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2/15/2025

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Dirty KCS 1

Title:	Dirty KCS 1
Description:	Two KCS GP40s and a road slug - all looking very much the worse for wear - decend towards the Linwood Avenue overpass - a bridge that crosses two other bridges.
Photo Date:	8/1/1988 Upload Date: 11/17/2015 11:13:13 PM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Bridge,Action
Locomotives:	KCS 794(GP40) KCS 4060(Road Slug) KCS 796(GP40-2)
Views:	871 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:	612 Comments: 0

UP 1419

Title:	UP 1419
Description:	Parked at Calumet Lubricants plant, Jewela Road
Photo Date:	2/23/2017 Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:30:56 PM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	UP 1419(GP40-2) UP 1033(GP60)
Views:	273 Comments: 2

UP 1998

Title:	UP 1998
Description:	Parked downtown
Photo Date:	2/23/2017 Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:29:10 PM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Yard,Action
Locomotives:	UP 1998(GP60) UPY 939(S6-1B) UP 1461(GP40-2)
Views:	672 Comments: 2

Almost symetrical

Title:	Almost symetrical
Description:	A mixed assortment of Portland and Willamette power cruises slowly through the south side of Corvalis, having just passed through the OSU campus.
Photo Date:	12/31/2017 Upload Date: 12/31/2017 10:42:55 PM
Location:	Corvallis, OR
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:
Locomotives:	PNWR 3001(GP40-2) PNWR 101(RP-E4D) PNWR 2308(GP39-2) PNWR 2312(GP39-2) PNWR 102(RP-E4D) PNWR 3002(GP40-2)
Views:	315 Comments: 1

PNWR 3001

Title:	PNWR 3001
Description:	The locomotive Wilsonville leads a string of power and freight down the semi-street-running stretch through Corvallis.
Photo Date:	12/31/2017 Upload Date: 12/31/2017 10:42:38 PM
Location:	Corvallis, OR
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:
Locomotives:	PNWR 3001(GP40-2) PNWR 101(RP-E4D)
Views:	332 Comments: 1

Rio Grande in Shreveport

Title:	Rio Grande in Shreveport
Description:
Photo Date:	5/15/1988 Upload Date: 8/6/2017 3:19:10 AM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	DRGW 3102(GP40-2)
Views:	433 Comments: 1

IHB Blue Island Yard

Title:	IHB Blue Island Yard
Description:	Sun setting on the Indiana Harbor Belts Blue Island yard. I was hoping to catch SP #4449 passing through here but it was elsewhere. Photo from the Halsted Street overpass.
Photo Date:	7/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/28/2015 11:35:15 PM
Location:	Chicago, IL
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Yard,Action
Locomotives:	IHB 4013(GP40-2) IHB 2920(SD20) IHB 4014(GP40-2) IHB 4011(GP40-2) IHB 1521(SW1500) IHB 1522(SW1500) IHB 1524(SW1500)
Views:	626 Comments: 1

Rio Grande in Shreveport

Title:	Rio Grande in Shreveport
Description:	Baird Road, south Shreveport
Photo Date:	5/1/1987 Upload Date: 8/6/2017 2:36:25 AM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	DRGW 3137(GP40) SSW 7257(GP40-2)
Views:	453 Comments: 2

Friendly engineer

Title:	Friendly engineer
Description:	The driver is going way out of his way to say hello as this GE unit waits at Baird Road. The train wasn't held up that long as I have photos of it proceding north in the same sequence.
Photo Date:	3/20/1987 Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:19:46 AM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	SP 5103(B23-7) DRGW 3016(GP30) SP 7608(GP40-2)
Views:	641 Comments: 1

Northbound Rabbit Line

Title:	Northbound Rabbit Line
Description:	View from the Linwood Avenue overpass, Shreveport's magical wonderland of bridges and tracks.
Photo Date:	7/1/1988 Upload Date: 10/17/2016 12:37:26 AM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Bridge,Action
Locomotives:	SP 7622(GP40-2) BN 6546(SD45)
Views:	446 Comments: 1

SP 7622

Title:	SP 7622
Description:	Crossing the Linwood Avenue junction. The open door caught my eye - I was always curious for a glimpse under the hood.
Photo Date:	7/1/1988 Upload Date: 10/17/2016 12:37:51 AM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Bridge,Action
Locomotives:	SP 7622(GP40-2)
Views:	440 Comments: 1

Into the yard

Title:	Into the yard
Description:	Four Bloody Nose units roll into the Riverside Yard. Those are my best guestimates for the unit numbers, which are tough to read off of crappy 110mm scans.
Photo Date:	9/15/1987 Upload Date: 10/23/2016 5:58:05 PM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	SSW 7638(GP40-2) SP 8360(SD40T-2)
Views:	419 Comments: 1

Power rolling

Title:	Power rolling
Description:	Four Espee units top out the hill along Mansfield Road, south Shreveport.
Photo Date:	3/15/1988 Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:22:48 PM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:
Locomotives:	SSW 8374(SD40T-2) SP 7653(GP40-2) SP 7825(B30-7)
Views:	713 Comments: 2

Good photographers are made, not born!

Title:	Good photographers are made, not born!
Description:	Many years later, I would learn to stand in front of the stop sign, not behind it. The Rabbit Line, alongside Mansfield Road, Shreveport.
Photo Date:	3/15/1988 Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:24:57 PM
Location:	Shreveport, LA
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	SP 7825(B30-7) SSW 8374(SD40T-2) SP 7653(GP40-2)
Views:	472 Comments: 0

Albina yard standby

Title:	Albina yard standby
Description:
Photo Date:	9/27/2018 Upload Date: 9/30/2018 2:54:19 AM
Location:	Portland, OR
Author:	Robert Powers
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	UP 8234(ES44AC-H) UP 7763(ES44AC) UP 9987(GP40-2)
Views:	343 Comments: 0

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