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| 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 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 58 |
| Description: |
A late-running Southern Railway No. 58, the New Orleans-Meridian local, was entering the siding at Slidell during a very unusual south Louisiana snowfall. The train was running with GP38 2796 and GP30 2528, and was here to meet piggyback train No. 219. The track on the other side of the 2796 was the south leg of the Slidell wye. The wye's tail track served the American Creosote Works plant, which later became an EPA Superfund site. The wye was subsequently removed. |
| Photo Date: |
2/9/1973 Upload Date: 12/2/2016 10:14:20 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
James H. Selzer, Jr. photo |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2796(GP38) |
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18860 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
SP C628 3131 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific C628 3131, RSD12 2960 and a pair of GP9's power an eastbound transfer run over the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at Frenchman Street. The SP kept 6-7 modified C630's in New Orleans from early 1973 until late 1977, but this was one of only two modified C628's which I ever saw in New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1976 Upload Date: 9/20/2010 9:22:01 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3131(C628) |
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2087 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
UP U50C 5021 |
| Description: |
UP U50C 5021 was on a train at Salt Lake City, along with Rock Island U28B 269 and GP40 393. Notice the six stock cars behind the locomotives. By the time this photo was taken, stock cars weren't very common. (date approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1975 Upload Date: 9/9/2010 4:18:26 PM |
| Location: |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5021(U50C) |
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3110 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
SP MP15AC 2713 |
| Description: |
A pair of Espee MP15AC's lead a westbound transfer run around the West Low Curve of the Huey P. Long Bridge, en route from an eastern connection to the railroad's Avondale Yard. The photo was taken from the bridge patrolman's motorcar. |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/1977 Upload Date: 9/1/2010 4:48:21 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2713(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
2027 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
Twelve-Engine Train |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific Job 104 was descending the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE with 12 locomotives and Southern Railway run-through train No. 193. The train had Job 104’s own units – GP35 6670 with GP9R’s 3311, 3885, 3389, and 3410, a set of power from a Louisville & Nashville run-through train - U33C 8751, SD45 8953, SSW GP40-2 7650 and SP GP35 6555, and the power that was on No. 193 – Southern SD40-2 3223 and SD45 3130 with SP B30-7 7813. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1979 Upload Date: 9/1/2010 4:47:42 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6670(GP35) |
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3439 Comments: 14 |
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| Title: |
KCS No. 84 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern's New Orleans-to-Shreveport train No. 84 pauses in the Baton Rouge yard, behind F3A 4052, F7B 73B, GP7 4150 and an unidentified SW1500. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1982 Upload Date: 6/11/2010 11:23:49 AM |
| Location: |
Baton Rouge, LA |
| Author: |
Tom Blackwell |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4052(F7Au) |
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2629 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
Kennecott 407 |
| Description: |
Kennecott Copper 125-ton electrics 407 and 402 were on an ore train at Copperton Yard, just outside of the big copper mine at Bingham Canyon. They will haul the train 28 miles to one of the mills near the Great Salt Lake. The 3200-horsepower locomotives were built by General Electric in December 1947 and retired in March 1982. A carman is attaching ground air to the train on the adjacent track. This was the normal practice, so that the locomotives wouldn't have to pump up the air after they coupled on. (date approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1977 Upload Date: 6/4/2010 8:10:41 PM |
| Location: |
Copperton, UT |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCCX 407(125Tonner) KCCX 402(125Tonner) |
| Views: |
1962 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
ICG NC-6 |
| Description: |
ICG train NC-6 heads across the 2-mile-long Bonnet Carre Spillway trestle on its way out of the New Orleans area. The train had been held at Skip, about ten miles back, to meet CN-5; and was up to speed by the time its passed here. It is about 17 miles into its 900-mile trip from New Orleans to Chicago. The locomotives were SD20's 2012, 2017 and 2003, with caboose 9472. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/1984 Upload Date: 2/13/2010 4:09:57 PM |
| Location: |
Frenier, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 2012(SD20) |
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2045 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
Gibson Street |
| Description: |
After crossing the Bogue Falaya into Covington, the ICG Shore Line District ran down East Gibson Street for two and a half blocks before turning north. The northward local is about to cross North Columbia Street and enter the 5.75 degree curve leading to the railroad station. ICG GP38 9542 is the former GM&O 723, and this was one of the very few times I saw a former GM&O unit on this former GM&O branch. The parking lot on the left of the train was in front of an A&P Super Market, and the red brick building beyond there is the U. S. Post Office.The train is a little longer than usual, with 20 cars and a caboose. It has ATSF bulkhead flatcar 94582 for Poole Lumber, ICG 50' box car 516327 for Marsolan Feed, six insulated box cars of beer for the upcoming Labor Day weekend (BN 749009, 747248, ATSF 525287, MP 782085, 775592, 781662), four empty IC pulpwood cars which will be dropped off at Triangle Timber tomorrow (1829, 63660, 1599, 1199), two empty gondolas for the P&W scrap yard (CAGY 13035, SCL 130413), three more gondolas that will got out tomorrow (L&N 171416, 36677?, SCL 130640), caboose 199034, and three empty covered hoppers that were just picked up at USS Agri-Chem (ATSF 300620, IC 765333, ICG 765668). |
| Photo Date: |
8/28/1980 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 6:06:06 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 9542(GP38AC) |
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3996 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
SOU 2673 |
| Description: |
Four geeps power a southbound train past the depot at Laurel, Mississippi. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1977 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 4:49:10 AM |
| Location: |
Laurel, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2673(GP35) |
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1796 Comments: 9 |
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| 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) |
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2631 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
KCS No. 55 |
| Description: |
It's 8 A.M. on a beautiful December morning along the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at Metairie Road, and we are greeted by the rare and wonderful sight of two Kansas City Southern F-units approaching with an eastbound train. The 4051 is a 3-porthole F3 built in 1947 and the 4061 is a 1951 F7 rebuilt with F9 side panels in 1956. This is KCS No. 55 and it will terminate at the Southern's Oliver Yard, on the east side of New Orleans. The train usually passes here in the late afternoon or early evening, so it is running about 12-16 hours late. In August 1982 the KCS began keeping a pair of F-units at New Orleans for situations just like this. The normal procedure was for the power that arrived on a southbound train to go out on that train's northbound counterpart, so the locomotives that arrived on No. 55 in the afternoon -- usually three geeps or a geep/slug/geep set -- would return north on No. 56 early the next day. Yesterday, No. 55 was running very late; so during the night the two F-units took No. 56 north until they met No. 55 and swapped trains. We dont know where the exchange took place, but the cab units went at least as far as Baton Rouge.Before the F-units arrived, the railroad would use a pair of locally-assigned SW1500s for this relief work; but this adversely affected the jobs that the switchers worked. Keeping a pair of elderly cab units here didn't tie up newer road power, and it allowed the switchers to handle their regular jobs without complications. The F-units were also used on heavy transfer runs. In March 1983 the schedule of one train -- No. 84 -- was changed so that there would always be a set of road power available in New Orleans, and the cab units were sent elsewhere. |
| Photo Date: |
12/20/1982 Upload Date: 1/18/2010 7:37:22 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4051(F3A) KCS 4061(F7A) |
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2376 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
ICG |
| Description: |
IC GP10 8018 and train heading north along North Broadway Street, by the former IC depot. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/1985 Upload Date: 1/3/2010 5:30:16 PM |
| Location: |
Natchez, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
IC 8018(GP10) |
| Views: |
3496 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
NOS&WB L6 |
| Description: |
New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board L6 was picking up a covered hopper on the New Orleans Public Belt interchange, and is preparing to head back to the city's main water treatment plant. The little locomotive is a 16-ton Plymouth model DDT, serial number 7176, built in February 1977. |
| Photo Date: |
10/30/1986 Upload Date: 11/26/2009 8:55:25 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
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NOSWB L6(15-ton DDT) |
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1581 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Super Bowl XX |
| Description: |
Surrounded by Amtrak P30CH's and a Goodyear blimp, Seaboard System F3A 116 and FP7 118 enjoy the January sunshine at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal engine terminal. The two F-units had come in on a special train for Super Bowl XX, which was taking place right behind the locomotives in the Louisiana Superdome. Mike Ditka's Chicago BEARS beat the New England PATRIOTS 46-10. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1986 Upload Date: 11/26/2009 11:14:33 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 118(FP7A) SBD 116(F3A) |
| Views: |
1939 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
Ferry Landing |
| Description: |
The Missouri Pacific transfer between Natchez, Mississippi and Vidalia, Louisiana was the last train ferry crossing on the Mississippi River. An embargo notice was effective on 6 June 1982, for one month while repairs were made; but service never resumed. This is the movable cradle and the incline. The cradle could be moved up and down the incline with a locomotive to accommodate the height of the river. To the right of the cradle, and just above the incline, is the grade leading down from Natchez to the east bank ferry landing. Visit this album, in the lower right corner, for more Natchez-Vidalia images. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1983 Upload Date: 7/8/2009 7:48:20 PM |
| Location: |
Vidalia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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2998 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
TWO GM CLASSICS |
| Description: |
The picture quality isn't very good, but the subjects are superb! One fine day in 1968, a 1956 Chevy Corvette and a 1941 Electro-Motive Division E6A posed side-by-side at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The two E-units are on a ready track, and departed later that afternoon on the northbound PANAMA LIMITED. The 4003 has been recently repainted. It wears the large lettering and numbers introduced in 1967; but still has the old nose treatment, where the orange extends up over the top headlight. It should have a split-rail nose emblem, but one hasn't been applied yet! (month approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
4/4/1968 Upload Date: 6/21/2009 4:41:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
IC 4003(E6A) |
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3346 Comments: 8 |
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| Title: |
West 27th Street |
| Description: |
IC GP10 8033 leads the twice-weekly Shore Line District local along West 27th Street in Covington, near the end of its 65-mile trip from Bogalusa. It was also near the end of the line for this branch. The track was abandoned in 1991 and this area doesn't look anything like this anymore! Today's train had six cars: bulkhead flats TOE 4085 and 4037 with building material for Poole Lumber Co., insulated box car (RBL) MRS 2091 with beer for Champagne Beverage Co., and empty pulpwood cars IC 1472, GM&O 4028 and GM&O 3615. The caboose was ICG 199320, the regular car on this run, built in January 1976. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/1983 Upload Date: 6/10/2009 3:23:08 PM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
IC 8033(GP10) |
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2967 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
East Monroe Tower 4 |
| Description: |
In this view facing east, ICG GP8 7991 crosses the UP (ex-MP) main line as it heads west from the East Monroe yard. East Monroe Tower was still manned, but that didn't last much longer! |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/1984 Upload Date: 6/9/2009 4:39:12 PM |
| Location: |
Monroe, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 7991(GP8) |
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2496 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
IC 13 |
| Description: |
IC SW1R 13 was switching the McKesson Chemical Co. along Leake Avenue in New Orleans. The locomotive had been built in June 1946 as IC 9027, and was renumbered 612 in October 1953. The railroad extensively rebuilt the locomotive in October 1968, replacing ius 6-cylinder 600-horsepower prime mover with an 8-cylinder 1,000-horsepower one, and renumbered it 13. It was to be the prototype for the rebuilding of the IC's entire freet of SW1's, which would have been renumbered 1-17; but it was the only one done. It spent its later life in New Orleans, and was retired in 1988. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1981 Upload Date: 6/9/2009 3:41:45 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
IC 13(SW1R) |
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3315 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Train No. 65 |
| Description: |
Southen GP38 2820 leads southbound local No. 65 across the Lake Pontchartrain trestle. The locomotive left Oliver Yard in New Orleans early this morning on local No. 64, worked it way up to Picayune, Missisippi; and is now heading back home. The two dirty roof-hatch boxcars handle clay for the American-Standard plumbing fixture plant five miles north of Oliver Yard. (month approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1979 Upload Date: 5/19/2009 5:21:37 PM |
| Location: |
North Shore, LA |
| Author: |
James H. Selzer, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2820(GP38) |
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2501 Comments: 5 |
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| 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) |
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3655 Comments: 12 |
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| Title: |
MP GP38-2 2106 |
| Description: |
MP 2106 - NEWELLTON, LA - 9 APR 1983 - MICHAEL M. PALMIERI image Missouri Pacific GP38-2 2106 was pushing a Habco weed spray train on the line from Ferriday to Talullah. This track was abandoned by the Union Pacific five years later. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1983 Upload Date: 8/25/2007 10:59:39 PM |
| Location: |
Newellton, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2106(GP38-2) |
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2581 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SSW 4032 |
| Description: |
Amtrak's westbound SUNSET is at KCS Junction, 3 miles into its journey to California. Today, a Cotton Belt GP20 is substituting for an F-unit. The other locos are SP 6457, 8290 and 6459. The bridge in the background belongs to the KCS. |
| Photo Date: |
9/21/1973 Upload Date: 4/15/2007 1:10:32 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 4032(GP20) |
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3062 Comments: 3 |
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| 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) ALM 11(SW7) |
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1761 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CN Steam Generator Car 2952 |
| Description: |
Narrow-gauge steam-generator car built by Canadian Car & FoHndry and Canadian National. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1978 Upload Date: 2/25/2015 6:03:52 PM |
| Location: |
St Johns, NL |
| Author: |
Todd Minsk |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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949 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) IC 2451(4-8-2) |
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882 Comments: 0 |
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