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Viewing Album:  Shreveport Louisiana today
 
By:Robert Powers
Dates:12/21/2010 - 1/29/2017
Album Info:Train hunting photos from my yearly Christmas trips back home.
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Union Pacific Skyline
Title:  Union Pacific Skyline
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/27/2011  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:07:27 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2046(GP60) UP 4988(SD70M) UP 4420(SD70M)
Views:  216   Comments: 2
Idling downtown
Title:  Idling downtown
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/27/2011  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:08:25 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2046(GP60)
Views:  243   Comments: 3
Long Way from Home
Title:  Long Way from Home
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/27/2011  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:09:41 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2436(C40-8M) UP 9475(C41-8W)
Views:  210   Comments: 3
Uphill battle
Title:  Uphill battle
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/2013  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:11:30 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4315(SD70M)
Views:  200   Comments: 1
UP 4315
Title:  UP 4315
Description:  Heading south alongside Mansfield Road, south Shreveport.
Photo Date:  12/26/2013  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:13:32 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4315(SD70M) UP 4250(SD70M)
Views:  267   Comments: 1
Espee caboose
Title:  Espee caboose
Description:  A mystery! The number is long faded from this old Southern Pacific caboose. I might have seen the very same one rolling on this stretch of track in the 1980s; for sure I saw many like it. No clue why Union Pacific decided to tack it on to the end of this mixed freight.
Photo Date:  12/26/2013  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:19:09 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  177   Comments: 2
Norfolk Southern far from home rails
Title:  Norfolk Southern far from home rails
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/2013  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:20:41 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8032(ES44AC)
Views:  300   Comments: 1
KCS / BNSF
Title:  KCS / BNSF
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/2014  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:23:03 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3905(SD70MAC)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
Parked BNSF
Title:  Parked BNSF
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/2014  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:22:25 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9123(SD70ACe)
Views:  198   Comments: 2
UP 3862
Title:  UP 3862
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/13/2015  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:24:24 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3862(SD70M) UP 8695(SD70ACe)
Views:  256   Comments: 1
UP 2546
Title:  UP 2546
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/13/2015  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:26:33 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2546(ES44AC-H) UP 4049(SD70M)
Views:  211   Comments: 1
NS 9688
Title:  NS 9688
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/13/2015  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:27:24 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9688(C44-9W) NS 6620(SD60) NS 9373(C44-9W)
Views:  311   Comments: 2
Its such a strange place to find a train
Title:  Its such a strange place to find a train
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/21/2015  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 1:50:34 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Night,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4767(ES44AC)
Views:  207   Comments: 2
KCS on the Rabbit Line
Title:  KCS on the Rabbit Line
Description:  Something I did not expect - a KCS coal unit train running south on the Lufkin Subdivision. Seems that KCS has somehow gotten trackage rights on the old Southern Pacific route.
Photo Date:  12/22/2015  Upload Date: 12/28/2015 10:07:44 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4577(AC44CW) BNSF 6383(ES44AC)
Views:  255   Comments: 1
KCS on former SP
Title:  KCS on former SP
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/22/2015  Upload Date: 1/31/2017 1:51:34 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4577(AC44CW) BNSF 6383(ES44AC)
Views:  258   Comments: 1
KCS on former SP
Title:  KCS on former SP
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/22/2015  Upload Date: 1/31/2017 1:53:02 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4862(ES44AC) BNSF 8523(SD70ACe)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
BNSF on a KCS train on UP rails
Title:  BNSF on a KCS train on UP rails
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/22/2015  Upload Date: 1/31/2017 1:53:44 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8523(SD70ACe) KCS 4862(ES44AC)
Views:  268   Comments: 1
Foreshortened
Title:  Foreshortened
Description:  Never met a zoom lens I didnt like. UP 7345 is rolling out of the old SP downtown yard onto the Lufkin Subidvision, bound for Houston. A couple of fans were filming it just off-camera to the right, so it was blowing the horn like crazy for their benefit.
Photo Date:  12/26/2015  Upload Date: 12/28/2015 10:15:03 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7345(AC45CCTE)
Views:  296   Comments: 2
Union Pacific northbound
Title:  Union Pacific northbound
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:31:33 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8252(ES44AC-H) NS 1072(SD70ACe) NS 8887(C40-9)
Views:  251   Comments: 1
Heritage unit
Title:  Heritage unit
Description:  Norfolk Southern 1072 in Illinois Terminal colors
Photo Date:  12/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:32:40 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 1072(SD70ACe)
Views:  189   Comments: 1
BNSF 5107
Title:  BNSF 5107
Description:  Southbound on the old Rabbit Line
Photo Date:  12/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:26:32 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5107(C44-9W)
Views:  162   Comments: 1
BNSF 5143
Title:  BNSF 5143
Description:  Rolling south alongside Mansfield Road
Photo Date:  12/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:31:07 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5143(C44-9W) BNSF 7763(ES44DC) BNSF 5107(C44-9W)
Views:  180   Comments: 1
KCS 4147
Title:  KCS 4147
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:31:16 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ()
Views:  219   Comments: 1
KCS 4147
Title:  KCS 4147
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:31:24 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ()
Views:  211   Comments: 1
Down and up
Title:  Down and up
Description:  The stretch of the Rabbit Line where I watched countless Southern Pacific freights roll in and out of Shreveport between 1985 and 1992. At night the old Espee oscilating Mars lights would eerily illuminate the surrounding trees, even before the train had even come into view, and more than anything they sent a clear message into the darkness: something is coming; get out of the way! The modern ditch lights just don't come close. I am still fascinated by the long downward and upward arc of the tracks as it crosses the Crabapple Street grade crossing.
Photo Date:  12/28/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:57:59 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6810(AC44CW)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
Suburban disturbance
Title:  Suburban disturbance
Description:  Not sure what they were thinking when they lined a couple of miles of this line with ranch houses in the 1970s. Did they think SP was just gonna go away?
Photo Date:  12/28/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 2:59:55 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6810(AC44CW) UP 4722(SD70M)
Views:  193   Comments: 1
UP 6419
Title:  UP 6419
Description:  Pusher duty! Man, the addition of pusher units almost makes up for the loss of the caboose. UP 6419 is southbound on the Rabbit Line at the Baird Road grade crossing, south Shreveport.
Photo Date:  12/28/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:00:59 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6419(AC44CW)
Views:  260   Comments: 1
KCS 4171
Title:  KCS 4171
Description:  Southbound container train on the Rabbit Line, alongside Old Mansfield Road. A surprisingly short train with a single locomotive, poking along slowly enough that I was able to catch up with it just a mile or two down the road.
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:11:20 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4171(SD70ACe)
Views:  193   Comments: 2
KCS 4171
Title:  KCS 4171
Description:  Heading south alongside Mansfield Road, south Shreveport.
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:16:50 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4171(SD70ACe)
Views:  144   Comments: 1
UP 7100
Title:  UP 7100
Description:  Waiting in the Riverside yard, 7100 is fresh out of the paint shop after a fire damaged her finish a few years earlier.
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:21:17 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7100(AC44CW) UP 4772(SD70M)
Views:  275   Comments: 1
UP 7100
Title:  UP 7100
Description:  At Riverside yard, downtown
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:30:02 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 7100(AC44CW)
Views:  170   Comments: 1
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:  571   Comments: 2
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:  216   Comments: 2
UP 5676, Reisor Yard
Title:  UP 5676, Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:32:59 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5676(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  121   Comments: 1
UP 5676, Reisor Yard
Title:  UP 5676, Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:34:05 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5676(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  210   Comments: 1
UP 5060, west Shreveport, Flournoy Lucas Road
Title:  UP 5060, west Shreveport, Flournoy Lucas Road
Description:  I was hoping to get a modern version of this shot, which was taken at the same place almost 30 years earlier: http://repowers.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4346997 It came out.... kinda sorta the same? Need to get morning sunlight next time.
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:31:47 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5060(SD70M) UP 8507(SD70ACe)
Views:  265   Comments: 1
BNSF 4454
Title:  BNSF 4454
Description:  Southbound, Baird Road, south Shreveport
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:42:40 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4454(C44-9W) BNSF 6794(ES44C4)
Views:  119   Comments: 2
Northbound surprise
Title:  Northbound surprise
Description:  Something I haven't seen in years -- a northbound train on the old Southern Pacific Rabbit Line. BNSF #5664 and company are at the Baird Road grade crossing, headed into town with a very long unit coal train. I can only guess that something was wrong with the UP's usual northbound line from Houston.
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:49:52 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5664(AC44CW) KCS 3958(SD70MAC) BNSF 9205(SD70ACe)
Views:  254   Comments: 2
KCS 3943
Title:  KCS 3943
Description:  Distributed power at the end of a very long line of identical coal hoppers, northbound at Baird Road
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:50:50 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3943(SD70MAC)
Views:  248   Comments: 1
Looks the same coming and going
Title:  Looks the same coming and going
Description:  A long string of coal cars rolls north into Shreveport on the former Southern Pacific. Crabapple Road grade crossing is in the distance.
Photo Date:  2/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/1/2017 11:53:59 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3943(SD70MAC)
Views:  206   Comments: 2
Dark Train on a Bright Day
Title:  Dark Train on a Bright Day
Description:  Southbound Union Pacific on the old Cotton Belt Rabbit Line.
Photo Date:  10/28/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:24:50 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7518(AC45CCTE)
Views:  141   Comments: 1
Houston bound
Title:  Houston bound
Description:  UP 7518 charges past the crossing gates at Crabapple Lane, south Shreveport.
Photo Date:  10/28/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:26:09 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7518(AC45CCTE) UP 5902(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  160   Comments: 1
Unexpected northbound
Title:  Unexpected northbound
Description:  I set up alongside Mansfield Road to see if anything happened along. In amazingly short order, I heard the distant wail of an airhorn... but to my surprise, it was coming from the south! A moment later this northbound unit coal train roared past on the normally south-only Rabbit Line, with KCS/BNSF power up front, and CN/BNSF pushers in back.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:33:21 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4609(AC44CW) BNSF 5784(ES44AC)
Views:  163   Comments: 1
Pushing North
Title:  Pushing North
Description:  A CN and BNSF pair bring up the rear of a KCS coal train. South Shreveport, Mansfield Road.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:35:02 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8465(SD70ACe) CN 2030(C40-8)
Views:  270   Comments: 2
Parked KCS
Title:  Parked KCS
Description:  A train of hoppers sits at Slack Industrial Park alongside the KCS mainline, viewed from the Bert Kouns overpass.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:53:45 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3937(SD70MAC) KCS 4805(ES44AC)
Views:  146   Comments: 2
KCS 4805
Title:  KCS 4805
Description:  Parked and idling at Slack Industrial Park.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:52:14 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4805(ES44AC) KCS 3937(SD70MAC)
Views:  180   Comments: 1
Riverside Yard
Title:  Riverside Yard
Description:  A whole train of MOW equipment waits to head south at Riverside Yard, downtown Shreveport.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:51:47 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3950(SD70M) UP 6513(AC44CW)
Views:  224   Comments: 1
Lucky Catch
Title:  Lucky Catch
Description:  If I am heading towards downtown, I often will take Mansfield Road instead of the highway, just for the pleasure of driving alongside the old Rabbit Line and the off chance of catching a train. It paid off this time. I had maybe 1 minute from seeing the headlights to pull over and set up.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:50:38 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7242(AC44CW) UP 6825(AC44CW) UP 5621(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  212   Comments: 2
UP 1147 in Riverside Yard
Title:  UP 1147 in Riverside Yard
Description:  Have I ever mentioned that I'm a sucker for force perspective? Because I am.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:50:12 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1147(GP60)
Views:  157   Comments: 1
Shoving cuts in the Riverside Yard
Title:  Shoving cuts in the Riverside Yard
Description:  Union Pacific Riveside Yard is a bit battered looking and often seems deserted, but still sees use as a staging ground for southbound freights.
Photo Date:  10/29/2017  Upload Date: 11/4/2017 1:45:14 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1147(GP60)
Views:  228   Comments: 1

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