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Port of New Orleans GE |
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This unlettered and un-numbered 80-ton was built by GE in May 1962 as serial number 34265 for the Port of New Orleans for use at its Public Grain Elevator. The unit was photographed at the nearby New Orleans Pubic Belt roundhouse, where it was receiving some attention. After the grain elevator was demolished, the locomotive was sold to Birmingham Rail & Locomotive. (approximate day) |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1977 Upload Date: 2/11/2010 7:53:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
James H. Selzer, Jr. |
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Roster |
| Locomotives: |
PORT of(80Tonner) |
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758 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cargill 80-Tonner |
| Description: |
Cargill's un-numbered 80-ton GE (17894) at Channelview, Texas was built in April 1943 as U.S. Army 7279 and was acquired by Cargill in 1972. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1979 Upload Date: 9/19/2017 3:34:44 PM |
| Location: |
Channelview, TX |
| Author: |
TODD MINSK photo |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CARGILL 0(80Tonner) |
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330 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ASYX 1 |
| Description: |
Avondale Shipyard Inc. 80-ton GE No. 1 was built as serial number serial No. 15741 in October 1942 as Stone & Webster 1002 for use at the Volunteer Ordnance Works in Tennessee. It later became U.S. Army 7291 and then U.S. Air Force 7291 before going to Avondale, where it wore the numbers 1 and 1353. |
| Photo Date: |
12/27/1978 Upload Date: 2/21/2010 7:21:49 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Todd Minsk |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
ASYX 1(80Tonner) |
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777 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MWSCO 6 |
| Description: |
MWSCO – MidWest Storage Company – 80-ton GE number 6 was at the Missouri Pacific’s Avondale Yard just west of New Orleans. This 500HP locomotive had been built under GE serial number 17902 in June 1943 as U.S. Army 7857 for service at the Umatilla Ordnance Depot in Hermiston, Oregon. It went to the U.S. Navy as 65-00509 (in-house 6) before being sold to Eveready Equipment, and it subsequently worked for several owners. MWSCO 6 was coupled to an unlettered Alco S2, serial no. 73600, built in July 1945 as Rock Island 724. It had most recently been used by Continental Grain at the nearby elevator in Westwego until that facility exploded on 22 December 1977. It subsequently showed up at the Continental elevator in Milwaukee. |
| Photo Date: |
2/26/1978 Upload Date: 1/11/2017 4:17:05 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MWSCO 6(80Tonner) |
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204 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
80-ton GE |
| Description: |
This General Electric drawing from May 1937 illustrates the basic appearance for 80-tonner serial numbers 12184-12188, which were built in October and November 1937 as demonstrators for the Cummins Engine Co. (Note that the step locations varied or changed over time.) Serial numbers 12184, 12186 and 12188 were subsequently sold to Republic Steel, while 12185 and 12187 went to the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad as 254 and 253, and in 1949 they became Louisiana Southern 505 and 504. Both of these units were scrapped at Chatham Iron and Metal in Savannah, Georgia. |
| Photo Date: |
4/29/1937 Upload Date: 6/11/2018 4:36:54 PM |
| Location: |
Erie, PA |
| Author: |
unknown |
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| Locomotives: |
NEO 253(80Tonner) LSO 504(80Tonner) LSO 505(80Tonner) NEO 254(80Tonner) |
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901 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Northeast Oklahoma 80-ton GE 254 |
| Description: |
Northeast Oklahoma Railroad 80-ton GE 254 was sticking out of the Louisiana Southern Railroad's engine shed in New Orleans. The locomotive had been built in October 1937 as one of five demonstrators (serial nos. 12184-12188) for the Cummins Engine Co. In 1939 12185 and 12187 were sold to the Northeast Oklahoma as the 254 and 253, while the other three went to Republic Steel. In 1949 the NEO units were sold to the Louisiana Southern as the 504 and 505. The Southern Railway bought the LSO in 1954, and these two locos lasted well into the Southern Railway era. The engine shed survived until this part of New Orleans was flooded by HURRICANE BETSY in 1965. |
| Photo Date: |
1/29/1949 Upload Date: 6/22/2018 10:22:55 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
ELLIOT KAHN |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NEO 254(80Tonner) LSO 505(80Tonner) |
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781 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Louisiana Southern 80-ton GE 504 |
| Description: |
Louisiana Southern 80-ton GE 504 was parked in the railroad’s little yard at 6225 St. Claude Avenue, between St. Maurice Ave. (on the right) and Tricou St. The locomotive (serial no. 12187) had been built in November 1937 as a demonstrator for the Cummins Engine Co. and was sold to the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad as their 253 in April 1939. The NEO sold it to the Louisiana Southern on 21 October 1949 for $35,000 and it was eventually scrapped at Chatham Iron & Metal in Savannah, Georgia around 1970. |
| Photo Date: |
7/2/1966 Upload Date: 5/19/2020 1:05:59 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
J.G. LACHAUSSEE |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
LSO 504(80Tonner) |
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688 Comments: 0 |
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