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Owner: Southern Pacific
Model:Alco C630Built As:SP 7804 (C630)
Serial Number:3439-05Order No:21251
Frame Number:Built:3/1966
Notes:blt #7804, downgraded 3/15/73
Other locos with this serial:  SP 3146(C630)
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Alco Switchers
Title:  Alco Switchers
Description:  Four Espee Alco switch engines -- C630's 3143, 3144, 3141 and 3146 -- were stopped on the Huey P. Long Bridge with a westbound transfer run. They were behind an MP train which was waiting for clearance to get into its Avondale Yard. Both railroads had yards at the west end of the bridge, and this causes trains to back up like this. Four-unit sets of C630's were not very common. This was actually two seperate trains which had been combined, so it had a mid-train caboose as well as one on the rear.
Photo Date:  12/22/1974  Upload Date: 1/20/2010 10:36:20 AM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  SP 3143(C630) SP 3144(C630) SP 3141(C630) SP 3146(C630)
Views:  2279   Comments: 3
SP 3146
Title:  SP 3146
Description:  C630 3146 leads RDS12's 2967, 2960 and 2952 on an eastbound transfer run descending the Huey Long Bridge.
Photo Date:  10/13/1975  Upload Date: 5/22/2009 2:17:44 PM
Location:  Jefferson, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 3146(C630)
Views:  678   Comments: 0
L&N GP38 4005 and SP C630 3146
Title:  L&N GP38 4005 and SP C630 3146
Description:  L&N GP38 4005 and SP C630 3146 meet on the Southern Railway at Metairie Road, in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie. The Alco was on a short siding with a pair of GP9's, one of which had a bad traction motor. SP 3140-3146 were assigned to transfer service in the New Orleans area in early 1973; but by the end of 1977 they were all gone, replaced by GP9's.
Photo Date:  5/29/1977  Upload Date: 3/1/2014 10:03:55 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LN 4005(GP38) SP 3146(C630)
Views:  1326   Comments: 0


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