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Title:
MP 3182
Description:
A trio of MP SD40-2's prepares to take a transfer run from Race Street Yard -- along the Mississipppi River near dQwntown -- across the Mississippi River to Avondale Yard. Race Steet Yard was closed in early 1984, and the land was used as the primary parking lot for the 1984 Louisiana Wold Exposition. The track in the foreground, parallel to the train, belongs to the ICG.
Photo Date:
6/6/1980
Upload Date:
2/4/2009 9:10:39 PM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
MP 3182(SD40-2)
Views:
1064
Comments:
0
Title:
NS C44-9W 9590
Description:
Norfolk Southern C44-9W 9590 was stored on the north end of Wabtec’s test track, three miles north of the builder’s Fort Woth plant, awaiting a trip into the plant to be rebuilt into an AC44C6M.
Photo Date:
10/3/2024
Upload Date:
10/5/2024 10:04:07 AM
Location:
Justin, TX
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
NS 9590(C44-9W)
Views:
80
Comments:
2
Title:
CN ex-BNSF C44-9W's
Description:
Fourteen Canadian National (ex-BNSF) C44-9W’s and two UP AC4400CW’s were parked on the west test track just north of Wabtec’s Fort Worth plant. All of these units were waiting to be remanufactured, the CN’s into AC44C6M’s and the UP’s into AC4400CWM’s. The units were CN 4498, 4575, 4568, 4506, 4581, 4584, 4560, 4570, 4513, 4470, 4494, 4562, 4517, 4571, UP 5780 and 5771.
Photo Date:
5/2/2024
Upload Date:
5/6/2024 10:00:44 AM
Location:
Fort Worth, TX
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Scenic
Locomotives:
Views:
270
Comments:
0
Title:
CN 3279 and 3277
Description:
New Canadian National ET44AC units 3279 (serial No. 66288, built February 2020) and 3277 (66286, January 2020) were on the Wabtec/GE’s Fort Worth test track. Notice old ATSF milepost 368 just to the right of the 3277. The “new” BNSF main line can be seen on the other side of the locomotives. Notice that the 3279 does not have a First Nations logo on its nose.
Photo Date:
2/29/2020
Upload Date:
2/29/2020 6:48:50 PM
Location:
Justin, TX
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Action
Locomotives:
CN 3279(ET44AC)
CN 3277(ET44AC)
Views:
1158
Comments:
1
Title:
MP Train HNS
Description:
Missouri Pacific train HNS (Houston to New Orleans to the Southern) nears Avondale Yard and the end of its trip. The usual power on this train was four geeps or three SD's, but today's train has a quintet of Southern geeps: GP35 2662, GP38's 2778 and 2874, and GP30's 2597 and 2631. The train would continue on to Birmingham as Southern Railway No. 114.
Photo Date:
3/5/1978
Upload Date:
9/6/2010 5:39:57 PM
Location:
Avondale, LA
Author:
Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:
Action
Locomotives:
SOU 2662(GP35)
Views:
1357
Comments:
1
Title:
Southern Crescent
Description:
The second-to-last southbound
SOUTHERN CRESCENT
had just arrived at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal on 30 January 1979 with three E-units and ten cars. The train’s consist was E8A’s 6900, 6914 and 6907 with deadhead diner 3308 and Amtrak sleeper-lounge 3203
CRYSTAL STREAM
, baggage car 3589, coach 842, Amtrak sleeper-lounge 3202
LAUREL STREAM
, coach 816, 10-6 sleepers 3403
HOLSTON RIVER
and Amtrak 2604
PACIFIC CAPE
, diner 3307 and dome-coach 1613. The final
SOUTHERN CRESCENT
arrived on 1 February with six E8A’s and 14 cars.
Photo Date:
1/30/1979
Upload Date:
9/10/2017 12:42:31 PM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
SOU 6900(E8A)
Views:
1758
Comments:
0
Title:
GM&O RS2 1511
Description:
Gulf Mobile & Ohio RS2 number 1511 was heading south through Sbidell along the Southern Railway's "back track" towards the Southern depot. The Alco had a few cars off of the Shoreline Branch local and was heading for the depot to exchange some paperwork with the agent; then ht would back up north to the GM&O connection at North Slidell, and continue on its way to Covington.
Photo Date:
11/20/1970
Upload Date:
2/3/2017 9:58:43 AM
Location:
Slidell, LA
Author:
James H. Selzer, Jr. photo
Categories:
Action
Locomotives:
GMO 1511(RS2)
Views:
1263
Comments:
2
Title:
Lasco 2016
Description:
LASCO was a leasing subsidiary of the LS&I. Here LASCO 2016 it was on lease to the Utah Railway, at that railroad's Provo yard. This locomotive was built for the C&O and was transferred to the B&O.
Photo Date:
8/6/1975
Upload Date:
2/13/2009 12:01:51 AM
Location:
Provo, UT
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
LASCO 2016(RSD12)
Views:
1409
Comments:
0
Title:
Stored DD35A's (1)
Description:
EMD only built 15 DD35A's -- Union Pacific 70-84 -- and over half of them are in this photo, stored at Salt Lake City. Nine units are on the left, while at least one more is in the background behind retired turbine A-units 14 and 16. (date approximate)
Photo Date:
9/1/1977
Upload Date:
9/28/2010 12:41:21 PM
Location:
Salt Lake City, UT
Author:
Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
UP 14(8500 GTEL)
Views:
2241
Comments:
0
Title:
T-SU Shop
Description:
This view inside the Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway shop shows SW1's 102 and 101 along with business car No. 4. The 102 is EMD 4730, built 10 April 1947 as Wabash 108 and bought in April 1964. The 101 is EMD 1075, built on 14 May 1940 as Wabash 105 and purchased in March 1960. The business car was built in December 1929 as Pullman 6-single-room/buffet/sunroom car MURRAY HILL for service on the FEDERAL EXPRESS and was sold to the New Haven on 31 December 1948, where it gained the number 789. After witdrawal from Pullman lease on 11 Febrary 1955, it was designated as a business car and renumbered 4, a number it kept through several ownership changes before coming to the TSU.
Photo Date:
8/1/1978
Upload Date:
9/24/2010 3:03:50 PM
Location:
Sapulpa, OK
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
RollingStock
Locomotives:
TSU 102(SW1)
TSU 101(SW1)
Views:
1505
Comments:
3
Title:
Cabooses
Description:
A Missouri Pacific SW8 switches an unidentified L&N caboose, Southern X479 and MP 13040 at the railroad's Avondale Yard, just west of New Orleans. (date approximate)
Photo Date:
12/1/1976
Upload Date:
8/31/2010 12:50:17 PM
Location:
Avondale, LA
Author:
Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:
RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:
Views:
1340
Comments:
1
Title:
Eastbound Coal
Description:
A 45-car AEPX coal train was stopped at Minturn, Colorado for a crew change, a helper, and a meet. The train's road power was SD45 5334, GP40-2 3125, GP40 3069 and GP30 3026, while 30 cars back six more geeps were being cut in for the climb up to Tennessee Pass. The helper set consisted of GP40-2 3107, GP40 3065, GP40-2's 3113 and 3110, GP35 3047 and GP40 3097, giving the train a total of 29,350 horsepower to move 6,000 tons! In the next 21 miles, the train would climb from 7,820 feet here to 10,200 feet at the east end of the Tennessee Pass Tunnel. Eighteen miles were on a 3% grade, while the middle three were slightly less than 2%. Before this line was closed to through traffic by the Union Pacific in 1996, Tennessee Pass was the highest mainline location in North America.
Photo Date:
8/9/1978
Upload Date:
4/27/2010 3:19:29 PM
Location:
Minturn, CO
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Scenic
Locomotives:
DRGW 5334(SD45)
Views:
1905
Comments:
1
Title:
SOU 2923
Description:
It's about 4:45 P.M. on a Friday afternoon as New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal SW8 No. 3 pulls Southern E8A's 6912 and 2923 out of the station. The two units had arrived at 3:25 on a 13-car ORANGE BELT TOUCHDOWN CLUB special, en route from Florida to Baton Rouge. The train moved from Florida to Birmingham over the SCL, and then into New Orleans over the Southern. It headed into NOUPT, then a few minutes later Illinois Central E-units 4027 and 2021 backed onto the opposite end of the train, and it left for Baton Rouge at 4:30. This was the last football special to LSU! The train left Baton Rouge the next evening, after LSU beat Florida 48-7, arrived in NOUPT at midnight, and left for Florida at 1:30 Sunday morning.The train was made up entirely of former Seaboard Coast Line cars, all owned by Amtrak: 4-section/4-roomette/1-compartment/5-bedroom 6406 PINEHURST as a dormitory (still lettered SEABOARD), diners 5916 and 5922, 10-roomette/6-bedroom cars 6636 DARLINGTON COUNTY, 6627 WEST PALM BEACH and 6637 DUVAL COUNTY, 11-bedroom car 6108 NATURAL BRIDGE, blunt-end lounge 5831, diner 5905, 11-bedroom car 6111 MOUNT VERNON, and 10-6 sleepers 6628 WINTER HAVEN, 6623 ST. PETERSBURG and 6638 EDGECOMBE COUNTY.
Photo Date:
10/8/1971
Upload Date:
5/20/2009 11:11:03 AM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
James H. Selzer, Jr.
Categories:
Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
SOU 2923(E8A)
Views:
2697
Comments:
1
Title:
L&NW FP7A 49
Description:
This sharp-looking FP7 was built in January 1950 as Western Pacific 805A. After 20 years of hauling the
CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR
between Salt Lake City and Oakland, WP traded it in to GE in August 1972. GE sold it to the Wellsville, Addison & Galeton the next month, but it never received a WAG number. It moved to the Louisiana & North West in 1976 and was photographed early the next year sitting outside the railroad's Gibsland engine house in very fresh L&NW paint. It was sold to the Portola Railroad Museum in July 1986 and restored as WP 805A.
Photo Date:
2/7/1977
Upload Date:
2/22/2010 11:35:06 AM
Location:
Gibsland, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
LNW 49(FP7A)
Views:
2150
Comments:
1
Title:
MP Train FN
Description:
Missouri Pacific SD40-2's 3171 and 3128 drop down the east side of the Huey P. Long Bridge with Ft. Worth-New Orleans train FN.
Photo Date:
11/22/1981
Upload Date:
2/12/2010 2:51:21 PM
Location:
Jefferson, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Bridge
Locomotives:
MP 3171(SD40-2)
MP 3128(SD40-2)
Views:
1219
Comments:
1
Title:
Super Bowl XX
Description:
It's the Sunday of Super Bowl XX at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal engine house, and a couple of visitors are brightening up the landscape! Southern Pacific SDP45's 3201 and 3207 had arrived the previous day on a 15-car Super Bowl Special. On the same track are P30CH 708 and a sibling, next to them are F40's 262 and 264, and two tracks over are P30's 716 and 706 with F40's 328 and 323. Even more units, including an Amtrak E9A, SDP40F and two Seaboard System F-units, were behind the photographer.
Photo Date:
1/26/1986
Upload Date:
1/30/2010 7:52:15 PM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
SP 3201(SDP45)
SP 3207(SDP45)
Views:
2356
Comments:
1
Title:
SP NW2E 1310
Description:
Rebuilt SP NW2 1310 derailed while switching the the Louisiana Menhaden Co. fish meal plant at Holmwood. This was at milepost 9.5 on the LAKE ARTHUR BRANCH, about nine miles south-southwest of Lake Charles. The caboose in the background was Cotton Belt 12.
Photo Date:
9/20/1977
Upload Date:
6/25/2007 3:44:34 PM
Location:
Holmwood, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Track,Action
Locomotives:
SP 1310(NW2)
Views:
3151
Comments:
2
Title:
KCS Train 53
Description:
KCS train #53 rolls across the Bonnet Carre Spillway, between Laplace and Norco, Louisiana. The train is nearing the end of its journey from Dallas to the Seaboard System's Gentilly Yard in New Orleans. No. 53 has GP40 785, F7A slug 4055, and GP40-2 796 with 144 cars.
Photo Date:
7/7/1983
Upload Date:
11/9/2006 10:47:23 PM
Location:
Norco, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Bridge,Action
Locomotives:
KCS 795(GP40)
KCS 796(GP40-2)
KCS 4055(Road Slug)
Views:
2530
Comments:
2
Title:
Alcos
Description:
All three of the Louisiana Midland's ex-ICG/GM&O RS1's congregate in Jena, just east of the depot. From left to right, these are the 1107, 1120 and 1111.
Photo Date:
2/19/1977
Upload Date:
11/28/2009 10:54:44 AM
Location:
Jena, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Roster,Scenic
Locomotives:
LOAM 1107(RS1)
LOAM 1120(RS1)
LOAM 1111(RS1)
Views:
2304
Comments:
1
Title:
Daylight and Green Diamond
Description:
We're standing along the parallel Illinois Central Gulf and New Orleans Public Belt tracks near Jefferson Avenue, where the two main lines of each railroad cross. ICG GP10 8114, SD20 2024 and GP40 3031 are heading away from us, going to Mays Yard after delivering intermodal train No. 55 to the railroad's IMX (InterModal eXchange) at Nashville Ave. and the Mississippi River. Espee 4449 is sitting on the New Orleans Public Belt westbound main track, after having spent a week on display at the 1984 Louisiana World's Fair. Earlier this morning an NOPB switch engine had moved it from the fair site to here, and it is waiting for an ICG switch engine to accompany it to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The Daylight and its matched set of cars left for home in Portland, Oregon the next morning. Daylight engineer Doyle McCormack has placed the number "5" in the locomotive's train numbers boxes. Number 5 was the westbound ARGONAUT, the secondary train between New Orleans and Los Angeles.
Photo Date:
6/8/1984
Upload Date:
6/11/2009 2:58:03 PM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Steam,Action
Locomotives:
IC 3031(GP40)
SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:
1713
Comments:
0
Title:
Shortline Meet
Description:
A pair of Louisiana & North West F7A's and a trio of North Louisiana & Gulf MP15DC's were executing the daily "Gibsland Shuffle" when the inbound trains of both railroads swapped cars, and then the outbound trains departed.
Photo Date:
2/7/1977
Upload Date:
8/23/2007 11:00:04 PM
Location:
Gibsland, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Scenic,Action
Locomotives:
LNW 47(F7A)
NLG 45(MP15DC)
Views:
1766
Comments:
2
Title:
SOU 6903
Description:
Four miles after leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Southern passenger trains reached home rails at East City Junction. Here, NOUPT's Eastern Connection connected with a Southern subsidiary, the New Orleans Terminal Co. In this view, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT in on the NOTCO, passing under the southbound home signal protecting East City Junction. The train has E8A's 6903, 6901, 6912 and 6907 with eight cars: baggage-dormitory 706; coaches 834, 833 and Amtrak 5667; 10-6 sleepers 2008 PACOLET RIVER and Amtrak 2603 PACIFIC BEND, diner 3869, and dome coach 1613.
Photo Date:
4/8/1977
Upload Date:
6/4/2009 11:52:46 AM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:
1859
Comments:
0
Title:
Bump
Description:
On a foggy morning in October low-nose SP GP9 3712 pushes the ICG's New Orleans wreck train into the West High Curve of the Huey P. Long Bridge. Just beyond the wrecker, and on the opposite track, is SP GP9E 3387 and - sticking up in the air - SP caboose 1274. The 1274 was on the rear of a westbound train that was stuck on the bridge behind an MP train. For some reason, the MP could not take their train into their yard; so the SP decided to send some engines over from the east side of the river and pull their train back off of the bridge. Anyhow, it was a dark and foggy night, and SP 3387 coupled into the 1274 just a little too hard, causing it to jack-knief like this; and now the ICG wrecker has come to make things right!
Photo Date:
10/25/1978
Upload Date:
11/25/2009 4:32:18 PM
Location:
Bridge City, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Scenic,Wreck
Locomotives:
SP 3712(GP9)
Views:
1671
Comments:
4
Title:
SSW 5002
Description:
The SP-L&N-SCL run-through train from Houston to Jacksonville is passing through New Orleans on the L&N with locomotives from four different railroads: SSW GP30 5002, SP GP35 6535, SCL U33B 1724 and L&N GP30 1049. The lead unit is crossing the Peoples Avenue Canal, and the train is about to cross the main line of the Southern Railway at N.E. Tower.
Photo Date:
5/9/1977
Upload Date:
11/26/2009 8:42:37 PM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:
SSW 5002(GP30)
Views:
2151
Comments:
4
Title:
The New U.P.
Description:
It was a couple of years after the 1982 MP-WP-UP merger before Union Pacific and Western Pacific locomotives became common on the Missouri Pacific around New Orleans, so it was a real treat to find units from all three roads outside the diesel shop at Avondale yard. From left to right are WP GP40 3531 (with UP SD45 No. 21), UP SD40-2 3785, and MP GP38-2's 2166 and 2205.
Photo Date:
12/15/1984
Upload Date:
11/24/2009 4:07:36 PM
Location:
Avondale, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
WP 3531(GP40)
UP 3785(SD40-2)
Views:
1222
Comments:
4
Title:
GM&O Canal Yard
Description:
Just a year before the GM&O disappeared into the ICG, SP RSD12/DL702's 2970 and 2951 pause next to a set of GM&O geeps in the latter railroad's Canal Yard, as the two roads interchange cars.
Photo Date:
10/1/1971
Upload Date:
11/24/2009 10:13:09 AM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
James H. Selzer, Jr.
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
GMO 603(GP35)
SP 2970(RSD12)
Views:
2707
Comments:
3
Title:
De Queen & Eastern GP40 D7
Description:
The D-7 was the first of four GP40's bought new by the DeQueen & Eastern / Texas Oklahoma & Eastern, and was photographed outside the DQ&E shop at DeQueen, Arkansas. The two railroads subsequently bought three new GP40-2's and three ex-Conrail GP40's. The D-7 was confirmed as frame no. 5704-1 and serial no. 31855, built in August 1966.
Photo Date:
2/9/1975
Upload Date:
7/6/2009 11:17:21 AM
Location:
De Queen, AR
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
Views:
1377
Comments:
0
Title:
SP 150
Description:
Southern Pacific office car 150
SUNSET
was on the westbound
SUNSET
at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The
AUTOMAT
car just ahead provided a contrast in dining accommodations! (approximate date)
Photo Date:
3/1/1972
Upload Date:
5/22/2009 2:20:30 PM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
James H. Selzer, Jr.
Categories:
RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
18905
Comments:
0
Title:
C&O 3532
Description:
A Westbound SP Sprint Train on the NS New Orleans Terminal at I-10 - C&O 3532, CSXT 6057, and CSXT 6761.
Photo Date:
2/27/1988
Upload Date:
3/27/2009 9:14:42 AM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Bridge
Locomotives:
CO 3532(GP35)
Views:
1211
Comments:
0
Title:
SCL 1740, SBD 2719, and SBD 6028
Description:
Seaboard System New Orleans-Birmingham train No. 470 crosses the Rigolets Drawbridge, 26 miles east of Gentilly Yard in New Orleans. The Rigolets is a pass which connects Lake Pontchartrain -- off to the right -- with the Gulf of Mexico on the left, and the New Orleans city limit is on the far shore. The slide was taken through the windshield of a helicopter, which explains the poor quality of the image.
Photo Date:
9/12/1984
Upload Date:
3/27/2009 9:01:45 AM
Location:
Rigolets, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:
SCL 1740(U33B)
SBD 2719(U23B)
SBD 6028(GP38-2)
Views:
2573
Comments:
7
Title:
Grain Train
Description:
An interesting assortment of locomotives lead a southbound grain train across Pass Manchac, about 40 miles north of New Orleans. When this photo was taken, grain trains usually ran with a caboose on each end, as the power had to run around the train in Kenner before heading up the former Y&MV line to the elevators along the Mississippi River.
Photo Date:
9/22/1979
Upload Date:
2/27/2008 8:13:34 PM
Location:
Manchac, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:
ICG 8216(GP10)
ICG 6056(SD40)
IC 5058(U33C)
Views:
3559
Comments:
12
Title:
CAGY 604 and CAGY 601
Description:
On a westbound train at Columbus.
Photo Date:
10/4/1980
Upload Date:
10/22/2007 11:46:49 AM
Location:
Columbus, MS
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Action
Locomotives:
CAGY 601(DRS6-4-1500)
CAGY 604(DRS6-4-1500)
Views:
1907
Comments:
1
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)
Views:
2198
Comments:
1
Title:
A&LM NW2 11
Description:
Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri SW7 No. 11 was parked in front of the railroad's offices on a Sunday morning.
Photo Date:
2/20/1977
Upload Date:
5/24/2009 12:16:34 PM
Location:
Monroe, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
ALM 11(SW7)
Views:
1713
Comments:
0
Title:
IC Train No. 22
Description:
Illinois Central train No. 22, the all-stops overnight local for Memphis3 was nearing its 5:30 p.m. departure from Union Station in New Orleans behind 4-8-2 2451. The train could make up to 47 stops before its scheduled arrival in Memphis at 9:05 the next morning. On 26 April 1954 train No. 22 was replaced by New Orleans-Chicago train No. 4, the NOUISIANE, which left at 11:00 a.m. The 2451 had been built by Alco in 1926, was rebuilt by the railroad with a new boiler in 1945 and was scrapped in 1955. The roof of Union Rtation can be seen in the right background. It was torn down in early 1954 to create a plaza in front of the new New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. (approximate day og photo)
Photo Date:
3/1/1951
Upload Date:
8/13/2016 6:12:08 PM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
William Harry photo
Categories:
Station,Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:
IC 2451(4-8-2)
Views:
823
Comments:
0
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