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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 |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3143(C630) SP 3144(C630) |
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408 Comments: 0 |
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 Metairie, LA (21 Apr 1974).jpg)
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| Title: |
Alcos at work |
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4/21/1974 Upload Date: 1/30/2012 4:21:01 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
George Kantola |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 3143(C630) |
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1276 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
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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2285 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP RSD12 2967 |
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Espee RSD12 2967 and C630 3143 were on a short transfer run en route from the railroad's tiny Three Oaks Yard in Chalmette to its big yard at Avondale. Three Oaks Yard served the American Sugar Company's Chalmette Refinery, and this is reflected in the train's consist; the first car is a Domino Sugar tank car and most of the cars are Airslide sugar hoppers. The train is running over the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at Labarre Road. |
| Photo Date: |
1/14/1975 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 8:03:15 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2967(RSD12) SP 3143(C630) |
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2154 Comments: 4 |
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