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Northbound KCS
Title:  Northbound KCS
Description:  Kansas City Southern GP30 101, SD40-2 656 and an unidentified SW1500 were on a northbound train leaving New Orleans. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  3/15/1973  Upload Date: 1/4/2017 11:00:12 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 101(GP30)
Views:  1525   Comments: 0
GM&O GP35 632 and GP30 501
Title:  GM&O GP35 632 and GP30 501
Description:  Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GP35 632 and GP30 501 were at CANAL YARD in New Orleans. They had come in on train No. 33 and had been turned so they could go out on No. 32. Train Nos. 32/33 almost always ran with three locomotives, but a 2-unit set showed up occasionally. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  2/1/1972  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 10:17:23 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  GMO 632(GP35) GMO 501(GP30)
Views:  864   Comments: 0
GM&O GP30 508
Title:  GM&O GP30 508
Description:  Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GP30 508 was at the yard in Meridian, Mississippi. The locomotive never received its assigned ICG number 2258, was sold to the Paducah & Louisville in 1986 and was rebuilt as CSX slug 2256 in 1989. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/17/2021 5:06:59 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 508(GP30)
Views:  823   Comments: 0
GM&O (ICG) GP30 510
Title:  GM&O (ICG) GP30 510
Description:  Eight months after the Gulf Mobile & Ohio merged with the Illinois Central, former GM&O GP30 510 was parked by the sand tower at the little service area across from the former GM&O depot in Bogalusa. In the left background was a remnant of the shop buildings built here by the New Orleans-Great Norther Railroad. The ICG would eventually build a new engine house and service area at its yard on the south side of town, and the old shop area would become a shopping center named SHOP YARD SQUARE!. The 510 was never repainted as ICG 2260 and it was sold to the Paducah & Louisville in 1986. VMV rebuilt it into CSX slug 2264 in 1989.(approximate month and day)
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 11/13/2016 1:28:14 PM
Location:  Bogalusa, LA
Author:  James H. Selzer, Jr. photo
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  GMO 510(GP30)
Views:  1039   Comments: 1
ICG
Title:  ICG
Description:  ICG engine terminal
Photo Date:  10/5/1980  Upload Date: 1/7/2010 10:34:33 AM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  GMO 513(GP30)
Views:  1802   Comments: 2
Southern Railfans
Title:  Southern Railfans
Description:  A couple of months before the Illinois Central–Gulf Mobile & Ohio merger a couple of railfbns from the south end of the GM&O (Jim Selzer from Slidell and Earl Hampton from New Orleans) headed north to document the railroad before it disappeared. Here, Jim Selzer was observing the engines at the railroad’s shop in Venice, Illinois. Of particular interest was the 950, which had been built as EMD SD40 prototype 434, on an SD35 frame. It was unique on the GM&O and had been purchased in July 1966 to replace wrecked GP35 614. The GM&O and the ICG may be gone, but the 950 lives at the Monticello Railway Museum as IC 6071. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  6/15/1972  Upload Date: 11/21/2017 6:10:15 PM
Location:  Venice, IL
Author:  EARL W. HAMPTON, JR.
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  GMO 950(SD40) GMO 920(SD40) GMO 516(GP30)
Views:  1638   Comments: 3
ICG Mays Yard
Title:  ICG Mays Yard
Description:  Black-and-white units at Mays Yard. (date approximate)
Photo Date:  8/1/1978  Upload Date: 6/6/2010 10:44:25 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  IC 467(SW9) GMO 516(GP30)
Views:  1455   Comments: 0
ICG Porter Shop
Title:  ICG Porter Shop
Description:  Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP30 519 and GP35 620 were parked at the former GM&O PORTER SHOP in Mobile, which had belonged to the Illinois Central Gulf for the past year. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  10/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/27/2020 3:10:25 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  FRANK PHILLIPS photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  GMO 519(GP30) GMO 620(GP35)
Views:  1064   Comments: 0
GM&O GP30 520
Title:  GM&O GP30 520
Description:  Two years after the Gulf Mobile & Ohio merged with the Illinois Central, former GM&O GP30 520 was in familiar territory next to the diesel shop in Bogalusa, Louisiana. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  6/6/1974  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 10:36:11 AM
Location:  Bogalusa, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 520(GP30)
Views:  890   Comments: 0
GM&O GP30 521
Title:  GM&O GP30 521
Description:  More than a dozen years after the merger of the Illinois Central and the Gulf Mobile & Ohio into the Illinois Central Gulf former GM&O GP30 521 was still in its original paint scheme as it rested in IC territory at McComb, Mississippi.
Photo Date:  4/6/1985  Upload Date: 7/23/2019 4:57:03 PM
Location:  McComb, MS
Author:  TOM BLACKWELL photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 521(GP30)
Views:  926   Comments: 1
NS GP30 526
Title:  NS GP30 526
Description:  Norfolk Southern GP30 526/ a former Norfolk & Western unit, was at OLIVER YARD along with GP38AC 4150, another former N&W unit.
Photo Date:  4/7/1990  Upload Date: 9/27/2017 5:52:51 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 526(GP30)
Views:  1393   Comments: 0
Acadiana Railway GP30 701
Title:  Acadiana Railway GP30 701
Description:  Acadiana Railway GP30 701 was originally Union Pacific 701 and then Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Eastern 701 before coming to the AKDN. It was frame number 7648-2.
Photo Date:  4/8/1993  Upload Date: 8/28/2024 5:20:02 PM
Location:  Opelousas, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AKDN 701(GP30)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
AKDN GP30 701
Title:  AKDN GP30 701
Description:  Acadiana Railway GP30 701 was built in February 1963 as Union Pacific 701, frame no. 7648-2. This was the fourth UP diesel to wear this number; the previous examples were a Fairbanks-Morse ERIE-BUILT A-unit from March 1948 until February 1953, a GP7 from February until November 1953 and a GP20 from July 1960 until December 1962. The 701 was one of the last GP30’s on the UP roster. It was retired on 28 July 1989 and was leased to the City of Mineral Wells, Texas three months later for service on the city owned, 22-mile long, Mineral Wells & Eastern Railroad. This line was formerly the UP/MP/T&P‘s Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern subsidiary. The 701 was sold to the city on 7 February 1990, but the railroad closed in May 1992 and the locomotive was resold to the Acadiana Railway by mid-March 1993.
Photo Date:  5/18/2001  Upload Date: 2/24/2021 4:34:49 PM
Location:  Eunice, LA
Author:  TOM BLACKWELL image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AKDN 701(GP30)
Views:  798   Comments: 0
Northbound L&N
Title:  Northbound L&N
Description:  At 2:45 p.m. this northbound Louisville & Nashville train was waiting to depart from the railroad's GENTILLY YARD in New Orleans with four locomotives from three different railroads in four different paint schemes! It had Canadian National GP40 4015 and Auto-Train U36B 4010, both on lease, as well as L&N GP30 1009 in an obsolete paint scheme and L&N U28Bm 2501 in the then-current FAMILY LINES scheme.
Photo Date:  10/1/1978  Upload Date: 2/24/2021 4:09:21 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LN 2501(U28B) LN 1009(GP30) AT 4010(U36B)
Views:  771   Comments: 0
L&N Train
Title:  L&N Train
Description:  At 2:45 p.m. this northbound Louisville & Nashville train was waiting to depart from the railroad's GENTILLY YARD in New Orleans with four locomotives from three different railroads in four different paint schemes! It had Canadian National GP 40 4015 and Auto-Train U36B 4010, both on lease, as well as L&N GP30 1009 in an obsolete L&N scheme and L&N U28Bm 2501 in the then-current FAMILY LINES scheme.
Photo Date:  10/7/1978  Upload Date: 10/10/2016 6:01:33 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CN 4015(GP40) AT 4010(U36B) LN 1009(GP30) LN 2501(U28B)
Views:  1713   Comments: 1
Derailment (2)
Title:  Derailment (2)
Description:  SP GP35 6617 (on a siding) and L&N GP40 3000 (on the northbound main track) were two of four units on an L&N-SP run-through train which derailed just west of the Franklin Avenue underpass. L&N GP30 1013 was just pulling up on the southbound main track with the MOBILE WRECKER.
Photo Date:  5/4/1975  Upload Date: 6/23/2010 12:35:26 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  SP 6617(GP35) LN 3000(GP40) LN 1013(GP30)
Views:  2032   Comments: 1
Transfer Power
Title:  Transfer Power
Description:  Two sets of transfer power pause at the Missouri Pacific's engine house at Avondale Yard, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. The set on the left includes MP15DC 1554, the last of ten such units (1545-1554) built for the MP in February and March 1975 and initially assigned here. The set on the right includes L&N GP30 1013, L&N GP9 526, MP GP15-1 1612 and an unidentified Mop geep. The diesel shop was built shortly after WWII, and was razed after it was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Photo Date:  8/12/1978  Upload Date: 3/4/2014 12:04:50 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LN 1013(GP30) MP 1554(MP15DC)
Views:  1106   Comments: 0
Extra South
Title:  Extra South
Description:  A southbound extra rolls through Pensacola behind GP30 1034, FP7's 615 and 653, and GP30 1017. (approximate month and day)
Photo Date:  10/15/1972  Upload Date: 3/6/2014 10:12:30 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LN 653(FP7A) LN 1017(GP30)
Views:  1632   Comments: 1
L&N GP30's
Title:  L&N GP30's
Description:  Louisville & Nashville GP30's 1039, 1065 and 1029!were resting between transfer runs in the Missouri Pacific's RACE STREET YARD, along the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The middle unit was originally Atlantic Coast Line 904 and thbn Seaboard Coast Line 1304 before going to the L&N, while the far unit was in the FAMILY LINES paint scheme. These locos became Seaboard System 1370, 1396 and 1360; and then the end units were renumbered CSX 4058 and 4068. These two were eventually rebuilt into road slugs 2328 and 2326.
Photo Date:  3/23/1980  Upload Date: 11/23/2016 6:23:56 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LN 1065(GP30) LN 1029(GP30) LN 1039(GP30)
Views:  1169   Comments: 1
L&N GP30 1031
Title:  L&N GP30 1031
Description:  A westbound Missouri Pacific transfer run, with L&N GP30 1031 and U23B 2713, waits at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge for clearance to enter the MP's Avondale Yard.
Photo Date:  12/22/1974  Upload Date: 5/31/2009 12:21:28 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LN 1031(GP30)
Views:  1248   Comments: 0
L&N 1032
Title:  L&N 1032
Description:  A pair of geeps rest at Siebert Yard.
Photo Date:  12/28/1978  Upload Date: 2/5/2009 9:38:15 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Todd Minsk
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LN 1032(GP30) LN 1110(GP35)
Views:  1185   Comments: 3
L&N GP30 1033
Title:  L&N GP30 1033
Description:  Louisville & Nashville GP30 1033 was parked outside the diesel shop at the Missouri Pacific's Avondale Yard, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. The unit had coje over on a transfer run, and would soon return home. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  7/15/1973  Upload Date: 2/17/2017 6:04:35 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LN 1033(GP30)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
MP Transfer Run
Title:  MP Transfer Run
Description:  This Missouri Pacific transfer run was eastbound on the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad at Jackson Avenue, on its way from the MP’s AVONDALE YARD to its RACE STREET YARD. The train was powered by Louisville & Nashville U23B 2703 (originally Monon 604) and GP30 1033, and it would eventually make its way to the L&N’s GENTILLY YARD. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 11/1/2020 10:30:31 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JOHN KIRKPATRICK image
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LN 1033(GP30)
Views:  514   Comments: 0
Extra South
Title:  Extra South
Description:  A southbound extra rolls through Pensacola behind GP30 1034, FP7's 615 and 653, and GP30 1017. (approximate month and day)
Photo Date:  10/15/1972  Upload Date: 3/6/2014 10:09:55 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LN 1034(GP30) LN 615(FP7A)
Views:  2691   Comments: 5
L&N GP30 1040
Title:  L&N GP30 1040
Description:  Louisville & Nashville GP30 1040 was on an eastbound train heading across New Orleans, on its way from the Southern Pacific’s AVONDALE YARD to the L&N’s GENTILLY YARD. The 1040 was one of 58 GP30’s built new for the L&N in 1962-63. The railroad also acquired 3 more from the Missouri Pacific (ex-Chicago & Eastern Illinois) and 10 from the Seaboard Coast Line.
Photo Date:  2/2/1975  Upload Date: 9/24/2021 11:18:13 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LN 1040(GP30)
Views:  516   Comments: 0
L&N 1041
Title:  L&N 1041
Description:  L&N 1041 is on a transfer run en route from the L&N's Gentilly Yard to the MP's Avondale Yard. The train has an MP crew, and is stopped on the New Orleans Public Belt at Burdette Street.
Photo Date:  2/28/1980  Upload Date: 2/5/2009 9:43:07 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LN 1041(GP30)
Views:  706   Comments: 1
SP-L&N Transfer Run
Title:  SP-L&N Transfer Run
Description:  A transfer run from the Southern Pacific’s AVONDALE YARD to the Louisville & Nashville’s GENTILLY YARD was at Louisa Street on the east side of New Orleans as it approached the L&N yard. The train was powered by L&N GP30 1043, SP C630 units 3140, 3146 and 3142, SP GP9R 3341 and L&N GP40 3004. Those big Alcos disappeared from here about a year later and went into storage, then were sold for scrap in 1979.
Photo Date:  10/10/1976  Upload Date: 11/1/2020 10:45:14 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LN 1043(GP30) SP 3140(C630)
Views:  731   Comments: 0
L&N GP30 1045
Title:  L&N GP30 1045
Description:  L&N GP30 1045 was passing under the Galvez Street Overpass on a transfer run from the railroad's Gentilly Yard to Julia Street Yard and the MP. In the foregound was Montegut Street, while the Southern Railway's Oliver Yard was on the other side of the L&N's track. This L&N line was built in the early 1950's as a part of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal Project, to provide it with continued access to its trackage along the Mississippi River while allowing it to remove its line on the median of Elysian Fields Avenue. One of the L&N's successors, either the Seaboard System or the CSX, abandoned this line in the 1980's
Photo Date:  1/5/1975  Upload Date: 3/3/2010 10:54:31 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LN 1045(GP30)
Views:  1543   Comments: 1
L&N GP30 1047
Title:  L&N GP30 1047
Description:  Louisville & Nashville GP30's 1047 and 1035, along with GP38 4036, had just delivered a transfer run to the Southern/SP interchange at L&N Junction; and were returning to the L&N's Gentilly Yard. The units were heading away from us as they crossed the Peoples Avenue Drainage Canal, and were about to cross the main line of the Southern Railway at N.E. Tower.
Photo Date:  3/3/1974  Upload Date: 3/3/2010 10:55:11 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  LN 1047(GP30)
Views:  2951   Comments: 0
L&N GP30 1058
Title:  L&N GP30 1058
Description:  Louisville & Nashville GP30 1058 was parked outside the railroad’s diesel shop at GOULDING YARD near Pensacola. The locomotive was originally Chicago & Eastern Illinois 239 and then briefly Missouri Pacific 590 before moving to the L&N. The railroad’s only GP30s with dynamic brakes were the 1058-1060 (ex-C&EI) and 1070 (originally Seaboard Air Line).
Photo Date:  6/29/1975  Upload Date: 3/8/2019 10:35:43 AM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR.
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LN 1058(GP30)
Views:  1225   Comments: 0
L&N 1064
Title:  L&N 1064
Description:  GP30 1064 was the second of three L&N units on a transfer run from the L&N's Gentilly Yard to the MP's Avondale Yard.
Photo Date:  2/28/1980  Upload Date: 2/5/2009 9:33:18 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LN 1064(GP30)
Views:  923   Comments: 0
ICG GP30 2257
Title:  ICG GP30 2257
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP30 2257 - previously Gulf Mobile & Ohio 507 - was tied up in Monroe with the power for the MONROE TURN. This job came out of Jackson, Mississippi to handle paper mill and interchange traffic at Monroe. A year later, the locomotive was sold to the Paducah & Louisville, along with GP35 2539 - originally GM&O 641.
Photo Date:  7/2/1985  Upload Date: 1/8/2018 10:13:08 PM
Location:  Monroe, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 2257(GP30)
Views:  1268   Comments: 2
ICG Yard
Title:  ICG Yard
Description:  An eastbound ICG train arrives from Shreveport with an unidentified GP10, GP35 2527, GP18 9421 and GP30 2267. On the left, under the 22nd Avenue Bridge, are Meridian & Bigbee GP7 101 and GP9 104 delivering cars. This shot was taken from the southbound Amtrak CRESCENT.
Photo Date:  5/12/1979  Upload Date: 1/7/2010 10:29:09 AM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ICG 2267(GP30)
Views:  1361   Comments: 2
Switching
Title:  Switching
Description:  ICG GP30 2272 and GP10 8237 were switching the northward Shore Line Branch local in front of the unused Covington depot. A few years later, the depot was renovated as a restaurant; but the railroad here was abandoned in 1991. The house track is still in place on the left, while siding on the right served the Alexius Brothers Hardware Store and Lumber Yard.
Photo Date:  3/20/1978  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:13:40 AM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  ICG 2272(GP30)
Views:  1826   Comments: 2
NS GP35 2569
Title:  NS GP35 2569
Description:  Norfolk Southern GP30 2569 was in familiar teritory at the former Southern Railway OLIVER YARD in New Orleans.
Photo Date:  11/4/1989  Upload Date: 9/27/2017 6:01:19 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 2569(GP30)
Views:  748   Comments: 1
SOU 2570
Title:  SOU 2570
Description:  Six units -- four NS units and two SP -- lead an eastbound train along Washington Street, past the Iberia Parish Courthouse. The track was originally embedded in the pavement, but in now in a "trough" in the street. The train had SOU GP30 2570, NS GP30 2595, SOU B23-7 3993, SOU GP35 2700, SP SD45R 7406 and SP B30-7 7818 with 120 cars and SP caboose 4683.
Photo Date:  4/8/1986  Upload Date: 6/25/2007 10:06:03 PM
Location:  New Iberia, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2570(GP30)
Views:  2141   Comments: 2
SOU 2604
Title:  SOU 2604
Description:  Southern GP30's 2604 and 2537 team up with Espee GP30 5011 and GP20 4053 on Houston-Birmingham run-though train No. 194. Today the 2604 is flying green flags, and the train is running as the first section of No. 168. (date approximate)
Photo Date:  10/1/1971  Upload Date: 5/19/2009 5:20:25 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  James H. Selzer, Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2604(GP30)
Views:  1458   Comments: 3
SOU 2614
Title:  SOU 2614
Description:  Southern Railway GP35 2655, GP30 2573, GP35 2664 and GP30 2614 sit on the Huey P. Long Bridge with an eastbound Missouri Pacific train. At the east end of the bridge, the MP will deliver it to the Southern and it will officially become No. 114, the run-through train from the MoP's Avondale Yard (at the west end of the bridge) to Birmingham.
Photo Date:  3/8/1975  Upload Date: 5/31/2009 5:39:47 PM
Location:  Jefferson, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2614(GP30)
Views:  1187   Comments: 0
Monarch Turn
Title:  Monarch Turn
Description:  A pair of Gý20's switch the limestone loader at Monarch Pass, elevation 10,148 feet. This train worked out of Salida, and the limestone went to the Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill at Pueblo.
Photo Date:  8/3/1978  Upload Date: 5/23/2009 1:00:05 AM
Location:  Monarch, CO
Author:  Micaael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3007(GP30) DRGW 3002(GP30)
Views:  1722   Comments: 2
AKDN GP30 3018
Title:  AKDN GP30 3018
Description:  Acadiana Railway GP30 3018 had been built in February 1963 as Denver & Rio Grande Western 3018. It was retired on 7 May 1996 and sold by the Union Pacific to Metro East Industries at East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1997. From there, it moved on to Larry's Truck Electric Service in Ohio before February 1998 and then to the Acadiana Railway in December 1998. The Acadiana had LTE repaint it into this green and yellow paint scheme, which was inspired by a former Chicago & North Western GP7 which the railroad had previously purchased from LTE. This was the Acadiana's second GP30; their first one was former Union Pacific 701 which they acquired in 1993.
Photo Date:  10/13/2000  Upload Date: 2/24/2021 4:37:00 PM
Location:  Opelousas, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AKDN 3018(GP30)
Views:  774   Comments: 0
UTLX 25111 and AKDN 3018
Title:  UTLX 25111 and AKDN 3018
Description:  Union Tank Car Co. 65-ton General Electric locomotive 25111 was at S&I Locomotive in Opelousas, Louisiana with Acadiana Railway GP30 3018. The little GE was used at the Union Tank Car Co. car repair shop on the Acadiana in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
Photo Date:  5/29/2004  Upload Date: 5/15/2022 12:18:39 PM
Location:  Opelousas, LA
Author:  LEO PERSICK
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  UTLX 25111(65Tonner ) AKDN 3018(GP30)
Views:  635   Comments: 0
AKDN GP30 3018
Title:  AKDN GP30 3018
Description:  Acadiana Railway GP30 3018 had been built in February 1963 as Denver & Rio Grande Western 3018. It was retired on 7 May 1996 and sold by the Union Pacific to Metro East Industries at East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1997. From there, it moved on to Larry's Truck Electric Service in Ohio before February 1998 and then to the Acadiana Railway in December 1998. The Acadiana had LTE repaint it into this green and yellow paint scheme, which was inspired by a former Chicago & North Western GP7 which the railroad had previously purchased from LTE. This was the Acadiana's second GP30; their first one was former Union Pacific 701 which they acquired in 1993.
Photo Date:  4/21/2015  Upload Date: 7/31/2022 12:05:28 PM
Location:  Opelousas, LA
Author:  LEO PERSICK
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AKDN 3018(GP30)
Views:  722   Comments: 0
Eastbound%Coal Train
Title:  Eastbound%Coal Train
Description:  SD45 5334, GP40-2 3125, GP40 3069 and GP30 3026 lead an eastbound AEPX coal train into the Tennesse Pass tunnel; 10,212 feet above sea level. Six more geeps are 30 cars back in the 45-car train. The helpers were added at Minturn, 20 miles away and 2400 feet lower; and will be cut out at the other end of the tunnel.
Photo Date:  8/9/1978  Upload Date: 8/26/2010 3:43:23 PM
Location:  Tennessee Pass, CO
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3026(GP30)
Views:  1275   Comments: 1
KCS Deramus Yard (6)
Title:  KCS Deramus Yard (6)
Description:  Members of the Kansas City Southern Historical Society were inspecting this unfortunate pair of GP30’s at Deramus Yard during the organization’s 1983 convention in Shreveport. On 28 December 1977 northbound KCS train 66 (running as Extra 4102 North) was en route from Alexandria to Minden, Louisiana with GP30's 4102 and 4116, when it hit a loaded log truck at the Vine St. grade crossing in Goldonna. Twenty-two cars derailed, including a tank car loaded with 31,000 gallons of LPG which ruptured and exploded. The two men on the 4102 did not survive and at least 10 others were injured, including a crew member on the caboose and the truck driver.
Photo Date:  6/11/1983  Upload Date: 2/21/2018 4:19:19 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4102(GP30) KCS 4116(GP30)
Views:  1382   Comments: 0
KCS Deramus Yard (7)
Title:  KCS Deramus Yard (7)
Description:  Members of the Kansas City Southern Historical Society were exploring the railroad's DERAMUS YARD
Photo Date:  6/11/1983  Upload Date: 2/21/2018 5:50:37 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4116(GP30) KCS 4102(GP30)
Views:  1101   Comments: 0
Deramus Yard (5)
Title:  Deramus Yard (5)
Description:  Members of the Kansas City Southern Historical Society were exploring the railroad's DERAMUS YARD just north of Shreveport during the organization's 1983 convention. The damaged GP30's in the background were the 4110 on the left and the 4105.
Photo Date:  6/11/1983  Upload Date: 2/21/2018 4:05:15 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4105(GP30) KCS 4110(GP30)
Views:  970   Comments: 0
KCS West Yard
Title:  KCS West Yard
Description:  KCS power rests at the West Yard diesel shop outside of New Orleans.
Photo Date:  1/28/1989  Upload Date: 11/9/2006 12:51:57 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4119(GP30) KCS 4109(GP30) KCS 782(GP40) KCS 4222(NW2) KCS 633(SD40)
Views:  2848   Comments: 2
Northbound KCS
Title:  Northbound KCS
Description:  A northbound Kansas City Southern train was heading out of New Orleans behind GP30 4110 and SD40 612. On almost all of the white KCS road switchers, the frame skirts were painted black, but the 4110 was one of only a few geeps with white frame skirts.
Photo Date:  4/11/1981  Upload Date: 2/14/2021 5:21:02 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4110(GP30) KCS 612(SD40)
Views:  790   Comments: 0
KCS GP30 4110
Title:  KCS GP30 4110
Description:  Kansas City Southern GP30 4110 was in a set of power parked on the west side (railroad north) of the diesel shop at West Yard, just outside of New Orleans.
Photo Date:  9/5/1981  Upload Date: 1/17/2017 9:53:30 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4110(GP30)
Views:  602   Comments: 0
KCS 4113
Title:  KCS 4113
Description:  KCS GP30 4113 undergoes load testing outside the West Yard diesel shop. The load tester is an EMD dynamic brake assembly, and it was moved around with a fork lift truck. Note the Type-M truck under the unit.
Photo Date:  9/2/1989  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 5:43:17 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4113(GP30)
Views:  1126   Comments: 1


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