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Dates:1/1/1975 - 12/31/2099
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Acadiana Railway GP30 701
Title:  Acadiana Railway GP30 701
Description:  Acadiana Railway GP30 701 was originally Union Pacific 701 and then Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Eastern 701 before coming to the AKDN. It was frame number 7648-2.
Photo Date:  4/8/1993  Upload Date: 8/28/2024 5:20:02 PM
Location:  Opelousas, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AKDN 701(GP30)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
UP Transfer Power
Title:  UP Transfer Power
Description:  Union Pacific B30-7A 219 and four B23-7’s were parked in the New Orleans Public Belt yard at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. This was a set of transfer power which was used to move cars between the UP’s Avondale Yard at the west end of the bridge and connecting railroads on the east side of the Mississippi River. The 219 had been built in December 1981 as Missouri Pacific 4819 and was rebuilt by Railpower Technologies into RP20BD genset UPY 2620 in January 2007.
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 6/17/2024 6:27:39 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  UP 219(B30-7A)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
UP Train INOCB
Title:  UP Train INOCB
Description:  Union Pacific directors special INOCB (Inspection train from New Orleans to Council Bluffs) was heading up the east side of the Huey P. Long Bridge on its way out of the New Orleans area. The train consisted of E-units 949, 963B and 951 with 10 cars: power car 208 (800616), staff car CABARTON (800617), sleeper NORTH PLATTE (800618), office cars FEATHER RIVER (800627) and POCATELLO (800631), sleepers PORTOLA (800625) and POWDER RIVER (800623), dome-lounge WALTER DEAN (800621), diner CITY OF DENVER (800630) and roadway inspection car IDAHO (800613).
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 7/5/2024 2:25:10 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 949(E9A)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
UP Train INOCB
Title:  UP Train INOCB
Description:  Union Pacific directors special INOCB (Inspection train from New Orleans to Council Bluffs) was heading up the east side of the Huey P. Long Bridge on its way out of the New Orleans area. The train consisted of E-units 949, 963B and 951 with 10 cars: power car 208 (800616), staff car CABARTON (800617), sleeper NORTH PLATTE (800618), office cars FEATHER RIVER (800627) and POCATELLO (800631), sleepers PORTOLA (800625) and POWDER RIVER (800623), dome-lounge WALTER DEAN (800621), diner CITY OF DENVER (800630) and roadway inspection car IDAHO (800613).
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 7/5/2024 2:25:45 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 949(E9A)
Views:  127   Comments: 0
UP Train INOCB
Title:  UP Train INOCB
Description:  Union Pacific directors special INOCB (Inspection train from New Orleans to Council Bluffs) was at the west end of AVONDALE YARD on its way out of the New Orleans area. The train consisted of E-units 949, 963B and 951 with 10 cars: power car 208 (800616), staff car CABARTON (800617), sleeper NORTH PLATTE (800618), office cars FEATHER RIVER (800627) and POCATELLO (800631), sleepers PORTOLA (800625) and POWDER RIVER (800623), dome-lounge WALTER DEAN (800621), diner CITY OF DENVER (800630) and roadway inspection car IDAHO (800613).
Photo Date:  1/23/1994  Upload Date: 7/5/2024 2:26:37 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 949(E9A)
Views:  88   Comments: 0
HATX GP38-2 200
Title:  HATX GP38-2 200
Description:  Helm Atlantic GP38-2 HATX 200 was at the Kansas City Southern's DERAMUS YARD near Shreveport while on lease to the KCS. This locomotive had been built for TXL Leasing in January 1973 and was leased to the Missouri Pacific as their 924. It was renumbered MP 2075 in 1974, was retired by the Union Pacific as MP 2075 on 31 December 1993 and TXL sold it to Helm Financial. UP then extended its lease for 90 days. It was returned to Helm in April 1994, renumbered Helm Atlantic HATX 200 and leased to the CSX for 30-months. (HATX was a joint-venture between Helm and CSX.) In 1997 it was was leased (again) by the UP and repainted as UP 1830 in 1997. It was renumbered UP 330 in 2003 and HLCX 330 in 2009.
Photo Date:  6/13/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 6:57:25 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  114   Comments: 0
NS Frenchmen Street Interlocking
Title:  NS Frenchmen Street Interlocking
Description:  This pair of cantilevered signal support structures were on the Norfolk Southern (New Orleans Terminal Co.) at the Frenchmen Street interlocking, just west of Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans. These were a traditional Southern Railway design and were replaced with lightweight aluminum structures in 2013. The unsignaled track in the foreground was named the FREIGHT LEAD.
Photo Date:  7/5/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 7:07:39 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Signal,Track
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
AL&M Shop
Title:  AL&M Shop
Description:  This view was inside the Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi (former Ashley, Drew & Northern) engine house at Crossett, Arkansas.
Photo Date:  10/1/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 7:10:45 PM
Location:  Crossett, AR
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  72   Comments: 0
DUPX Tank Car 12401
Title:  DUPX Tank Car 12401
Description:  DuPont 16-wheel tank car DUPX 12401 was entering the CSX GENTILLY YARD on an SP-CSX run-through train in New Orleans, on its way from Texas to North Carolina. This was the first of five 38,300-gallon DUPX cars (12401-12405) built for DuPont by AMF in May and June 1970. These cars were initially heated and insulated; but by the time this image was taken, their insulation and outer jacket had been removed and they were in ethylene glycol service. They had an outside length of 92-07 with a LT WT of 144,000 LBS and a LD LMT of 382,000 LBS, for a gross rail load of 526,000 LBS. Car 12403 disappeared from the Equipment Register in 1991, but the other four remained in use until 2007 and were scrapped during January 2010.
Photo Date:  10/21/1994  Upload Date: 7/12/2024 7:00:07 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  426   Comments: 0
NREX SD20 2011
Title:  NREX SD20 2011
Description:  Professionally-relettered National Railway Equipment Corp. (NREX) SD20 2011 was on Kansas City Southern Train No. 56 heading north through a suburb of New Orleans, while on lease to that railroad. No. 56 originated at the Norfolk Southern’s Oliver Yard and was on the NS (New Orleans Terminal Co.) at Labarre Road in Metairie, where the NS delivered the train to the KCS. The locomotive had been built in August 1959 as Union Pacific SD24 415 and was rebuilt by the Illinois Central Gulf into SD20 2011 in March 1980. It went to NRE after being retired by the IC.
Photo Date:  4/12/1995  Upload Date: 10/11/2024 5:17:20 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NREX 2011(SD20)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
CSX Q605
Title:  CSX Q605
Description:  CSX train Q605-11 was passing through the floodgate on the east side of the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans as it headed west over the Norfolk Southern. The train ran from Waycross, Georgia to the Union Pacific (former Missouri Pacific) Avondale Yard at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge, and operated over the NS to get from the CSX at L&N Junction to the UP at the east end of the bridge.
Photo Date:  4/13/1995  Upload Date: 7/2/2024 11:59:39 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  45   Comments: 0
Tower 55
Title:  Tower 55
Description:  Tower 55 interlocking in Fort Worth was originally commissioned in 1904, and this brick building was constructed in the 1930’s. Control of the interlocking was transferred from this tower to Union Pacific’s nearby Centennial Yard in 1995, then to UP’s Harriman Dispatching Center in Omaha, then to Spring, Texas and then back to Omaha. After the tower was no longer used to control trains, it was retained for use by maintenance personnel, but it was finally demolished in November 2022.
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 7/4/2024 11:21:01 AM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  49   Comments: 0
NS No. 221
Title:  NS No. 221
Description:  Norfolk Southern 8888, the railroad’s highest-numbered C40-9, was leading intermodal train No. 221 over the Seabrook Drawbridge in New Orleans, just four miles from the end of the train’s journey from Alexandria, Virginia. The bridge spanned the Industrial Canal and the speed limit here was 45 mph.
Photo Date:  8/27/1995  Upload Date: 7/4/2024 11:24:56 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8888(C40-9)
Views:  138   Comments: 0
Amtrak RTL-II 151
Title:  Amtrak RTL-II 151
Description:  In 1976 Amtrak bought seven 5-car RTL (Rohr Turboliner) trains from Rohr Industries of Chula Vista, California, and in 1994 one train was upgraded into an RTL-II. This train consisted of power car-coach 151, coach 179, coach-snack car 180, coach 181 and power car-coach 159. After five months of service in New York State, the train set out on a demonstration tour around the eastern U.S. on 21 September1995. On 26 October 1995 it was seen here arriving in New Orleans from Meridian on the Norfolk Southern at Canal Blvd. In the foreground is the rear car of NS intermodal train #221, on its way to the SP. The RTL-II was on display at NOUPT on the 27th and left on the IC on the 28th.
Photo Date:  10/26/1995  Upload Date: 7/4/2024 11:16:51 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 151(Turboliner)
Views:  61   Comments: 0
NOLR Bridge
Title:  NOLR Bridge
Description:  This 90-foot plate girder bridge spans a drainage canal in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, on what was then the New Orleans Lower Coast Railroad (NOLR). It is near milepost 7, about a half mile south of the lift bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway. The bridge had been built by the New Orleans & Lower Coast Railroad and now belongs to the New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway.
Photo Date:  3/25/1996  Upload Date: 8/28/2024 5:23:40 PM
Location:  Belle Chasse, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  NOLR 00(UNKNOWN)
Views:  23   Comments: 0
AMTK 20908
Title:  AMTK 20908
Description:  Amtrak food service car (Amdinette) 20908 was on Train No. 20 – the northbound CRESCENT – on its way out of New Orleans at East City Junction. This car had been built in July 1976 as Amdinette 20208 with eight 4-place booths, a snack bar and 23 coach seats. In October 1983 it was refurbished for Metroliner Service and renumbered 20908, so its appearance on Train 20 was quite unusual. It was subsequently equipped with a trainline for push-pull operation and converted to a full dinette with 14 four-place booths and a snack bar, and was renumbered 43394.
Photo Date:  5/9/1996  Upload Date: 8/28/2024 5:25:26 PM
Location:  Belle Chasse, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  46   Comments: 0
NOUPT Clara Street Tower
Title:  NOUPT Clara Street Tower
Description:  Clara Street Tower was built as a part of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, which went into full operation on 19 April 1954. Amtrak closed the tower on 29 May 2003 when it transferred control of NOUPT to 21st Street Tower in Chicago.
Photo Date:  5/18/1996  Upload Date: 8/28/2024 5:21:50 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  STEVEN PALMIERI image
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  NOUPT 00(UNKNOWN)
Views:  36   Comments: 0


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