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5/7/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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KCS and future I-49
Title:  KCS and future I-49
Description:  A bit of Shreveport history -- I-49 is still a year or so away from opening on this broiling hot summer day. This was my last cross-city bike ride before heading off to college.
Photo Date:  8/15/1992  Upload Date: 4/30/2017 1:14:48 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 645(SD40-2) KCS 647(SD40-2)
Views:  344   Comments: 0
KCS alongside future I-49
Title:  KCS alongside future I-49
Description:  in which I learn about lens flares
Photo Date:  8/15/1992  Upload Date: 4/30/2017 1:14:56 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 645(SD40-2)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
KCS alongside the future I-49
Title:  KCS alongside the future I-49
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1992  Upload Date: 4/30/2017 1:14:37 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 647(SD40-2)
Views:  196   Comments: 0
KCS Deramus Yard with road slug
Title:  KCS Deramus Yard with road slug
Description:  I ran into KCS's three B-unit road slugs a few times, but this is the only time I got anything close to a decent picture of one.
Photo Date:  2/1/1988  Upload Date: 4/30/2017 12:56:49 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 681(SD40-2) KCS 798(GP40-2) KCS 4076(Road Slug)
Views:  450   Comments: 0
SOO Line in Shreveport
Title:  SOO Line in Shreveport
Description:  A grungy gray day in Shreveport sees a pair of northern locomotives deep in the South.
Photo Date:  2/1/1987  Upload Date: 8/6/2017 2:20:13 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOO 757(SD40-2)
Views:  330   Comments: 0
Waiting's over
Title:  Waiting's over
Description:  A mixed freight about to cross the Columbia River into Portland.
Photo Date:  9/3/2018  Upload Date: 9/30/2018 2:52:23 AM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1779(SD40-2) BNSF 1973(SD40-2)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
Bridge meetup
Title:  Bridge meetup
Description:  Both these trains were waiting for the cruise ship American Empress to clear out of the way so the Columbia River swing bridge could close.
Photo Date:  9/3/2018  Upload Date: 9/30/2018 2:53:04 AM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1779(SD40-2) BNSF 2674(GP39-3)
Views:  132   Comments: 1
Union Pacifc and KYLE on the Cotton Belt
Title:  Union Pacifc and KYLE on the Cotton Belt
Description:  In less than a decade, this line would become home rails for that Union Pacific unit.
Photo Date:  6/30/1987  Upload Date: 8/6/2017 2:55:50 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3259(SD40-2)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  MoPac units ready to head west
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:51:47 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 3269(SD40-2)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:52:02 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 3269(SD40-2)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
UP 3304
Title:  UP 3304
Description:  Heading into town from the Resior Yard
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:39:00 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 3304(SD40-2) MP 1726(GP15AC)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:58:11 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 208(B30-7A) UP 3500(SD40-2)
Views:  268   Comments: 0
UP 3537
Title:  UP 3537
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:42:38 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3537(SD40-2)
Views:  226   Comments: 0
UP 3537
Title:  UP 3537
Description:  Love that looooong porch on the back end of the SD40-2. This is at the Jewela Road grade crossing, on the old Texas & Pacific line that enters Shreveport from the south. Those discolored patches at left and right reveal just how much image got cropped off in the 110mm film format!
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:53:37 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3537(SD40-2)
Views:  191   Comments: 1
UP on the future UP
Title:  UP on the future UP
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/10/1988  Upload Date: 8/6/2017 3:01:29 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3745(SD40-2)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:55:18 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3770(SD40-2) UP 4147(SD40-2)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
TANKS!
Title:  TANKS!
Description:  Hauling a load of tanks through the Greenwood Yard.
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:10:44 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3786(SD40-2) UP 4307(SD40-2) UP 228(B30-7A)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
UP 3786
Title:  UP 3786
Description:  A little love for the loco at the end of the consist.
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:11:43 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3786(SD40-2)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Stuck in the middle with UP 4307
Title:  Stuck in the middle with UP 4307
Description:  Back to back SD40-2s. Those porches! You just wanna set up a tent on one of them, dontcha?
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:13:11 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4307(SD40-2)
Views:  167   Comments: 0


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