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SP Transfer Run |
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Southern Pacific C630 unit 3143 and 3144 were on their way from the SP’s AVONDALE YARD to the New Orleans Public Belt’s COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD with the regular afternoon transfer run. The train was operating over the NOPB along the Mississippi River, and was behind Audubon Park. The SP assigned seven of these big Alcos (3140-3146) to New Orleans for transfer service between early 1973 and late 1977. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1973 Upload Date: 9/20/2020 6:07:17 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
JOHN KIRKPATRICK photo |
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Action |
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SP 3143(C630) SP 3144(C630) |
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SP 3144 |
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SP 3144 was the trailing unit on an estbound transfer run waiting to get through East Bridge Junction. The train was on the east approach to the Huey P. Long Bridge. |
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10/16/1974 Upload Date: 5/23/2009 5:07:25 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3144(C630) |
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1683 Comments: 0 |
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Alco Switchers |
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Four Espee Alco switch engines -- C630's 3143, 3144, 3141 and 3146 -- were stopped on the Huey P. Long Bridge with a westbound transfer run. They were behind an MP train which was waiting for clearance to get into its Avondale Yard. Both railroads had yards at the west end of the bridge, and this causes trains to back up like this. Four-unit sets of C630's were not very common. This was actually two seperate trains which had been combined, so it had a mid-train caboose as well as one on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
12/22/1974 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 10:36:20 AM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3143(C630) SP 3144(C630) SP 3141(C630) SP 3146(C630) |
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2375 Comments: 3 |
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SP GP9 3717 |
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1959-model GP9's 3717 and 3703 and 1966-vintage C630's 3144 and 3141 power an eastbound transfer run over the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at L&N Junction. L&N Junction Tower, which closed in July 1972, is visible on the other side of the tank car. The large structure is the city incinerator on Elysian Fields Avenue. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1975 Upload Date: 8/6/2010 12:09:32 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3717(GP9) SP 3703(GP9) SP 3144(C630) SP 3141(C630) |
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2531 Comments: 2 |
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An Alco Escher |
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This is the view on August 6, 1978 from the extremely rickety and ancient steel footbridge over the Southern Pacific's small Bull Ring Yard in downtown Los Angeles, a second-generation diesel lover's dream. In this shot there are a U50, eight U25Bs, a C628, two C630s, two S6s, an RSD12 and a C415. Although the majority of these engines were sent to the torch, two of these units still survive today, RSD12 #2954 is at the Orange Empire Railroad Museum after a stint with Metropolitan Stevedore and S6 #1272 runs in Quebec for the Asbestos & Danville as their #57. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/1978 Upload Date: 4/16/2009 10:56:43 PM |
| Location: |
Los Angeles, CA |
| Author: |
Charles Freericks |
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| Locomotives: |
SP 3145(C630) SP 2954(RSD12) SP 1272(S6) SP 3144(C630) SP 9951(U50) SP 6762(U25B) SP 6763(U25B) |
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3009 Comments: 2 |
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