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SP RSD12/DL702 2952 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific RSD12/DL702 locomotives 2951 and 2962 were on an eastbound transfer run operating over the Southern Railway at the Metairie Road grade crossing in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. Twenty-one of these units were built by Alco in 1961 for mainline work in California, using components from retired RSD5’s; but all were reassigned to less-demanding yard and transfer service at Houston and New Orleans in 1967, and they remained there until the last were retired in 1977. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
2/1/1971 Upload Date: 2/26/2021 5:20:08 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2952(RSD12) |
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| Title: |
SP 3553 |
| Description: |
Apparently someone at the Espee's Avondale Yard didn't think an Alco C630 and three RSD12's would have enough power to get this transfer run over the Huey P. Long Bridge, so they added GP9 3553 just to make sure! The train is eastbound on the Southern Railway BACK BELT at Shrewsbury Road; and the KCS crossing is just ahead, below the Causeway Boulevard overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1975 Upload Date: 2/5/2010 7:10:49 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3553(GP9) SP 2952(RSD12) |
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2305 Comments: 1 |
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