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| Title: |
Action at Cotton Warehouse Yard |
| Description: |
Union Pacific GP40s 600 (ex-Rock Island 340) and 658 (ex-Western Pacific 3509), along with Missouri Pacific GP38-2 2135, were on a transfer run in the New Orleans Public Belt’s COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD preparing to head west to the UP’s AVONDALE YARD across the Mississippi River. On the left was MP caboose 13046 on UP train FNZ, on its way from Fort Worth to the Seaboard System’s GENTILLY YARD. FNZ was on the NOPB eastbound main track and was crossing the Illinois Central Gulf at the Jefferson Avenue Interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1984 Upload Date: 1/6/2019 12:32:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 600(GP40) |
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| Title: |
UP Fair Train |
| Description: |
Union Pacific GP40's 643 and 604 -- both former Rock Island units -- prepare to head west from the railroad's siding at the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition with Miss“uri ]acific office car number 10. The UP had at least one car parked here almost every weekend during the fair's six months run. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1984 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:23:08 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
UP 643(GP40) |
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| Title: |
UP Geeps |
| Description: |
Union Pacific GP40 units 663 and 665 were heading west up the Huey P. Long Bridge. They had just brought a special train to the 1984 World Exposition and were on their way to Avondale Yard, at the west end of the bridge. The locomotives were built as Western Pacific 3514 and 3516, and in 1994 they were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen into Kansas City Southern GP40-2's 4777 and 4779. |
| Photo Date: |
5/25/1984 Upload Date: 7/28/2017 5:04:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 663(GP40) UP 665(GP40) |
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671 Comments: 0 |
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