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| Title: |
UP 2406 |
| Description: |
UP (MP) train CH pauses in the Monroe yard on its way from Chicago to Houston. At that time, the route from Little Rock through Monroe and Alexandria was used as a alternate route to and from south Texas. In addition to UP C30-7 2406, the train also has yellow MP SD40-2 3298 and blue MP SD40 3063 -- a typical mix of power from that era. I don't know if a forward-facing locomotive was added before the train left! |
| Photo Date: |
6/5/1985 Upload Date: 1/2/2010 1:41:24 PM |
| Location: |
Monroe, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 2406(C30-7) |
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944 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP 2501 |
| Description: |
This locomotive was orginally 601, and then 2501. Here it has been re-engined with a normally-aspirated 645 engine, making it essentially a GP38; but not renumbered. After the MP decided to put its re-engined GP35's into their own number series, it became the 2601. |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1977 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 9:11:16 PM |
| Location: |
Texarkana, TX |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2501(GP35) |
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859 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 2517 |
| Description: |
Race Street Yard |
| Photo Date: |
7/24/1977 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 8:38:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2517(GP35) |
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729 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 2526 |
| Description: |
Race Street Yard |
| Photo Date: |
12/25/1978 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 8:33:32 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Todd Minsk |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2526(GP35) |
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699 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 2969 |
| Description: |
This big U-boat is wearing the last of its four road numbers. It had previously been the 964, 5, and 3304. |
| Photo Date: |
12/28/1980 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 8:24:56 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 2969(U30C) |
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772 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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612 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
MP 3047 |
| Description: |
Willow Glen Yard |
| Photo Date: |
6/9/1983 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 8:16:58 PM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3047(SD40) |
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475 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP 3114 |
| Description: |
Running backwards, this was the lead unit on a transfer run from the L&N to the MP's Avondale Yard. An L&N crew has delivered the train to Shrewsbury Road, and it is waiting for an MP crew. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/1983 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 8:12:37 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Todd Minsk |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3114(SD40-2) |
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497 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP 3114 |
| Description: |
Cab detail. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/1983 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 7:13:02 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Todd Minsk |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3114(SD40-2) |
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350 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 3121 |
| Description: |
At Race Street Yard |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/1983 Upload Date: 2/13/2009 12:06:29 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3121(SD40-2) |
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560 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 3123 |
| Description: |
The engineer on MP 3123 and the brakeman on MP 3126 eye the photographer as they bring a westbound transfer run up the Huey P. Long Bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
12/30/1974 Upload Date: 5/31/2009 12:17:00 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3123(SD40-2) |
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783 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 3171 |
| Description: |
Outside the diesel shop at Avondale Yard |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1981 Upload Date: 2/12/2009 11:54:51 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3171(SD40-2) |
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658 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 3182 |
| Description: |
A trio of MP SD40-2's prepares to take a transfer run from Race Street Yard -- along the Mississipppi River near downtown -- across the Mississippi River to Avondale Yard. Race Steet Yard was closed in early 1984, and the land was used as the primary parking lot for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. The track in the foreground, parallel to the train, belongs to the ICG. |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1980 Upload Date: 2/4/2009 9:10:39 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3182(SD40-2) |
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1011 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP SD40-2 3229 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific SD40-2 3229 was parked next to the diesel shop at Avondale Yard, just west of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1981 Upload Date: 12/8/2017 5:39:07 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3229(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
328 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP SD40-2 3299 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific SD40-2 3299 was tied down at AVONDALE YARD, just west of New Orleans, with UP SD40-2's 3174 and 3501, along with yellow MP GP50 3522. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 4/25/2018 10:53:42 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3299(SD40-2) |
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436 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 3507 |
| Description: |
The 3507 was the lead unit on a westbound transfer run from the L&N's Gentilly Yard to the MP's Avondale yard. An L&N crew had brought the train here, to Shrewsbury Road in Metairie; and it is waiting for an MP crew to complete its journey to Avondale. |
| Photo Date: |
2/23/1984 Upload Date: 2/12/2009 11:42:01 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 3507(GP50) |
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633 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP B23-7 4679 |
| Description: |
Almost all of the Missouri Pacific's 85 B23-7's received 100-series Union Pacific numbers when they were relettered for the UP, but this unit retained its MP number until it became UP 179 in April 1986. The locomotive was on a set of transfer power in the New Orleans Public Belt's East Bridge Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1985 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 1:03:51 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4679(B23-7) |
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553 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NB MOPAC |
| Description: |
A empty DEGX coal train rolls north along the Mississippi Export at Agricola, Mississippi; about half way between the railroad's end points of Pascagoula and Evanston. The train is crossing Mississippi Highway 613 and passing the Temple Baptist Church. Motive power is a quartet of Missouri Pacific SD40-2's: 6050, 6019, 6025 and 6006. Unlike most MP locomotives, all of these have dynamic brakes and were bought specifically for coal train service. The train is on its way from Mississippi Power's DANIEL ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT (thus the DEGX reporting marks on the cars) at Escatawpa to Colorado via the Mississippi Export-Evanston-Illinois Central Gulf-Memphis-Missouri Pacific-Pueblo-Rio Grande. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1985 Upload Date: 1/1/2010 4:32:06 PM |
| Location: |
Agricola, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
MP 6050(SD40-2) |
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765 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
MP SD40-2 6050 |
| Description: |
Missouri Pacific "coal service" SD40-2 6050 (with dynamic brakes) was one of eight MP and UP units on a transfer run across the New Orleans area from the Seaboard System's GENTILLY YARD to the UP's AVONDALE YARD. The train was stopped at the east end of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE changing crews. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 4/25/2018 10:33:22 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 6050(SD40-2) |
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392 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 8003 |
| Description: |
The Missouri Pacific only owned eight SW8's. They were built in 1952 as Texas & Pacific 811-818 and spent much of their lives in south Louisiana, where they were used in yard and branch line service. The units once wore oscillating headlights and were originally considered light road switchers. Between March 1979 and May 1981 the MP rebuilt all of them into SL1 slugs. The 8003 and 8000 were resting next to the former TPMPT (Texas Pacific-Missouiri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans) engine house at Avondale Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/1976 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 3:42:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MP 8003(SW8) |
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889 Comments: 4 |
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