|
| 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. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 10/2/2017 4:15:41 PM |
| Location: |
Rayville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
235 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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 |
| Categories: |
Track |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
197 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 10/30/2017 5:02:32 PM |
| Location: |
Rayville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
174 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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 |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
129 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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 |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
91 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| 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 |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
171 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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 |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
280 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
MidSouth Yard |
| Description: |
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. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1989 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 3:35:05 PM |
| Location: |
Ballground, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
173 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
ICG Swing Bridge |
| Description: |
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. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1989 Upload Date: 5/2/2018 3:46:45 PM |
| Location: |
Redwood, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
321 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
ICG Bridge |
| Description: |
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. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/1989 Upload Date: 5/2/2018 4:30:01 PM |
| Location: |
Redwood, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
291 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Former IC Station |
| Description: |
This was the former Illinois Central station at Brookhaven, Mississippi. Amtrak patrons use a small bus shelter off to the right. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1989 Upload Date: 10/1/2017 4:11:57 PM |
| Location: |
Brookhaven, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
339 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
IC |
| Description: |
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. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1989 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 3:18:41 PM |
| Location: |
Brookhaven, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Track |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
320 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Amtrak |
| Description: |
This was the little structure that Amtrak erected to replace the Illinois Central's "brick-and-mortar" station at Brookhaven, Mississippi. |
| Photo Date: |
3/27/1989 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 3:24:07 PM |
| Location: |
Brookhaven, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
240 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
EMD Open House |
| Description: |
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. |
| Photo Date: |
9/17/1989 Upload Date: 3/29/2016 8:08:58 PM |
| Location: |
McCook, IL |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
CR 3000(GP40) BN 7111(SD40-2) ATSF 101(FP45) GN 400(SD45) MON 32(BL2) |
| Views: |
2420 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
SP Depot |
| Description: |
This little train order office was on the line from Houston to Shreveport. At one time there had been a crossing here with the Waco Beaumont Trinity & Sabine Railway, and this was previously an MKT line. |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1989 Upload Date: 5/14/2016 6:55:12 PM |
| Location: |
Corrigan, TX |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Track |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
567 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
ATSF Track |
| Description: |
This view was facing west on the Longview Subdivision of the Santa Fe's South Texas Division at Evadale, Texas. This line ran from Silsbee up to to Longview, with the Oakdale Subdivision running east from Kirbyville into Louisiana. |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1992 Upload Date: 3/10/2018 2:47:28 PM |
| Location: |
Evadale, TX |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
248 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Wax Lake Outlet |
| Description: |
This was a view looking north along the Wax Lake Outlet, from the Southern Pacific and U.S. Highway 90 bridges towards the Atchafalaya Basin in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. The other structures in the photos were aerial pipeline crossings. The 13-mile channel - also known as the Calumet Cut – was completed in 1942 to provide an additional outlet from the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. The railroad bridge consists of three 400-foot thru riveted truss spans, with a 70-foot deck plate girder at each end. It is located on the SUNSET ROUTE near milepost 91, about 11#miles west of Morgan City, Louisiana. |
| Photo Date: |
3/29/2017 Upload Date: 3/29/2017 5:52:20 PM |
| Location: |
Calumet, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
|
| Views: |
150 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Amtrak Train No. 59 |
| Description: |
Amtrak train 59, the southbound CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, was at the north end of FRENIER SIDING (milepost 887.3 ), about 30 miles from its destination at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The train had upgraded P40 818 and seven cars. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/2019 Upload Date: 11/23/2019 10:40:44 PM |
| Location: |
Frenier, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 818(P40DC) |
| Views: |
177 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
CN Empty Coal Train |
| Description: |
This northbound empty Canadian National-Illinois Central coal train was at the north end of FRENIER SIDING (milepost 887.3 ), about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The 150-car train had an ET44AC on each end, 3027 on the front and 3235 pushing on the rear, and was on its way from the Rail-Marine Terminal Co. terminal on the Mississippi River at Convent, Louisiana back to a mine in Illinois. It had just met the southbound CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/2019 Upload Date: 11/23/2019 10:46:10 PM |
| Location: |
Frenier, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
() |
| Views: |
138 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
