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| Title: |
MP GP18 1918 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific 1918 was photographed at Race Street Yard in New Orleans, with vessels on the Mississippi River docked on the other sine of the wharves in the background. This unit was constructed in 1962 as Missouri Pacific 418, one of 100 MP low-nose GP18's built in 1962-63 using trucks and other components from traded-in Alco Fa and FB units. The 1918 was retired in April 1984, durind a mass retirement of MP GP18's, traded-in to General Electric, and subsequently scrapped. |
| Photo Date: |
10/4/1981 Upload Date: 2/9/2009 10:54:31 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 1918(GP18) |
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663 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP GP18 1951 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific 1951 was photographed at Race Street Yard in New Orleans, with the Mississippi River bridge in the background. This unit was constructed in 1962 as Missouri Pacific 453, one of 100 MP low-nose GP18's built in 1962-63 using trucks and other components from traded-in Alco FA and FB units. The 1951 was retired in April 1984, during a mass retirement of MP GP18's, and sold for scrap. |
| Photo Date: |
10/4/1981 Upload Date: 2/16/2009 11:20:28 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 1951(GP18) |
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628 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP GP18 1961 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific 1961 was photographed at Race Street Yard in New Orleans, with the Mississippi River bridge in the background. This unit was constructed in 1962 as Missouri Pacific 465, one of 100 MP low-nose GP18's built in 1962-63 using trucks and other components from traded-in Alco FA and FB units. The 1961 was retired in April 1984, during a mass retirement of MP GP18's, traded-in to General Electric, and scrapped. |
| Photo Date: |
10/4/1981 Upload Date: 2/10/2009 8:35:36 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 1961(GP18) |
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634 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coastal Sand & Gravel |
| Description: |
Built on 29 August 1942 as U.S. Army 7953, this little loco was one of only 11 Model 40 diesel-electric switchers built by the Electro-Motive Corporation and its successor, the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. Built between August 1940 and April 1943, each 4-wheel unit weighed between 40 and 44 tons and was powered by two 150HP Detroit Diesel Model 6-71 truck engines. It looks like serial number 2285 spent its entire life in southeast Louisiana. Known owners included the Gulf South Warehouse Co. in New Orleans (which may have been its original assignment for the U.S. Army), American Creosote at Southport, and the Green Brothers' Coastal Sand & Gravel operation at Lacombe, where it was photographed in derelict condition. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/1981 Upload Date: 3/6/2019 2:51:38 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CSG 0(40 Ton) |
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627 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train No. 53 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern train 53 - running as Extra 657 South - was crossing the entrance to the Airline Drive-In Theater about a mile from its destination at New Orleans' WEST YARD. The second unit was F9Am 4053, and when this photo was taken, F-units and older geeps had recently began running with SD's on the line into New Orleans. I was told this was a fuel conservation measure, but it also released SD's for use elsewhere on the railroad. Before long, the usual power became a trio of newer geeps or a GP-slug-GP set. |
| Photo Date: |
11/8/1981 Upload Date: 10/17/2020 5:00:14 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4053(F9AM) KCS 657(SD40-2) |
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430 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS No. 53 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern train 53 - running as Extra 657 South - was crossing the entrance to the Airline Drive-In Theater about a mile from its destination at New Orleans' West Yard. The second unit was F9Am 4053, and when this photo was taken, F-units and older geeps had recently began running with SD's on the line into New Orleans. I was told this was a fuel conservation measure, but it also released SD's for use elsewhere on the railroad. Before long, the usual power became a trio of newer geeps or a GP-slug-GP set. |
| Photo Date: |
11/8/1981 Upload Date: 3/11/2017 12:33:44 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 657(SD40-2) KCS 4053(F9AM) |
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792 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP car 117 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific office car 117, the TUCSON, was bringing up the rear of Amtrak's westbound SUNSET as the train made its way out of New Orleans. Train No. 1 was powered by P30CH units 702 and 714, and was passing the former location of Carrollton Avenue Station. |
| Photo Date: |
11/11/1981 Upload Date: 3/11/2017 12:02:09 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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395 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG SD20 2014 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf+SD20 2014 w`s on unit coal train 4AS113 en route from Illinois to the Public Bulk Terminal along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in New Orleans. Here, the ICG was delivering the train to the New Orleans Public Belt at for the last few miles of its trip. The ICG units would run around their train to pick up their caboose and then head back to MAYS YARD. |
| Photo Date: |
11/18/1981 Upload Date: 6/15/2009 5:23:25 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 2014(SD20) |
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1104 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Export Coal Train |
| Description: |
An ICG unit coal train was on the Nashville Avenue underpass as it entered the New Orleans Public Belt's Cotton Warehouse Yard. The coal was on its way from Illinois to Spain, and the NOPB would move the train to the Public Bulk Terminal -- along the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet -- for unloading. Motive power was provided by four PADUCAH REBUILDS: SD20's 2014, 2017, and 2011, along with GP8 7731. |
| Photo Date: |
11/18/1981 Upload Date: 8/2/2010 12:17:46 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 2014(SD20) |
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947 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NOUPT SW8 3 |
| Description: |
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal SW8, at home. |
| Photo Date: |
11/20/1981 Upload Date: 8/4/2013 9:10:42 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul Wilshaw |
| Categories: |
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NOUPT 3(SW8) |
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329 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 328 |
| Description: |
An early moring northbound Crescent in New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
12/11/1981 Upload Date: 4/21/2009 2:42:44 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Jerry Sires |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 328(F40PHR) |
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460 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Transfer Run |
| Description: |
A westbound Southern Pacific transfer run was passing the LSU Dental School on the Southern Railway’s New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary, en route from the Louisville & Nashville’s GENTILLY YARD to the Espee’s AVONDALE YARD. The transfer run was powered by seven locomotives, which had gone to the L&N on two separate trains. Combining power on transfer runs from the L&N to the SP was not unusual because there was typically an imbalance of traffic, with more eastbound trains. The locomotives were SSW GP20R 4137, SP GP20’s 4085 and 4079, SSW GP20R’s 4143 and 4148, SP GP35 6664 and SSW GP35 6502. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1981 Upload Date: 9/6/2020 10:59:46 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 4137(GP20E) |
| Views: |
314 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SSW GP20R 4137 |
| Description: |
Cotton Belt GP20R 4137 was on a westbound Southern Pacific transfer run on the Southern Railway’s New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary, on its way from the Louisville & Nashville’s GENTILLY YARD to the Espee’s AVONDALE YARD. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1981 Upload Date: 9/6/2020 11:00:11 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 4137(GP20E) |
| Views: |
305 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Transfer Run |
| Description: |
A westbound Southern Pacific transfer run was passing the LSU Dental School on the Southern Railway’s New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary, en route from the Louisville & Nashville’s GENTILLY YARD to the Espee’s AVONDALE YARD. The transfer run was powered by seven locomotives, which had gone to the L&N on two separate trains. Combining power on transfer runs from the L&N to the SP was not unusual because there was typically an imbalance of traffic, with more eastbound trains. The locomotives were SSW GP20R 4137, SP GP20’s 4085 and 4079, SSW GP20R’s 4143 and 4148, SP GP35 6664 and SSW GP35 6502. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1981 Upload Date: 9/6/2020 11:00:34 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 6502(GP35) |
| Views: |
311 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP 3015 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
1/10/1982 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 8:21:49 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3015(SD40) |
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666 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Bisso Towboat 2 |
| Description: |
This was the former Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans 0-6-0 number 2 shortly after it had been repainted by the Bisso Towboat Co. Bisso had owned the locomotive for over 30 years, and finally decided to fix it up. The yellow stripe on the stack was a trademark of Bisso tugboats. The locomotive was built by Alco's Richmond Works (serial No. 42929) in June 1907 as Trinity & Brazos Valley 76, and was later TPMPTRRofNO number 2. |
| Photo Date: |
1/11/1982 Upload Date: 3/14/2010 10:28:35 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BISSO 2(0-6-0) |
| Views: |
1434 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG RDC3 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf RAIL DETECTOR CAR 3 was parked at the railroad's MAYS YARD just west of New Orleans. Even though it was a truck, with Mississippi license plate P20 3099, the railroad still called it a CAR ! |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1982 Upload Date: 10/31/2017 6:17:09 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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724 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sperry 129 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service car 129 was westbound on the Huey P. Long Bridge and was about to pass over the levee on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The bridge tas designed to provide 135 feet of clearance above the average high water level. |
| Photo Date: |
2/8/1982 Upload Date: 4/27/2017 12:19:43 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 129(Doodlebug) |
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455 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
IC SW1R 13 |
| Description: |
The locomotive was built in June 1946 as Illinois Central 9027, and was renumbered 612 in October 1953. The railroad extensively rebuilt the locomotive in October 1968, replacing its 6-cylinder 600-horsepower prime mover with an 8-cylinder 1,000-horsepower one, and renumbered it 13. It was to be the prototype for the rebuilding of the IC's entire fleet of SW1's, which would have been renumbered 1-17; but it was the only one done. The 13 was photographed at Mays Yard, and it spent much of its later life in the New Orleans area. It was retired in 1988. |
| Photo Date: |
3/13/1982 Upload Date: 6/11/2010 10:38:58 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Tom Blackwell |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
IC 13(SW1R) |
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1828 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SOU Road Train on the Bridge |
| Description: |
SOU Road Train on the Bridge |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1982 Upload Date: 6/1/2008 4:04:07 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
C.T Bruce |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Bridge,Signal,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3140(SD45) |
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645 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU Road Train on the Bridge |
| Description: |
SOU Road Train on the Bridge |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1982 Upload Date: 5/23/2010 4:03:13 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
C.T Bruce |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Bridge,Signal,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3144(SD45) |
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548 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound KCS Train |
| Description: |
A southbound Kansas City Southern train was entering the New Orleans area along U.S. Highway 61. The train's power was GP30 4117, GP38-2 4008 and GP30 4100, with SW1500 4320 in-tow and caboose 332 behind the power. |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/1982 Upload Date: 10/17/2020 4:57:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4320(SW1500) |
| Views: |
320 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train |
| Description: |
A southbound KCS train was entering the New Orleans area along U.S. Highway 61. The train's power was GP30 4117, GP38-2 4008 and GP30 4100, with SW1500 4320 in-tow and caboose 332 behind the power. |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/1982 Upload Date: 12/3/2016 12:31:56 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4117(GP30) |
| Views: |
537 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 1 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/15/1982 Upload Date: 10/17/2011 8:30:34 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Jack Smith |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 1(SW8) NOUPT 1(SW8) |
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1790 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP B30-7A 4851 |
| Description: |
A pair of almost-new B30-7A's (4851 and 4840 were built in February and January 1982) lead a westbound transfer run over the New Orleans Public Belt between Broadway and South Carrollton Avenue. The train is en route from Race Street Yard to Avondale Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1982 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 5:01:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
MP 4851(B30-7A) |
| Views: |
702 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP 2017 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific GP38-2's 2017 and 2050 are westbound along the Mississippi River on the New Orleans Public Belt at Jackson Avenue. The transfer run is on its way from Race Street Yard, located just below the bridge in the background; to Avondale Yard, at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. The locomotives had arrived at Race Street Yard earlier in the day on Ft. Worth-New Orleans train FN.The track layout here is typical for this area of the riverfront. From left to right are the abandoned Illinois Central Gulf northbound main line, the still-active ICG southbound main, the west- and eastbound NOPB main tracks, the NOPB switching lead, and two NOPB wharf tracks. The siding leading off to the left across Tchoupitoulas Street ran down Josephine Street. Today, the IC tracks have been displaced by a concrete floodwall, and there is only one NOPB track. All of the others have been replaced by the Clarence Henry Truckway. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/1982 Upload Date: 1/25/2010 12:22:33 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2017(GP38-2) |
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1325 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
MP GP38-2 2017 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific GP38-2 2017 was photographed on the New Orleans Public Belt at Jackson Avenue with a westbound transfer run from the MoP's Race Street Yard to its Avondale Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/1982 Upload Date: 8/14/2016 4:30:48 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2017(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
548 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP GP15-1 1684 |
| Description: |
Along the Mississippi River at Race Street Yard. This was during the Recession of 1980 and the New Orleans Public Belt had un-needed Incentive Per Diem (IPD) box cars parked EVERYWHERE! |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1982 Upload Date: 2/8/2009 11:00:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 1684(GP15-1) |
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505 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak 256 and 255 and 723 |
| Description: |
Amtrak 256 outbound power for Train 20 and Amtrak 255 inbound power off Train 19 both F40PHs next to Amtrak 723 a P30CH stored serviceable at NOUPT Engine House |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1982 Upload Date: 3/12/2006 11:05:58 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Bill Moye |
| Categories: |
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AMTK 256(F40PHR) |
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554 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Slugs |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern yard slugs were not typically used at West Yard, just outside of New Orleans; but several of them were regularly kept at the yard in Baton Rouge, and these came to New Orleans for inspections and maintenance. Here were slugs 4257 and 4252 with F7A 4061 outside the diesel shop at West Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/1982 Upload Date: 10/23/2017 1:30:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4257(Yard Slug) KCS 4252(Yard Slug) KCS 4061(F7A) |
| Views: |
812 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG 2007 |
| Description: |
Mays Yard |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/1982 Upload Date: 6/15/2009 5:21:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 2007(SD20) |
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1169 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG GP11 8726 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP11 8726 was at the railroad's intermodal ramp at Stuyvesant Docks Yard, located along the Mississippi River9in New Orleans. It had just come in on intermodal train GP11 8726, along with GP10 8033, 16 cars and caboose 199621. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/1982 Upload Date: 6/14/2009 6:25:49 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8726(GP11) |
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912 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Intermodal Ramp |
| Description: |
ICG intermodal train P-55 pulls into the intermodal ramp at Stuyvesant Docks Yard, located along the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Today's train has two engines - GP11 8726 and GP10 8033 - with 16 cars and caboose 199621. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/1982 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 8:24:09 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8726(GP11) |
| Views: |
849 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Transfer Run |
| Description: |
In a really unusual move, KCS F3A 4051 and F9Am 4061 were powering an 80-car transfer run along the New Orleans Public Belt near South Carrollton Avenue. The train was on its way from the KCS's West Yard to the NOPB's Cotton Warehouse Yard with 17 box cars, 63 loaded C&NW hopper cars, and caboose 347. The two MP box cars were on their way home (via the NOPB); while the other box cars had drilling mud for Dresser Industries, along the Industrial Canal. These transfer runs typically ran with a switch engine, 10-20 cars, and no caboose. |
| Photo Date: |
12/23/1982 Upload Date: 4/2/2010 4:46:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4051(F3A) KCS 4061(F7A) |
| Views: |
1330 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Transfer Run |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern NW2 4211 was operating over the New Orleans Public Belt at the Fern Street grade crossing with an 11-car transfer run, on its way from the KCS’s WEST YARD to the NOPB’s COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD. |
| Photo Date: |
1/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/1/2020 10:43:39 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4211(NW2) |
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227 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS F7A SLUG 4060 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern F7A slug 4060 was on train No. 53 in New Orleans, between GP40-2 798 and GP40 788. The 4060 had been built in August 1950 as F7A 73D. It was assigned engine number 90 in 1957, renumbered 4060 in 1978 and then rebuilt into a road slug in 1979. It was retired in 1990 and sold to Lloyd Peterson in 1991 who had it cosmetically restored as KCS 73D and placed it on display next to the KCS depot in Decatur, Arkansas in 1993. |
| Photo Date: |
2/14/1983 Upload Date: 2/27/2009 11:38:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
| Views: |
739 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 53 |
| Description: |
At 8:45 Kansas City Southern train No. 53 was near the end of its run from Dallas to the Seaboard System's Gentilly Yard in eastern New Orleans. The train was on the Southern Railway's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary near Elysian Fields Avenue, and was about to get onto the SBD at L&N Junction. The motive power was GP40-2 798, F7A slug 4060 and GP40 788. |
| Photo Date: |
2/14/1983 Upload Date: 9/10/2017 12:08:49 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 798(GP40-2) KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
| Views: |
755 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Deckbar Avenue Overpass |
| Description: |
This view was facing west from the Deckbar Avenue overpass in suburban New Orleans, just west of SOUTHPORT JUNCTION. The two tracks on the extreme left belonged to the New Orleans Public Belt, and were built in the early 1930's as a part of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE project. The Missouri Pacific train in the distance was waiting to get through EAST BRIDGE JUNCTION and on to the Bridge. The single track on the left belonged to the Illinois Central Gulf. A track was first built on this alignment around 1880 by the New Orleans & Mississippi Valley, a predecessor of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley, and for many years this had been used by the IC as its inbound main line into New Orleans. It has been inentified as the A2 track. Next was the ICG LONG CROSSOVER, used by trains moving to and from the ICG's line along the Mississippi River in New Orleans. And finally, the track on the left was the ICG's main line out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. A track was first built on this right-of-way by the New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern around 1853. The switch on the main line across from the LONG CROSSOVER served a 2-track yard associated with the warehouse on the right. Between 1954 and 1969 the inbound and outbound tracks were used by IC, MP, SP and T&P passenger trains, but in 1969 the few trains began using the former outbound track in both directions. |
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2/19/1983 Upload Date: 6/2/2018 6:13:15 PM |
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New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic,Track |
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MP 3027 |
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A pair of MP SD40's approach the Industrial Canal bridge in New Orleans and will arrive at the Family Lines (CSX) Gentilly Yard moments later. |
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3/6/1983 Upload Date: 4/15/2009 1:12:09 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Jerry Sires |
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Action |
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MP 3027(SD40) |
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MP GP15-1 1613 |
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Missouri Pacific GP15-1 1613 was tied up at Race Street Yard in New Orleans, about a year before the yard was closed and removed. |
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4/24/1983 Upload Date: 10/28/2017 6:07:31 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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MP 1613(GP15-1) |
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INDONESIA BB20322 |
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Three General Electric U18A1A units were in the Missouri Pacific's Race Street Yard, along the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The locomotives were numbered BB20322-BB20320, and bound for Panjang, Indonesia. The builder's plate on the BB20322 showed that it was GE serial number 44141, built in April 1983; with a total weight of 171,000 pounds of which 114,000 were on powered axles. The other two were confirmed as serial numbers 44140 and 44139. |
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4/24/1983 Upload Date: 1/25/2010 1:19:37 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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Race Street Yards |
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I'm standing on the New Orelans Public Belt westbound main, facing east. The eastbound main is on the right and beyond that is the NOPB's Race Street Yard, which still exists. On the left is the lead track for the MP's Race Street Yard, which fills up most of the photo and was dismantled in 1984. On the other side of the MP yard lead is an ICG track which once went to their Levee Yard, right on the other side of the Mississippi River Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/1983 Upload Date: 12/23/2009 3:52:24 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard,Track |
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Race Street Yards |
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This view was taken from one of the wharves. In the foreground is the New Orleans Public Belt Race Street Yard, which still exists; and beyond that is the left is the MP Race Street Yard, which was dismantled in early 1984. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/1983 Upload Date: 12/23/2009 3:52:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard,Track |
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Race Street Yard |
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This the MP Race Street Yard, which was dismantled in early 1984. The white building barely visible on the left is the yard office, and the GP15 behind it is waiting for its next job. The track directly in front of the camera, running away from us along South Front Street, belonged to the ICG and ended at Levee Yard. The large, low building right on the other side of the Mississippi River bridge covered both the ICG Levee Yard and the L&N Julia Street Yard. It was an exhibit hall built for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, and is now a part of the ERNEST MORIAL CONVENTION CENTER. The three covered locomotives on the right were General Electric U18A1A's bound for Indonesia. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/1983 Upload Date: 12/23/2009 3:54:05 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard,Track |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Pooches |
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When this photo was taken 15 of Amtrak's 23 P30CH units were at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. A few were in service on the SUNSET, but most were inactive; however, many of these would get a "new lease on life" when Amtrak introduced its version of the AUTO-TRAIN five months later. |
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5/6/1983 Upload Date: 2/3/2017 6:18:01 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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AMTK 707(P30CH) AMTK 720(P30CH) |
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SOU 2755 shoving some helium cars |
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This GP-38 is shoving two pristine helium cars towards the diesel shop on at the Oliver yard in New Orleans, LA. |
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5/23/1983 Upload Date: 11/20/2010 4:59:35 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Jerry Sires |
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RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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SOU 2755(GP38) |
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820 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 3121 |
| Description: |
At Race Street Yard |
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5/26/1983 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 12:06:29 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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MP 3121(SD40-2) |
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SP MP15AC 2710 |
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Southern Pacific MP15AC 2710 -along with the 2704 - and Cotton Belt caboose 60 were in the New Orleans Public Belt's COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD. They had just arrived with a transfer run from the Espee's AVONDALE YARD on the west side of the Mississippi River, and were preparing to return with a westbound train. All of those orange box cars and intermodal cars were unwanted NOPB incentive per diem cars. In this view, the river is just off to the right, and the water tower on the right of SP 2710 was in the Illinois Central Gulf's STUYVESANT DOCKS YARD. The silos on the right were a part of the port's Public Grain Elevator, which was right along the Mississippi. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1983 Upload Date: 3/27/2018 12:53:28 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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SP 2710(MP15AC) |
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IC Warehouse No. 32 |
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This building was originally IC Warehouse No. 32, but when this photo was taken it belonged to the ICG. It was located between Tchoupitoulas Street, shown here, and the railroad's Stuyvesant Docks Yard. The building extended from Louisiana Avenue to General Taylor Street, seven blocks or about 2,300 feet, and contained almost 293,00 square feet. Prior to the construction of the new yard office at Mays Yard in the 1960's, this building also housed the offices of the railroad's Louisiana Division. It was still standing in 2013, although it is now served by the New Orleans Public Belt. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1983 Upload Date: 11/7/2013 10:46:58 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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SP Transfer Run |
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At 6:15 on a midsummer evening, the engineer on Southern Pacific MP15AC 2704 was easing back to pick up his caboose - Cotton Belt 60 - in the New Orleans Public Belt's COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD. The caboose was still coupled to the 19-car transfer run he had just brought over from his railroad's AVONDALE YARD, at the west end of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE; and he was now coupling up so he could return home with this 12-car train. The two tracks on the left were the Illinois Central Gulf's north- and southbound main lines; while the structure on the left was the PUBLIC GRAIN ELEVATOR, facing the Mississippi River. Notice the stored NOPB box cars on the right and in the left background. |
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6/8/1983 Upload Date: 1/24/2017 6:00:20 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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SP 2704(MP15AC) |
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