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By:Michael Palmieri
Dates:1/1/1950 - 12/31/1999
Album Info:Black-and-white image by noted photographer J. Parker Lamb.
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T&P 4-6-2 704
Title:  T&P 4-6-2 704
Description:  Texas & Pacific P-1-r class Pacific 704 was outside the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans' engine house at RACE STREET YARD. The loco had been built by Baldwin (51666) in April 1919 as T&P 604 and then almost immediately renumbered 704. It was modernized with Boxpok main drivers, roller bearings, a larger tender and other improvements in April 1944, and received running board skirts in July 1949. Half of the T&P's 22 Pacifics received blue-and-gray EAGLE paint jobs; but only two, the 704 and 706, were fitted with skirts. The engine was retired in March 1952, the engine house was razed around 1967 and Race Street Yard was removed in 1984. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  5/1/1950  Upload Date: 5/28/2020 5:20:05 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  TP 704(4-6-2)
Views:  687   Comments: 0
NOPB DS-4-4-660 49
Title:  NOPB DS-4-4-660 49
Description:  New Orleans Public Belt DS-4-4-660 number 49 was switching a wharf along the Mississippi River near the Louisville & Nashville station. The locomotive had been built as Baldwin serial no. 73897 in January 1949 at a cost of $73,950 and was the third of three units built for the NOPB that month. It was retired in 1971, traded in to EMD and was scrapped by a contractor in New Orleans. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  5/5/1950  Upload Date: 6/12/2019 1:16:49 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Action
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Bisso 0-6-0 No. 1
Title:  Bisso 0-6-0 No. 1
Description:  Former Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans (TPMPT) 0-6-0 number 1 was photographed in September 1951 at its new home, the New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Co. The loco – and its sibling No. 2 – had been built by Alco-Richmond in June 1907 (42928-42929) as Trinity & Brazos Valley 75 and 76, for use at Galveston; but following the T&BV’s bankruptcy in 1914, the railroad lost its access to Galveston from Fort Worth over the Santa Fe and the two switchers became redundant.

The City of Houston bought the two locomotives via the Barry Equipment Co. in 1917 and they arrived on 31 March lettered Houston Municipal 1 and 2. They were leased to the International & Great Northern from March 1918 until October 1921, and were sold to Grant Locomotive and Car Works [of Houston] in1922. They subsequently moved to the TP-MPT where they retained their previous numbers.

In early 1948 the TP-MPT received four Alco S2 diesels, and the 0-6-0’s were sold to Bisso by August 1949. Besides operating coal-burning towboats and ferries, Bisso also provided coal for other vessels and used its locos to move hopper cars from a 2-track yard along the New Orleans Public Belt then up the Mississippi River levee to its coal-handling facility along the river. Bisso’s coaling operation ended around 1955, and with it, the need for any locomotives. No. 1 disappeared, and was probably scrapped; but No. 2 remained on Bisso property until 2010, when it was donated to the Louisiana Railway Heritage Trust. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  5/15/1950  Upload Date: 6/25/2016 6:23:31 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  BISSO 1(0-6-0)
Views:  1147   Comments: 0
MP 4-8-2 5314
Title:  MP 4-8-2 5314
Description:  Missouri Pacific MT-73 4-8-2 5314 and an anonymous Texas & Pacific F7A posed outside the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad's Race Street engine house, along the Mississippi River in New Orleans. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  5/15/1950  Upload Date: 7/25/2016 6:15:54 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 5314(4-8-2)
Views:  1097   Comments: 0
SP (T&NO) 0-8-0 182
Title:  SP (T&NO) 0-8-0 182
Description:  While the 0-8-0 was a pretty common locomotive type, the Southern Pacific Lines only owned 27 of these: 15 on the SP proper and 12 on the Texas & New Orleans. T&NO 175-186 were built at the railroad's Houston Shops between 1930 and 1936, utilizing boiler sections from retired MM-1 class 2-6-6-2's 900-911. All were renumbered 850-861 in 1950, so their original numbers could be assigned to a mixture of Alco RSD5’s and Baldwin AR616's built in 1952 and '53. One common assignment in the New Orleans area was the long-distance transfer runs from AVONDALE YARD, at the west end of the HUEY P. OONG BRIDGE, to the L&N and the Southern on the eastern side of the city. The 182 was photographed at ALGIERS YARD in the summer of 1950. It had'been built in March 1931, was renumbered 857 on 29 September 1950 and was scrapped on 24 February 1956. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  6/6/1950  Upload Date: 6/12/2019 12:16:00 PM
Location:  Algiers, LA
Author:  J. PARKER KAMB photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 182(0-8-0) TNO 182(0-8-0)
Views:  544   Comments: 0
SP (T&NO) 2-6-0 468
Title:  SP (T&NO) 2-6-0 468
Description:  This Mogul was one of a gsoup of 15 2-6-0's built by Baldwin in June 1912 as Southern Pacific Lines 500-514. In December 1949, the entire group was renumbered 685-699; and in May 1950 they were renumbered again, to 460-474. Here at ALGIERS YARD, the 468 shows evidence of its most recent renumbering. All of these locomotives lasted for at least 40 years, being retired between June 1952 and January 1957. This loco was sold to Houston Compressed Steel on 2 February 1955. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  6/6/1950  Upload Date: 6/12/2019 12:32:06 PM
Location:  Algiers, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 468(2-6-0) TNO 468(2-6-0)
Views:  1619   Comments: 0
SP S2 91
Title:  SP S2 91
Description:  In the summer of 1950 T&NO S2 number 91 was parked outside the railroad's office building at its Algiers Yard. Within ten years the yard and shop facilities here would all be gone. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  6/6/1950  Upload Date: 7/12/2016 5:49:05 PM
Location:  Algiers, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  1393   Comments: 0
Louisiana Eastern 9 and 18 (1)
Title:  Louisiana Eastern 9 and 18 (1)
Description:  Here was a view on the Louisiana Eastern from atop the tender of former Illinois Central Mikado 3769 facing 0-6-0 18 (ex-Gulf Mobile & Ohio 485), with LE Mikado 9 (ex-Texas & Pacific 800) on the left. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 2/7/2019 5:01:53 PM
Location:  Shiloh, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  LERR 18(0-6-0) LERR 9(2-8-2)
Views:  427   Comments: 0
Louisiana Eastern 9 and 18 (2)
Title:  Louisiana Eastern 9 and 18 (2)
Description:  Here was Louisiana Eastern Mikado 9 (ex-Texas & Pacific 800), with 0-6-0 18 (ex-Gulf Mobile & Ohio 485) on the left. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 2/7/2019 5:08:01 PM
Location:  Shiloh, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  LERR 9(2-8-2) LERR 18(0-6-0)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
Louisiana Eastern 2 and 14
Title:  Louisiana Eastern 2 and 14
Description:  Louisiana Eastern 4-4-0 No. 2 was built by Baldwin in 1922 as San Antonio & Aransas Pass 60, then to Southern Pacific (T&NO) 260, then Comite Southern 2, then LERR 2, and then to Stone Mountain Railway Texas 2. Mikado No. 14, on the left, was built by Alco-Brooks in 1921 as Mississippi Central 120, then to Louisiana Eastern 12, and then renumbered LERR 14.
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 2/7/2019 5:17:34 PM
Location:  Shiloh, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  LERR 2(4-4-0) LERR 14(2-8-2)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Louisiana Eastern Locomotives
Title:  Louisiana Eastern Locomotives
Description:  Here was a view from atop Louisiana Eastern 0-6-0 18 (ex-Gulf Mobile & Ohio 485) facing the tender of former Illinois Central Mikado 3769, with LE Mikado 9 (ex-Texas & Pacific 800) on the right and an assortment of locos in the background. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 2/7/2019 5:13:53 PM
Location:  Shiloh, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  LERR 9(2-8-2) IC 3769(2-8-2)
Views:  605   Comments: 1
Washington-Western Locos
Title:  Washington-Western Locos
Description:  This photo was taken at the Green Brothers' gravel pit at Jenkins, Louisiana; along the Gulf Mobile & Ohio's Bogue Chitto Branch neap Franklinton. It shows former Mississippi Central Mikado 124 was being pushed by former Illinois Central 0-6-0 210. The 124 was Alco-Brooks serial number 63168, built as J. J. Newman Lumber no. 13 in Nov 1921. It became*Mississippi Central 124 in December 1935 and went to the Washington-Western in June 1953. The 210 was Alco-Brooks serial number 52259 and was built in November 1922 as Illinois Central 210. It went to the Washington-Western in November 1957. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 8/2/2016 5:26:38 PM
Location:  Jenkins, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  WW 124(2-8-2) WW 210(0-6-0)
Views:  965   Comments: 0
WW/SP 0-6-0 842
Title:  WW/SP 0-6-0 842
Description:  This 0-6-0 was built by Lima as Texas & New Orleans 156 in March 1924, was renumbered T&NO 802 in October 1953, and went to the Washington-Western (Standard Gravel Co.) as 842 in January 1956. It was subsequently moved to Standard Gravel's pit at Clifton, Louisiana, then went to the Casey Jones Museum at Vaughn, Mississippi in March 1984, and then to Terry. Mississippi after the museum in Vaughn closed. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 8/9/2016 5:20:32 PM
Location:  Jenkins, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 842(0-6-0)
Views:  809   Comments: 0
Louisiana Eastern 2-8-2 14
Title:  Louisiana Eastern 2-8-2 14
Description:  Louisiana Eastern 2-8-2 number 14 was built by Alco's Brooks Works in 1921 under serial no. 63072 as Mississippi Central 120. It went to the Louisiana Eastern as number 12, and was subsequently renumbered 14. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 8/24/2016 6:09:39 PM
Location:  Shiloh, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  LERR 14(2-8-2)
Views:  465   Comments: 0
Louisiana Eastern 17
Title:  Louisiana Eastern 17
Description:  Louisiana Eastern 0-6-0%No. 17 was built by Alco-Cooke in 1919 as serial no. 60182. It was originally Mobile & Ohio 45, then Gulf Mobile & Ohio 45, then Louisiana Eastern 21, and finally Louisiana E`stern 17. Note that the number 45 is still on its headlight number board! (approximate day)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 11/1/2016 12:14:20 PM
Location:  Shiloh, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  LERR 17(0-6-0)
Views:  676   Comments: 1
Louisiana Eastern 17
Title:  Louisiana Eastern 17
Description:  Louisiana Eastern 0-6-0 No. 17 was built by Alco-Cooke in 1919 as serial no. 60182. It wbs originally Mobile & Ohio 45, then Gulf Mobile & Ohio 45, then Louisiana Eastern 21, and finally Louisiana Eastern 17. Note that the number 45 is still on its headlight number board! (opproximate day)
Photo Date:  7/1/1957  Upload Date: 11/1/2016 12:14:45 PM
Location:  Shiloh, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  LERR 17(0-6-0)
Views:  633   Comments: 0
Washington-Western 210
Title:  Washington-Western 210
Description:  The Washington-Western Railroad was chartered by the Green Brothers Gravel Co. in 1940 to serve its gravel pit at Jenkins, Louisiana. This was along the Gulf Mobile & Ohio's Bogue Chitto Branch in Washington Parish, just south of the Parish Seat at Franklinton. This 0-6-0 was built by Alco-Brooks under serial no. 52259 in November 1922 as Illinois Central 210, and went to the Washington-Western in November 1954. This pit closed in 1966, so the W-W moved a pit at Clifton, about eight miles north of here; but that operation used diesels.
Photo Date:  8/1/1957  Upload Date: 7/5/2016 11:54:17 AM
Location:  Jenkins, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  WW 210(0-6-0) IC 210(0-6-0)
Views:  1482   Comments: 0
Willis Shortline 200
Title:  Willis Shortline 200
Description:  This 4-6-0 was built by Baldwin in August 1889 as Texas & Pacific class D-5 number 200. It was sold to the Cinclare Central Plantation at Brusly, in West Baton Rouge Parish, where it was used to haul sugar canc trains over the T&P's Port Allen Branch. Cinclare replaced the 200 with a used 44-ton General Electric center-cab diesel-electric loco, and the Ten Wheeler was sold to the Willis Shortlhne in 1955. It was last used around 1963 and subsequently scrapped. Notice the cable on the coupler which was being used to move the GM&O gondola on the adjacent track. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  8/1/1957  Upload Date: 8/9/2016 5:34:59 PM
Location:  Enon, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  WILLIS 200(4-6-0)
Views:  819   Comments: 0
SP No. 5
Title:  SP No. 5
Description:  SP train no. 5, the westbound ARGONAUT, rolls off of the Huey Long Bridge and across the TP-MP Terminal track at West Bridge Tower. The train is powered by GP9's 282 and 283, two of the Texas & New Orleans' four "double-ended" DF-602 passenger units. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  12/15/1957  Upload Date: 7/3/2016 10:14:29 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SP 283(GP9) SP 282(GP9)
Views:  1784   Comments: 0
MP Transfer Run
Title:  MP Transfer Run
Description:  Missouri Pacific F3A 538, an unidentified B-unit, GP7 4158, and F3A 549 were leading a westbound transfer run down the Mississippi River Bridge at Lobdell, Louisiana. The train was on its way from the Illinois Central's NORTH BATON ROUGE YARD to the MP's former Gulf Coast Lines yard at Anchorage. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  6/15/1960  Upload Date: 6/12/2019 12:59:36 PM
Location:  Lobdell, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  MP 549(F3A)
Views:  550   Comments: 0
KCS No. 9
Title:  KCS No. 9
Description:  Kansas City Southern E3A 22 was leading train No. 9 up the Mississippi River Bridge into Baton Rouge. No. 9 was the day train betpeen Shreveport and New Orleans, until it was discontinued in April 1968. The train's last car was a former New York Central buffet-lounge observation car, one of four which the uCS had just purchased. They were remodeled by Pullman-Standard into lunch counter-lounge cars and painted into KCS colors in 1963. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  6/15/1960  Upload Date: 11/1/2016 12:13:26 PM
Location:  Lobdell, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger
Locomotives:  KCS 22(E3A)
Views:  1662   Comments: 1
KCS Train 10
Title:  KCS Train 10
Description:  Kansas City Southern F7A 32 was leading train No. 10 - the daytime run from New Orleans to Shreveport - down the Mississippi River Bridge from Baton Rouge. The 32 was one of only two passenger F7A's on the KCS, and still wore its full-length radio antenna. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  6/15/1960  Upload Date: 8/2/2016 5:13:16 PM
Location:  Lobdell, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger
Locomotives:  KCS 32(F3A)
Views:  1639   Comments: 0
KCS No. 77
Title:  KCS No. 77
Description:  Kansas City Southern F3A 77 and two others F-units lead train No. 77 down the Mississippi River Bridge into Baton Rouge. The train is passing over the Illinois Central line between New Orleans and Memphis via Vicksburg. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  6/15/1960  Upload Date: 8/24/2016 6:08:30 PM
Location:  Baton Rouge, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 77(F3A)
Views:  1072   Comments: 0
MP Transfer Run
Title:  MP Transfer Run
Description:  Missouri Pacific F3A 538, an unidentified B-unit, GP7 4158, and F3A 549 lead a westbound transfer run down the Mississippi River Bridge from Baton Rouge. The train is on its way from the Illinois Central's North Baton Rouge Yard to the MP's former Gulf Coast Lines yard at Anchorage. Notice the caboose six cars back! (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  6/15/1960  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 5:20:27 PM
Location:  Lobdell, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  MP 538(F3A)
Views:  1120   Comments: 1
T&P SW8 815
Title:  T&P SW8 815
Description:  Texas & Pacific SW8 815 pulls passed the depot at Addis, Louisiana and into the yard with a westbound local, while an eastbound train waits in the yard. The T&P's eight SW8's were its only switch engines fitted with oscillating headlights, indicating their status as road power.
Photo Date:  6/15/1960  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 5:27:49 PM
Location:  Addis, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  TP 815(SW8)
Views:  1486   Comments: 0
Eastbound T&P
Title:  Eastbound T&P
Description:  Four Texas & Pacific F7’s and a GP9 were on an eastbound train dropping down the HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE on their way to RACE STREET YARD in New Orleans. All five of the units were equipped with dynamic brakes, which were put to good use on the 1.25% grade here. The GP9 was painted blue and grey, and not the swamp holly orange and black that was used on the T&P’s GP7’s. (approximate month and day)
Photo Date:  6/6/1961  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 5:47:43 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  TP 1546(F7A)
Views:  857   Comments: 0
KCS E6A 24
Title:  KCS E6A 24
Description:  When this shot was taken at Shreveport in 1964, KCS 24 was near the end of its career. In 1962 and 1963, the railroad had purchased five used E7's from the Maine Central, allowing it to retire its three remaining pre-war E-units: E3A 21 and 22 and E6A 24. The 24 was scrapped just a few months after this photo was taken. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  8/15/1964  Upload Date: 7/12/2016 6:03:32 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  1468   Comments: 0
MP Orleaneans
Title:  MP Orleaneans
Description:  Shortly before they were discontinued on 11 March 1962, Missouri Pacific's eastbound and westbound ORLEANEANS were meeting at the Rock Island crossing in Eunice, Louisiana. Train Nos. 50 and 51 were about mid-way through their 367-mile trips between New Orleans and Houston. Nos. 52 and 53, the HOUSTONIANS, were the night trains on this route and continued to operate until 25 May 1967. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  2/1/1965  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 12:21:06 PM
Location:  Eunice, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB photo
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  MP 311(GP7)
Views:  622   Comments: 0
MP Meet
Title:  MP Meet
Description:  Shortly before they were discontinued on 11 March 1965, the Missouri Pacific’s eastbound (on the left) and westbound ORLEANEANS met at Eunice, Louisiana. These were the day trains between New Orleans and Houston, and should have met at Elton, 20 miles west of here; so the westbound train was running about 45 minutes late. By this time there was no longer any food service available on these trains, but passengers could order box lunches from the conductor. The track in the foreground was the Rock Island’s line from Eunice to Alexandria, and was its connection with the Southern Pacific off to the right. Up until 1943 Eunice was also served by a branch of the Texas & Pacific. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  2/1/1965  Upload Date: 6/29/2016 1:02:20 PM
Location:  Eunice, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  MP 276(GP7) MP 311(GP7)
Views:  1325   Comments: 1
Northbound Southern Railway Train
Title:  Northbound Southern Railway Train
Description:  Here is a colorized image of Southern Railway GP35 2641 and three other geeps powering a northbound train over the railroad’s 5.5-mile trestle across Lake Pontchartrain at North Shore, Louisiana. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  1/1/1981  Upload Date: 2/17/2024 12:20:16 PM
Location:  North Shore, LA
Author:  J. PARKER LAMB iamge
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  71   Comments: 0


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