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Southern GP7 8213 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP7 8213 was on an eastbound transfer run from one of the railroad's western connections, and was about to enter the railroad's OLIVER YARD at Terminal Junction. The track in the foreground is the connection with the main line to Meridian and points north. (approximate month and day) |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1977 Upload Date: 6/23/2017 5:44:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 8213(GP7) |
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| Title: |
PEANUT SPECIAL |
| Description: |
At 1:00 PM on Tuesday 18 January 1977 a trio of Amtrak SDP40F units - 582, 595 and 588 - was about to pull out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal with the 18-car PEANUT SPECIAL. All of the train's trucks and underbody had just received a coat of fresh black paint at NOUPT. The train was made up of three coaches, four sleepers, a piano-lounge car, a full diner, a kitchen-dormitory car, a sleeper-lounge and seven more sleepers. It deadheaded to Plains, Georgia via the L&N and SCL so it could bring supporters of Jimmy Carter to his presidential inauguration in Washington on 20 January. After the inauguration it returned to Plains and then deadheaded back to New Orleans behind the 643, 588 and 595. |
| Photo Date: |
1/18/1977 Upload Date: 6/23/2017 5:51:18 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 582(SDP40F) AMTK 582(SDP40F) |
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| Title: |
ICG Power |
| Description: |
Three years after the Illinois Central-Gulf Mobile & Ohio merger IC GP10 8278, GM&O GP38 713, IC GP10 8109 and GP7 8965 were parked next to the former GM&O diesel shop at Bogalusa, Louisiana. Notice the GM&O sand car in the background on the right. (approximate day) |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1975 Upload Date: 6/23/2017 6:04:56 PM |
| Location: |
Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
IC 8278(GP10) |
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1139 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A&M Alcos |
| Description: |
About a dozen Arkansas & Missouri Alcos, most of them C420 units, were parked across from the engine house at Springdale, Arkansas while T6 number 18 was outside the shop. |
| Photo Date: |
9/22/1990 Upload Date: 6/23/2017 6:12:15 PM |
| Location: |
Springdale, AR |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AM 48(C420) |
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| Title: |
A&M Alcos |
| Description: |
Former Burlington Northern C425 4258 and Delaware & Hudson C420 417 were among the Alco road units stored on the Arkansas & Missouri at Springdale, Arkansas while T6 number 18 was switching on the other side of the main line. |
| Photo Date: |
5/19/1990 Upload Date: 6/23/2017 6:18:03 PM |
| Location: |
Springdale, AR |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BN 4258(C425) DH 417(C420) |
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782 Comments: 0 |
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