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| Title: |
SOU 3807 |
| Description: |
The Southern Railway only owned ten U33C's (3805-3814) and they spent much of their careers in maintenance-of-way service. On a dreary morning, 3807 and 3812 are on a welded rail train at New Orleans. The train is parked on the spur that served the American Standard plumbing fixture plant, just west of the Seabrook drawbridge. The northbound track here already has welded rail, while the southbound track still has jointed rail. |
| Photo Date: |
1/16/1978 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 9:52:33 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3807(U33C) |
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967 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
The Illinois Central only owned 10 U33C's, units 5050-5059 built in 1968. The 5055 was wrecked and retired in 1969, so here were one-third of the existing fleet - the 5058, 5054 and 5050 - together at Mays Yard with former GM&O SD40 914. The three GE's were retired in 1984 and sold for scrap, but the 914 survived much longer as ICG and then IC 6063. |
| Photo Date: |
12/3/1978 Upload Date: 8/28/2016 10:08:09 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GMO 914(SD40) IC 5058(U33C) |
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719 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG Grain Train (1) |
| Description: |
Illnois Cenral Gulf GP10 8216, SD40 6056 and U33C 5058 were on a southbound grain train crossing the bridge across Pass Manchac, Louisiana. The new concrete structure was completed in 1972 and replaced the wooden trestle next to it. The train will have to reverse direction in Kenner, just west of MAYS YARD, to get to one of the grain elevators along the Mississippi River, so it has a caboose on each end. The 199510 is behind the engines and the 199596 is on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
9/22/1979 Upload Date: 9/22/2017 5:25:56 PM |
| Location: |
Manchac, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8216(GP10) ICG 6056(SD40) IC 5058(U33C) |
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874 Comments: 0 |
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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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3440 Comments: 12 |
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| Title: |
SP 8614 |
| Description: |
U33C 8614, SD45T-2 9376 and SD45 8808 accelerate an eastbound extra past Mallard Junction, on its way out of Lake Charles yard. The switch was the beginning of the Lake Arthur Branch, and is still the connection with the Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District's railroad. Notice the block of Pacific Fruit Express reefers right behind the locomotives. |
| Photo Date: |
9/21/1977 Upload Date: 4/16/2007 12:05:01 AM |
| Location: |
Lake Charles, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8614(U33C) |
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1565 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP-SSW Yard (4) |
| Description: |
U33C 8645 and SD45T-2 9157 were parked behind the roundhouse at the joint SP-SSW yard in Shrevepot. The 9157 was the SP-SSW's lowest numbered SD45T-2. |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/1977 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 4:34:14 PM |
| Location: |
Shreveport, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 9157(SD45T-2) SP 8645(U33C) |
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1403 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Train No. 193 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific U33C 8651 and an SD40 were on the Southern Railway’s New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary with Southern train No. 193. The train had just passed over Marconi Drive and was crossing the Orleans Avenue Drainage Canal, and would be delivered to the SP at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/1978 Upload Date: 7/5/2020 7:02:30 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8651(U33C) |
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210 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP First 241 |
| Description: |
The head-end brakeman on westbound Espee train First 241 was poised to snag his orders at the Raceland Junction train order office, as a couple of young railfans and their mom looked on. These folks had come out to see Amtrak's TRANSCONTINENTAL STEAM EXCURSION, with FREEDOM TRAIN 4449, which had just passed a few minutes earlier. The locomotives on First 241 were U33C's 8659 and 8664, along with SD45 9095. Later in the day - at Lacasine, Louisiana - First 241 would overtake the excursion train and the 9095 would be cut in behind the 4449 because of a problem with the steam engine. The tracks in the foreground are the beginning of the Lockport Branch. |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1977 Upload Date: 12/17/2009 2:02:14 AM |
| Location: |
Raceland Junction, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8659(U33C) |
| Views: |
1177 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound Coal Train |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific U33C 8663, GP35 6628, GP20 4063 and GP20R 4100 power a 90-car westbound coal train up the Huey P. Long Bridge. The coal originated in Illinois on the Illinois Central Gulf and was bound for Mexico. This was not a true unit train, as it had been divided into several cuts when it was interchanged from the ICG to the SP near the east end of the bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
1/18/1976 Upload Date: 8/23/2017 9:49:18 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8663(U33C) |
| Views: |
772 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 8727 |
| Description: |
Westbound Espee train First 241 rolls down Washington Street behind U33C 8727, SD45T-2 9236 and SCL GP40 1635. The street work was to remove the former westbound main line, which had been unused for 25 years. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1978 Upload Date: 6/25/2007 10:18:36 PM |
| Location: |
New Iberia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8727(U33C) |
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1213 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP U33C 8739 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific U33C 8739 was between a pair of SD40T-2 units on a westbound train leaving Avondale Yard, near New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1980 Upload Date: 9/11/2017 6:04:44 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8739(U33C) |
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473 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway Train No. 194 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway train No. 194 was heading north through Slidell, Louisiana behind Southern Pacific U33C 8782, SD45T-2 9190 and a third SP unit. This run-through train between Houston and Birmingham was just south of the Slidell station, and the track in the foreground was the south leg of the wye that had served a creosote plant along nearby Bayou Bonfouca. A creosote plant was first built here in 1892 to treat wood for the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad’s trestle across Lake Pontchartrain. The plant closed in 1970 and the area was subsequently designated as an EPA Superfund site. After the creosote-contaminated soil was incinerated and the wye was removed, a 54-acre area west of the railroad station which once included the wye and the creosote plant was redeveloped by the city as HERITAGE PARK. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1974 Upload Date: 3/29/2022 12:27:11 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8782(U33C) |
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159 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP U33C 8782 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific U33C 8782 was heading north passed the Southern Railway station at Slidell, Louisiana with SD45T-2 9190 and another SP unit on run-through train No. 194. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1974 Upload Date: 2/6/2020 7:52:28 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8782(U33C) |
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618 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP U33C 8792 |
| Description: |
You wouldn't know it from looking at this set of power; but we were along the Louisville & Nashville at the Read Boulevard grade crossing, a few miles east of the railroad's Gentilly Yard in New Orleans. SP U33C 8792 was heading east and running light with Southern SD45 3130 and SD35 3040, on their way to get a train which had been parked on the long siding east of the yard because SP couldn't accept it. This was a very common occurrence back then! |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1978 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 6:30:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8792(U33C) |
| Views: |
1086 Comments: 1 |
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