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L&N Julia Street Yard |
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This image shows the variety of motive power that could be found at the Louisville & Nashville's Julia Street Yard during the transition from steam to diesel. Pictured here were K-4 Pacific 269 (Baldwin 1923) with commuter train No. 12, J-3 Mikado 1591 (Alco 1923), E7A 792 (EMD 1949), and Alco S1 57 (Alco 1949). The yard was about three blocks south of the railroad’s Canal Street Station, and packed into an area of about four square blocks were a freight yard, coach yard, enginehouse, turntable, freight houses and warehouses. The coach yard was on the extreme right of this photo. (approximate month and day) |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1951 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 8:20:47 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
William Harry photo |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
LN 269(4-6-2) LN 792(E7A) |
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| Title: |
LADY BIRD SPECIAL |
| Description: |
From 6 through 9 October 1964, less than one month before the presidential election between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Barry Goldwater, the president’s wife Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson rode on a 19-car campaign train from Washington D.C. to New Orleans via Jacksonville. I managed to see the train, quite by accident, on its way into New Orleans at Canal Blvd. and had no idea what it was until I saw the red-white-and-blue observation car lettered LADY BIRD SPECIAL. I wasn’t much of a railroad photographer back then, and it was dark when I saw it; but Phillip Kotheimer shot the train earlier that afternoon in Mobile, while its three E-units were being refueled from a tank truck just south of the station. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1964 Upload Date: 11/21/2022 6:52:37 PM |
| Location: |
Mobile, AL |
| Author: |
PHILLIP KOTHEIMER |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
LN 792(E7A) |
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