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Viewing Album:  1980s Southern Pacific - Shreveport LA
 
By:Robert Powers
Dates:3/1/1987 - 1/30/1992
Album Info:The old "Rabbit Line" - later the Cotton Belt, then part of SP, now absorbed by Union Pacific and seemingly used exclusively as a southbound line - runs just half a mile from my folks' house in south Shreveport. I used to leap on my bike and rush out there at the sound of a train horn, crappy 110mm camera at the occasionally-ready.
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Cotton Belt 7960
Title:  Cotton Belt 7960
Description:  Crossing the Baird Road grade crossing.
Photo Date:  10/30/1986  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 2:37:51 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 7960(GP40R)
Views:  575   Comments: 1
SP 7331
Title:  SP 7331
Description:  Southbound on the Rabbit Line
Photo Date:  2/15/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 2:35:34 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7331(SD40R)
Views:  719   Comments: 0
SP 7331
Title:  SP 7331
Description:  Crossing the Baird Road grade crossing.
Photo Date:  2/15/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 2:36:41 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7331(SD40R)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
SSW 4140, ready to move
Title:  SSW 4140, ready to move
Description:  Done switching out cars at the old AT&T plant, Cotton Belt 4140 and Southern Pacific 4107 are ready to roll south out of Shreveport.
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 8:20:54 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 4140(GP20E) SP 4107(GP20E)
Views:  818   Comments: 0
SSW 4140, picking up
Title:  SSW 4140, picking up
Description:  Picking up a couple of gondolas of scrap metal from the AT&T plant on Shreveports south side.
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 8:25:51 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 4140(GP20E) SP 4107(GP20E)
Views:  700   Comments: 0
Rusty Geeps
Title:  Rusty Geeps
Description:  SSW 4140 and SP 4107 pull forward to pick up cars at the AT&T plant.
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 8:27:01 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 4140(GP20E) SP 4107(GP20E)
Views:  741   Comments: 0
SP Caboose 4734
Title:  SP Caboose 4734
Description:  Southbound toward Houston
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:16:55 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  311   Comments: 0
SP 7313
Title:  SP 7313
Description:  About the cross the old Texas & Pacific diamond.
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 2:48:47 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7313(SD40R)
Views:  594   Comments: 0
SP caboose 1929
Title:  SP caboose 1929
Description:  Shot from the Mansfield Road bridge over the Union Pacific southbound line
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 2:53:42 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  360   Comments: 0
SP 3349 northbound
Title:  SP 3349 northbound
Description:  I caught 3349 northbound at Baird Road... a few days later Id see her again southbound at Williamson Way, just a half mile south of here.
Photo Date:  3/10/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:13:30 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3349(GP9R)
Views:  404   Comments: 0
SP 3349
Title:  SP 3349
Description:  Even as a kid I loved these rusty battered old Geeps. The rusty cab roof, the battered paint job, the from-another-era look of the vents and high hood, and those classic SP jam-packed headlight bundles - I always snapped a shot when I saw one, even if -- like here -- it turned out pretty bad.
Photo Date:  3/15/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:10:55 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3349(GP9R)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
SP 6543
Title:  SP 6543
Description:  At Williamson Way, south Shreveport, the Rabbit Line, picking up from the old AT&T plant..
Photo Date:  3/15/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:08:45 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 6543(GP35)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
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:  879   Comments: 1
SP 8271 northbound
Title:  SP 8271 northbound
Description:  Southern Pacific 8271 charges northbound into town at the head of a 5-engine consist.
Photo Date:  3/30/1987  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 8:29:57 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8271(SD40T-2)
Views:  518   Comments: 0
SP Caboose 1959
Title:  SP Caboose 1959
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/30/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:06:59 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  362   Comments: 0
SP 8314
Title:  SP 8314
Description:  Heading north alongside Mansfield Road - about to hit the Texas & Pacific crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 8:42:27 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8314(SD40T-2)
Views:  711   Comments: 0
Shouldnt Paint 7562
Title:  Shouldnt Paint 7562
Description:  My first sighting of the SPSF merger scheme in the wild. A burst of color amid a lineup of drab Espee gray.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:15:34 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ]P 7562(SD45R) SP 3361(GP9R) SP 7487(SD45R)
Views:  777   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific 1640
Title:  Southern Pacific 1640
Description:  Crossing the former Texas & Pacific at Mansfield Road.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:32:44 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  352   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific
Title:  Southern Pacific
Description:  Northbound, Rabbit Line, at Baird Road grade crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:33:57 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  266   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific
Title:  Southern Pacific
Description:  Southbound, Rabbit Line, at Baird Road grade crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:32:01 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7316(SD40R)
Views:  547   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific
Title:  Southern Pacific
Description:  Northbound, Rabbit Line, at Baird Road grade crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:32:18 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 8373(SD40T-2)
Views:  526   Comments: 0
Blurry Kodachrome
Title:  Blurry Kodachrome
Description:  With apologies for the terrible focuse, but a Kodachrome tunnel motor fresh out of the paint shop is too good to resist. Amid all the SP grunge and gray, this thing really stood out.Southbound, Rabbit Line, at Baird Road grade crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:32:30 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8315(SD40T-2)
Views:  691   Comments: 1
2 Espee, 2 ex-BN
Title:  2 Espee, 2 ex-BN
Description:  An SD45 and a Tunnel Motor lead a pair of leased SD45s in Burlington Northern green. Northbound, Bert Kouns grade crossing, south Shreveport.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:33:43 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NHL 6470(SD45) NHL 6436(SD45)
Views:  666   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific Kodachrome - SP 6606
Title:  Southern Pacific Kodachrome - SP 6606
Description:  At the Bert Kouns grade crossing, south Shreveport
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:33:30 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 6606(GP35)
Views:  549   Comments: 1
Kodachrome in the lead
Title:  Kodachrome in the lead
Description:  SP 6644 is southbound on the Rabbit Line, at the Texas & Pacific (later MoPac, later Union Pacific) crossing at Mansfield Road.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:33:06 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 6644(GP35) SP 7835(B30-7)
Views:  615   Comments: 1
Cabeese!
Title:  Cabeese!
Description:  Cupola cabooses were extremely rare on the SP Rabbit Line. I never saw another one like this one. Paired cabooses happened on occasion but were also photo-worthy.
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 1:33:17 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  533   Comments: 0
Almost home
Title:  Almost home
Description:  A mixed lashup of 5 units rolls into the downtown Shreveport Riverside Yard on a warm summer evening.
Photo Date:  7/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:41:38 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7435(SD45R) SP 6644(GP35) SP 5114(B23-7)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
Under I-20
Title:  Under I-20
Description:  5 locomotives pull a consist up the Rabbit Line and into downtown Shreveport's Riverside Yard.
Photo Date:  7/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:42:51 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 5114(B23-7)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
Back in the day, it was worth sticking around for the end
Title:  Back in the day, it was worth sticking around for the end
Description:  SP cabose 1895 - downtown Shreveport
Photo Date:  7/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2016 3:43:16 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  345   Comments: 0
SSW 2581
Title:  SSW 2581
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 5:53:23 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2581(SW1500)
Views:  478   Comments: 1
Cotton Belt 2581
Title:  Cotton Belt 2581
Description:  Parked at the Georgia Pacific spur alongside Mansfield Road
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 5:53:55 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2581(SW1500)
Views:  376   Comments: 0
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:  584   Comments: 1
Southbound
Title:  Southbound
Description:  Southbound on the Cotton Belt through south Shreveport, this lashup has just crossed Crabapple Road and is roaring uphill out of town. Unknown SD45 is second in line, and behind that a leased former MoPac unit.
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 5/1/2017 12:27:40 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7351(SD40R)
Views:  682   Comments: 0
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:  917   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:  669   Comments: 0
SP Caboose 4744
Title:  SP Caboose 4744
Description:  Alongside Mansfield Road, south Shreveport
Photo Date:  3/15/1988  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:25:31 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  268   Comments: 0
SSW 2589 - downtown Shreveport
Title:  SSW 2589 - downtown Shreveport
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/20/1988  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:26:54 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2589(SW1500)
Views:  522   Comments: 0
SSW 2520
Title:  SSW 2520
Description:  Downtown Shreveport, Riverside Yard. I-20 bridge in the background.
Photo Date:  3/20/1988  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:26:19 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2520(SW1500)
Views:  502   Comments: 0
Downtown switchers
Title:  Downtown switchers
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/30/1988  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:27:36 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2520(SW1500) SSW 2589(SW1500)
Views:  615   Comments: 0
SP 3379
Title:  SP 3379
Description:  A high-nose Geep flies past on the Rabbit Line, south Shreveport at Baird Road. Not my favorite spot, but it was the one I could get to on my bike when I heard a train horn in the distance.
Photo Date:  3/30/1988  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:28:10 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3379(GP9R)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
SP 7357
Title:  SP 7357
Description:  Rabbit Line, south Shreveport
Photo Date:  3/30/1988  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 6:29:08 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7357(SD40R)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific caboose
Title:  Southern Pacific caboose
Description:  At the Bert Kouns grade crossing, south Shreveport
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:58:19 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  225   Comments: 0
Dirty tunnel motor
Title:  Dirty tunnel motor
Description:  At Williamson Way grade crossing, south Shreveport
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:57:50 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 9351(SD45T-2)
Views:  421   Comments: 1
Caboose 4669
Title:  Caboose 4669
Description:  Northbound, Rabbit Line, at Williamson Way - south Sherveport
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:58:05 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  324   Comments: 0
Caboose 1876
Title:  Caboose 1876
Description:  Northbound, Rabbit Line, at Baird Road grade crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:57:36 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  258   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific
Title:  Southern Pacific
Description:  Northbound at Williamson Way
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:59:05 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  238   Comments: 0
Cotton Belt switcher
Title:  Cotton Belt switcher
Description:  Switching downtown
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:58:50 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2517(SW1500)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
Cotton Belt Shreveport Yard
Title:  Cotton Belt Shreveport Yard
Description:  Later the Union Pacific Riverside Yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:59:20 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2517(SW1500) SSW 2491(SW1500)
Views:  623   Comments: 1
Southern Pacific / SSW Switcher
Title:  Southern Pacific / SSW Switcher
Description:  Downtown Shreveport
Photo Date:  5/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/24/2016 9:58:30 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 2491(SW1500)
Views:  445   Comments: 1
Crossing the ditch
Title:  Crossing the ditch
Description:  A massive southbound Espee tunnel motor dwarfs the little trestle over the drainage ditch near the Crabapple Road grade crossing in south Shreveport.
Photo Date:  6/1/1988  Upload Date: 5/1/2017 12:26:28 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 9201(SD45T-2)
Views:  602   Comments: 0

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