Texas & Pacific P-1r class 4-6-2 700 was on westbound train No. 27 – the LOUISIANA DAYLIGHT – as it left New Orleans. The train was operating over the New Orleans Public Belt behind Audubon Park, with the Mississippi River levee on the right. The locomotive had been built by Baldwin (51574) in April 1919 as P-1 class 600 but was quickly renumbered 700. In March 1940 it was upgraded with a nickel-steel boiler, roller bearings and other improvements, and reclassed P-1r. It pulled the last steam-powered T&P passenger train on 9 November 1951, was retired in February 1953, sold to the Louisiana Eastern in October 1953 and scrapped at Shiloh, Louisiana in November 1962. |
Date:
4/27/1951 |
Location:
New Orleans, LA Map ![Show New Orleans on a rail map](/images/map_us.gif) |
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Author: WILLIAM T. HARRY photo, J.G. LACHAUSSEE collection
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Picture Categories: Steam,Passenger,Action |
This picture is part of album: WILLIAM T. HARRY |