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MP Depot |
| Description: |
Wisner, Louisiana is in Franklin Parish and was on the Missouri Pacific line between the Mississippi River at Vidalia, Louisiana and the main line at Gurdon, Arkansas. This line was built by the New Orleans & Northwestern, and the track through here - between Clayton Junction and Collinston - had been abandoned two years before this photo was taken. |
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6/3/1985 Upload Date: 6/9/2016 5:27:59 PM |
| Location: |
Wisner, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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| Title: |
UP Yard Limit |
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This was a view looking north on the Union Pacific's former Missouri Pacific - and originally Texas & Pacific - main line along Louisiana Highway 1 at Abington, Louisiana - between Alexandria and Shreveport or 283 miles from New Orleans. The post on the right supported both a mile marker and the south yard limit board which protected the wye connection with the Bayou Pierre Lead. The Lead went off to the left (west) to serve an International Paper mill, which was also served from the west by a spur off of the KCS. The headlight in the distance was MP B23-7 4679, which was southbound with the the 4657. This 4-mile Yard Limit was subsequently eliminated. |
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6/19/1985 Upload Date: 3/14/2017 1:23:00 PM |
| Location: |
Abington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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| Title: |
KCS Station |
| Description: |
This was the Kansas City Southern depot at Mansfield, Louisiana, just south of Shreveport on the way to Port Arthur. |
| Photo Date: |
6/20/1985 Upload Date: 9/16/2017 6:16:54 PM |
| Location: |
Mansfield, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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| Title: |
S&A Building |
| Description: |
Nostalgia Station occupied the former Savannah & Atlanta office building in Savannah. |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1985 Upload Date: 9/3/2018 5:54:32 PM |
| Location: |
Savannah, GA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
CofG |
| Description: |
This grand building in Savannah had been the former headquarters of the Central of Georgia. When this photo was taken, it was occupied by the Norfolk Southern. |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1985 Upload Date: 9/3/2018 5:56:43 PM |
| Location: |
Savannah, GA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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436 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS M.P. 713 |
| Description: |
KCS swing span over Bayou des Glaises. |
| Photo Date: |
12/11/1985 Upload Date: 8/10/2015 12:24:48 PM |
| Location: |
Moreauville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael M. Palmieri |
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Bridge,Track |
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| Title: |
ATSF-KCS Crossing |
| Description: |
This is a view looking east across the Kansas City Southern main line on the Santa Fe's branch line from Kirbyville, Texas into Lousiana. The track continued east 42 miles to Oakdale; but on 21 April 1986, a little over two months before this photo was taken, the track between DeRidder and Oakdale was abandoned. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1986 Upload Date: 8/10/2010 12:14:18 PM |
| Location: |
DeRidder, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station,Track |
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| Title: |
Former KCS Depot |
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7/10/1986 Upload Date: 8/10/2010 12:13:53 PM |
| Location: |
DeRidder, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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| Title: |
Depot |
| Description: |
This is a rear view of the Espee's Baldwin depot after it closed as a train order office and about two months before it was sold to the Louisiana & Delta as a crew base. The area in the foreground had been where the local power was parked and serviced, but the track was removed and the area cleaned up around 1980. The roof damage was caused when a caboose was accidentally shoved into the east wall of the building many years earlier! |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1987 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 5:24:26 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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| Title: |
Charenton Canal |
| Description: |
This is a view looking north from the new U.S. Highway 90 bridge over the Charenton Drainage & Navigation Canal, just east of Baldwin, Louisiana. The plant is the Central Louisiana Electric Company's TECHE POWER STATION and just to the right of it is the open Southern Pacific drawbridge, on the main line of the SUNSET ROUTE. Beyond that is the Louisiana Highway 182 bridge, previously U.S. 90 before that highway way enlarged and rerouted. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1987 Upload Date: 6/9/2016 5:24:08 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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| Title: |
SP Geeps |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific GP35's 6631 and 6577 were tied up across the SUNSET ROUTE main line from the Baldwin depot. The two geeps were assigned to the Cypremort and Bayou Sale branch locals, and this would be the last day those branches would be operated by the Espee. Three days later -- on Monday 16 March -- the Louisiana & Delta acquired ownership of several former Espee branches, including those two. The L&D also got the Baldwin depot, but after a few years it was replaced with a modular building and moved to Patoutville, Louisiana. |
| Photo Date: |
3/13/1987 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 5:26:13 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
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SP 6631(GP35) |
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| Title: |
Billeaud Sugar Factory |
| Description: |
This view was facing north (timetable west) on the Southern Pacific SUNSET ROUTE at the abandoned Billeaud sugar factory at milepost 137.0, 1.4 miles east of Broussard and 7.5 miles from the Lafayette depot. |
| Photo Date: |
3/13/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2017 10:23:04 PM |
| Location: |
Broussard, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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344 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Billeaud Sugar Factory |
| Description: |
This was the abandoned Billeaud sugar factory at milepost 137.0 on the Southern Pacific's SUNSET ROUTE, 1.4 miles east of Broussard and 7.5 miles from the Lafayette depot |
| Photo Date: |
3/13/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2017 10:29:12 PM |
| Location: |
Broussard, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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258 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Pacific |
| Description: |
This was an aerial view of Midland, Louisiana facing northwest, with the main line of the SUNSET ROUTE and U.S. Highway 90 running across the middle of the image. When this slide was taken, the Espee's MIDLAND BRANCH had been abandoned for about nine years; but you could still see where it came in from the south and curved to the west (left), and entered from the north and curved to the east. Freight trains using the branch would set out all of the cars they came in with and pickup up a new set of cars before continuing their trip. There was never a crossing here. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1987 Upload Date: 2/23/2017 3:07:11 PM |
| Location: |
Midland, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic,Track |
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220 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
L&D |
| Description: |
Just two months after the Louisiana & Delta purchased a group of branch lines from the Southern Pacific, one of the two GP9R's (L&D 1751, ex-SP 3434) based at Baldwin was already painted in the L&D's colors. The other geep was ex-SP 3790. The L&D also acquired the Baldwin depot -- visible in the center of the photo -- as a crew base for the Cypremort and Bayou Sale jobs that worked out of here. The beginning of the Cypremort Branch can be seen curving off to the south just west of the depot, while the Bayou Sale Branch begins 10 miles east of here. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/1987 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 5:26:56 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
LDRR 1751(GP9R) LDRR 3434(GP9R) |
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1519 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Aerial View |
| Description: |
The main line of the Southern Pacific ran through the middle of Crowley, heading east towards New Orleans. The railroad coming in from the left was the Union Pacific's fromer MP branch running south from Euncie. At one time the Texas & Pacific also served Crowley, coming in from the east. The T&P line was abandoned in 1947, the UP branch was acquired by the Acadiana Railway in 1990, and the Sunset Route was acquired by the BNSF after the UP-SP merger in 1996. |
| Photo Date: |
5/27/1987 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 8:44:52 PM |
| Location: |
Crowley, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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| Title: |
Depots |
| Description: |
The red depot belonged to the Southern Pacific, while the fancy while building right behind it is the former Missouri Pacific station. This depot was built by the Colorado Southern, New Orleans & Pacific -- a subsidiary of the Frisco -- in 1907. |
| Photo Date: |
5/27/1987 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 3:40:58 PM |
| Location: |
Crowley, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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905 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Bridge |
| Description: |
This view was facing north along Bayou Lafourche at milepost 51.7 on the SUNSET ROUTE, when it still belonged to the Southern Pacific. Louisiana Highway 308 is on the east bank of the bayou and runs under the 177-foot inactive swing span, while LA 1 is on the opposite side of the bayou. The bayou runs from the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville down to the Gulf of Mexico at Port Fourchon. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/1987 Upload Date: 1/7/2018 6:56:40 PM |
| Location: |
Lafourche, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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339 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sunset Route |
| Description: |
In this eastward view of south Louisiana Bayou Lafourche flows across the image from left to right, on its way from Donaldsonville on the Mississippi River to Port Fouchon on the Gulf of Mexico. The Southern Paciific's SUNSET ROUTE enters from the lower right, crosses the bayou in a clump of trees, and curves to the east as it makes its way to Raceland and then on to New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/1987 Upload Date: 1/9/2018 6:14:59 PM |
| Location: |
Lafourche, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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270 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bayou Bridge |
| Description: |
This was the Southern Pacific's bridge over Bayou Des Allemands, 32 miles west of New Orleans on the SUNSET ROUTE. The swing span was controlled from the little structure near the east (right) end of the bridge. Since 1996 this track had been owned by the BNSF. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/1987 Upload Date: 8/2/2010 12:15:17 PM |
| Location: |
Des Allemands, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
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449 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Operation Lifesaver Special |
| Description: |
An eastbound (railroad north) CSX Operation Lifesaver special was making a 25-minute stop at the former Louisville & Nashville station in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The 10-car train ran from New Orleans to Pascagoula, Mississippi and back, behind CSX F-units 116 and 117, NS GP38 2800, ICG GP38 9531 and Amtrak F40 276. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/1987 Upload Date: 2/25/2017 4:50:29 PM |
| Location: |
Bay St. Louis, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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| Title: |
Motorcar and Buildings |
| Description: |
Corps of Engineer's motorcar 590 and a trailer were on Army track at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. The building were probably built during WWII. The base is served by the Kansas City Southern. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/20/2010 3:53:01 PM |
| Location: |
Fort Polk, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
Motorcar |
| Description: |
Corps of Engineer's motorcar 590 and a trailer were on Army track at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. The base is served by the Kansas City Southern. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/20/2010 3:53:19 PM |
| Location: |
Fort Polk, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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478 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Depot |
| Description: |
Here is a streetside view of the former Kansas City Southern depot at Leesville, Louisiana. It was built in 1916 and saw its last passenger trains in 1968, but it remained in use by the railroad until a new yard office was dedicated on 22 May 1982. KCS donated the building to the Vernon Parish Policy Jury, and it was dedicated as the Museum of West Louisiana on 5 July 1985. The "freight" on the loading dock was actually a 2-dimensional painting on plywood which was attached to a safety railing. The railing and painting was made by a local artist to comply with Federal safety regulations. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1987 Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:38:20 AM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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427 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Geeps |
| Description: |
KCS GP7's 4161 and 4154 were tied up at Leesville Yard along with GP40 754, which was hiding behind that blue Texas & Northern gondola. The main line is in the foreground. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1987 Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:38:38 AM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4161(GP7) |
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| Title: |
Flat Cars |
| Description: |
A cut of Trailer Train OTTX 60-foot flat cars were parked at a loading ramp at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. The base is served by the Kansas City Southern. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/1987 Upload Date: 5/20/2010 3:53:39 PM |
| Location: |
Fort Polk, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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377 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Yard Office |
| Description: |
This office at the KCS Leesville Yard was dedicated on 22 May 1982, enabling the railroad to move out of its depot just north of here. When this building opened, Leesville was a crew change for trains travelling between Shreveport and the Gulf Coast, but now crews run all the way through. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/1987 Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:39:03 AM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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548 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Depot |
| Description: |
Here is a track side view of the former Kansas City Southern depot at Leesville, Louisiana. It was built in 1916 and saw its last passenger trains in 1968, but it remained in use by the railroad until a new yard office was dedicated on 22 May 1982. KCS donated the building to the Vernon Parish Policy Jury, and it was dedicated as the Museum of West Louisiana on 5 July 1985. The concrete fence between the depot and the tracks was put there to keep museum visitors out of harm's way. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/1987 Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:39:18 AM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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| Title: |
KCS Yard |
| Description: |
Looking south on the KCS towards Leesville Yard at the yard office. GP9's 4165 and 4164 are tied up on the left, and GP7's 4161 and 4154 are next to them. The pairs of geeps or other local power were used on two locals that ran out of Leesville Yard: the Many Dodger and the De Ridder Dodger. Technically, the former had the duty of serving as far north as Loring, and the latter as far south as Singer; but traffic needs seldom actually took them beyond their namesake stations.Typical traffic consisted of wood chips picked up at the Boise sawmill and plywood mill at Fisher and Florien, respectively, by the Many Dodger and later delivered to the Boise newsprint mill at De Ridder by the De Ridder Dodger; pulpwood picked up from other companies' wood yards at such places as Anacoco and Hawthorn for later delivery to Boise at De Ridder; out-bound products from the Boise mills at Fisher, Florien, and De Ridder; grain for the Shell Beach chicken feed mill at Many; plastic pellets to and from the Ampacet mill at De Ridder; and, of course, empty cars to and from all of the above.The De Ridder Dodger also ran the Fort Polk Branch as needed to handle routine transportation of a few cars at a time. When there was a larger need for major moves into and out of Fort Polk, KCS would send extra power down from Shreveport to handle it. This tended to happen in spells when the Army would have something going. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/1987 Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:39:34 AM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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| Title: |
KCS Bar |
| Description: |
Despite its name, we can be assured that this establishment was unaffiliated with the Kansas City Southern Railway. It was located across South Third Street from the former KCS depot, and not too far from the railroad's yard. There had been a wooden structure here named the KCS Cafe; and after it burned down in the 1960's, it was replaced with this brick building. The cafe's location made it a convenient rest stop for rail travellers; but after passenger service ended in 1968, the business evolved into what we see here. It was subsequently renamed, and then closed. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/1987 Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:39:47 AM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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664 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Station |
| Description: |
This was the former Kansas City Southern station at Winnfield, Louisiana. Passenger service ended when the SOUTHERN BELLE last stopped here in 1969. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1987 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 3:45:54 PM |
| Location: |
Winnfield, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
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331 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MidSouth Track |
| Description: |
This was a view facing west along the MidSouth Rail (former Illinois Central Gulf) main line at Delhi, Louisiana; between Vicksburg and Monroe. Up until 1976 Delhi was also served by a branch of the Missouri Pacific running down from Eudora, Arkansas. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 9/16/2017 5:59:21 PM |
| Location: |
Delhi, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
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154 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Grain Elevator |
| Description: |
This was the TERRICK (Terral Farm Services) elevator at Delhi, Louisiana. The main line of MidSouth Rail was in the background, across U.S. Highway 80; but I don't know if the elevator was served by rail. |
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10/11/1987 Upload Date: 9/16/2017 6:11:01 PM |
| Location: |
Delhi, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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114 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MidSouth Rail |
| Description: |
Here was building 6609 on MidSouth Rail at Delhi, Louisiana. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 9/29/2017 4:49:45 PM |
| Location: |
Delhi, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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154 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MidSouth Rail |
| Description: |
This business had been the Illinois Central depot at Delhi, Louisiana; but the railroad was MidSouth Rail when this photo was taken. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 9/29/2017 4:53:38 PM |
| Location: |
Delhi, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
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141 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MidSouth Track |
| Description: |
This view was looking north across the mainline of MidSouth Rail at Rayville, Louisiana, between Vicksburg and Shreveport. Up until 1983 a Missouri Pacific branch has crossed right here. The MP line had been built as the New Orleans & Northwestern between the Mississippi River across from Natchez and the Arkansas state line northwest of Bastrop. |
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10/11/1987 Upload Date: 10/2/2017 4:15:41 PM |
| Location: |
Rayville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
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216 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MidSouth Track |
| Description: |
This was facing west on the MidSouth Rail main line at Rayville, Louisiana. The high spot in the street on the right had been a grade crossing with the Missouri Pacific branch between Collinston and Clayton Junction, but this line had been abandoned in 1983. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 10/30/2017 4:40:01 PM |
| Location: |
Rayville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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187 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Former Bank Building |
| Description: |
When the Rayville State Bank building was constructed in 1904 it faced the main line of the Vicksport Shreveport & Pacific. By the time this photo was taken, it faced the main line of MidSouth Rail and no longer housed a bank, but it still retained much of its character. |
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10/11/1987 Upload Date: 10/30/2017 5:02:32 PM |
| Location: |
Rayville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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163 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MidSouth Track |
| Description: |
These were the station sign and an equipment shelter along the MidSouth Rail main line at Rayville, Louisiana. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 11/26/2017 10:27:26 PM |
| Location: |
Rayville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS M.P. 854.5 |
| Description: |
KCS connection with the ICG, constructed in 1985. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/1988 Upload Date: 8/10/2015 12:40:32 PM |
| Location: |
Frellsen, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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84 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS M.P. 854.5 |
| Description: |
This is the south end of the KCS siding at Frellsen, Louisiana. Beyond here are the Alliance Ave. grade crossing and the 1985 connection with the ICG line between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/1988 Upload Date: 8/10/2015 12:39:53 PM |
| Location: |
Frellsen, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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163 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SLSF Station |
| Description: |
The former Frisco station in Poteau, Oklahoma was being used as the town's city hall. This is where the former SLSF line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Paris, Texas crossed the main line of the Kansas City Southern between Kansas City and Shreveport. |
| Photo Date: |
6/10/1988 Upload Date: 12/7/2017 10:18:20 PM |
| Location: |
Poteau, OK |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
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MidSouth Yard |
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This was a view from the north end of MidSouth Rail's BALLGROUND YARD near the Mississippi community of that name. The yard was built by the Illinois Central c. 1967 to serve a new International Paper mill just to the south. This was on a 29-mile line opened between Valley and Redwood Junction in 1967 as the REDWOOD DISTRICT and was the last major line constructed by the IC. Most of the district was abandoned in 1975, but the southern end remained in place to service the paper mill. |
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3/25/1989 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 3:35:05 PM |
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Ballground, MS |
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Michael Palmieri |
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ICG Swing Bridge |
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This was the former Illinois Central Gulf swing bridge across the Yazoo River near Redwood, Mississippi. This was on the former Yazoo & Mississippi Valley main line north from Vicksburg to Memphis. This line, part of the CLEVELAND DISTRICT between Rolling Fork and Redwood Junction, had been abandoned in April 1984. |
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3/25/1989 Upload Date: 5/2/2018 3:46:45 PM |
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Redwood, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Bridge |
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ICG Bridge |
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This view was looking south on the south approach to the former Illinois Central Gulf swing span over the Yazoo River just north of Redwood, Mississippi. This was on the former Yazoo & Mississippi Valley main line between Vicksburg and Memphis, and the track here had been abandoned five years earlier. |
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3/25/1989 Upload Date: 5/2/2018 4:30:01 PM |
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Redwood, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Bridge |
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Former IC Station |
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This was the former Illinois Central station at Brookhaven, Mississippi. Amtrak patrons use a small bus shelter off to the right. |
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3/27/1989 Upload Date: 10/1/2017 4:11:57 PM |
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Brookhaven, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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IC |
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Back when the MAIN LINE of MID-AMERICA was double-tracked between Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, this was the view looking north from the station at Brookhaven. Amtrak's actual "station" was the little enclosure on the left, while the white sign on the other side of the grade crossing read "FOR SALE by ILLINOIS CENTRAL" and provided contact information. |
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3/27/1989 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 3:18:41 PM |
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Brookhaven, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Amtrak |
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This was the little structure that Amtrak erected to replace the Illinois Central's "brick-and-mortar" station at Brookhaven, Mississippi. |
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3/27/1989 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 3:24:07 PM |
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Brookhaven, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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L&D 1502 |
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Louisiana & Delta CF7 1502 was on a siding next to the beginning of the Houma Branch in Schriever. The locomotive was originally Santa Fe F7A 339L, then ATSF CF7 2470 and then Falls Creek 2470; and arrived on the L&D in August 1988. The overpass in the background carried Louisiana Highway 20 over the main line of the Southern Pacific, now the BNSF. |
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6/20/1989 Upload Date: 2/26/2010 1:58:20 PM |
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Schriever, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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LDRR 1502(CF7) |
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EMD Open House |
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In September 1989 the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors held an open house to celebrate the 50th anniversary of first FT model locomotives. Among the units on display were - from left to right - Conrail GP40 3000 (the very first production unit of any model with a 645F prime mover), BN SD40-2 7111, Monon BL2 32, Great Northern 400 (the very first production SD45) and Santa Fe FP45 101. |
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9/17/1989 Upload Date: 3/29/2016 8:08:58 PM |
| Location: |
McCook, IL |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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CR 3000(GP40) BN 7111(SD40-2) ATSF 101(FP45) GN 400(SD45) MON 32(BL2) |
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