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Viewing Album:  1980s Union Pacific and MoPac - Shreveport LA
 
By:Robert Powers
Dates:3/1/1987 - 1/30/1992
Album Info:Union Pacific from the late 80s, when the Missouri Pacific merger was still in evidence.
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Union Pacific Caboose
Title:  Union Pacific Caboose
Description:  At Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:48:01 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  208   Comments: 0
MoPac service line
Title:  MoPac service line
Description:  Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:47:35 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 4675(B23-7)
Views:  256   Comments: 0
MoPac in UP colors
Title:  MoPac in UP colors
Description:  At Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:47:45 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 4653(B23-7)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
MoPac 2259
Title:  MoPac 2259
Description:  On the ready line at Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:52:35 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2259(GP38-2)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  Caboose and Geep
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:49:35 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  321   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  In the final days of the MoPac
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:50:00 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2159(GP38-2) MP 2094(GP38-2)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  MoPac units ready to head west
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:51:47 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 3269(SD40-2)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:52:02 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 3269(SD40-2)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:52:20 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2092(GP38-2)
Views:  336   Comments: 1
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:51:33 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 662(GP40) MP 2157(GP38-2)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
Pair of MoPac blues
Title:  Pair of MoPac blues
Description:  Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:50:18 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2157(GP38-2) MP 2188(GP38-2)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
New MoPac, Old MoPac
Title:  New MoPac, Old MoPac
Description:  Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:50:35 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 662(GP40) MP 2157(GP38-2)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:50:51 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 238(B30-7A) MP 4632(B23-7)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:51:05 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1696(GP15-1)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:51:20 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2243(GP38-2)
Views:  196   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  Even when things were quiet, there was usually an engine idling on the ready track by the control tower.
Photo Date:  6/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 10:08:12 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2214(GP38-2)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
Abandoned switchers
Title:  Abandoned switchers
Description:  These two locomotives sat near LSU Med Center seemingly forever. Both rather beaten up, I assumed they were both abandoned. Tex-Trac 1878 is still sitting there decades later, rusting away. The MoPac switcher would go on to other lives, however.
Photo Date:  6/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 10:07:56 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 1256(SW1200)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
MP 2234
Title:  MP 2234
Description:  A trio of MoPac GP38-2s are headed long hood first towards the Greenwood Yard on the west edge of Shreveport. I caoght up with them there later that day.
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 11/7/2015 11:28:47 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2234(GP38-2) MP 2161(GP38-2) MP 2170(GP38-2)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
Union Pacific caboose
Title:  Union Pacific caboose
Description:  Heading west toward Reisor Yard
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 10:38:34 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  188   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description:  Largely in place to serve the Shreveport General Motors assembly plant.
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 10:38:16 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2161(GP38-2) MP 2170(GP38-2)
Views:  455   Comments: 1
UP 3537
Title:  UP 3537
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:42:38 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3537(SD40-2)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
UP 3537
Title:  UP 3537
Description:  Love that looooong porch on the back end of the SD40-2. This is at the Jewela Road grade crossing, on the old Texas & Pacific line that enters Shreveport from the south. Those discolored patches at left and right reveal just how much image got cropped off in the 110mm film format!
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:53:37 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3537(SD40-2)
Views:  313   Comments: 1
Sunset switcher
Title:  Sunset switcher
Description:  Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:10:13 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1585(GP15-1)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  Switching at the east end of the yard
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:10:50 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1585(GP15-1)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
Abandoned on the Texas & Pacific main line
Title:  Abandoned on the Texas & Pacific main line
Description:  This line - the original Texas & Pacifc main from Shreveport to New Orleans - was built in the early 1880s and abandoned in the late 1950s. Most of the rails south of here were pulled up decades before, but the last two miles or so remained into the 1980s. Several boxcars sat abandoned on the remaining tracks, north of the Bert Kouns grade crossing. Later in 1988, the cars were removed, and the last couple of miles of track were pulled up, almost 100 years after they were first laid.
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 2:28:52 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  192   Comments: 0
UP 3304
Title:  UP 3304
Description:  Heading into town from the Resior Yard
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:39:00 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 3304(SD40-2) MP 1726(GP15AC)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
UP 2377 at Greenwood Yard
Title:  UP 2377 at Greenwood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:31:00 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2377(GP39-2) UP 2261(GP38-2)
Views:  425   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:58:26 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2129(GP38-2)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:55:57 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2273(GP38-2) UP 2189(GP38-2)
Views:  389   Comments: 2
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:55:39 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2189(GP38-2)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:55:18 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3770(SD40-2) UP 4147(SD40-2)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
MoPac colors at Reisor Yard
Title:  MoPac colors at Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:54:57 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2110(GP38-2) MP 2123(GP38-2)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:56:13 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2333(GP38-2)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:58:11 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 208(B30-7A) UP 3500(SD40-2)
Views:  431   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:57 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2326(GP38-2) UP 2129(GP38-2)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:39 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2212(GP38-2) UP 2168(GP38-2)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:06 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2212(GP38-2)
Views:  235   Comments: 1
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:23 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2212(GP38-2)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
UP 160 and co.
Title:  UP 160 and co.
Description:  A mix of UP and MP paint rolls under the Bert Kouns highway bridge at Shreveports Greenwood Yard.
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:00:11 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 160(B23-7) MP 4528(U23B) MP 2065(GP38-2) UP 542(U23B)
Views:  792   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:56:48 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 4528(U23B) MP 2065(GP38-2)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
Union Pacific, Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific, Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:56:30 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2065(GP38-2) UP 542(U23B)
Views:  559   Comments: 0
TANKS!
Title:  TANKS!
Description:  Hauling a load of tanks through the Greenwood Yard.
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:10:44 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3786(SD40-2) UP 4307(SD40-2) UP 228(B30-7A)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
Stuck in the middle with UP 4307
Title:  Stuck in the middle with UP 4307
Description:  Back to back SD40-2s. Those porches! You just wanna set up a tent on one of them, dontcha?
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:13:11 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4307(SD40-2)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
UP 229
Title:  UP 229
Description:  Never liked GE models as much as the EMDs. They looked more... I dont know, the proportions seemed off somehow, more awkward, less horsepowery.
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:09:32 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 229(B30-7A) MP 4613(B23-7)
Views:  432   Comments: 0
UP 3786
Title:  UP 3786
Description:  A little love for the loco at the end of the consist.
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:11:43 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3786(SD40-2)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
Reisor Yard
Title:  Reisor Yard
Description:  Idling engines at the railyard serving the General Motors plant on the west side of Shreveport.
Photo Date:  9/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/26/2017 1:02:40 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MP 2201(GP38-2) MP 2160(GP38-2)
Views:  423   Comments: 0
Abandoned T&P line in west Shreveport
Title:  Abandoned T&P line in west Shreveport
Description:  This was the original Texas & Pacific main line to New Orleans, built in the 1880s and mostly abandoned in the 1950s. It split off from the Texas & Pacific's Dallas-bound line at what is now Dean Road and the Inner Loop; on Google Maps you can still trace its route today, heading southward to Mansfield and onwards to Cypress LA, where it meets up with the old T&P "branch" line that eventually replaced it. Most traces of the line south of here are long gone, but in the late 80s the tracks still ran for a few miles south of here, and there were a handful of freight cars stored on them, just north of Bert Kouns at Gilmer Bayou. Further south around Colquitt Road, the line was blocked by a couple of derailed hopper cars that had spilled down an embankment at Boggy Bayou, which seems to be where the track removal started. The rails had just recently been removed when I shot this photo in fall of 1988. The crossing and crossbucks at Bert Kouns remained in place into the 1990s, but the cars and tracks were taken out in mid-1988. The active line curving to the right is heading out toward Reisor Yard on the citys west edge and from there onwards to Dallas.
Photo Date:  9/10/1988  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 11:13:59 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  201   Comments: 0

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