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July 31, 2017 at 1:05 pm #5961Dennis FairclothParticipant
MP GP7 133 leads a short passenger train. Location and train number unknown.
[attachment=0:3g7r1uts]MP 331 on passenger train B2-R3-1-010.jpg[/attachment:3g7r1uts]
August 2, 2017 at 1:32 am #8423mopacKeymasterThis may have been a day train that ran between Houston and New Orleans.
Although not sure of location of picture.
Included a link to rrpicture archive that shows a meet of the east and west bound led by GP7 331 and 276.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=219498
Joe
August 2, 2017 at 5:00 pm #8425princessclyne69ParticipantThe street running might be a clue. I tried to identify that trailer marked The Phelan Co., with some words including ‘restaurant’, and while I found one candidate, it’s in Massachusetts so that’s probably not a good lead.
It’s not a shabby train, with a combine and one of the used, er, recently-acquired, P-S lightweight coaches.
Ron Merrick
August 2, 2017 at 5:02 pm #8426princessclyne69ParticipantSorry, it’s not a combine, it’s an RPO-baggage.
RG7
August 3, 2017 at 4:34 am #8427luisflierl26ParticipantMaybe Beaumont TX
The Phelan Company
914 Park St
Beaumont, TX 77701The Phelan Company is a privately held company in Beaumont, TX and is a Single Location business.
Categorized under Wholesale Grocers. Our records show it was established in 1913 and incorporated in Texas. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of 840000 and employs a staff of approximately 6.
August 4, 2017 at 12:04 am #8428princessclyne69ParticipantBingo.
This train is the eastbound 304, the Orleanean, due in Beaumont at 11.25 am.
Other photos show the train, during the mid-sixties, as having a geep for power. The consist is plausible. In 1960 the train was listed as having a cafe-coach.
I’m not that familiar with Beaumont, except to note that the MoPac kind of went around the downtown area, while the SP ran arrow-straight through the center of town as if it owned the place. After “consolidation”, there was a tiny concrete building meant to be a passenger station for the MP and UP to share. I did see that station in the last stages of vandalism, but that’s after the period of this photo. The street running made me suspect Beaumont, but I can’t be any more specific as to location.
Another interesting item is the baggage car, which still has its skirting around the end sill steps, but does not seem to have a white stripe.
Ron Merrick
August 4, 2017 at 12:34 am #8429princessclyne69ParticipantA few more specifics:
This is probably Gilbert St., with the train just leaving the station and heading for the bridge. Physical orientation is northeast. There are four or five blocks of street running, from just west of the station where the interchange is, just up to the lift bridge over the Neches River. This station too is long gone.
Ron Merrick
August 5, 2017 at 2:00 pm #8430Dennis FairclothParticipantGood detective work. I lived in Beaumont for several years and this is Gilbert Street. A couple of corrections on the trackage: this train is on the KCS mainline, which goes directly through downtown Beaumont. The MP (GCL) physically never went east of Beaumont, joining the KCS at Wall Street and using KCS tracks to reach DeQuincy, LA. The SP mainline ran north of downtown with their own lift bridge over the Neches River. The MP and SP were later consolidated into a single railroad corridor through Beaumont using portions of both SP and MP alignments, and both of those railroads using the KCS alignment through downtown and across the Neches River.
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