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| Title: |
ICG and NOPB |
| Description: |
Looking downriver from Louisiana Avenue, standing on the ICG "main line" to Levee Yard. The two tracks on the left were the New Orleans Public Belt's main lines, and the land on the other side of the chain link fence was once a small NOPB yard. The aluminum relay shelter in the middle of the photo was Harmony Street Interlocking, where the ICG crossed the NOPB. |
| Photo Date: |
3/4/1978 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 9:14:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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| Title: |
Southern SD45 3439 |
| Description: |
The Southern Railway’s 70 SD45’s were among my all-time favorite diesel locomotives, and none of my images illustrate them better than this one. The engineer on Southern 3139 was biding his time as he waited for a clear route on the New Orleans Terminal Co. at the Frenchmen Street signal. No. 3139 was on No. 194, the run-through train from the Southern Pacific to Birmingham, along with SD35 3090 and SD45 3100. |
| Photo Date: |
3/5/1978 Upload Date: 8/28/2018 11:47:25 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3139(SD45) |
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2526 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
KCS, NOPB and ICG Track |
| Description: |
This was a view facing west at Monticello Avenue, on the Orleans-Jefferson Parish line. On the left was the Kansas City Southern coming in to connect with the New Orleans Public Belt, next were the two NOPB main tracks, and on the right were two Illinois Central Gulf main tracks. The signal on the ICG protected the crossings with the NOPB and KCS at LAMBERT JUNCTION. |
| Photo Date: |
3/12/1978 Upload Date: 5/11/2018 5:28:11 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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386 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 194 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway No. 194, the run-through train from the Southern Pacific at Houston to Birmingham, was raising quite a racket as it rolled across the Seabrook drawbridge on its way out of New Orleans. The bridge spans the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, which connects the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, just off to the right. The sign next to the first car showed that the speed limit on the bridge was 45. |
| Photo Date: |
3/12/1978 Upload Date: 12/26/2016 10:07:34 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 223(SD35) |
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724 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Diner 3306 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway dining car 3306 was on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT leaving Birmingham station. The car was built by Budd in late 1949, became Amtrak 2nd 8380 in 1979 and then Amtrak HERITAGE FLEET car 8521. It was offered for sale in Amtrak’s 4 January 2019 equipment auction and went to the Branson Scenic Railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1978 Upload Date: 2/4/2019 10:39:24 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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1047 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 5680 |
| Description: |
Fifty-six seat coach 5680 was built manufactured by Budd as New York Central 2931, and it retained the same number on the Penn Central. It was one of 60 cars (NYC 2930-2959) built in 1946-47, and 52 of them went to Amtrak as the 5630-5635 and 5640-5685. It was photographed on the SOUTHERN CRESCENT leaving New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1978 Upload Date: 8/28/2011 2:56:43 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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1325 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Passenger Cars |
| Description: |
Private car PENNSYLVANIA 120, Southern Pacific office car 99 and Southern Railway dome-coach 1613 were lined up on tracks 4, 5 and 6 in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The dome car was on the SOUTHERN CRESCENT, and the photo was taken shortly before that train's 6:45 A.M. departure. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1978 Upload Date: 8/31/2010 12:51:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Station |
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1659 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent |
| Description: |
The low morning sun illuminated the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT as it sat in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, awaiting its 6:45 AM departure. The train consisted of E8A's 6902, 6910, 6908 and 6914 with 10 cars: baggage-dormitory car 706 SOUTH CAROLINA, coaches 837, 840, 819 and Amtrak 5680, sleepers 2023 WARRIOR RIVER, Amtrak 2619 PACIFIC MEADOW and 3499 ROYAL PALM, diner 3306 and dome car 1613. In less than a year, Amtrak would take over the operation of the train, and scenes like this would disappear forever. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1978 Upload Date: 8/13/2015 10:34:17 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6902(E8A) |
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515 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern 3589 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway 3589 was photographed in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal about one year before the railroad turned over the operation of the SOUTHERN CRESCENT to Amtrak. This was one of three Railway Post Office-baggage cars built for the railroad in late 1950 by American Car & Foundry. The 3589 was technically owned by the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific - as shown by the initials on the letterboard at this end of the car, while the 1727 and 1728 were owned by the Southern itself; and all three were converted into full baggage cars after RPO service ended. The 1727 and 1728 were retired when Amtrak took over the operation of the SOUTHERN CRESCENT in 1979, but this car was sold to Amtrak. It was initially numbered Amtrak second 1022, then modified for head-end power and renumbered 1127, and was stored in 2007. The lettering on the end of the car reads THIS CAR EQUIPPED WITH HYATT JP1A OIL BOX JOURNAL BEARINGS-DO NOT SUBSTITUTE ALTERNATE BEARINGS. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1978 Upload Date: 11/30/2016 12:21:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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1068 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern 2005 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway 2005 FLINT RIVER was photographed in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal about a year before Amtrak took over the operation of the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. This was one of 46 Plan 4140 10-roomette / 6-double-bedroom sleeping cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Southern and five connecting railroads in late 1949. It car became Amtrak 2852 in 1979 and was sold in 1982. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1978 Upload Date: 11/30/2016 12:21:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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1087 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern 2011 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway sleeping car 2011 RIVANNA RIVER was photographed in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal about a year before Amtrak took over the operation of the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. This was one of 46 Plan 4140 10-roomette / 6-double-bedroom cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Southern and five connecting railroads in late 1949. It car became Amtrak 2865 in 1979 and was for sale in April 1983. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1978 Upload Date: 11/30/2016 12:22:31 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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929 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 493 |
| Description: |
The numbers on these two ex-SP FP7As look cobbled together from other numbers. John C. Benson photo, from the Ralph L. Phillips collection of the Bay State Model Railroad Museum. |
| Photo Date: |
3/20/1978 Upload Date: 10/9/2022 1:43:23 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Bay State Model Railroad Museum |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 493(FP7A) AMTK 492(FP7A) |
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226 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
Just after sunup, Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was preparing to leave New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal behind E8A 6904 and three other units. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1978 Upload Date: 9/24/2021 11:22:25 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6904(E8A) |
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322 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
PAR 2 |
| Description: |
Pacific Railroad Society car PAR 2 TIMOTHY B. BLACKSTONE was built by American Car & Foundry in 1950 as a Gulf Mobile & Ohio car of the same name. It was one of four GM&O Plan 9012 cars with eight roomettes, four sections, three bedrooms and one compartment, all of which were retired in 1969. Soon after acquiring the car in 1970, PRS renamed it GOLDEN SUNSET; but it regained its original name when it was repainted in Amtrak colors, as show here, and was later assigned Amtrak number 800367. The car was photographed on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT leaving New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
4/7/1978 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 9:57:46 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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1712 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
PAR 6101 |
| Description: |
Pacific Railroad Society car PAR 6101 was originally Union Pacific 6101, one of six UP dormitory-lounge cars (6100-6105) built by American Car & Foundry in 1949. All of the cars were retired in 1970-71. It was photographed on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT leaving New Orleans, and it was eventually assigned Amtrak number 800247. The car appeared in the 1981 movie UNDER THE RAINBOW, and was subsequently named CAJON PASS. |
| Photo Date: |
4/7/1978 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 9:58:45 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
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1629 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP B30-7 7805 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8362 and B30-7 7805 were pulling a Louisville & Nashville train towards the railroad's GENTILLY YARD at Read Boulevard. The cars had been a southbound run-through train which was parked out on the MICHOUD SIDING because the SP wasn't ready to accept it, and now these two units had been sent out from the L&N yard to pick it up. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1978 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 5:39:52 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7805(B30-7) SP 8362(SD40T-2) |
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427 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Meet |
| Description: |
A trio of Southern Railway SD units on MP-SOU run-through train 114 were meeting GP35 2647 on a transfer run to the Kansas City Southern. This action was on the Southern's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary at the Labarre Road grade crossing in suburban Metairie. (approximate day) |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1978 Upload Date: 9/6/2017 5:33:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6320(SD24) SOU 2647(GP35) |
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695 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Transfer Run |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific GP35 6640 was leading an eastbound transfer run over the Sowthern Railway's BACK BELT. The train was crossing the 17th Street Outfall Canal on its way from the Espee's AVONDALE YARD to the Louisville & Nashville's GENTILLY YARD and had seven locomowives representing five models from three builders: GP35, SD45T-2, U30C, C630, C628 and two more C630's. (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1978 Upload Date: 4/25/2018 10:24:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6640(GP35) |
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696 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP SD40T-2 8362 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8362 and B30-7 7805 were pulling a Louisville & Nashville train towards the railroad's GENTILLY YARD at Read Boulevard. The cars had been a southbound run-through train which was parked out on the MICHOUD SIDING because the SP wasn't ready to accept it, and now these two units had been sent out from the L&N yard to pick it up. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1978 Upload Date: 10/31/2017 6:12:32 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8362(SD40T-2) |
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1899 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern E8A 6915 |
| Description: |
At 6:58 A.M., 13 minutes after leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT rounds the curve on the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at Orleans Avenue. The E-unit are the 6915, 6913, 6914 and 6904. |
| Photo Date: |
4/17/1978 Upload Date: 9/19/2010 4:40:24 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6915(E8A) |
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1277 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
TR #2 |
| Description: |
Equipment for TR 2 "Southern Crescent" waiting for boarding and departure |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/1978 Upload Date: 8/6/2011 3:50:09 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
James Gillin |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6902(E8A) |
| Views: |
395 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SR Tr 2 |
| Description: |
Southern Crescent |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/1978 Upload Date: 7/23/2010 12:58:34 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
James Gillin |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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232 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU U23B 3900 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway U23B 3900 was stopped at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge on an MP-SOU run-through train, waiting to change crews. This locomotive was the first of 70 such units on the railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
5/6/1978 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 6:18:36 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3900(U23B) |
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522 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
L&N GP38-2 4105 |
| Description: |
Louisville & Nashville GP38-2 4105 leads a southbound train into New Orleans, as it approaches the railroad's Gentilly Yard. Seaboard Coast Line U36B 1822 is parked on the Michoud Siding with a crewless run-through train for the Southern Pacific, waiting for permission from the SP to deliver it. Michoud Siding extended for six miles from the north end of Gentilly Yard, and it was very common for run-through trains to be parked here for hours, or even days, waiting to be delivered to either the SP or the MP. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/1978 Upload Date: 3/14/2014 4:00:52 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LN 4105(GP38-2) SCL 1822(U36B) |
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1133 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Untitled |
| Description: |
EMD FP7A at New Orleans LA. Photographer: James Claflin. |
| Photo Date: |
6/20/1978 Upload Date: 4/6/2020 3:30:34 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
C.W. Lahickey |
| Categories: |
Roster |
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101 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Yard |
| Description: |
In this very unusual scene, Missouri Pacific SD40 3015 and Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8300 were parked together on the East Tie-Up Track at the Southern Railway’s OLIVER YARD in New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
6/21/1978 Upload Date: 9/19/2018 4:17:29 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3015(SD40) SP 8300(SD40T-2) |
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742 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
E-Unit Trucks |
| Description: |
A pair of E-units trucks were sitting outside the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel shop. They didn't have any traction motors, and were left over after E8A 293 had been cannibalized and scrapped here. The cement plant was on NOUPT property and has been gone for a while now. |
| Photo Date: |
7/2/1978 Upload Date: 3/9/2017 5:36:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 293(E8A) |
| Views: |
517 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RBB&B 1978 Red Train |
| Description: |
Illinois Central SW9 442 was switching the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey RED TRAIN in the ICG's Poydras Yard. The circus has just arrived in New Orleans, and would be performing in the nearby Louisiana Superdome, visible in the background. The train's caboose was Seaboard Coast Line 0825. |
| Photo Date: |
7/5/1978 Upload Date: 6/6/2010 5:17:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
IC 442(SW9) |
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1230 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
L&N No. 479 |
| Description: |
Southbound Louisville & Nashville train No. 479 was about to enter the railroad's GENTILLY YARD in New Orleans. This was the Old Gentilly Road grade crossing at the east end of the yard, and the locomotives were GP38-2 4096, GP40 3002, GP38-2 4054 and leased Canadian National GP40 4014. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1978 Upload Date: 7/14/2017 9:19:27 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LN 4096(GP38-2) |
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519 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Train No. 58 |
| Description: |
Amtrak train No. 58 – the northbound PANAMA LIMITED – was about to pass under Jefferson Davis (now Norman C. Francis) Parkway on New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal track, and this image illustrates what Amtrak trains looked like when all of the equipment was in a matching paint scheme! No. 58 consisted of P30CH 722 and nine cars: baggage car 1214, 10-6 sleeper 2900 PACIFIC BAY, dinette 20225, 60-seat coaches 21883, 21876, 21886 and 21888, cafe 20048 and 84-seat coach 21234. |
| Photo Date: |
7/16/1978 Upload Date: 8/17/2022 9:47:54 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 722(P30CH) |
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182 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 6643 |
| Description: |
Two SP GP35's and a Chessie System GP40-2 are stopped on the Southern Railway "Back Belt" at Frenchman Street. The other units are SP 6538 and B&O 4298. The train is on its way from the SP Avondale Yard to the CSX Gentilly Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
7/23/1978 Upload Date: 2/3/2009 1:46:42 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6643(GP35) |
| Views: |
479 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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1230 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent, NOUPT, August, 1978 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
8/1/1978 Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:11:55 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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1360 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Fuel Tender 400 |
| Description: |
The piece of equipment was built as Baltimore & Ohio E9 number 34 in 1955, and was subsequently B&O 1454 and Amtrak 400. In the late 1970's, Amtrak gutted the unit and installed the water tanks from four retired SDP40F's, creating a 9300-gallon fuel tender. It was tried on different trains, but wasn't widely used; and is shown here stored at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/1978 Upload Date: 2/28/2010 10:57:01 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) |
| Views: |
3305 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
SOU 2370 |
| Description: |
Southern 2370 was one of four MP15DC's (2367-2370) assigned to New Orleans right from the factory in July 1977. Here it is at Oliver Junction, as viewed from the Almonaster Ave. overpass, a little over a year after its arrival. The new switchers replaced three pre-war NW2's ane NW5 2100. |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/1978 Upload Date: 6/1/2009 8:13:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2370(MP15DC) |
| Views: |
1100 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
509 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
1374 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NOUPT SW8 3 |
| Description: |
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal SW8 No. 3 was at the terminal's car shop, having just been repainted from blue-and-orange into Amtrak colors, but not yet lettered. This was one of three SW8's - Nos. 1-3 - built in December 1953 for use at the new terminal. No. 2 was sold around 1960, but Nos. 1 and 3 survived into the Amtrak era. Both were repainted into Amtrak colors, and were sold to NASA in 1990. |
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10/21/1978 Upload Date: 3/11/2017 1:09:13 PM |
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New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
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Yard |
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NOUPT 3(SW8) |
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| Title: |
Southern NW2 1058 |
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Southern Railway NW2 1058 was powering a short westbound transfer run along former New Orleans Terminal Co. trackage at L&N Junction. The little train is on the Freight Lead and is crossing a Louisville & Nashville industrial spur. Up until 1954, this L&N track and another one next to it were the main line into downtown New Orleans. The track became a spur serving an industry on Elysian Fields Avenue at Florida Boulevard in 1954, and it was removed shortly after this photo was taken.The two tracks on the left of the train are the NOTCO main line. The bridge over the train is Interstate Highway 10, while the bridge in the background is Franklin Avenue. The 1058 was built in September 1948 as the 2267 and it spent most of its life at New Orleans. It was renumbered 1058 in December 1972, and was withdrawn from service at New Orleans in June 1980. |
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10/25/1978 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 4:45:03 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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SOU 1058(NW2) |
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| Title: |
SOU 2-8-2 4501 |
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Southern Mikado 4501 was northbound on the railroad's BACK BELT at the Orleans Avenue Canal, on its way out of New Orleans. (date approximate) |
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11/1/1978 Upload Date: 9/9/2010 4:04:31 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
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Steam |
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SOU 4501(2-8-2) |
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| Title: |
SOU 2-8-2 4501 |
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Southern Mikado 4501 was northbound on the railroad's BACK BELT at the Marconi Drive Underpass, on its way out of New Orleans. (date approximate) |
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11/1/1978 Upload Date: 9/9/2010 4:05:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
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Steam |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 4501(2-8-2) |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway 4501 |
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Southern Railway Mikado 4501 cast its reflection in the still water of Bayou St. John as it made its way out of New Orleans on an excursion train. |
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11/4/1978 Upload Date: 5/10/2022 10:43:04 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image |
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Station,Action |
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SOU 4501(2-8-2) |
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| Title: |
Southern Car 1056 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN |
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The car host, identifiable by his red jacket and green cap, was waving to the photographer from the front end of Southern Railway car 1056 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, as it brought up the rear of an excursion train leaving New Orleans. The 13-car train consisted of Mikado 4501, water tender W.T.50, NRHS sleeper IMPERIAL EMBLEM, combine 726, coaches 1041, 1042 and 1043, baggage car 4061, coaches 1067, 1068, 1081, 1086, 1087 and 3659, and observation car 1056 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. It was crossing Bayou St. John on a bridge that had been built by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas in 1905, but this was not its original location. |
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11/4/1978 Upload Date: 5/10/2022 10:44:38 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image |
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Passenger |
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| Title: |
Southern 4501 |
| Description: |
Southern Mikado 4501 leads a northbound excursion train under Wisner Drive and over Bayou St. John as it makes its way out of New Orleans over the railroad's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/1978 Upload Date: 6/21/2016 10:42:03 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
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Steam |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 4501(2-8-2) |
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938 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
L&N B23-7 5125 |
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Almost-brand-new Louisville & Nashville B23-7 5125, recently delivered from the factory in the Family Lines paint scheme, leads three other L&N units: GP38-2 4070 and GP30's 1062 and 1001; all in traditional L&N gray. The units are on a northbound train sitting on the main line in the railroad's Gentilly Yard. (approximate month and day) |
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11/11/1978 Upload Date: 3/14/2014 4:31:39 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
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Yard |
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LN 5125(B23-7) |
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| Title: |
Eastbound MP |
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A quartet of Missouri Pacific units were hauling a eastbound train over the New Orleans Public Belt, en route from the MP's Avondale Yard to Race Street Yard, but this train was probably heading for the Louisville & Nashville's Gentilly Yard. The motive power was GP38-2 2110, U23B 2267, GP15-7 1595 and GP38-2 2116. (approximate day) |
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11/15/1978 Upload Date: 1/6/2017 10:21:29 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
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Action |
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MP 2110(GP38-2) |
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| Title: |
SP SD40 8487 |
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Southern Pacific SD40 8487 was coupled to Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8213 in the ICG's Mays Yard, just west of New Orleans. Finding an SP unit here was very unusual. |
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11/19/1978 Upload Date: 1/6/2017 10:08:06 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
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Yard |
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SP 8487(SD40) ICG 8213(GP10) |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
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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 ane then IC 6063. |
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12/3/1978 Upload Date: 8/28/2016 10:08:09 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
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Yard |
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GMO 914(SD40) IC 5058(U33C) |
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874 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern SD45 3154 |
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For many years, the locomotives that arrived in New Orleans on the Southern Railway's southbound piggyback train No. 219 went back out on northbound No. 222. This usually worked well, but if No. 219 was running late, the railroad would take one or two locally-assigned geeps and head out with No. 222. When the two trains met, they would swap locomotives, and everything would return to normal. On this day, the local unit - GP38 2736 - only had to go five miles with No. 222 before it met No. 219 at the Airport crossover. Here, No. 219's power - SD45 3154H and 3169A, and SD35 3061X - has uncoupled from its train and is pulling up next to the 2736. The crews will swap engines, the engines will swap trains, and then both trains will be on their way. The drawbridge in the background crosses the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal at Milepost 190.6. |
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12/17/1978 Upload Date: 11/26/2009 11:26:06 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3154(SD45) |
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| Title: |
MP 2526 |
| Description: |
Race Street Yard |
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12/25/1978 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 8:33:32 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Todd Minsk |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2526(GP35) |
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740 Comments: 0 |
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