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SP Train No. 5
Title:  SP Train No. 5
Description:  Southern Pacific train No. 5, the westbound ARGONAUT, was making it early afternoon station stop at Lake Charles, Louisiana. No. 5 was powered by PA1 207 and another Alco; and if the train was on tine, the time would have been around 2:30. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  2/1/1951  Upload Date: 1/21/2020 8:46:40 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  William T. Harry photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SP 207(PA1) TNO 207(PA1)
Views:  1859   Comments: 0
MP GP18 1976
Title:  MP GP18 1976
Description:  This Missouri Pacific Bicentennial unit was built as the 481 in December 1962 and was renumbered 1976 in the general system renumbering of 1973. It was repainted into bicentennial colors in 1976 and was retired in 1984. Somewhere along the line, it received paper air filters, a feature that was not very common on older MP geeps.
Photo Date:  9/20/1977  Upload Date: 2/10/2009 7:03:15 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MP 1976(GP18)
Views:  1867   Comments: 0
MP Geeps
Title:  MP Geeps
Description:  This modest engine terminal served the Missouri Pacific at Lake Charles, Louisiana. The locomotives are GP7 159, GP38-2 2083, and GP9 1823. Behind the 2083 are GP7 1647 and bicentennial GP18 1976.
Photo Date:  9/20/1977  Upload Date: 6/30/2007 3:29:07 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MP 159(GP7) MP 2083(GP38-2) MP 1823(GP9)
Views:  3008   Comments: 2
SP Yard Office
Title:  SP Yard Office
Description:  This was the Southern Pacific yard office on Shattuck Street in Lake Charles. Upgraded NW2 1324 sits right outside, while another NW2 and a GP9 are at the little engine terminal on the north side of the yard.
Photo Date:  9/20/1977  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 8:53:50 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 1324(NW2)
Views:  3777   Comments: 2
SP 8614
Title:  SP 8614
Description:  U33C 8614, SD45T-2 9376 and SD45 8808 accelerate an eastbound extra past Mallard Junction, on its way out of Lake Charles yard. The switch was the beginning of the Lake Arthur Branch, and is still the connection with the Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District's railroad. Notice the block of Pacific Fruit Express reefers right behind the locomotives.
Photo Date:  9/21/1977  Upload Date: 4/16/2007 12:05:01 AM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8614(U33C)
Views:  2107   Comments: 1
KCS 4360
Title:  KCS 4360
Description:  Kansas City Southern SW1500's 4360 and 4353 rest in the old Lake Charles Yard, in the shadow of I-10.
Photo Date:  9/21/1977  Upload Date: 8/25/2007 11:08:34 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4360(SW1500)
Views:  1626   Comments: 1
SP 2306 in Lake Charles Yard
Title:  SP 2306 in Lake Charles Yard
Description:  EMD SW9 2306 working the yard at St. Charles LA
Photo Date:  2/18/1983  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 4:43:41 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 2306(SW9)
Views:  1750   Comments: 0
KCS Geeps
Title:  KCS Geeps
Description:  A pair of KCS geeps sit at Lake Charles in Feb 1983. It's the era of white paint and tiny cab numbers for the KCS.
Photo Date:  2/18/1983  Upload Date: 1/23/2008 8:58:56 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4164(GP9)
Views:  1584   Comments: 3
Cotton Belt GP 20
Title:  Cotton Belt GP 20
Description:  A Cotton Belt GP 20 seen from Amtraks Sunset. There were quite a few of these units still in service on western roads in the mid 80s.
Photo Date:  3/10/1984  Upload Date: 12/3/2011 12:27:14 AM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 4134(GP20) SP 4108(GP20E)
Views:  1985   Comments: 0
MP GP15-1 1657
Title:  MP GP15-1 1657
Description:  Missouri Pacific GP15-1 1657 was at the railroad's little yard in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Photo Date:  7/12/1986  Upload Date: 1/16/2018 5:27:39 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MP 1657(GP15-1)
Views:  1291   Comments: 1
UP Yard
Title:  UP Yard
Description:  Missouri Pacific GP15-1 1657 and Union Pacific (former MP) GP38-2 2229 were parked around the former MP yard office and freight house on Gestner Memorial Drive in Lake Charles.
Photo Date:  7/12/1986  Upload Date: 2/27/2018 4:56:25 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MP 1657(GP15-1)
Views:  859   Comments: 1
SP MP15DC 2691
Title:  SP MP15DC 2691
Description:  The Southern Pacific only owned a dozen MP15DC units, and here was one of them. The 2691 was parked at the yard in Lake Charles, Louisiana as a westbound train prepared to leave on the right.
Photo Date:  7/12/1986  Upload Date: 4/9/2022 12:00:30 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Christopher Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2691(MP15DC)
Views:  905   Comments: 0
UP Yard Office
Title:  UP Yard Office
Description:  UP (former MP) office and freight house on Gerstner Memorial Drive (Louisiana Highway 14). The freight house has had truck doors on three sides, but no rail access. Although the emblems have been changed on the building, GP38-2 2201 is still painted in its proper color!
Photo Date:  3/12/1987  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 1:02:28 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MP 2201(GP38-2)
Views:  1350   Comments: 0
SP Yard 2
Title:  SP Yard 2
Description:  Here are the yard office and engine terminal at Lake Charles yard. SW1500 2472 and MP15AC 2709 are coupled cab-to-cab, while SW1500 2669 is by itself. The track curving off to the right was once the beginning of the branch to Deridder.
Photo Date:  5/27/1987  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 9:32:48 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  1667   Comments: 3
SP-UP
Title:  SP-UP
Description:  In this view facing south, the SP main line from New Orleans to Houston runs from left to right. The track comming in from the top is a UP (ex-MP) branch by which the UP interchanged with the SP and also served customers north of the SUNSET ROUTE. The UP-SP interchange is on the right.
Photo Date:  5/27/1987  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 9:02:26 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  1090   Comments: 0
Bridges
Title:  Bridges
Description:  In this view looking west shows the I-10 and SP crossings at the north end of Lake Charles. The Calcasieu River flows into the lake right under the highway bridge. The former KCS right-of-way into Lake Charles is visible through the trees on the right. In the background are some of the petrochemical plants in Westlake. These produce large amounts of traffic for both the SP and KCS.
Photo Date:  5/27/1987  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 9:02:59 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives: 
Views:  1255   Comments: 0
SP Bridge
Title:  SP Bridge
Description:  The Southern Pacific's SUNSET ROUTE bridge across the Calcasieu River, at the north end of Lake Charles (the lake) and on the west side of Lake Charles (the city). The high-level bridge is Interstate 10/U.S. Highway 90. The KCS had a bridge right off to the right, and the SP had a second bridge across the Calcasieu River a little further upstream, for its branch to Deridder.
Photo Date:  5/27/1987  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 9:03:27 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives: 
Views:  1189   Comments: 0
SP Yard 1
Title:  SP Yard 1
Description:  Looking west along the Southern Pacific's SUNSET ROUTE at the west end of Lake Charles Yard. The engine terminal is on the right and the yard office is on the left at the Shattuck Street grade crossing. Lake Charles (the lake) is on the upper left and the Calcasieu River is on the upper right.
Photo Date:  5/27/1987  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 9:01:53 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  1569   Comments: 4
Espee LBCXT
Title:  Espee LBCXT
Description:  SD45T-2 9288 and GP60 9784 lead eastbound train LBCXT (Long Beach-CSX-Intermodal) over the fill and trestle at the north end of Lake Charles (the lake) and into Lake Charles (the city).
Photo Date:  6/14/1994  Upload Date: 8/23/2007 5:09:01 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 9288(SD45T-2) SP 9784(GP60)
Views:  2067   Comments: 0
SP 7343
Title:  SP 7343
Description:  An eastbound SP train crossing over an old trestle just east of the SP yard. The bridge has since been replaced with an open deck cement bridge.
Photo Date:  1/9/1997  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 10:54:53 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 7343(SD40R) WC 6502(SD45) UP 3293(SD40-2)
Views:  1409   Comments: 0
BN 2973
Title:  BN 2973
Description:  This was the first revenue run of the BNSF as they shifted power towards Lafayette. With six engines and two cars the first BNSF train heads east from the SP yard to the west and is passing under the I-210 bypass.
Photo Date:  2/2/1997  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 10:52:32 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 2973(GP39V)
Views:  1049   Comments: 0
ATSF 870
Title:  ATSF 870
Description:  This eastbound Santa Fe, actually a BNSF train is passing the SP depot which is now gone.
Photo Date:  11/16/1997  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 10:51:54 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 870(C40-8W) BN 4109(B30-7AB)
Views:  1280   Comments: 0
ATSF 657
Title:  ATSF 657
Description:  I always enjoyed my time working in Lake Charles. I was always shooting trains here at the boat launch next to I-10.
Photo Date:  1/11/1998  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 10:51:21 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 657(C44-9W) ATSF 334(GP60B)
Views:  1490   Comments: 0
SP 7811
Title:  SP 7811
Description:  SP yard job 7811 is headed from West Lake and is headed for the SP yard in Lake Charles, LA. Now BNSF trackage, the wooden trestle is now replaced with a non-photgenic cement bridge. It was also high tide.
Photo Date:  2/17/1998  Upload Date: 4/21/2009 2:54:23 AM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 7811(B30-7)
Views:  1617   Comments: 8
ML 14
Title:  ML 14
Description:  The Cane Train arriving in Lake Charles from New Iberia where the empty, topless containers were loaded with locally grown sugar cane and then transported to the sugar mills in the New Iberia area. The trains consisted of engines on both ends to avoid turning engines.
Photo Date:  10/25/1998  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 8:06:37 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ML 14(GP10)
Views:  836   Comments: 0
LD 1501
Title:  LD 1501
Description:  This is the trailing unit of a push/pull "Cane Train" in Lake Charles.
Photo Date:  12/2/1999  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 8:03:52 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LDRR 1501(CF7)
Views:  940   Comments: 0
SP Yard Office
Title:  SP Yard Office
Description:  A view of the SP yard office and tracks looking west back in 1999. While I was taking this shot a westbound passed with some colorful Mexican engines in the consists.
Photo Date:  12/16/1999  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 10:54:01 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Yard,Station,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  579   Comments: 0
Westbound Train Passing the SP Yard Office
Title:  Westbound Train Passing the SP Yard Office
Description:  The westbound train has units headed to the Cerrejon Coal Mine in Colombia, and were going to be exported from Houston.
Photo Date:  12/16/1999  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 10:54:27 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Yard,Station,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  705   Comments: 1
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:07:49 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  937   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  Cab detail
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:07:56 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
UPP 814
Title:  UPP 814
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:07:59 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1221   Comments: 0
UPP 809
Title:  UPP 809
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:04 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1404   Comments: 0
UPP 9336
Title:  UPP 9336
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:07 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1308   Comments: 0
UPP 6334 Art Lockman
Title:  UPP 6334 Art Lockman
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:10 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  944   Comments: 0
UPP 5714
Title:  UPP 5714
Description:  Golden State Limited
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:14 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  953   Comments: 0
UPP 209 Howard Fogg
Title:  UPP 209 Howard Fogg
Description:  Howard Fogg
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:17 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  878   Comments: 0
UPP 5818 Sherman Hill
Title:  UPP 5818 Sherman Hill
Description:  Sherman Hill
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:39 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1068   Comments: 0
UPP 203 Idaho
Title:  UPP 203 Idaho
Description:  Idaho
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:42 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  960   Comments: 0
UPP 203 Idaho
Title:  UPP 203 Idaho
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:45 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1326   Comments: 0
UPP 5714 Golden State Limited
Title:  UPP 5714 Golden State Limited
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:48 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  877   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2004  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 10:08:51 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Derek Pinsonat
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  1495   Comments: 0
UP GP40P-2 1375
Title:  UP GP40P-2 1375
Description:  Union Pacific 1375 was wearing a nasty patched paint scheme at Lake Charles, Louisiana on 21 August 2005. It had been built in November 1974 as Southern Pacific 3199, and was one of only three GP40P-2 units (SP 3197-3199) ever produced. This unit had its steam generator removed, received a larger fuel tank and was renumbered second 7602 in June 1985. (First 7602 was a Cotton Belt GP40 that had been upgraded into GP40-2 7961 in February 1982.) SP 7602 was assigned UP number 5274 in September 1997, but not but not renumbered before the railroad’s renumbering plan changed. It was assigned 1374 in December 1999, but was renumbered 1375 in August 2001 because the number 1374 was still occupied by an MP15DC which had not yet been renumbered Y1374. UP 1375 was repainted yellow on 7 October 2007 and upgraded into a GP40N in March 2019.
Photo Date:  8/21/2005  Upload Date: 7/31/2022 12:07:24 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  LEO PERSICK
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1375(GP40P-2)
Views:  1189   Comments: 0
MAVBT-09
Title:  MAVBT-09
Description:  An SD70ACe is on the point of UP’s MAVBT-09 (Manifest Avoneale, La-Beaumont, TX) as it waits to depart UP's Lake Charles Yard.
Photo Date:  6/10/2006  Upload Date: 2/7/2017 5:18:55 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8378(SD70ACe)
Views:  987   Comments: 1
D&RGW 4600 Replica
Title:  D&RGW 4600 Replica
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 5:22:46 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Larry Platt
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  727   Comments: 0
KCS 4340 Switching in the Rain
Title:  KCS 4340 Switching in the Rain
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/15/2007  Upload Date: 12/17/2007 5:29:26 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCS 4340(SW1500)
Views:  846   Comments: 0
UP 2058 Switching in the Rain
Title:  UP 2058 Switching in the Rain
Description:  West of the Lake. See also: http://railfan44.rrpictureauchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=988909
Photo Date:  12/15/2007  Upload Date: 12/18/2007 5:48:24 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2058(GP60)
Views:  985   Comments: 1
UP 2383
Title:  UP 2383
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/15/2007  Upload Date: 12/18/2007 5:48:24 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2393(GP38-2)
Views:  737   Comments: 0
Kept Behind a Barbed Wire Fence on a Rainy Day
Title:  Kept Behind a Barbed Wire Fence on a Rainy Day
Description:  To take the picture I had to hold my camera above my head above the chain-link fence and shoot through that prison wire.
Photo Date:  12/15/2007  Upload Date: 12/18/2007 5:48:23 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 616(GP38-2)
Views:  813   Comments: 0
Gambling Boats
Title:  Gambling Boats
Description:  Looking from one of UP's passenger cars at some gambling boats.
Photo Date:  10/27/2008  Upload Date: 11/24/2008 6:44:01 PM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  619   Comments: 0
SBTAL-27
Title:  SBTAL-27
Description:  UP’s SBTAL-27 (Special Beaumont, TX-Alexandria, La) lets off passengers at Lake Charles, La.
Photo Date:  10/27/2008  Upload Date: 6/11/2017 8:39:37 AM
Location:  Lake Charles, LA
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5252(AC45CCTE)
Views:  935   Comments: 1


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