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| Title: |
NOS&WB L6 |
| Description: |
A central of Georgia covered hopper towers over New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board number L6 at the city's main water treatment plant. The little loco is a 16-ton Plymouth model DDT, serial no. 7176 built in February 1977. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/1983 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:17:38 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NOSWB L6(15-ton DDT) |
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860 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP FEF-3 8444 |
| Description: |
Young Christopher Palmieri was inspecting the cab of Union Pacific FEF-3 8444 while the loco and its train were stopped on the former Missouri Pacific at Addis, Louisiana. The engine was on its way to New Orleans where it would be placed inside the site of the upcoming LOUISIANA WORLD'S EXPOSITION. After the engine was in place, the UP's RIVERS OF STEEL pavilion and other buildings and displays would be erected around it. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1984 Upload Date: 3/27/2018 1:03:06 PM |
| Location: |
Addis, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Steam |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8444(4-8-4) |
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612 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
WP GP40 3534 |
| Description: |
A westbound transfer run from the Seaboard System on the east side of New Orleans to the Union Pacific on the west side was parked at Shrewsbury Road in suburban Metairie. The train had been brought here by an SBD crew and was waiting for a UP crew to complete its trip. It was powered by Western Pacific GP40 3534, WP GP40-2 3559 and Missouri Pacific SD40-2 3227, and it had MP caboose 13843. |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/1984 Upload Date: 7/7/2017 9:24:10 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
WP 3534(GP40) |
| Views: |
448 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Action at Cotton Warehouse Yard |
| Description: |
Union Pacific GP40s 600 (ex-Rock Island 340) and 658 (ex-Western Pacific 3509), along with Missouri Pacific GP38-2 2135, were on a transfer run in the New Orleans Public Belt’s COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD preparing to head west to the UP’s AVONDALE YARD across the Mississippi River. On the left was MP caboose 13046 on UP train FNZ, on its way from Fort Worth to the Seaboard System’s GENTILLY YARD. FNZ was on the NOPB eastbound main track and was crossing the Illinois Central Gulf at the Jefferson Avenue Interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1984 Upload Date: 1/6/2019 12:32:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 600(GP40) |
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321 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP Geeps |
| Description: |
Union Pacific GP40 units 663 and 665 were heading west up the Huey P. Long Bridge. They had just brought a special train to the 1984 World Exposition and were on their way to Avondale Yard, at the west end of the bridge. The locomotives were built as Western Pacific 3514 and 3516, and in 1994 they were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen into Kansas City Southern GP40-2's 4777 and 4779. |
| Photo Date: |
5/25/1984 Upload Date: 7/28/2017 5:04:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 663(GP40) UP 665(GP40) |
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456 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Drawbridge |
| Description: |
This Scherzer rolling lift bridge crosses the Harvey Canal section of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. At the time of this photo, one track belong to the SP and the other to the UP. After the UP-SP merger, one of the tracks was removed; and now this line is operated by the New Orleans & Gulf Coast. The west gate of the Harvey Lock can be seen on the right, and the Mississippi River is one the other side of the lock. |
| Photo Date: |
9/12/1984 Upload Date: 8/2/2010 4:14:12 PM |
| Location: |
Harvey, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
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680 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
UP Fair Train |
| Description: |
Almost every Friday during the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition the Union P}cific ran a special passenger train from Houston to this siding at the fair site in New Orleans. Here was a typical train, with staff car CABARTON, sleeper OMAHA, lounge car 6203, and office car 102. Yellon MP GP50 3515 and GP40 612 have uncoupled from the cars and are preparing to head back to Avondale Yard, at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
9/28/1984 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:22:15 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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1135 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
T&NO 2-8-2 745 |
| Description: |
12:15 P.M. - SP (T&NO) 2-8-2 745 was sitting on the pad in Audubon Park where it had been since 1956, but the process of removing it was underway. The removal involved a bulldozer, a crane, and several pieces of panel track. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/1984 Upload Date: 8/9/2010 2:57:30 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Steam |
| Locomotives: |
SP 745(2-8-2) |
| Views: |
1297 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
T&NO 2-8-2 745 |
| Description: |
4:40 P.M. - SP (T&NO) 2-8-2 745 was being removed from Audubon Park in New Orleans, its home since 1956. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/1984 Upload Date: 8/9/2010 2:57:53 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Steam |
| Locomotives: |
SP 745(2-8-2) |
| Views: |
1523 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
T&NO 2-8-2 745 |
| Description: |
9:00 A.M. - SP (T&NO) 2-8-2 745 was being removed from Audubon Park in New Orleans, its home since 1956. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1984 Upload Date: 8/9/2010 2:59:32 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Steam |
| Locomotives: |
SP 745(2-8-2) |
| Views: |
2042 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
T&NO 2-8-2 745 |
| Description: |
2:50 P.M. - A bulldozer was pulling SP (T&NO) 2-8-2 745 out of Audubon Park, where it had been on display since 1956, and onto the track of the Illinois Central Gulf. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1984 Upload Date: 8/9/2010 2:59:59 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Steam |
| Locomotives: |
SP 745(2-8-2) |
| Views: |
1143 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
UP Fair Train |
| Description: |
Union Pacific GP40's 643 and 604 -- both former Rock Island units -- prepare to head west from the railroad's siding at the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition with Miss“uri ]acific office car number 10. The UP had at least one car parked here almost every weekend during the fair's six months run. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1984 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:23:08 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
UP 643(GP40) |
| Views: |
798 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP 8444 |
| Description: |
After spending six mcnths on display outside the Union Pacific's RIVERS OF STEEL exhibit at the 1984 LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION, UP 4-8-4 8444 heads west over the New Orleans Public Belt behing MP GP38-2 2322. Behind the steamer are tool car 904304 and boiler-dormitory car 304. The little train is on its way from the fair site to the railroad's Avondale Yard, and is about"to ascend the Huey P. Long Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1984 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:24:44 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8444(4-8-4) |
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1162 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 2322 |
| Description: |
Aeter spending six months on display outside the Union Pacific's RIVERS OF STEEL exhibit at the 1984 LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION, UP 4-8-4!8444 heads west over the Huey P. Long Bridfe behind MP GP38-2 2322. Behind the steamer are tool car 904304 and boiler-dormitory car 304. The little train is on its way from"the fair site to the railroad's Avondale Yard.% Instead of using the UP's wye at Westwego, the 8444 was brought to the SP's Avondale Yard where the locomotive and tender were'separated and turned individually on the turntable there! A New Orleans Public Belt track gang is working on the eastbound track. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1984 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:24:58 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2322(GP38-2) UP 8444(4-8-4) |
| Views: |
1090 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Chalmette Slip |
| Description: |
This is a view facing north of the CHALMETTE SLIP, which is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River just a few miles downriver from New Orleans. The slip and its wharves were built around 1905 by the New Orleans Terminal Co. to provide a river port facility for it owners, the Southern Railway and the St. Louis & San Francisco (Frisco). After the Frisco entered bankruptcy in 1913, the Southern became the sole owner of the NOTCo.; and in 1982 the Southern merged with the Norfolk & Western to form the Norfolk Southern. NS sold the slip to the St. Bernard Port, Harbor & Terminal District around 1995. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1985 Upload Date: 10/5/2016 1:17:41 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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362 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Stored Locomotives |
| Description: |
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal SW8's 3 and 1 and Amtrak P30CH 701 were stored at NOUPT. The switch engines had been replaced by Amtrak SW8 747, which arrived here in 1984. |
| Photo Date: |
10/5/1985 Upload Date: 8/9/2010 2:54:37 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NOUPT 3(SW8) NOUPT 1(SW8) AMTK 701(P30CH) |
| Views: |
1979 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Seaboard System Meet |
| Description: |
Eastbound (on the left) and westbound run-through trains were having a meet on the Seaboard System just west of the railroad’s Gentilly Yard in New Orleans. On the left was a trio of freshly-painted SBD U-Boats - U33B 5624 with U36B's 5773 and 5752 - on a United States Lines stack train en route from the Missouri Pacific in Houston to Savannah, Georgia. The other train – with Cotton Belt B30-7 7796, SP SD45 9107 and SD40T-2 8232 – was on its way from Gentilly to the Espee’s Avondale Yard, on the other side of the Mississippi River. |
| Photo Date: |
11/16/1985 Upload Date: 2/22/2017 6:08:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 5624(U33B) SP 7796(B30-7) |
| Views: |
893 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound UP |
| Description: |
Four yellow SD40-2's - Missouri Pacific 3259 and 3294, Union Pacific 3254, and MP 3113 - were pulling a westbound 66-car train up the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE. Ohe photo was taken from the Mississippi River levee, aM the low afternoon sun reflected off of the train's fourth unit. |
| Photo Date: |
11/23/1985 Upload Date: 5/14/2018 5:53:09 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3259(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
306 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP AXAVT |
| Description: |
One of the earliest double stack trains was operated between Los Angeles and Atlanta for American President Lines via the Southern Pacific and the Southern Railway. Here was SP train AXAVT's connection heading east over the New Orleans Terminal Co., an SOU/NS subsidiary, at Shrewsbury Road in suburban Metairie. In seven miles these cars would be delivered to the NS and then head north as a part of NS train 222. Standard APLX cars were blue, while the red cars had diesel generators for refrigerated containers. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 8/18/2017 6:14:18 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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480 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SBD 118 |
| Description: |
Seaboard System FP7 118 was photographed at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal engine terminal. It and F3A 116 had come in the previous day on a 6-car special for Super Bowl XX, which was taking place when this photo was taken. The locomotive was built in February 1952 as Clinchfield 200. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1986 Upload Date: 1/30/2010 8:43:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 118(FP7A) |
| Views: |
942 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Super Bowl XX |
| Description: |
In very fresh SPSF paint, a pair of Southern Pacific SDP45's sit outside the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal engine house, while Super Bowl XX was taking place behind them in the Louisiana Super Dome. The two units had arrived the previous day with a 15-car Super Bowl Special. In the background, F40 391 wears special SUPER BOWL SHUTTLE markings on its nose. It had come in earlier in the day with a nine-car special from Chicago. On the track next to the 391 are an E9A, SDP40F, P30CH and two Seaboard System F-units. The Chicago fans went home happy, as their BEARS beat the New England PATRIOTS 46-10. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1986 Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:12:19 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3207(SDP45) SP 3201(SDP45) |
| Views: |
1702 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NOS&WB L6 |
| Description: |
New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board L6 was picking up a covered hopper on the New Orleans Public Belt interchange, and is preparing to head back to the city's main water treatment plant. The little locomotive is a 16-ton Plymouth model DDT, serial number 7176, built in February 1977. |
| Photo Date: |
10/30/1986 Upload Date: 11/26/2009 8:55:25 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NOSWB L6(15-ton DDT) |
| Views: |
1539 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Public Grain Elevator |
| Description: |
A pair of unidentified vessels were moored abreast at the unused Public Grain Elevator on the Mississippi River at New Orleans. Built for the Port of New Orleans in 1916, by this time the facility had been made obsolete by about 10 newer privately-operated elevators located between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The elevator's yellow 80-ton General Electric switch engine was parked at the base of the smoke stack, while the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad's COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD is on the other side of the buildings. The elevator was razed by blowing it up in 1990. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1986 Upload Date: 8/14/2017 1:49:12 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
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324 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP and MP Yards |
| Description: |
This view shows the east end of the SP and MP yards at Avondale, Louisiana. The dividing line between the two railroads is the row of trees across the middle of the image. The quartet of geeps (two GP9E's and two GP20E's) to the left of the turntable is a set of transfer power, while two sets of SD's - including a Southern Railway unit - are parked off to the right. A trio of Southern SD's can bee seen just above the SP caboose tracks in the center of the photo, moving from one end of the yard to the other. The MP yard features a yellow C&NW caboose, and a set of MP power can be seen on the extreme right. This view is facing north. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1986 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 9:46:37 AM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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1683 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CSX Gentilly Yard |
| Description: |
The former L&N yard in eastern New Orleans is oriented east-west, and this view is looking northwest. The yard was opened in 1926, and most of the buildings in the center of the photo date from that time. The roundhouse originally had seven stalls and was served by a 90-foot turntable, but four of the stalls had been removed when this photo was taken. The four brick buildings are, from left to right, the Storeroom and Shop Foreman's Office, Locker Room, Storeroom, and Car Repair Building. A yellow Trackmobile can be seen on the right working one of the car repair tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1986 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 9:44:18 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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1261 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NOPB Yard |
| Description: |
This is the New Orleans Public Belt's roundhouse, and a portion of their Cotton Warehouse Yard. An NOPB SW1000 and two SW1500's parked outside, while an Illinois Central Gulf SW14 is pulling some cars out of the NOPB yard. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1986 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 9:45:48 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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990 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NS Oliver Yard |
| Description: |
This is the north end of the former Southern Railway Oliver Yard. The yard is oriented north-south, and this view is facing northwest. The building in the middle of the photo was one of the nicest diesel shops in New Orleans, and the first to be razed. It was demolished in 1991 so that the intermodal yard could be enlarged. Removal of the shop began in June 1991 and the expansion of the pigyback yard was completed in November 1992. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1986 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 9:44:51 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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2690 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
Seatrain Loader |
| Description: |
This structure was built by the Overseas Railway Corp. in 1928 to load railroad cars onto a ship -- the S.S. SEATRAIN -- for movement to Havana, Cuba. It was located on the west bank of the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans; and was served by the New Orleans & Lower Coast Railroad, a subsidiary of the Missouri Pacific. Overseas Railway Corp. became Seatrain Lines, and service was expanded to New Jersey in 1932. Service to Cuba ended around 1960 and to New Jersey in 1964. The central business district of New Orleans is in the upper left of the photo, and the white structure in the trees right behind the loader is part of the Mississippi River levee. The loader was finally scrapped at the beginning of the twenty-first century, although the trestle and concrete foundation remain. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1986 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 5:22:09 PM |
| Location: |
Belle Chasse, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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2379 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Bridge Meet |
| Description: |
An eastbound Missouri Pacific transfer run meets Amtrak's westbound SUNSET on the east approach to the Huey P. Long Bridge. The MP locomotives are GP38-2's 2079 and 2217 with B23-7 4680, while the SP office cars are 150 SUNSET followed by 140 STANFORD. |
| Photo Date: |
12/13/1986 Upload Date: 2/12/2010 2:51:48 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
MP 4680(B23-7) |
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1563 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CSX 116 on OLS Special |
| Description: |
CSX F7A 116 (ex-CRR) was on the front of an Operation Lifesaver Special preparing to leave New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal for a trip to Pascagoula and back. The other locomotives were CSX F7B 117 (ex-CRR), NS GP38 2800 (ex-SOU), ICG GP38 9531 (ex-GM&O 712) and Amtrak F40 276. The 10-car train consisted of Amtrak coaches 4616, 4741 SILVER MAPLE, 4722, 4736 and 4603, NS sleeper-lounge 2352 CRESCENT MOON, NS sleeper 17 TUGALO RIVER, NRHS-Florida Gulf Coast Chapter sleeper-lounge 800055 CAPE TORMENTINE (ex-CN), SBD lounge 319 GREENBRIAR (ex-IC) and SBD track observation car 318. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/1987 Upload Date: 5/17/2010 3:34:47 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 116(F3A) |
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1088 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
EMDX 817 |
| Description: |
Built as Penn Central 8017, this loco was subsequently Conrail and EMD 8017, and then EMD 817. Here it is on lease to the Union Pacific, parked on the Norfolk Southern BACK BELT over Pontchartrain Boulevard -- and Interstate 10 -- with a transfer run from the CSX to the UP. |
| Photo Date: |
11/21/1987 Upload Date: 2/7/2010 12:11:32 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
EMDX 817(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
419 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NS No. 193 |
| Description: |
Norfolk Southern No. 193 (and later 393) was the run-througo train from Birmingham to Houston via the SP. Here it was stopped on the NS at the Marconi Drive underpass, waiting for a clear route to the Huey P. Long Bridge about five miles away. When it got to the east end of the bridge, an SP crew would get on and take it cross the Mississippi River to their Avondale Yard. This train had SP SD45T-2 9309, along with former Conrail SDP45's 6688 and 6689 which the SP was leasing from VMV Enterprises. These SDP45's were originally Erie Lackawanna units, and when their lease expired Conrail retired them. Along the way, the 6688 had an accident and its long hood was replaced with one made for an SD45-2. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1988 Upload Date: 11/30/2016 10:11:00 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9309(SD45T-2) VMV 6688(SDP45) VMV 6689(SDP45) |
| Views: |
902 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG SW14 1461 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1461 was heading upriver along the Mississippi near the Prytania Street grade crossing with a train of Polish coke. The coke had been unloaded at the Public Bulk Terminal which was served by the New Orleans Public Belt, and the NOPB delivered the train to the ICG at Cotton Warehouse Yard. The manicured green area along the tracks is actually a 20-foot high levee, and the stuff in the foreground belonged to one of the Bisso compainies. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/7/2017 9:57:52 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 1461(SW14) |
| Views: |
345 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NORTA 450 |
| Description: |
A pair of big Komatsu forklifts were had just removed New Orleans Regional Transit Authority car 450 off of a flatbed semitrailer and were about to lower it onto standard-gauge trucks for service on to the new RIVERFRONT car line. The car had just arrived from CARROLLTON STATION where they had been extensively overhauled. It had been built by the Perley A. Thomas Car Co. in 1924 as New Orleans Public Service 924. It went to Atlanta soon after the CANAL car line was discontinued in 1964 and returned to New Orleans in January 1986. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/1988 Upload Date: 4/12/2020 9:59:00 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Transit |
| Locomotives: |
NORTA 450(Trolley) |
| Views: |
179 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NORTA 450 |
| Description: |
A pair of big Komatsu forklifts had just lowered New Orleans Regional Transit Authority car 450 onto standard-gauge trucks for service on the new RIVERFRONT car line. The 450 had just arrived from CARROLLTON STATION on a flatbed semi-trailer. The car had been built by the Perley A. Thomas Car Co. in 1924 as New Orleans Public Service 924 and went to Atlanta soon after the CANAL car line was discontinued in 1964. It returned to New Orleans in January 1986. |
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7/31/1988 Upload Date: 4/12/2020 10:00:54 PM |
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New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Transit |
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NORTA 450(Trolley) |
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NORTA 450 and 451 |
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New Orleans Regional Transit Authority cars 450 (ex-New Orleans Public Service 924) and 451 (ex-919) had just been trucked to the new, standard-gauge RIVERFONT LINE and were parked on their storage tracks. This new line utilized a former Southern Pacific track, while the track next to it belonged to the CSX (originally Louisville & Nashville) and the track on the left was owned by the New Orleans Public Belt. RTA subsequently purchased the CSX line and rebuilt both tracks to broad (62½-inch) gauge. Local transit historian and CSX employee Earl Hampton was enjoying a cold drink on the left. |
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7/31/1988 Upload Date: 4/25/2020 6:11:37 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Transit |
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NORTA 450(Trolley) NORTA 451(Trolley) |
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NOPB-IC at Southport Junction |
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At 9:30AM on this bright Sunday morning Illinois Central GP40R 3105, GP38 9534 and GP38-2 9571 had delivered an intermodal train to the railroad's IMX (Intermodal eXchange) along the Mississippi River at STUYVESANT DOCKS YARD and were returning to MAYS YARD where the crew would go off duty and the geeps would be serviced. In the early evening, a crew would go back on duty and deadhead back to the IMX for the northbound run. This long-standing practice was eliminated a few years later by fueling the units on the southbound train a McComb, and then leaving them at the IMX until departure. The geeps had just crossed the New Orleans Public Belt at SOUTHPORT JUNCTION, but about six years later they installed a connection here with the IC and the crossings were eliminated. |
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4/16/1989 Upload Date: 3/26/2018 4:34:35 PM |
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New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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IC 3105(GP40R) |
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Two MKT Geeps |
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Former MKT GP39-2 370 was parked next to the Union Pacific engine house at Avondale Yard, Louisiana; while GP38-2 318 was inside. MKT 360-379 were the last GP39-2's built. |
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8/13/1989 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 12:36:54 AM |
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Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
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MKT 370(GP39-2) |
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Central Avenue |
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Southern Pacific GP35 6564 is on a set of transfer power parked in that railroad's East Bridge Yard, while Kansas City Southern GP40 776 passes on Train No. 53. KCS No. 53 is exercising trackage rights over the Illinois Central, and is on its way to the CSX Gentilly Yard. |
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10/21/1989 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 10:23:52 AM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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SP 6564(GP35) KCS 776(GP40) |
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NOPB SW1000 103 |
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On a beautiful January morning New Orleans Public Belt SW1000 103 was parked dead along the Mississippi River at South Carrollton Avenue with no one around. This was the job that went out most afternoons to switch industries around the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge, and something must have happened before they got back to Cotton Warehouse Yard which was about two miles away. |
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1/23/1990 Upload Date: 3/9/2018 5:25:55 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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NOPB 103(SW1000) |
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Southport Tower |
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This view is facing west on the north side of the IC's former Southport Tower. The auto is parked on the former right-of-way of what had been the IC's inbound main line into New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal until it was removed around 1969. The tower was built in 1912 by the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co., a predecessor of the KCS, to control several crossings with the IC. It closed on 27 October 1996, after being condemned by the Federal Railroad Administration; and was razed on 13-14 August 1997. |
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2/27/1990 Upload Date: 2/15/2010 12:25:55 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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Southport Tower |
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This view of the west side of the IC's Southport Junction Tower shows its professionally-lettered sign and the fine condition of the building! The tower was built in 1912 by the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co., a predecessor of the KCS, to control several crossings with the IC. It closed on 27 October 1996, after being condemned by the Federal Railroad Administration; and was razed on 13-14 August 1997. |
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2/27/1990 Upload Date: 2/15/2010 12:26:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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BNSF H-NWOBEL |
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Badly-discolored BNSF C44-9W 4475, along with the 4428, was on westbound train H-NWOBEL at New Orleans. The train was on the New Orleans Public Belt at the Prytania Street grade crossing. It had just originated at the NOPB’s COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD and was on its way to Belen, New Mexico. Both of these locomotives had been built in mid-1999 and a number of BNSF units built at this time received defective paint which quickly discolored. |
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4/19/2001 Upload Date: 7/27/2019 1:08:49 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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BNSF 4475(C44-9W) |
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Eastbound BNSF |
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When LMX B39-8E units 8550 and 8596 showed up in New Orleans on this eastbound BNSF stack train, they were two of the last LMX units still in operation on that railroad. The train was parked on the New Orleans Public Belt's westbound main track near Walnut Street, with the Mississippi River levee on the left. The little rusty object on the left, between the tracks and the bicycle path, was a derelict log skidder. It was left over from when the Bisso company, on the other side of the levee, occasionally dealt in used railroad equipment. It had been here for well over 60 years and was scrapped by the NOPB soon after this photo was taken. There had once been a 2-track yard here, when the NOPB delivered coal to Bisso for use in its tugboats and ferries. |
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7/25/2001 Upload Date: 1/9/2017 10:24:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic,Action |
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LMX 8550(B39-8E) |
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GCFX SD40M-2 3053 |
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GCFX SD40M-2 3053 was parked on the CSX at the Louisa Street grade crossing in New Orleans with Kansas City Southern train No. 53. A Norflk Southern crew had brought the train here from their KCS connection at Shrewsbury, and the CSX would send a crew out from their Gentilly Yard to bring the train in when they were ready for it. |
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7/29/2001 Upload Date: 2/17/2017 5:43:43 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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GCFX 3053(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Derelict Skidder |
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This derelict log skidder was parked along the New Orleans Public Belt near Walnut Street for over 60 years, but it was finally scrapped by the railroad shortly after this photo was taken. The NOPB felt that it had become an eyesore and a liability once the bicycle path in the foreground was completed. Before the bike path was created, the skidder was usually covered in thick vegetation, and most people didn't even know it was there!According to a long-time New Orleans railfan, the late Ed Gebhardt, the skidder was probably brought here by the Bisso Towboat Co., which was located right behind the photographer, on the riverside of the Mississippi River levee. Mr. Gebhardt recalled that Bisso dealt in used railroad equipment as late as the 1930's, and that the skidder had been parked in a 2-track yard right here for as long as he could remember. The yard was long-gone when this photo was taken, and soon the skidder disappeared too. The fire extinguisher must have been someone's idea of a joke! |
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9/10/2001 Upload Date: 1/12/2017 1:40:26 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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RollingStock |
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NO&GC Track (2) |
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This track along Brooklyn Avenue in Algiers, Louisiana was first laid in 1889 by the New Orleans, Fort Jackson & Grand Isle Railroad, which was building south along the west bank of the Mississippi River. At one time the railroad’s depot and station were just beyond the vegetation in the distance. After several reorganizations and mergers this track was owned by the New Orleans & Gulf Coast when this photo was taken. These two homes at 709-711 (brown) and 705-707 were typical double-shotgun designs, with an addition on the rear for indoor bathrooms. |
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9/29/2001 Upload Date: 10/16/2018 3:46:58 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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NO&GC Track (1) |
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This track along Brooklyn Avenue in the New Orleans suburb of Algiers was first laid in 1889 by the New Orleans, Fort Jackson & Grand Isle Railroad, which was building south along the west bank of the Mississippi River from here. At one time there were houses all along the street, and their front steps descended onto these tracks. By the time this photo was tzken, the track belonged to the New Orleans & Gulf Coast, and there were only three houses left. The blue home was at 737 Brooklyn, on the corner with Slidell Street. A depot and roundhouse were once just beyond the vegetation in the distance. |
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9/29/2001 Upload Date: 10/16/2018 3:36:10 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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A Little Too Close for Comfort |
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At 4:30 on the morning of 15 December 2001, Union Pacific train Q-LIWX (Livonia-Waycross) was coming off of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE at EAST BRIDGE JUNCTION and heading for the CSX via the Norfolk Southern BACK BELT. The train had UP SD40-2 3334, C40-8 9262, SD40-2 3533 and CSX SD40-2 8254 with 119 cars. At the same time, the connecting train between CSX No. 145 and UP I-ATLB (Atlanta-Long Beach) was approaching EAST BRIDGE on the New Orleans Public Belt with an NOPB crew, behind UP SD70M 4662 and C44-9W 9764. Unfortunately, the NOPB crew was asleep, as their train ran a red signal and struck the Q-LIWX about 70 cars back, derailing about a dozen cars on the eastbound train as well as the two units and one car on their own train. When this photo was taken about 12 hours later, a crew from Hulcher was cleaning up the mess. Westlake Polymers car WLPX 44124 was leaning over next to EAST BRIDGE JCT. tower. |
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12/15/2001 Upload Date: 3/18/2022 11:50:02 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Wreck |
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UP 4662(SD70M) |
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CN-IC Transfer Run |
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Norfolk Southern C40-9W 9340, SD60 6568 and Canadian National GP9RM 4013 were on a combined CN-IC transfer run/intermodal train Q-192 on the New Orleans Public Belt at Walnut Street. The train was on its way from Mays Yard to Stuyvesant Docks Yard and was made up of 17 cars of mixed freight, 27 gondolas and 88 axles of intermodal cars. At that time, the CN geeps were regularly used on these transfer runs, but the NS units on Q-192 were very uncommon. The bicycle path in the foreground runs along the toe of the Mississippi River levee. |
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5/14/2002 Upload Date: 11/24/2018 1:14:16 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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