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| Title: |
Southern Meet |
| Description: |
A trio of Southern Railway SD units on MP-SOU run-through train 114 were meeting GP35 2647 on a transfer run to the Kansas City Southern. This action was on the Southern's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary at the Labarre Road grade crossing in suburban Metairie. (approximate day) |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1978 Upload Date: 9/6/2017 5:33:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6320(SD24) SOU 2647(GP35) |
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719 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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1400 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern GP35 2664 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP35 2664&was on an eastbound transfer run on the railroad's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary at Orleans Ave. (approximate day) This was one of 58 Southern (2645-2702) and 11 S0U-Savannah & Atlanta (2705-2715) GP35's that rode on trucks from Alco RS2 units. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1973 Upload Date: 4/9/2017 5:50:33 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. photo |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2664(GP35) |
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642 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 2671 |
| Description: |
Shortly after noon, Southern Railway GP35 2671 powers a short westbound transfer run over the NS BACK BELT at Hollywod Drive. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 1/16/2010 5:17:08 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2671(GP35) |
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894 Comments: 2 |
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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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1791 Comments: 9 |
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| Title: |
SOU GP35 2673 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP35 2673 was in New Orleans on run-through train No. 114 from the Missouri Pacific to Birmingham. Its trucks came from an Alco RS2. |
| Photo Date: |
9/3/1979 Upload Date: 10/28/2017 6:15:42 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2673(GP35) |
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686 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Espee Extra West |
| Description: |
Powered by an eclectic set of locomotives, a Southern Pacific EXTRA WEST was heading out of the railroad's Avondale Yard, just west of New Orleans. Southern Railway GP35 2680, SD40-2 3257 and an unidentified SP B30-7 were providing the motive power as the train rolled across the George Street grade crossing. The 2680 was displaying white lights and was wearing one flag! |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/1978 Upload Date: 11/10/2016 9:40:37 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2680(GP35) |
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291 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Train No. 193 |
| Description: |
Even though Norfolk Southern Corp. had been in existence for over three years, this still looks like a Southern Railway train! Birmingham-Houston run-through train 193 pauses on the New Orleans Public Belt at the east end of the Huey Long Bridge, where the NS delivered it to the Espee. Behind GP35 2684 are GP38-2 5183, U23B 3931 and GP38-2 5159, 86 cars, and Espee caboose 4611. Earlier in the day, a ceremony was held on the bridge to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its opening in 1935. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1985 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 4:55:28 AM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2684(GP35) |
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884 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SOU GP35 2684 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP35 2684 was on the Birmingham-Houston run-through train and had just been delivered to the Southern Pacific at the Central Avenue grade crossing, near the east end of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE. The locomotive was retired by the Norfolk Southern in October 1992 and was sold for scrap to Steel Processing Services at Albertville, Alabama in December 1993. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1985 Upload Date: 2/15/2019 9:46:30 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2684(GP35) |
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760 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 114 |
| Description: |
A Missouri Pacific crew had just brought this run-through train across the Huey P. Long Bridge, and a Southern yard crew has gotten on board. They would bring the train across New Orleans, where a road crew would get on and it would officially become Southern No. 114 for Birmingham. The motive power was GP35 2696, GP30's 2605 and 2595, and GP35 2657, all running backwards! |
| Photo Date: |
8/29/1976 Upload Date: 12/25/2016 1:19:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2696(GP35) |
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615 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Train 115 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway No. 115, the run-through train from Birmingham to the Missouri Pacific at New Orleans, was about five miles away from the end of its journey at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge as it rumbled over the Orleans Avenue canal bridge. Back when car use charges were computed on a daily basis, with a midnight cut-off, the Southern scheduled No. 115 and SP run-through train No. 193 out of Birmingham so they were delivered in the late evening, getting those cars off of its property before midnight! (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1975 Upload Date: 8/2/2018 8:29:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2702(GP35) |
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700 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Local |
| Description: |
During WWII the U.S. Government built an aircraft assembly plant along Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans and the Southern Railway constructed a 1-mile spur to serve it. Here, Consolidated Vultee (later known as Convair) built about 220 PBY-5 CATALINA amphibious patrol planes. Unlike most aircraft plants, this one had no runways; so each finished plane was moved down a ramp into the lake where it took off! After the war the plant was sold to American Standard and was used to manufacture plumbing fixtures. Up into the 1980’s the plant was served by the northbound local out of New Orleans, but later it was switched by a yard job. In this undated view the local was pulling out of the plant, crossing Leon C. Simon Dr. and about to cross Franklin Ave. The spur was removed after the plant closed. (date of photo unknown) |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1975 Upload Date: 2/21/2020 1:00:46 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2711(GP35) |
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1129 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Pacific Train No. 194 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway No. 194, the run-through train from Houston to Birmingham via the Southern Pacific, was on the Southern at TERMINAL JUNCTION in New Orleans behind GP35 2715 with Southern Pacific GP20 4084, GP35 6515 and GP35 6606. SP caboose 1847 was on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/1973 Upload Date: 4/17/2022 10:41:43 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2715(GP35) |
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308 Comments: 0 |
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