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| Title: |
SOU 2673 |
| Description: |
Four geeps power a southbound train past the depot at Laurel, Mississippi. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1977 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 4:49:10 AM |
| Location: |
Laurel, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2673(GP35) |
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1743 Comments: 9 |
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| Title: |
Southern Train No. 193 |
| Description: |
Even though Norfolk Southern Corp. had been in existence for over three years, this still looks like a Southern Railway train! Birmingham-Houston run-through train 193 pauses on the New Orleans Public Belt at the east end of the Huey Long Bridge, where the NS delivered it to the Espee. Behind GP35 2684 are GP38-2 5183, U23B 3931 and GP38-2 5159, 86 cars, and Espee caboose 4611. Earlier in the day, a ceremony was held on the bridge to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its opening in 1935. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1985 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 4:55:28 AM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2684(GP35) |
| Views: |
851 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern GP38 2727 |
| Description: |
A westbound transfer run passes under the cantilevered signal on the New Orleans Terminal Co. at Frenchman Street, en route from Oliver Yard to one or more of the western connections. The overpass is Elysian Fields Avenue. |
| Photo Date: |
12/26/1979 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 10:50:40 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2727(GP38) |
| Views: |
910 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 2761 |
| Description: |
While assigned to yard and transfer service at New Orleans, Southern GP38 2761 was "customized" with green paint insde the "O" in its road name. While this was a standard feature on the railroad's freight cars -- a part of its "Southern Gives a Green Night to Innovation" marketing campaign -- it was wasn't suppose to show up on locomotives! The 2761 was built with a small 1700-gallon fuel tank, but here it has a 3,000-gallon tank from a revired SD35. The building on the right is the tower at Oliver Yard. (month approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
12/12/1986 Upload Date: 6/1/2009 8:29:48 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2761(GP38) |
| Views: |
1352 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 2 |
| Description: |
On 1 February 1970 Southern Railway train No. 48 the SOUTHERNER was redesignated No. 2 the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. On Tuesday 20 October 1970 the train went from daily to tri-weekly operation between New Orleans and Birmingham. Here is train No. 2 on Wednesday 21 October with two sets of power, because the equipment that had arrived in New Orleans on Monday evening did not go out on Tuesday morning. Notice the Automatic Train Stop contact shoe on the third axle of the 2927's front truck. ATS had been deactivated on 15 May 1970. That's the photographer's yellow Volkswagen Beetle parked on the platform. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1970 Upload Date: 6/2/2009 10:52:34 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
James H. Selzer, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2927(E8A) |
| Views: |
2661 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Meet |
| Description: |
It 5:30 on the Fourth of July, and we're on the Southern Railway at the north end of Pearl River siding witnessing a ritual that was repeated thousands of times each day. A trainman off of northbound No. 114 -- the run-through train from the MP running as 222 -- has performed a roll-by inspection of southbound piggyback train 219 and is letting his counterpart know that everything looks OK. No. 219 had GP38 2778 with 23 cars and caboose X411. No. 114 has SD35 3042, SD40 3174 and SD35 3019 with 98 cars and MP caboose 13430. It has been here for 30 minutes, and this is the second train it has met; but the 3042's headlight in back on and 114 is about to resume its journey north. Amtrak's southbound CRESCENT is running three hours late, so 114 won't have any more meets for a while! |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1979 Upload Date: 6/1/2009 12:35:25 AM |
| Location: |
Pearl River, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3042(SD35) |
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1528 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 3166 |
| Description: |
It's 5:55 P.M. as Southern SD45's 3166, 3132, and SD40 3170 lead train No. 222 north across the Lake Pontchartrain trestle 25 miles north of New Orleans. Even though this is officially a piggyback train, the first five car are assorted "cover cars" and behind them is a large block of LPG tank cars. These tank cars originated at Toca, Louisiana -- on a Southern branch line south of New Orleans -- and regularly moved north on No. 222 throughout the 1970's. Today is a Saturday and the train doesn't have many intermodal cars. It only has 50 cars and caboose X730. |
| Photo Date: |
10/19/1974 Upload Date: 3/13/2009 11:08:39 PM |
| Location: |
North Shore, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3166(SD45) |
| Views: |
2448 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern SD40-2 3257 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway piggyback and automobile train No. 219 rolls out of the Honey Island Swamp and past the station sign at Pearl River. The train consists of SD40-2 3257, SD35 3044, and SD45 3125, with 17 cars and caboose X747. The train is short because it is a Saturday. The Alexandria-New Orleans train is about 30 miles from its destination at Oliver Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/1978 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 10:54:58 AM |
| Location: |
Pearl River, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3257(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1708 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU U23B 3900 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway U23B 3900 was stopped at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge on an MP-SOU run-through train, waiting to change crews. This locomotive was the first of 70 such units on the railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
5/6/1978 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 6:18:36 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3900(U23B) |
| Views: |
491 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern U23B 3917 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway U23B 3917 is about to enter Oliver Yard with a special train of oversize steel girders. Although it is a special train, it is flying green flags, which show that it is running as the first section of a regularly-scheduled train. In this case, it is operating as First No. 169.The train has just passed under the Almonaster Avenue overpass, crossed the former New Orleans Terminal Co. main line, and is crossing the Florida Avenue drainage canal. The NOTCO crossings were eventually removed. |
| Photo Date: |
2/25/1978 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 10:58:45 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3917(U23B) |
| Views: |
1168 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 5052 |
| Description: |
Southern 5052 cross the Florida Avenue drainage canal, on the eastern connection from the New Orleans Terminal Co. main line into Oliver Yard. (month approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
4/4/1977 Upload Date: 6/6/2009 6:06:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 5052(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
1065 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Diesel Excursion |
| Description: |
A northbound Southern Railway excursion train, on its way from New Orleans to Hattiesburg and back, was making a photo run-by at McNeil, Mississippi. McNeil is between Poplarville and Picayune, and there isn’t much there ? The train consisted of FP7s 6141 and 6147 with 12 cars: ex-NYC sleeper-lounge LAUREL STREAM owned by N.O. Chapter-NRHS, SOU 2352 sleeper-lounge CRESCENT MOON, combine 726, lightweight coaches 842 and 843, heavyweight commissary car 4061, heavyweight coaches 1067, 3659, 1068, 1081 and 1086, and heavyweight open car 1056 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. These trips were usually steam powered, but Mikado 4501 was out of service that year. |
| Photo Date: |
11/21/1982 Upload Date: 11/24/2018 12:39:49 PM |
| Location: |
McNeill, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6141(FP7A) |
| Views: |
357 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Birmingham Special |
| Description: |
Southern Railway’s BIRMINGHAM SPECIAL (Nos. 17/18) was down to three cars when it was photographed at the remains of Birmingham’s TERMINAL STATION in July 1970, across the platform from the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. This train consisted of FP7 6147, E8A 2926, two Norfolk & Western lightweight coaches and a Southern heavyweight baggage car. On its way out of town it would stop at Norris Yard to pick up some intermodal cars before heading north to Washington, D.C. On 11 August - shortly after this photo was taken - the train was discontinued in the State of Tennessee, and two weeks later is was abolished in Alabama as well. (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1970 Upload Date: 10/29/2018 1:47:44 PM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, AL |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6147(FP7A) SOU 2926(E8A) |
| Views: |
1085 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern GP9 6258 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP9 6258 leads an eastbound transfer run over BACK BELT at the Canal Boulevard underpass. The train is on its way from the KCS interchange in Metairie to the Southern's Oliver Yard. The 6258 was built in November 1956 as Central of Georgia 160. The Southern acquired the CofG in 1963, but the unit retained its original number until the Southern renumbered all of its GP9's into a common number series in 1972. When photographed here, the 6258 was finishing out its career in yard and transfer service. It was retired the next year and sold for scrap. The bridge here was one of about two dozen grade separations built as a part of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal Project in the early 1950's. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1981 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 11:03:05 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6258(GP9) |
| Views: |
1110 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6268 |
| Description: |
When this photo was taken, the Southern normally kept four MP15DC's and four GP9's for yard and transfer service in and around New Orleans. In this view from the Galvez Street overpass, GP9's 6258, 6368 and 6263 occupy the West Tie Up Track at Oliver Yard (along with an unidentified tank car), while MP15DC 2369 and a trio of GP50's (7032, 7016 and 7072) sit on the East Tie Up Track. The fourth GP9 -- 6266 -- was switching in the yard. In less than a year, the old geeps would be replaced with brand new MP15DC' |
| Photo Date: |
6/28/1981 Upload Date: 6/1/2009 8:39:55 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6258(GP9) |
| Views: |
1882 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern SD24 6332 |
| Description: |
A trio of Southern units (SD24's 6332 and 6302 with SD40 3180) lead an eastbound train off of the Huey P. Long Bridge at East Bridge Junction. It was not very common to find two Southern SD24's together on the same train. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1977 Upload Date: 11/24/2009 4:06:45 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6332(SD24) |
| Views: |
1215 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6344 |
| Description: |
Southern SD24's weren't very common in New Orleans, so finding two of them on the same train was a real treat! These units - along with an SD45 - are on the Houston-Birmingham run-though train from the Southern Pacific. As was usual at the time, an Espee crew has parked the train on the New Orleans Terminal Co. westbound track at Frenchman Street. Eventually a rested Southern road crew will get on board and head for Meridian as train 194. The 6344 was built as NO&NE 6950, while the 6301 was originally SOU 2503. Both units were retired the year after this photo was taken, and both were de-turbocharged for new careers on the Chicago & North Western. (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1977 Upload Date: 4/27/2009 4:40:34 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6344(SD24) |
| Views: |
1379 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern PELICAN |
| Description: |
Southern Railway train No. 41, the southbound PELICAN, was about five miles from its destination at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. No. 41 was at milepost 4 on the railroad's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary near East City Junction. It had a typical consist which reflected the nature of the train: F3A 6704, an F7A, five mail and express cars, the MERIDIAN & NEW ORLEANS Railway Post Office, and two coaches. The mail was removed from the train in late 1967 and it was discontinued in June 1968. I took this photo with a plastic Kodak STARMETER camera when I was 12, which explains the poor quality of the shot. It would be another nine years before I bought my first 35mm SLR; but by that time almost all of the passenger trains I grew up with were gone (: (approximate day) |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1964 Upload Date: 12/9/2017 6:06:43 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6704(F3A) |
| Views: |
819 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent |
| Description: |
The second-to-last southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT had just arrived at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal on 30 January 1979 with three E-units and ten cars. The train’s consist was E8A’s 6900, 6914 and 6907 with deadhead diner 3308 and Amtrak sleeper-lounge 3203 CRYSTAL STREAM, baggage car 3589, coach 842, Amtrak sleeper-lounge 3202 LAUREL STREAM, coach 816, 10-6 sleepers 3403 HOLSTON RIVER and Amtrak 2604 PACIFIC CAPE, diner 3307 and dome-coach 1613. The final SOUTHERN CRESCENT arrived on 1 February with six E8A’s and 14 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1979 Upload Date: 9/10/2017 12:42:31 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6900(E8A) |
| Views: |
1751 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6901 |
| Description: |
The northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT is 11 minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal as it rounds the curve at Orleans Avenue. The train is operating over a Southern subsidiary, the New Orleans Terminal Co. Today's train has E8A's 6901, 6913, 6907, 6916 with ten cars: a baggage-dormitory, four coaches, diner 3310, three 10-6 sleepers, and dome parlor 1602. |
| Photo Date: |
5/13/1974 Upload Date: 6/4/2009 11:26:24 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6901(E8A) |
| Views: |
1835 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent |
| Description: |
Three green E8A's and three black FP7's were on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT as it made its way out of New Orleans. The train was near milepost 191, just west of the Seabrook drawbridge. The last two units had come in two days earlier on an Engineering Department special, whose cars were deadheading out behind the locoootives. The units were 6902, 6148, 6900, 6906, 6134 and 6135. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1974 Upload Date: 6/6/2009 5:41:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6902(E8A) |
| Views: |
2562 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6903 |
| Description: |
Four miles after leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Southern passenger trains reached home rails at East City Junction. Here, NOUPT's Eastern Connection connected with a Southern subsidiary, the New Orleans Terminal Co. In this view, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT in on the NOTCO, passing under the southbound home signal protecting East City Junction. The train has E8A's 6903, 6901, 6912 and 6907 with eight cars: baggage-dormitory 706; coaches 834, 833 and Amtrak 5667; 10-6 sleepers 2008 PACOLET RIVER and Amtrak 2603 PACIFIC BEND, diner 3869, and dome coach 1613. |
| Photo Date: |
4/8/1977 Upload Date: 6/4/2009 11:52:46 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6903(E8A) |
| Views: |
1856 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway No. 2 |
| Description: |
The fireman on Southern Railway train number 2, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT, was leaning out of the cab of E8A 6910 to grab a set of train orders out of the train order stand at N.E. Tower in New Orleans. The stand also held orders for the train's brakeman and the conductor. Train No. 2 was nine miles and 25 minutes into its journey to New York and was powered by E8A's 6910, 6900, 6909 and 6903; a typical set of power at the time. N.E. Tower was built in 1953 as a part of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal project, but the first tower here was built in 1899 to protect the crossing of the Louisville & Nashville with the New Orleans & Northeastern. The tower was closed on 12 September 1990, when control of the crossing was transferred to the Norfolk Southern operator in Birmingham. |
| Photo Date: |
6/23/1976 Upload Date: 1/5/2018 4:45:28 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6910(E8A) |
| Views: |
922 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 2 |
| Description: |
Southern E8A 6911 and three mates were on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT at L&N JUNCTION in New Orleans. Train No. 2 was seven-and-a-half miles and 14 minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The tracks in the foreground were the south end of the Louisville & Nashville's main line, with an interchange track on the right. (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
6/30/1976 Upload Date: 9/22/2017 4:47:54 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6911(E8A) |
| Views: |
972 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6911 |
| Description: |
A quartet of E-units lead the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT under the cantilevered signals at the Frenchman Street crossover, on its way out of New Orleans. The train has four consecutively-numbered E8A's (6911, 6912, 6913 and 6914) and 12 cars: baggage-dormitory 710 (running backwards), coaches 833, 846, 832, 844, 836, 819 and 820, diner 3306, 10-6 sleepers 2010 RAPIDAN RIVER and Amtrak 2626 PACIFIC PLATEAU, and dome coach 1613. |
| Photo Date: |
7/23/1976 Upload Date: 5/19/2009 5:24:46 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6911(E8A) |
| Views: |
2192 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6912 |
| Description: |
A set of freshly-painted E-units begin to accelerate the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT on the main line between Oliver Jct. and N.E. Tower. The train has E8A's 6912, 6905, 6913 and 6906 with 10 cars: baggage-dormitory 704, coaches 828, 837, 822 and Amtrak 5667; 10-6 sleepers 2013 SENECA RIVER and Amtrak 2616 PACIFIC HOME, diner 3311, dome-coach 1613, and office car 8. The photographer is standing on the track into the Southern's auto unloading lot, and the crossing is with the L&N. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1977 Upload Date: 6/2/2009 11:11:00 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6912(E8A) |
| Views: |
1513 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 2 |
| Description: |
With a dirty nose and flaking paint, Southern 6916 and three siblings power the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT on its way out of New Orleans. The train is on the Southern's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary at Gentilly Blvd. Today's train consists of E8A's 6916, 6902, 6913 and 6907 with eight cars: baggage-dormitory 706, coaches 3786, 824 and 3788, 10-6 sleepers 2023 WARRIOR RIVER and Amtrak 2604 PACIFIC CAPE, diner 3311, and dome-parlor 1602. |
| Photo Date: |
4/29/1977 Upload Date: 5/20/2009 11:12:42 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6916(E8A) |
| Views: |
1302 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern GP7 8213 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP7 8213 was on an eastbound transfer run from one of the railroad's western connections, and was about to enter the railroad's OLIVER YARD at Terminal Junction. The track in the foreground is the connection with the main line to Meridian and points north. (approximate month and day) |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1977 Upload Date: 6/23/2017 5:44:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 8213(GP7) |
| Views: |
378 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern GP7 8252 |
| Description: |
GP7 8252 and GP9 6263 were being moved on the West Tie-Up Track at the Oliver Yard engine terminal in New Orleans. The 8252 was retired the next year, and the 6263 in 1982. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1980 Upload Date: 5/20/2009 11:14:24 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 8252(GP7) |
| Views: |
1542 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU GP38-2 5215 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP38-2 5215 was on MP-SOU run-through train No. 114 while the train was stopped on the New Orleans Terminal Co. at Elysian Fields Avenue. |
| Photo Date: |
9/3/1979 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 6:25:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 5215(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
510 Comments: 1 |
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