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SP 2702 and 2703
Title:  SP 2702 and 2703
Description:  Southern Pacific 2702 and 2703 were the first MP15AC units ever built, placed in service on 27 August 1975. Here they were three months later, interchanging cars with the Illinois Central Gulf at the Espee's EAST BRIDGE YARD, next to the east end of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE. The headlight in the distance was a Southern Railway geep making a delivery to the Missouri Pacific in the New Orleans Public Belt's EAST BRIDGE YARD, just off to the right.
Photo Date:  11/29/1975  Upload Date: 4/17/2018 6:13:40 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2702(MP15AC) SP 2703(MP15AC)
Views:  983   Comments: 0
Not UP, not yet anyway
Title:  Not UP, not yet anyway
Description:  SP still was a going operation in 1984, and there was no hint that they would eventually be swallowed by the UP. The stillborn merger attempt with Santa Fe was still ahead at this stage. Funny how things turn out.
Photo Date:  3/10/1984  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:52:16 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2702(MP15AC)
Views:  472   Comments: 1
Shrewsbury Road
Title:  Shrewsbury Road
Description:  Two sets of light power wait on the Norfolk Southern BACK BELT for a route through East Bridge Junction. Both sets are probably headed to their respective yards at Avondale, at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. SP MP15AC's 2702 and 2703 are returning from the Norfolk Southern's Oliver Yard, while MP 3291, UP 4277, MP 3125 and UP 3265 -- all SD40-2's -- are on their way back from the CSX's Gentilly Yard. SP 2702 and 2703 were the very first MP15AC units built by EMD, and the first dozen of these began their careers in south Louisiana. Although initially operated in cab-to-cab sets, nose-to-nose operation was later adopted.
Photo Date:  11/14/1987  Upload Date: 1/9/2010 5:51:51 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  SP 2702(MP15AC) SP 2703(MP15AC)
Views:  2138   Comments: 3
SP 2703
Title:  SP 2703
Description:  A pair of MP15AC's, lead a flatcar with some APC's two hoppers and a SP caboose headed east over the Huey P. Long Bridge. This is way before the Elmwood Medical Center was built and I was standing in a vacant field that will become a large stripmall shopping area today.
Photo Date:  9/18/1982  Upload Date: 12/15/2012 9:14:44 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2703(MP15AC) SP 2705(MP15AC)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
SP Transfer Run
Title:  SP Transfer Run
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  6/8/1983  Upload Date: 1/24/2017 6:00:20 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2704(MP15AC)
Views:  529   Comments: 2
Bridge Meet
Title:  Bridge Meet
Description:  For many years, both the MP and the SP weren't particular about the power they used for transfer runs across the Huey P. Long Bridge... almost any old units would do. But in 1975, both railroads assigned brand new EMD switchers to yard and transfer service around New Orleans. Here, 2-month old SP MP15AC's 2705 and 2706 on an eastbound transfer run meet 8-month old MP MP15DC 1549 -- along with GP18 1963, MP15DC 1551 and GP38-2's 2060 and 2075 -- on a westbound grain train.
Photo Date:  10/13/1975  Upload Date: 11/26/2009 11:50:16 AM
Location:  Jefferson, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2706(MP15AC) SP 2705(MP15AC) MP 1549(MP15DC)
Views:  1505   Comments: 1
Westbound Coal Train (2)
Title:  Westbound Coal Train (2)
Description:  Southern Paacific MP15AC units 2713, 2705 and 2710 were shoving Southern Pacific cab 1846 and 94 cars of Illinois coal up the Huey P. Long Bridge. Up front were consecutively-numbered Cotton Belt SD45T-2's 9274 and 9273 along with Southern Pacific SD45 8827. The coal originated on the Illinois Central Gulf and was headed for Mexico.
Photo Date:  2/8/1976  Upload Date: 8/17/2017 6:25:51 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2713(MP15AC) SP 2705(MP15AC) SP 2710(MP15AC)
Views:  890   Comments: 1
SP MP15AC 2709
Title:  SP MP15AC 2709
Description:  SP MP15AC 2705 was tied up along 4th Street in Gretna while assigned to the branch between Avondale and Algiers.
Photo Date:  11/9/1979  Upload Date: 8/6/2010 12:58:17 PM
Location:  Gretna, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2705(MP15AC)
Views:  2029   Comments: 0
MP15AC
Title:  MP15AC
Description:  MP15AC at San Antonio
Photo Date:  3/23/1996  Upload Date: 2/9/2011 7:46:23 PM
Location:  San Antonio, TX
Author:  Larry Burk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2705(MP15AC)
Views:  1220   Comments: 0
SP 2705
Title:  SP 2705
Description:  Photo was taken from Boarder Highway looking towards Mexico. /DL
Photo Date:  9/23/2000  Upload Date: 5/9/2012 11:14:41 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2705(MP15AC)
Views:  546   Comments: 0
SP MP15AC 2706
Title:  SP MP15AC 2706
Description:  The Southern Pacific loved 1500-horsepower EMD switchers! After buying 240 SW1500's and 12 MP15DC's, the railroad was the first customer for the MP15AC. Between August and October 1975 SP received 58 units, 2702-2759, and the first dozen were assigned to Avondale Yard near New Orleans; although a few of these were used elsewhere across southern Louisiana. Although usually used in pairs and trios, here we see five of the new units -- 2706, 2709, 2708, 2702 and 2703 -- on a westbound transfer run approaching the Huey P. Long Bridge at Central Avenue. The locomotives are literally clean enough to eat off of! These would be the last switch engines purchased by the railroad.
Photo Date:  11/2/1976  Upload Date: 6/5/2010 8:00:27 PM
Location:  Jefferson, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 2706(MP15AC)
Views:  3474   Comments: 2
Southern Pacific
Title:  Southern Pacific
Description:  2706
Photo Date:  5/19/1997  Upload Date: 10/31/2013 1:30:16 AM
Location:  Bedford Park, IL
Author:  Mike Berka
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2706(MP15AC)
Views:  374   Comments: 1
UP/SP enginehouse
Title:  UP/SP enginehouse
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1998  Upload Date: 10/29/2010 7:12:35 AM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  G Gerard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HBT 36(SW1200) SP 2709(MP15AC)
Views:  558   Comments: 0
Dead line at Settegast
Title:  Dead line at Settegast
Description:  Unsure of digit SP 27?9
Photo Date:  9/25/1999  Upload Date: 11/27/2010 8:40:18 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  G Gerard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1019(SW1500) SP 2711(MP15AC) SP 2755(MP15AC) SP 2709(MP15AC) UP 1290(MP15DC)
Views:  753   Comments: 0
UP
Title:  UP
Description:  UP SD60M 2269 & SP MP15AC 2709 are sitting at UP'S Yard in Houston, Tx. awaiting their next assignment
Photo Date:  5/24/2001  Upload Date: 7/19/2005 8:38:01 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  william davis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2269(SD60M) SP 2709(MP15AC)
Views:  778   Comments: 2
SP MP15AC 2710
Title:  SP MP15AC 2710
Description:  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
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2710(MP15AC)
Views:  582   Comments: 0
SP 2711
Title:  SP 2711
Description:  A switch engine rests in front of the Espee's office in Gretna, Louisiana. The track running along the street was the railroad's mainline to Milepost 0 in Algiers until the opening of the Huey P. Long Bridge in December 1935.
Photo Date:  12/28/1980  Upload Date: 7/4/2007 11:17:52 PM
Location:  Gretna, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Track
Locomotives:  SP 2711(MP15AC)
Views:  1153   Comments: 0
SP 2711
Title:  SP 2711
Description:  On a transfer run through downtown Dallas on a cloudy spring day.
Photo Date:  3/28/1996  Upload Date: 12/13/2011 3:47:01 PM
Location:  Dallas, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2711(MP15AC)
Views:  1256   Comments: 0
SP 2711
Title:  SP 2711
Description:  A transfer run from Miller Yard chugs past Dallas Convention Center on a cloudy spring day.
Photo Date:  3/28/1996  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 9:29:50 PM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2711(MP15AC)
Views:  306   Comments: 1
Engine Terminal
Title:  Engine Terminal
Description:  MP15AC 2712, four 1200-horsepower EMD, and a pair of GP9's populate the Espee's engine terminal at Lafayette. The yard here only needs a couple of switchers, so the other units will be used on the branches the originate here and at nearby New Iberia.
Photo Date:  3/25/1978  Upload Date: 8/21/2007 9:53:36 PM
Location:  Lafayette, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2712(MP15AC)
Views:  1567   Comments: 2
SP 2712
Title:  SP 2712
Description:  The SP local heads back to Avondale as it crosses over the Harvey Canal.
Photo Date:  5/10/1984  Upload Date: 12/11/2012 11:31:15 PM
Location:  Harvey, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2712(MP15AC)
Views:  659   Comments: 0
SP 2712
Title:  SP 2712
Description:  Flat switching in Broadway Yard and in dire need of fresh paint.
Photo Date:  11/11/1995  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:12:57 PM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2712(MP15AC)
Views:  1452   Comments: 0
SP Transfer Run
Title:  SP Transfer Run
Description:  A pair of Southern Pacific MP15AC's, led by the 2713, were on a westbound transfer run as it descended the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE, en route from an eastern connection to the railroad's AVONDALE YARD. The photo was taken from the bridge patrolman's motorcar.
Photo Date:  10/15/1977  Upload Date: 6/27/2020 3:31:08 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER photo
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
Locomotives:  SP 2713(MP15AC)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
SP MP15AC 2713
Title:  SP MP15AC 2713
Description:  A pair of Espee MP15AC's lead a westbound transfer run around the West Low Curve of the Huey P. Long Bridge, en route from an eastern connection to the railroad's Avondale Yard. The photo was taken from the bridge patrolman's motorcar.
Photo Date:  10/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/1/2010 4:48:21 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2713(MP15AC)
Views:  1857   Comments: 6
SP 2713
Title:  SP 2713
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1993  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 11:00:28 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Tim Zatto
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2713(MP15AC) SP 2685(SW1500)
Views:  748   Comments: 0
SP 2713
Title:  SP 2713
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/2/1997  Upload Date: 1/19/2013 7:09:33 AM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Bob Carter
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2713(MP15AC)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
SP 2753
Title:  SP 2753
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/2/1997  Upload Date: 1/19/2013 7:08:33 AM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Bob Carter
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2713(MP15AC)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
SP 2714
Title:  SP 2714
Description:  A worn out MP15AC flat switches in Miller Yard.
Photo Date:  9/9/1994  Upload Date: 12/15/2011 2:29:07 AM
Location:  Dallas, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2714(MP15AC)
Views:  1393   Comments: 0
SP 2714
Title:  SP 2714
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/3/1998  Upload Date: 6/19/2021 1:06:04 AM
Location:  Englewood Yard, Houston, TX
Author:  Rick Coles
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2714(MP15AC) SP 2752(MP15AC)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
SP #2715
Title:  SP #2715
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Taken at the SP yard in K.C., Kansas.
Photo Date:  1/1/1987  Upload Date: 5/26/2023 2:30:25 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2715(MP15AC)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
Espee 2715
Title:  Espee 2715
Description:  SP 2715 at Englewood Yard
Photo Date:  2/20/2000  Upload Date: 2/28/2020 12:17:17 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Paul Maciulewicz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2715(MP15AC)
Views:  78   Comments: 0
Espee 2715
Title:  Espee 2715
Description:  SP 2715 at Englewood Yard
Photo Date:  2/20/2000  Upload Date: 2/28/2020 12:17:24 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Paul Maciulewicz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2715(MP15AC)
Views:  74   Comments: 0
SP 2715
Title:  SP 2715
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/24/2000  Upload Date: 11/8/2005 5:45:59 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Nathan D Holmes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2715(MP15AC)
Views:  1121   Comments: 0
SP 2716-2745
Title:  SP 2716-2745
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/7/1984  Upload Date: 9/11/2012 6:33:59 PM
Location:  Kansas City West Bottoms, MO
Author:  S.L. Dixon
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2716(MP15AC) SP 2745(MP15AC)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
SP 2716-2745
Title:  SP 2716-2745
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/7/1984  Upload Date: 9/11/2012 6:34:39 PM
Location:  Kansas City West Bottoms, MO
Author:  S.L. Dixon
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2745(MP15AC) SP 2716(MP15AC)
Views:  397   Comments: 1
SP 2716
Title:  SP 2716
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/7/1984  Upload Date: 9/11/2012 6:33:05 PM
Location:  Kansas City West Bottoms, MO
Author:  S.L. Dixon
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2716(MP15AC)
Views:  433   Comments: 1
SP #2716
Title:  SP #2716
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Taken at the SP yard in K.C., Kansas.
Photo Date:  11/1/1987  Upload Date: 5/26/2023 9:44:06 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2716(MP15AC)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
SP 2716
Title:  SP 2716
Description:  Still has the full SP light package. Date not approx.
Photo Date:  7/1/1995  Upload Date: 12/8/2010 10:16:38 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2716(MP15AC)
Views:  1419   Comments: 0
SP 2716 & CNW friend....
Title:  SP 2716 & CNW friend....
Description:  Can't make out the CNW unit number, but both units waiting to work the hump at Dupo.
Photo Date:  8/1/1999  Upload Date: 9/20/2012 5:45:39 PM
Location:  Dupo, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2716(MP15AC)
Views:  408   Comments: 0
SP 2717
Title:  SP 2717
Description:  Built in 1975, this unit now works as UPY 1446. The tracks this unit is resting on is now operated by Dallas, Garland & Northeastern.
Photo Date:  7/27/1995  Upload Date: 4/24/2012 8:29:48 PM
Location:  Carrollton, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2717(MP15AC)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
SP 2718
Title:  SP 2718
Description:  SP 2718
Photo Date:  9/13/1975  Upload Date: 5/4/2022 6:42:22 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Preston Cook
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2718(MP15AC) SP 2723(MP15AC)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
SP #2718
Title:  SP #2718
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Taken at the SP yard in K.C., Kansas.
Photo Date:  4/1/1990  Upload Date: 5/26/2023 9:45:53 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2718(MP15AC)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
MP 15AC 2718
Title:  MP 15AC 2718
Description:  MP 15AC 2718 Early 1990s
Photo Date:  1/1/1992  Upload Date: 10/22/2004 11:29:00 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Keith Belk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2718(MP15AC)
Views:  1603   Comments: 1
SP 2718
Title:  SP 2718
Description:  Parked in Broadway Yard for the holiday. Can anyone tell me what the hood ornament looking device is attached to the front of 2718? Note this unit still displays the full light package.
Photo Date:  7/4/1995  Upload Date: 12/6/2011 5:37:26 PM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2718(MP15AC)
Views:  614   Comments: 0
SP 2718
Title:  SP 2718
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2004  Upload Date: 1/29/2009 4:22:04 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Tom Fassett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2718(MP15AC)
Views:  694   Comments: 0
UP 2718
Title:  UP 2718
Description:  SW1500 and an MP15 sit in the Los Angeles twilight.
Photo Date:  5/5/2005  Upload Date: 9/21/2005 11:27:17 AM
Location:  Los Nietos, CA
Author:  A.J. Lopez
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2718(MP15AC)
Views:  674   Comments: 0
Delmerva Central 1566
Title:  Delmerva Central 1566
Description:  Delmerva Central 1566 sits in Enola yard
Photo Date:  12/6/2020  Upload Date: 12/9/2020 9:42:32 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  NS6770Fan Productions
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Yard,Track,Action
Locomotives:  DCR 1566(MP15AC) SP 2718(MP15AC) UPY 1447(MP15AC)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
SP switcher, notice the off-set headlight
Title:  SP switcher, notice the off-set headlight
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/26/1996  Upload Date: 2/19/2003 1:13:05 AM
Location:  Little Rock, AR
Author:  Ken Roble
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2719(MP15AC)
Views:  2001   Comments: 1
SP 2720
Title:  SP 2720
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/6/1996  Upload Date: 1/25/2012 6:01:54 PM
Location:  Tucson, AZ
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2720(MP15AC)
Views:  2205   Comments: 2
UP
Title:  UP
Description:  UP Yard Switcher switching out some freight at Houston, Tx.
Photo Date:  5/24/2001  Upload Date: 7/19/2005 8:10:35 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  william davis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2722(MP15AC) SP 2748(MP15AC)
Views:  1568   Comments: 1


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