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By:Michael Palmieri
Dates:1/1/1973 - 12/31/1990
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SOU XC15, XC9 and XC8
Title:  SOU XC15, XC9 and XC8
Description:  During the 1960’s the Southern Railway had five transfer cabooses assigned to New Orleans: XC8, XC9, XC15, XC 7872 and XC7874. The use of these cars was discontinued around 1970; but on 2 October 1973, the first three were still parked at the north end of OLIVER YARD.
Photo Date:  10/2/1973  Upload Date: 4/17/2022 10:47:24 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  259   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific Train No. 194
Title:  Southern Pacific Train No. 194
Description:  Southern Railway No. 194, the run-through train from Houston to Birmingham via the Southern Pacific, was on the Southern at TERMINAL JUNCTION in New Orleans behind GP35 2715 with Southern Pacific GP20 4084, GP35 6515 and GP35 6606. SP caboose 1847 was on the rear.
Photo Date:  10/28/1973  Upload Date: 4/17/2022 10:41:43 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2715(GP35)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
SOU 930022
Title:  SOU 930022
Description:  The Southern Railway's New Orleans work train was working on a derailment on the BACK BELT, near L&N Junction.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 4/2/2010 4:04:32 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  SOU 1055(NW2)
Views:  1533   Comments: 0
SOU 960410
Title:  SOU 960410
Description:  The Southern Railway's New Orleans work train was working on a derailment on the BACK BELT, near L&N Junction.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 4/2/2010 4:03:59 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  SOU 1055(NW2)
Views:  1720   Comments: 0
Southern No. 193
Title:  Southern No. 193
Description:  Soythern Railway No. 193 – the run-though train with the Southern Pacific between Birmingham and Houston – was cresting the 5-mile-long grade at Richburg Hill, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Today™s train was a bit unusual because it had three big Espee General Electric units – U30C 7903 with U33C’s 8669 and 8729 – and they were all running backwards. The Southern was well-known for running its own locomotives long-hood forward, but this was a really rare sight. The sound of those big U-boats working uphill was 120 cars, long before they showed up, was amazing!
Photo Date:  10/12/1974  Upload Date: 11/19/2016 9:30:27 PM
Location:  Richburg, MS
Author:  Pobert A. Scorsone photo
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7903(U30C)
Views:  703   Comments: 0
Southern SD Units on Huey P. Long Bridge
Title:  Southern SD Units on Huey P. Long Bridge
Description:  An eastbound train was descending the Huey P. Long Bridge behind a trio of Southern Railway 6-axle units: SD40 3188, SD40-2 3243 and SD45 3168. The train originated at the Missouri Pacific’s AVONDALE YARD, at the west end of the bridge, and would become Southern Railway train 114 when a Southern crew took over at the east end of the bridge.
Photo Date:  11/23/1974  Upload Date: 2/4/2019 10:32:49 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  464   Comments: 1
Southern Railway <I>OLIVER YARD</I>
Title:  Southern Railway OLIVER YARD
Description:  Looking south across the Southern Railway's OLIVER YARD in New Orleans, from the Galvez Street overpass. The central business district is visible on the right, while the Mississippi River bridge is in the background. The switch engine is NW2 1073, and the Schnabel car belongs to Combustion Engineering.
Photo Date:  6/6/1975  Upload Date: 6/6/2009 6:39:53 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  1277   Comments: 0
Southern 991110
Title:  Southern 991110
Description:  Southern Railway panel track transport car 991110 had suffered a mishap on a broken rail.
Photo Date:  10/5/1975  Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:21:13 PM
Location:  Chalmette, LA
Author:  Mdchael Palmieri
Categories:  RollingStock,Track
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Views:  816   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was heading into the morning sun as it made its way out of New Orleans at the Canal Boulevard Underpass. The 12-car train consisted of E8A units 6905, 6902 and 6914, baggage-dormitory car 711, coaches 840, 844, 835, 834 and 3789, 10-roomette/6-double-bedroom sleeping cars 2016 ST. JOHNS RIVER and 2006 OCMULGEE RIVER, diner 3311, dome coach 1613, coach 837 and 11-bedroom sleeper 2301 ROYAL COURT.
Photo Date:  6/3/1977  Upload Date: 10/18/2021 9:38:01 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  571   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was rolling under the cantilever signals at the Frenchmen Street Crossover as it made its way out of New Orleans. The train was powered by E8A units 6901, 6913, 6910 and 6905, and was about to pass under Elysian Fields Ave.
Photo Date:  6/8/1977  Upload Date: 5/10/2022 10:37:21 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Southern Railway FP7's
Title:  Southern Railway FP7's
Description:  Seventeen of the Southern Railway's 20 FP7 units (6130-6149) were parked in Atlanta's SOUTH YARD, across the Atlanta-Macon-Jacksonville main line from the railroad's PEGRAM SHOPS. Two more units, in green, were outside of the shop to the right of this image, and the 20th unit was parked at INMAN YARD. Most of these units were retired in 1979 and traded-in to EMD.
Photo Date:  12/10/1977  Upload Date: 9/3/2017 3:39:41 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 6130(FP7A)
Views:  819   Comments: 0
SOU 3807
Title:  SOU 3807
Description:  The Southern Railway only owned ten U33C's (3805-3814) and they spent much of their careers in maintenance-of-way service. On a dreary morning, 3807 and 3812 are on a welded rail train at New Orleans. The train is parked on the spur that served the American Standard plumbing fixture plant, just west of the Seabrook drawbridge. The northbound track here already has welded rail, while the southbound track still has jointed rail.
Photo Date:  1/16/1978  Upload Date: 11/25/2009 9:52:33 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  SOU 3807(U33C)
Views:  1095   Comments: 1
SOU U23B 3917
Title:  SOU U23B 3917
Description:  Southern Railway U23B 3917 is about to enter Oliver Yard in New Orleans with a special train of oversize steel girders. Although it is an extra train, it was flying green flags, which show that it was running as a section of a regularly-scheduled train… in this case; it was operating as First No. 169.
Photo Date:  2/25/1978  Upload Date: 2/4/2019 6:06:00 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 3917(U23B)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
Southern SD45 3439
Title:  Southern SD45 3439
Description:  The Southern Railway’s 70 SD45’s were among my all-time favorite diesel locomotives, and none of my images illustrate them better than this one. The engineer on Southern 3139 was biding his time as he waited for a clear route on the New Orleans Terminal Co. at the Frenchmen Street signal. No. 3139 was on No. 194, the run-through train from the Southern Pacific to Birmingham, along with SD35 3090 and SD45 3100.
Photo Date:  3/5/1978  Upload Date: 8/28/2018 11:47:25 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 3139(SD45)
Views:  2494   Comments: 2
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Just after sunup, Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was preparing to leave New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal behind E8A 6904 and three other units. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  4/1/1978  Upload Date: 9/24/2021 11:22:25 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  290   Comments: 1
Southern Yard
Title:  Southern Yard
Description:  In this very unusual scene, Missouri Pacific SD40 3015 and Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8300 were parked together on the East Tie-Up Track at the Southern Railway’s OLIVER YARD in New Orleans.
Photo Date:  6/21/1978  Upload Date: 9/19/2018 4:17:29 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MP 3015(SD40) SP 8300(SD40T-2)
Views:  691   Comments: 0
Southern SD45 3154
Title:  Southern SD45 3154
Description:  For many years, the locomotives that arrived in New Orleans on the Southern Railway's southbound piggyback train No. 219 went back out on northbound No. 222. This usually worked well, but if No. 219 was running late, the railroad would take one or two locally-assigned geeps and head out with No. 222. When the two trains met, they would swap locomotives, and everything would return to normal. On this day, the local unit - GP38 2736 - only had to go five miles with No. 222 before it met No. 219 at the Airport crossover. Here, No. 219's power - SD45 3154H and 3169A, and SD35 3061X - has uncoupled from its train and is pulling up next to the 2736. The crews will swap engines, the engines will swap trains, and then both trains will be on their way. The drawbridge in the background crosses the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal at Milepost 190.6.
Photo Date:  12/17/1978  Upload Date: 11/26/2009 11:26:06 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3154(SD45)
Views:  1104   Comments: 2
Amtrak No. 20
Title:  Amtrak No. 20
Description:  Just 10 days after Amtrak took over operation of the CRESCENT, train No. 20 cast its reflection in a trackside puddle while making its station stop and being watered at Meridian. The train consisted of E8A's 6909, 6913 and 6905 with nine cars: baggage-dormitory car 1406, coaches 817, 5285 and 844, coach-lounge 3850, diner 8382, and 10-6 sleepers 2002 DAN RIVER, 2860 TYE RIVER and 2862 FRENCH BROAD RIVER. Except for the Amtrak baggage-dormitory car and the ex-Southern coach-lounge, the train looks much as it did when it was the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. Cars 5285, 3850, 8382, 2860 and 2862 were lettered SOUTHERN but wore Amtrak numbers, while car 817, 844 and 2002 still had their Southern lettering and numbers.
Photo Date:  2/10/1979  Upload Date: 12/22/2017 12:32:15 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  990   Comments: 2
SOU E8A 6905
Title:  SOU E8A 6905
Description:  Southern Railway E8A 6905 was being watered on the northbound CRESCENT at Meridian, Mississippi while on a 6-month lease to Amtrak. The locomotive was built in September 1951 as the 2928, and it was modified with dynamic brakes and roof-mounted air tanks in 1958. It was renumbered 6905 in 1972, was leased to Amtrak on 1 February 1979, and was shipped to Precision National Corp. on 3 November 1979.
Photo Date:  2/10/1979  Upload Date: 10/23/2017 4:52:12 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  851   Comments: 1
Southern No. 219
Title:  Southern No. 219
Description:  On Saturday afternoon 26 May 1979 Southern Railway southbound intermodal train 219 struck a vehicle at the North Boulevard grade crossing in Slidell, Louisiana. After a delay for the police investigation, the train got underway again, and here is caboose X704 as the train headed for New Orleans. The train included SD35’s 3071 and 3046, SD45 3160 and 43 cars.
Photo Date:  5/26/1979  Upload Date: 9/3/2018 6:07:41 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  607   Comments: 1
SOU GP35 2673
Title:  SOU GP35 2673
Description:  Southern Railway GP35 2673 was in New Orleans on run-through train No. 114 from the Missouri Pacific to Birmingham. Its trucks came from an Alco RS2.
Photo Date:  9/3/1979  Upload Date: 10/28/2017 6:15:42 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 2673(GP35)
Views:  638   Comments: 2
Southern SD35 3075
Title:  Southern SD35 3075
Description:  Southern 3075, one the railroad’s 110 SD35 units, was on train 114 behind SD40-2’s 3256 and 3326. No. 114 was the run-through train from the Missouri Pacific to Birmingham, and it was stopped on the New Orleans Terminal Co. at the Frenchmen Street signal.
Photo Date:  12/8/1979  Upload Date: 8/29/2018 1:15:44 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 3075(SD35)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
Southern U23B 3907
Title:  Southern U23B 3907
Description:  Southern Railway U23B 3907 was on run-through train 114 from the Missouri Pacific, waiting for a clear route off of the Huey P. Long Bridge.
Photo Date:  12/26/1979  Upload Date: 9/3/2017 3:23:25 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 3907(U23B)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
Southern Geeps
Title:  Southern Geeps
Description:  Southern Railway GP7 8252 and GP9 6263 were on the West Tie-Up Track at the railroad's OLIVER YARD in New Orleans. These geeps had replaced NW2's in yard and transfer service around the New Orleans area, and were themselves replaced by new MP15DC units in 1982. The 8252 had been built in 1951 as the 2157 and was sold for scrap in 1981, at which time it was replaced here by a GP9. The empty space between the trucks - on each side of the unit - had been occupied by a pair of 400-gallon water tanks when it had a steam generator, but it still had an 800-gallon fuel tank along the centerline of the unit. GP9 6263 had been built in 1956 as Central of Georgia 164, and it was sold for scrap in 1983.
Photo Date:  9/7/1980  Upload Date: 10/13/2017 10:05:20 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 8252(GP7) SOU 6263(GP9)
Views:  1010   Comments: 0
MP train NHS
Title:  MP train NHS
Description:  At 4:15 on a November afternoon Missouri Pacific train HNS -- from Houston to New Orleans to the Southeern Railway -- was stopped at Waggaman, awaiting permission to enter the MP's Avondale Yard. The train had three of the Southern's newest locomtives: GP50's 7042, 7046 and 7086. The track in the foreground was the Southern Pacific's SUNSET ROUTE.
Photo Date:  11/22/1981  Upload Date: 2/8/2010 12:17:32 PM
Location:  Waggaman, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 7042(GP50)
Views:  974   Comments: 1
SOU GP35 2684
Title:  SOU GP35 2684
Description:  Southern Railway GP35 2684 was on the Birmingham-Houston run-through train and had just been delivered to the Southern Pacific at the Central Avenue grade crossing, near the east end of the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE. The locomotive was retired by the Norfolk Southern in October 1992 and was sold for scrap to Steel Processing Services at Albertville, Alabama in December 1993.
Photo Date:  12/15/1985  Upload Date: 2/15/2019 9:46:30 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 2684(GP35)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
NS GP38-2 5215
Title:  NS GP38-2 5215
Description:  Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5215 was eastbound on the NS BACK BELT at Paris Avenue with a 28-car transfer run. The tall building in the middle of the photo is the LSU Dental School.
Photo Date:  4/18/1987  Upload Date: 2/7/2010 12:04:33 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5215(GP38-2)
Views:  1024   Comments: 0
NS SD60's
Title:  NS SD60's
Description:  Norfolk Southern SD60 6550, the railroad's first unit of this model, along with the 6553 were laying over between runs at Oliver Yard in New Orleans. The Kansas City Southern units on the next track had come in on KCS No. 55 and would got back out on No. 56, a daily occurrence here for several years.
Photo Date:  7/20/1987  Upload Date: 12/2/2016 10:13:03 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  525   Comments: 2
N&W C36-7 8511
Title:  N&W C36-7 8511
Description:  The UP-NS run-through train from Houston to Birmingham sits on the New Orleans Public Belt at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge, waiting for a clear signal on to the NS BACK BELT. The locomotives are Norfolk & Western C36-7's 8511 and 8516. When this photo was taken, N&W units were still unusual on this end of the NS. The building in the right background was the corporate headquarters of Popeye's Famous Fried Chicken.
Photo Date:  7/31/1987  Upload Date: 1/26/2010 10:49:23 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NW 8511(C36-7)
Views:  662   Comments: 1
NS No. 193
Title:  NS No. 193
Description:  Norfolk Southern SD60 6566 and C39-8 8615 lead westbound train No. 193 through Metairie on the NS BACK BELT. The train originated at Birmingham, and the NS will deliver it to the SP at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge, about a mile away.
Photo Date:  11/14/1987  Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:08:55 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 6566(SD60) NS 8615(C39-8)
Views:  810   Comments: 2
SP-NS Train
Title:  SP-NS Train
Description:  SP Houston-Birmingham run-through train HOSOM waits at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge for a route onto the NS Back Belt. In eight miles - at Milepost NOT 7.6 - the train will become NS No. 194. Today's power is NS C39-8 8615, SP SD45T-2 9257 and SP SD45R 7503. The covered hoppers on the front of the train are GWIX salt cars that were picked up from the Louisiana & Delta, and are on their way to Olin Chemical at Cleveland, Tennessee.
Photo Date:  11/21/1987  Upload Date: 11/25/2009 1:39:07 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8615(C39-8)
Views:  664   Comments: 1
Westbound
Title:  Westbound
Description:  N&W C36-7 8523 and NS C39-8 8626 arrived in New Orleans as NS train No. 393, but the train now has an Espee crew as it climbs up the Huey P. Long Bridge. This is a run-through train between Birmingham and Houston.
Photo Date:  3/19/1988  Upload Date: 2/10/2010 10:31:02 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  NW 8523(C36-7)
Views:  786   Comments: 1
NS GP30 526
Title:  NS GP30 526
Description:  Norfolk Southern GP30 526/ a former Norfolk & Western unit, was at OLIVER YARD along with GP38AC 4150, another former N&W unit.
Photo Date:  4/7/1990  Upload Date: 9/27/2017 5:52:51 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 526(GP30)
Views:  1095   Comments: 0
NS <I>OLIVER YARD</I>
Title:  NS OLIVER YARD
Description:  On Sunday afternoon 8 March 1992, Norfolk Southern GP38 2825 was pulling the rear portion of intermodal train No. 221 into the railroad’s OLIVER YARD in New Orleans, while a passenger train was parked two tracks over. (The forward section of train No. 221 consisted of stack cars, and they were on their way to the Southern Pacific behind three SP SD40T-2’s.) The passenger train consisted of GP60 units 7114 and 7108 with 10 cars: sleeper 13 GEORGIA, lounge 21 WEST VIRGINIA; office cars 6 ATLANTA, 3 CLAYTOR LAKE and 8 TENNESSEE; sleeping cars 9 ALABAMA, 12 INDIANA and 11 ILLINOIS; dining car 18 GENERAL WILLIAM MAHONE and theater car 23 BUENA VISTA. Dining car 18 was renamed NEW ORLEANS in 2015.
Photo Date:  3/8/1992  Upload Date: 10/14/2020 3:56:33 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NS 2825(GP38AC)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
NS SD70M 6780 on No. 393
Title:  NS SD70M 6780 on No. 393
Description:  Norfolk Southern Birmingham-Houston run-through train No. 393 was parked on the railroad’s OUTER BELT at Marconi Drive in New Orleans, waiting for a Union Pacific crew. The locomotives were SD60M 6780 (ex-Conrail 5530) and GP38AC 2831.
Photo Date:  10/17/2001  Upload Date: 8/4/2019 12:38:34 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  NS 6780(SD60M)
Views:  519   Comments: 1
NS No. 130
Title:  NS No. 130
Description:  The locomotives for Norfolk Southern train No. 130 had pulled out of the railroad's Oliver Yard in New Orleans, and were seen here at Oliver Junction preparing to back onto their train. The units were - from front to rear - NS C40-8W 9333, SD60 6637, ex-CR SD50 5405 and UP C40-8 9155.
Photo Date:  10/21/2001  Upload Date: 4/7/2017 5:11:57 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  NS 9333(C40-9W) UP 9155(C40-8)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
NS AC44C6M 4026
Title:  NS AC44C6M 4026
Description:  Norfolk Southern AC44C6M 4026 was on southbound BNSF grain train G-PBNEAP8-20 at Justin, Texas. The train originated was on its way from Pillsbury, North Dakota to Ferromex at Eagle Pass, Texas and ended up at Cargill in Cuautitlan, Estado de Mexico.
Photo Date:  4/25/2021  Upload Date: 3/18/2022 12:50:37 PM
Location:  Justin, TX
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 4026(AC44C6M)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
EMD Demos
Title:  EMD Demos
Description:  EMD GP60 demonstrators 7, 5 and 6 and NS SD50 6507 power the SP-NS Houston-Birmingham run-through train across New Orleans under one of the cantilever signals at Frenchmen Street. The train still has an SP crew, but it is operating over the NS BACK BELT. In another mile, the train will be delivered to the NS and depart for Birmingham as No. 394.
Photo Date:  2/27/1988  Upload Date: 11/25/2009 10:02:25 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  EMDX 7(GP60)
Views:  1217   Comments: 1
Southern NW2 1027
Title:  Southern NW2 1027
Description:  On the day after Christmas in 1979 Southern Railway NW2 1027 was working on the railroad's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary near the Elysian Fields Avenue overpass. Originally numbered 2236 the locomotive had spent much of its life in New Orleans, and it was retired the next year.
Photo Date:  12/26/1979  Upload Date: 11/22/2017 12:47:44 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 1027(NW2)
Views:  1066   Comments: 0
Southern NW2 1055
Title:  Southern NW2 1055
Description:  Southern Railway NW2 1055 was moving around in the railroad's OLIVER YARD in New Orleans. The engine was built in September 1948 as the 2264 for the Southern's CNO&TP subsidiary and spent almost all of its life in the New Orleans area. After being retired in 1980 it moved across the Mississippi River where it became Avondale Shipyard 4697.
Photo Date:  2/2/1975  Upload Date: 9/22/2017 5:01:19 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 1055(NW2)
Views:  1401   Comments: 0
SOU 1056
Title:  SOU 1056
Description:  Former Southern NW2's 1056 and 1037 at their new home, the Continental Grain elevator in Westwego, Louisiana.
Photo Date:  9/1/1980  Upload Date: 5/23/2009 5:40:15 PM
Location:  Westwego, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 1056(NW2) SOU 1037(NW2)
Views:  1432   Comments: 3
Southern NW2 1058
Title:  Southern NW2 1058
Description:  Southern Railway NW2 1058 was powering a short westbound transfer run along former New Orleans Terminal Co. trackage at L&N Junction. The little train is on the Freight Lead and is crossing a Louisville & Nashville industrial spur. Up until 1954, this L&N track and another one next to it were the main line into downtown New Orleans. The track became a spur serving an industry on Elysian Fields Avenue at Florida Boulevard in 1954, and it was removed shortly after this photo was taken.

The two tracks on the left of the train are the NOTCO main line. The bridge over the train is Interstate Highway 10, while the bridge in the background is Franklin Avenue. The 1058 was built in September 1948 as the 2267 and it spent most of its life at New Orleans. It was renumbered 1058 in December 1972, and was withdrawn from service at New Orleans in June 1980.
Photo Date:  10/25/1978  Upload Date: 4/27/2009 4:45:03 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 1058(NW2)
Views:  1934   Comments: 0
Southern NW2 1082
Title:  Southern NW2 1082
Description:  Southern Railway NW2 1082 was switching the yard at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The loco had been built as the D.S. 6056 in February 1942 and was retired 1977, at the ripe old age of 35. It was traded in to EMD.
Photo Date:  11/16/1974  Upload Date: 2/5/2019 10:08:49 PM
Location:  Hattiesburg, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 1082(NW2)
Views:  527   Comments: 2
Southern NW2 2100
Title:  Southern NW2 2100
Description:  Southern Railway 2100 - its only NW5 and one of only 13 built - was tied up at SLIP JUNCTION, next to the small yard at Chalmette, Louisiana. The locomotive spent most of its life in the New Orleans area, and it was last used in regular passenger service in 1954, on a remnant of Nos. 43 and 44 between New Orleans and Pearl River, Louisiana. Its steam generator was finally removed in 1967 and the louvers under its rear light were removed about five years later, enabling the placement of a large number here. It left New Orleans in 1977 and was retired in 1979.
Photo Date:  10/19/1975  Upload Date: 11/28/2017 6:01:12 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 2100(NW5)
Views:  1097   Comments: 1
SOU 2100
Title:  SOU 2100
Description:  The 2100 was the only NW5 on the Southern, and one of only 13 locomotives of this model. It was built in January 1947, and spent most of its life in and around New Orleans. It finally left after the arrival of some new MP15DC's in August 1977, and was retired two years later. The passenger car is ex-New York Central 4-4-2 IMPERIAL EMBLEM, which was owned by the New Orleans Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
Photo Date:  4/12/1976  Upload Date: 5/19/2009 5:19:00 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 2100(NW5)
Views:  2179   Comments: 1
SOU 2370
Title:  SOU 2370
Description:  Southern 2370 was one of four MP15DC's (2367-2370) assigned to New Orleans right from the factory in July 1977. Here it is at Oliver Junction, as viewed from the Almonaster Ave. overpass, a little over a year after its arrival. The new switchers replaced three pre-war NW2's ane NW5 2100.
Photo Date:  9/30/1978  Upload Date: 6/1/2009 8:13:03 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 2370(MP15DC)
Views:  1065   Comments: 0
SOU 2414
Title:  SOU 2414
Description:  On 1 May 1982 eight brand new MP15DC's -- 2411-2418 -- arrived on the former New Orleans & Northeastern to replace a like number of GP9's in yard and transfer service. Most were used at New Orleans, witf others at Hattiesburg, Laurel, and Meridian. Here is the 2414 on the New Orleans Terminal Co. at Labarre Rd.(month approximate)
Photo Date:  12/12/1985  Upload Date: 6/1/2009 8:21:09 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 2414(MP15DC)
Views:  1055   Comments: 0
NS GP35 2569
Title:  NS GP35 2569
Description:  Norfolk Southern GP30 2569 was in familiar teritory at the former Southern Railway OLIVER YARD in New Orleans.
Photo Date:  11/4/1989  Upload Date: 9/27/2017 6:01:19 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives: 
Views:  587   Comments: 1
SOU 2614
Title:  SOU 2614
Description:  Southern Railway GP35 2655, GP30 2573, GP35 2664 and GP30 2614 sit on the Huey P. Long Bridge with an eastbound Missouri Pacific train. At the east end of the bridge, the MP will deliver it to the Southern and it will officially become No. 114, the run-through train from the MoP's Avondale Yard (at the west end of the bridge) to Birmingham.
Photo Date:  3/8/1975  Upload Date: 5/31/2009 5:39:47 PM
Location:  Jefferson, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2614(GP30)
Views:  959   Comments: 0
SOU 2671
Title:  SOU 2671
Description:  Shortly after noon, Southern Railway GP35 2671 powers a short westbound transfer run over the NS BACK BELT at Hollywod Drive.
Photo Date:  12/21/1985  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 5:17:08 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2671(GP35)
Views:  848   Comments: 2


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