:  6/3/1993  Upload Date: 4/6/2025 4:11:08 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  SP 7323(SD40R)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
UP 967 Southbound
Title:  UP 967 Southbound
Description:  This Union Pacific local freight train was heading south on the former Texas & Pacific main line between Alexandria, Louisiana and New Orleans, powered by a pair of GP50’s, 967 and 962. The UP found these units well-suited to local service, as their four-wheel trucks gave them the flexibility to get into business tracks and their horsepower enabled them to accelerate quickly and keep up with through trains. These two units were originally Missouri Pacific 3507 and 3502, two of 30 GP50’s on the MP. All were built without dynamic brakes, but the UP had this added to 10 of them (960-969) in 1992-93.
Photo Date:  7/23/1993  Upload Date: 11/26/2025 1:37:25 PM
Location:  Alexandria, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 967(GP50)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
UP 967 Southbound
Title:  UP 967 Southbound
Description:  This Union Pacific local freight train was heading south on the former Texas & Pacific main line between Alexandria, Louisiana and New Orleans, powered by a pair of GP50’s, 967 and 962. The UP found these units well-suited to local service, as their four-wheel trucks gave them the flexibility to get into business tracks and their horsepower enabled them to accelerate quickly and keep up with through trains. These two units were originally Missouri Pacific 3507 and 3502, two of 30 GP50’s on the MP. All were built without dynamic brakes, but the UP had this added to 10 of them (960-969) in 1992-93.
Photo Date:  7/23/1993  Upload Date: 11/26/2025 1:37:46 PM
Location:  Alexandria, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 967(GP50)
Views:  64   Comments: 0
ATSF S-LACH-2-24 on the KCS
Title:  ATSF S-LACH-2-24 on the KCS
Description:  During the massive floods which inundated the midwestern U.S. in the summer of 1993, railroads detoured trains on an unprecedented scale, with the Santa Fe running about two dozen Chicago-California trains via New Orleans between 30 July and 8 August.

ATSF S-LACH-2-24 was a low-priority intermodal train from Los Angeles to Chicago, and here it was at Alliance Avenue in Frellsen – on the western outskirts of New Orleans – in the midst of a leisurely 10-day trip via Dallas and the Kansas City Southern, New Orleans and the Norfolk Southern. At this location, S-LACH-2-24 was utilizing KCS trackage rights over the Illinois Central for the last seven miles of its journey from Dallas to the NS. The train had ATSF SD40-2 5189, SF30C 9523 and SF30C 9546 with 48 cars.

Photo Date:  7/31/1993  Upload Date: 10/8/2025 11:41:12 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri image
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5189(SD40-2)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
UP Transfer Power
Title:  UP Transfer Power
Description:  Union Pacific B30-7A 219 and four B23-7’s were parked in the New Orleans Public Belt yard at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. This was a set of transfer power which was used to move cars between the UP’s Avondale Yard at the west end of the bridge and connecting railroads on the east side of the Mississippi River. The 219 had been built in December 1981 as Missouri Pacific 4819 and was rebuilt by Railpower Technologies into RP20BD genset UPY 2620 in January 2007.
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 6/17/2024 6:27:39 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  UP 219(B30-7A)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
UP Train INOCB
Title:  UP Train INOCB
Description:  Union Pacific directors special INOCB (Inspection train from New Orleans to Council Bluffs) was heading up the east side of the Huey P. Long Bridge on its way out of the New Orleans area. The train consisted of E-units 949, 963B and 951 with 10 cars: power car 208 (800616), staff car CABARTON (800617), sleeper NORTH PLATTE (800618), office cars FEATHER RIVER (800627) and POCATELLO (800631), sleepers PORTOLA (800625) and POWDER RIVER (800623), dome-lounge WALTER DEAN (800621), diner CITY OF DENVER (800630) and roadway inspection car IDAHO (800613).
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 7/5/2024 2:25:10 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 949(E9A)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
UP Train INOCB
Title:  UP Train INOCB
Description:  Union Pacific directors special INOCB (Inspection train from New Orleans to Council Bluffs) was heading up the east side of the Huey P. Long Bridge on its way out of the New Orleans area. The train consisted of E-units 949, 963B and 951 with 10 cars: power car 208 (800616), staff car CABARTON (800617), sleeper NORTH PLATTE (800618), office cars FEATHER RIVER (800627) and POCATELLO (800631), sleepers PORTOLA (800625) and POWDER RIVER (800623), dome-lounge WALTER DEAN (800621), diner CITY OF DENVER (800630) and roadway inspection car IDAHO (800613).
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 7/5/2024 2:25:45 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 949(E9A)
Views:  839   Comments: 0
UP Train INOCB
Title:  UP Train INOCB
Description:  Union Pacific directors special INOCB (Inspection train from New Orleans to Council Bluffs) was at the west end of AVONDALE YARD on its way out of the New Orleans area. The train consisted of E-units 949, 963B and 951 with 10 cars: power car 208 (800616), staff car CABARTON (800617), sleeper NORTH PLATTE (800618), office cars FEATHER RIVER (800627) and POCATELLO (800631), sleepers PORTOLA (800625) and POWDER RIVER (800623), dome-lounge WALTER DEAN (800621), diner CITY OF DENVER (800630) and roadway inspection car IDAHO (800613).
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 7/5/2024 2:26:37 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 949(E9A)
Views:  775   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 58
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 58
Description:  Amtrak No. 58 – the northbound CITY OF NEW ORLEANS – was heading across the old Bonnet Carre’ Spillway trestle just north of New Orleans with four new P40 locomotives and a typical 7-car train. No. 58 consisted of locos 805, 836, 801 and 835 with a very eclectic mix of cars: baggage car 1235, Horizon Fleet coaches 54050, 54003, Heritage Fleet dome car 9408 and coach 4637, Amfleet food service car 28003, and Heritage 10-6 sleeper 2449 MAPLE GROVE.

At this time, all of the P40 locos were based out of the diesel shop at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The CITY’s usual power was two P40 units; but the first pair of locos on this train was heading to Chicago so it could be used on the SUPERLINER CITY INAUGURAL SPECIAL which ran on 1-2 March 1994.

Over several days at the beginning of March 1994, all three of the CITY’s single-level trainsets were replaced with Superliner and ex-ATSF high-level equipment; and to publicize this event, Amtrak ran a special train from Chicago to New Orleans on 1-2 March with the 805, 836 and eight cars. It stopped at all of the regular stops, and there were special events at Champaign-Urbana, Carbondale, Memphis and Jackson. On 3 March, Amtrak hosted a luncheon at NOUPT for invited guests; mostly politicians, travel agents and the media.

Photo Date:  2/27/1994  Upload Date: 10/19/2025 8:02:48 PM
Location:  Frenier, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 805(P40DC)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 58
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 58
Description:  Amtrak No. 58 – the northbound CITY OF NEW ORLEANS – was heading across the old Bonnet Carre’ Spillway trestle just north of New Orleans with four new P40 locomotives and a typical 7-car train. No. 58 consisted of locos 805, 836, 801 and 835 with a very eclectic mix of cars: baggage car 1235, Horizon Fleet coaches 54050, 54003, Heritage Fleet dome car 9408 and coach 4637, Amfleet food service car 28003, and Heritage 10-6 sleeper 2449 MAPLE GROVE.
Photo Date:  2/27/1994  Upload Date: 10/19/2025 8:03:52 PM
Location:  Frenier, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 805(P40DC)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 58
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 58
Description:  Amtrak No. 58 – the northbound CITY OF NEW ORLEANS – was heading across the old Bonnet Carre’ Spillway trestle just north of New Orleans with four new P40 locomotives and a typical 7-car train. No. 58 consisted of locos 805, 836, 801 and 835 with a very eclectic mix of cars: baggage car 1235, Horizon Fleet coaches 54050, 54003, Heritage Fleet dome car 9408 and coach 4637, Amfleet food service car 28003, and Heritage 10-6 sleeper 2449 MAPLE GROVE.
Photo Date:  2/27/1994  Upload Date: 10/19/2025 8:04:28 PM
Location:  Frenier, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 835(P40DC)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 58
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 58
Description:  Amtrak No. 58 – the northbound CITY OF NEW ORLEANS – was heading across the old Bonnet Carre’ Spillway trestle just north of New Orleans with four new P40 locomotives and a typical 7-car train. No. 58 consisted of locos 805, 836, 801 and 835 with a very eclectic mix of cars: baggage car 1235, Horizon Fleet coaches 54050, 54003, Heritage Fleet dome car 9408 and coach 4637, Amfleet food service car 28003, and Heritage 10-6 sleeper 2449 MAPLE GROVE.
Photo Date:  2/27/1994  Upload Date: 10/19/2025 8:04:54 PM
Location:  Frenier, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 835(P40DC)
Views:  249   Comments: 0
MPI SD40M-2 9049
Title:  MPI SD40M-2 9049
Description:  Morison Knudson Corp. (Motive Power International) SD40M-2 9049 was at the Kansas City Southern’s Deramus Yard – just north of Shreveport – while on lease to the KCS. This locomotive had been built in October 1966 as Union Pacific SD40 3052. It was retired on 12 Apr 1989 and was subsequently Preferred Lease Management (PLM) 3052, Morrison Knudsen-Motive Power International (MPI) 9049, Helm (HLCX) 6223, Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM) 1509 and Helm (HATX) 1509.
Photo Date:  6/10/1994  Upload Date: 10/29/2025 10:50:22 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MPI 9049(SD40M-2)
Views:  194   Comments: 0
HATX GP38-2 200
Title:  HATX GP38-2 200
Description:  Helm Atlantic GP38-2 HATX 200 was at the Kansas City Southern's DERAMUS YARD near Shreveport while on lease to the KCS. This locomotive had been built for TXL Leasing in January 1973 and was leased to the Missouri Pacific as their 924. It was renumbered MP 2075 in 1974, was retired by the Union Pacific as MP 2075 on 31 December 1993 and TXL sold it to Helm Financial. UP then extended its lease for 90 days. It was returned to Helm in April 1994, renumbered Helm Atlantic HATX 200 and leased to the CSX for 30-months. (HATX was a joint-venture between Helm and CSX.) In 1997 it was was leased (again) by the UP and repainted as UP 1830 in 1997. It was renumbered UP 330 in 2003 and HLCX 330 in 2009.
Photo Date:  6/13/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 6:57:25 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  HATX 200(GP38-2)
Views:  734   Comments: 0
MPI SD40M-2 9049
Title:  MPI SD40M-2 9049
Description:  Morison Knudson Corp. (Motive Power International) SD40M-2 9049 was at the Kansas City Southern’s West Yard – just outside of New Orleans – while on lease to the KCS. This locomotive had been built in October 1966 as Union Pacific SD40 3052. It was retired on 12 Apr 1989 and was subsequently Preferred Lease Management (PLM) 3052, Morrison Knudsen-Motive Power International (MPI) 9049, Helm (HLCX) 6223, Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM) 1509 and Helm (HATX) 1509.
Photo Date:  6/15/1994  Upload Date: 10/29/2025 10:48:44 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MPI 9049(SD40M-2)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
NS Frenchmen Street Interlocking
Title:  NS Frenchmen Street Interlocking
Description:  This pair of cantilevered signal support structures were on the Norfolk Southern (New Orleans Terminal Co.) at the Frenchmen Street interlocking, just west of Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans. These were a traditional Southern Railway design and were replaced with lightweight aluminum structures in 2013. The unsignaled track in the foreground was named the FREIGHT LEAD.
Photo Date:  7/5/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 7:07:39 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  555   Comments: 0
NS No. 393
Title:  NS No. 393
Description:  Norfolk Southern (former Southern Railway) B30-7A 3500 was on southbound NS train No. 393 at the Carr Road grade crossing, on the south side of Slidell, Louisiana. This was the run-through train from Birmingham to Houston via the Southern Pacific at New Orleans. The milepost indicates the distance on the old New Orleans & Northeastern from Meridian, Mississippi.
Photo Date:  7/30/1994  Upload Date: 11/26/2025 1:51:01 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 3500(B30-7A)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
NS No. 393
Title:  NS No. 393
Description:  Norfolk Southern (former Southern Railway) B30-7A 3500 was on southbound NS train No. 393 at the Carr Road grade crossing, on the south side of Slidell, Louisiana. This was the run-through train from Birmingham to Houston via the Southern Pacific at New Orleans. The milepost indicates the distance on the old New Orleans & Northeastern from Meridian, Mississippi.
Photo Date:  7/30/1994  Upload Date: 11/26/2025 1:51:23 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 3500(B30-7A)
Views:  77   Comments: 0
AL&M Shop
Title:  AL&M Shop
Description:  This view was inside the Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi (former Ashley, Drew & Northern) engine house at Crossett, Arkansas.
Photo Date:  10/1/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 7:10:45 PM
Location:  Crossett, AR
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  533   Comments: 0
AL&M Caboose 494
Title:  AL&M Caboose 494
Description:  The Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi’s un-numbered caboose (previously Arkansas & Louisiana Midland 484) was on the rear of a fantrip operated by the Georgia-Pacific Corp. for the Southeast Louisiana Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and the Arkansas Railroad Club. The train ran from Crossett, Arkansas to Monroe, Louisiana and return, and here it was at a photo run-by crossing Bayou Bartholomew at Wardville, Louisiana en route from Crossett to Monroe. The coach in front of the caboose was originally Minneapolis & St, Louis 51, then Rock Island 367 ARMOURDALE and had been acquired by the Ashley, Drew & Northern in 1975.
Photo Date:  10/1/1994  Upload Date: 1/12/2025 6:11:07 PM
Location:  Wardville, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  RollingStock,Bridge,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  595   Comments: 0
DUPX Tank Car 12401
Title:  DUPX Tank Car 12401
Description:  DuPont 16-wheel tank car DUPX 12401 was entering the CSX GENTILLY YARD on an SP-CSX run-through train in New Orleans, on its way from Texas to North Carolina. This was the first of five 38,300-gallon DUPX cars (12401-12405) built for DuPont by AMF in May and June 1970. These cars were initially heated and insulated; but by the time this image was taken, their insulation and outer jacket had been removed and they were in ethylene glycol service. They had an outside length of 92-07 with a LT WT of 144,000 LBS and a LD LMT of 382,000 LBS, for a gross rail load of 526,000 LBS. Car 12403 disappeared from the Equipment Register in 1991, but the other four remained in use until 2007 and were scrapped during January 2010.
Photo Date:  10/21/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 7:00:07 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  RollingStock
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NOLR 1237 Southbound
Title:  NOLR 1237 Southbound
Description:  New Orleans Lower Coast Railroad SSB1200 1237 was heading south at the Westbank Expressway in Gretna, Louisiana, enroute from Gouldsboro Yard (milepost 0) in Algiers to its yard at Belle Chasse (milepost 9.2). The locomotive had been built in December 1953 as Santa Fe SW9 2437 and was upgraded by the ATSF into SSB1200 1237 in March 1974. It was sold to shortline operator RailTex in December 1984 and became NOLR 1237 in September 1992. NOLR 1237’s paint scheme was designed by New Orleans railfan Mike Palmieri.
Photo Date:  3/1/1995  Upload Date: 11/26/2025 1:44:04 PM
Location:  Gretna, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NOLR 1237(SSB1200)
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NOLR 1237 Southbound
Title:  NOLR 1237 Southbound
Description:  New Orleans Lower Coast Railroad SSB1200 1237 was heading south at the Westbank Expressway in Gretna, Louisiana, enroute from Gouldsboro Yard (milepost 0) in Algiers to its yard at Belle Chasse (milepost 9.2). The locomotive had been built in December 1953 as Santa Fe SW9 2437 and was upgraded by the ATSF into SSB1200 1237 in March 1974. It was sold to shortline operator RailTex in December 1984 and became NOLR 1237 in September 1992. NOLR 1237’s paint scheme was designed by New Orleans railfan Mike Palmieri.
Photo Date:  3/1/1995  Upload Date: 11/26/2025 1:44:37 PM
Location:  Gretna, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NOLR 1237(SSB1200)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
SP POWER
Title:  SP POWER
Description:  Southern Pacific SD45T-2R 6850, B30-7 7857 and SD45T-2 9393 were eastbound down the Huey P. Long Bridge.
Photo Date:  4/9/1995  Upload Date: 7/8/2025 5:42:43 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 6850(SD45T-2R) SP 7857(B30-7) SP 9393(SD45T-2)
Views:  512   Comments: 0
NREX SD20 2011
Title:  NREX SD20 2011
Description:  Professionally-relettered National Railway Equipment Corp. (NREX) SD20 2011 was on Kansas City Southern Train No. 56 heading north through a suburb of New Orleans, while on lease to that railroad. No. 56 originated at the Norfolk Southern’s Oliver Yard and was on the NS (New Orleans Terminal Co.) at Labarre Road in Metairie, where the NS delivered the train to the KCS. The locomotive had been built in August 1959 as Union Pacific SD24 415 and was rebuilt by the Illinois Central Gulf into SD20 2011 in March 1980. It went to NRE after being retired by the IC.
Photo Date:  4/12/1995  Upload Date: 10/11/2024 5:17:20 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NREX 2011(SD20)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
CSX Q605
Title:  CSX Q605
Description:  CSX train Q605-11 was passing through the floodgate on the east side of the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans as it headed west over the Norfolk Southern. The train ran from Waycross, Georgia to the Union Pacific (former Missouri Pacific) Avondale Yard at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge, and operated over the NS to get from the CSX at L&N Junction to the UP at the east end of the bridge.
Photo Date:  4/13/1995  Upload Date: 7/2/2024 11:59:39 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Action
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Views:  442   Comments: 0
Metra F40PHM units 202, 192, 190 and 193
Title:  Metra F40PHM units 202, 192, 190 and 193
Description:  Metra F40PHM units 202, 192, 190 and 193 were spending the weekend in the railroad’s Aurora yard.
Photo Date:  6/3/1995  Upload Date: 1/18/2025 5:33:51 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  METX 202(F40PHM-2)
Views:  619   Comments: 0
Metra F40PHM units 202, 192, 190 and 193
Title:  Metra F40PHM units 202, 192, 190 and 193
Description:  Metra F40PHM units 202, 192, 190 and 193 were spending the weekend in the railroad’s Aurora yard.
Photo Date:  6/3/1995  Upload Date: 1/18/2025 5:34:11 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  METX 202(F40PHM-2)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
PROX 31163
Title:  PROX 31163
Description:  Procor tank car PROX 31163 was on southbound Santa Fe train HKCHO (Kansas City-Houston) at Olathe, Kansas. The car had a Light Weight of 99,400 pounds and a Load Limit of 163,600 pounds, for a Gross Rail Load of 263,000 pounds. The 33,900-gallon LPG car had been built in 1993 by Union Tank Car.
Photo Date:  6/7/1995  Upload Date: 7/8/2025 5:51:36 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  224   Comments: 0
Tower 55
Title:  Tower 55
Description:  Tower 55 interlocking in Fort Worth was originally commissioned in 1904, and this brick building was constructed in the 1930’s. Control of the interlocking was transferred from this tower to Union Pacific’s nearby Centennial Yard in 1995, then to UP’s Harriman Dispatching Center in Omaha, then to Spring, Texas and then back to Omaha. After the tower was no longer used to control trains, it was retained for use by maintenance personnel, but it was finally demolished in November 2022.
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 7/4/2024 11:21:01 AM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  461   Comments: 0
ATSF GP20u 3017
Title:  ATSF GP20u 3017
Description:  Santa Fe GP20u 3017 was heading south past Tower 55 in Fort Worth behind GP39-2 3684. The 3017 was originally ATSF 1117 and then 3117 before being upgraded into the 3017. It was subsequently BNSF 2010 and then Pioneer Railcorp 2010.
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 7/8/2025 6:00:15 PM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3017(GP20u)
Views:  617   Comments: 0
NS No. 221
Title:  NS No. 221
Description:  Norfolk Southern 8888, the railroad’s highest-numbered C40-9, was leading intermodal train No. 221 over the Seabrook Drawbridge in New Orleans, just four miles from the end of the train’s journey from Alexandria, Virginia. The bridge spanned the Industrial Canal and the speed limit here was 45 mph.
Photo Date:  8/27/1995  Upload Date: 7/4/2024 11:24:56 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8888(C40-9)
Views:  771   Comments: 0
Amtrak RTL-II 151
Title:  Amtrak RTL-II 151
Description:  In 1976 Amtrak bought seven 5-car RTL (Rohr Turboliner) trains from Rohr Industries of Chula Vista, California, and in 1994 one train was upgraded into an RTL-II. This train consisted of power car-coach 151, coach 179, coach-snack car 180, coach 181 and power car-coach 159. After five months of service in New York State, the train set out on a demonstration tour around the eastern U.S. on 21 September1995. On 26 October 1995 it was seen here arriving in New Orleans from Meridian on the Norfolk Southern at Canal Blvd. In the foreground is the rear car of NS intermodal train #221, on its way to the SP. The RTL-II was on display at NOUPT on the 27th and left on the IC on the 28th.
Photo Date:  10/26/1995  Upload Date: 7/4/2024 11:16:51 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 151(Turboliner)
Views:  751   Comments: 0
AMTK RTL-II 151
Title:  AMTK RTL-II 151
Description:  In 1976 Amtrak bought seven 5-car RTL Turboliner trains from Rohr Industries for use in New York State. In 1994-95 one train – power car-coach 151, coach 179, coach-snack car 180, coach 181 and power car-coach 159 – was upgraded into an RTL-II and on 21 September 1995 it set out on a demonstration tour around the eastern US. On 26 October 1995 it was seen here arriving in New Orleans from Meridian on the Norfolk Southern at Canal Blvd. and two days later it was heading north on the Illinois Central at East Bridge Junction. The train was on display at NOUPT on the 27th for a reception and press conference, but the public wasn’t invited. A demonstration trip had been planned to either Mobile or Baton Rouge, but it did not take place.
Photo Date:  10/28/1995  Upload Date: 1/8/2025 6:36:28 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 151(Turboliner)
Views:  706   Comments: 0
NOLR Bridge
Title:  NOLR Bridge
Description:  This 90-foot plate girder bridge spans a drainage canal in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, on what was then the New Orleans Lower Coast Railroad (NOLR). It is near milepost 7, about a half mile south of the lift bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway. The bridge had been built by the New Orleans & Lower Coast Railroad and now belongs to the New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway.
Photo Date:  3/25/1996  Upload Date: 8/28/2024 5:23:40 PM
Location:  Belle Chasse, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  NOLR 00(UNKNOWN)
Views:  583   Comments: 0
GM&O 50 (AMTK 800539)
Title:  GM&O 50 (AMTK 800539)
Description:  Private car GM&O 50 (AMTK 800539) was on the Kansas City Southern-Amtrak interchange just outside of New Orleans, en route from its home on the New Orleans Public Belt to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal via the KCS, and it left on the westbound SUNSET two days later. The car had been built by American Car & Foundry in 1928 as Gulf, Mobile & Northern 50 and was assigned to the railroad’s president, Isaac B. Tigrett. It was subsequently owned by the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and the Illinois Central Gulf before going into private ownership.

In 1990 the car was acquired by Mr. Tigrett’s great nephew, who is also named Isaac B. Tigrett. The younger Mr. Tigrett was a co-founder of the HARD ROCK CAFE and the HOUSE OF BLUES, both of which had venues in New Orleans. When this photo was taken, Mr. Tigrett was spending a lot of time in New Orleans and used this car for entertaining while he was here. At first, he kept the car at NOUPT, but he eventually leased a siding from the NOPB near the French Quarter.

Photo Date:  4/27/1996  Upload Date: 10/5/2025 12:04:53 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Steven Palmieri image
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  298   Comments: 0

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