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6/20/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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SP 8261
Title:  SP 8261
Description:  A pair of tunnel motors found at the SP yard in Avondale. The line across the picture is a telephone line. Sorry I did not have my cable cutters with me.
Photo Date:  3/25/1987  Upload Date: 12/6/2012 9:06:55 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8261(SD40T-2) DRGW 5341(SD40T-2)
Views:  1345   Comments: 0
DRGW 5354
Title:  DRGW 5354
Description:  Hustling along in Price Canyon headed to Provo.
Photo Date:  6/13/1980  Upload Date: 12/16/2012 7:27:35 PM
Location:  Thistle, UT
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 5354(SD40T-2)
Views:  627   Comments: 0
DRGW 5356
Title:  DRGW 5356
Description:  This Rio Grande leads an equally fresh MP engine on the NOPB trackage coming from either the Southern or Family Lines (L&N) in New Orleans.
Photo Date:  2/7/1984  Upload Date: 12/16/2012 7:28:27 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 5356(SD40T-2) MP 6070(SD40-2)
Views:  1121   Comments: 0
MP 1702
Title:  MP 1702
Description:  A pair of classic engines at the Avondale, LA yard back in 1984. These were some of the first DRGW engines I had seen in the New Orleans area.
Photo Date:  1/6/1984  Upload Date: 4/15/2009 1:08:06 AM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MP 1702(GP15-1) DRGW 5401(SD40T-2)
Views:  1524   Comments: 3
SP 8315
Title:  SP 8315
Description:  A huge Kodachrome SD40T-2 with two SD45R's arrives from the west into Avondale.
Photo Date:  3/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 7:11:14 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8315(SD40T-2)
Views:  1049   Comments: 1
SSW 8323
Title:  SSW 8323
Description:  Cotton Belt 8323 in the company of other SP engines, a DRGW, some CSX and a Chessie for good measure. This is a power move from the SP Avondale yard. The Cotten Belt engine is facing George St and the Chessie is facing Garden Rd.
Photo Date:  2/10/1992  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 7:27:41 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 8323(SD40T-2)
Views:  1051   Comments: 0
SP 6791
Title:  SP 6791
Description:  Two SP freights meet on the Southern. SP 6791, the train approaching is coming from Avondale while SSW 8326 is headed to Avondale. THis is not the greatest part of town but you gotta do what you gotta do to get that classic shot.
Photo Date:  12/10/1987  Upload Date: 12/15/2012 9:13:25 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 6791(SD45T-2R) SSW 8326(SD40T-2)
Views:  1263   Comments: 3


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