Hello,
I am looking for major railroad companies in Louisiana in the late 70s.
I already found the following:
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Cotton Belt
Southern Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Missouri Pacific
Southern
Illinos Central Gulf
Louisville & Nashville
Any more Class 1s?
I guess The Frisco did not go so far, and the Union Pacific came later after the mergers...
Hope to hear from you.
Kind regards.
Hi Stephan,
The Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad was a class 1. It still was a corporate entity in the 1970's. I am not sure if operations were fully absorbed by the KCS at that time.
Paul
Jerseytrain Wrote:Hi Stephan,
The Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad was a class 1. It still was a corporate entity in the 1970's. I am not sure if operations were fully absorbed by the KCS at that time.
Paul
Kansas City Southern and Louisiana and Arkansas merged in 1939 with KCS being the survivor and L&A was a subsidiary. The identity of the L&A disappeared in the 50's and 60's as the Kansas City Southern name was adopted for all properties. By 1966 the L&A had disappeared from the annual stockholder reports of the KCS. The Shreveporter, once the pride of the L&A, was discontinued in early 1962, and the Southern Belle was discontinued in late 1969 ending all passenger train service on the former Louisiana & Arkansas. By 1970 the L&A wasn't even a footnote on KCS paperwork. KCS dissolved the L&A in 1992.
OK. So it seems like I found all large railroads that operated there during the late 1970s.
Thank you for the help and advice.
Not so fast..You forgot a major player..Let's not overlook Family Lines-L&N went to Louisiana.
He's got L&N, last on the list.
Brakie Wrote:Not so fast..You forgot a major player..Let's not overlook Family Lines-L&N went to Louisiana.
jwb Wrote:He's got L&N, last on the list.
Right. I own some N scale L&N locos.
But anyway, thank you for reading and caring for helping me.
jwb Wrote:He's got L&N, last on the list.
L&N was part of the Family Lines so,SCL,CRR,L&N and Family lines locomotives could easily show up on the L&N. This is one area that modelers tend to overlook..
So,Family lines is more then L&N that's why I said not to overlook Family Lines as a whole and mention L&N went to Louisiana.
Brakie Wrote:jwb Wrote:He's got L&N, last on the list.
L&N was part of the Family Lines so,SCL,CRR,L&N and Family lines locomotives could easily show up on the L&N. This is one area that modelers tend to overlook..
So,Family lines is more then L&N that's why I said not to overlook Family Lines as a whole and mention L&N went to Louisiana.
You´re surely right.
First pics of Locos painted in the Family Lines scheme are dated in mid 1978.
So I guess I don´t need to pay much attention on them.
In Summer of 79, my modeled era, they should still have been exotic visitors.
I would have at least one or two since FL was formed in 1972 and lasted until 1982 when these railroads merged together formally to create the Seaboard System.
During that time frame hundreds of cars and locomotives was painted in FL scheme and some of those lasted well into CSX.
The FL is pretty well ignored by modelers but,it was a large part of the 70 era railroad scene.
Brakie Wrote:I would have at least one or two since FL was formed in 1972 and lasted until 1982 when these railroads merged together formally to create the Seaboard System.
During that time frame hundreds of cars and locomotives was painted in FL scheme and some of those lasted well into CSX.
The FL is pretty well ignored by modelers but,it was a large part of the 70 era railroad scene.
Thank you for the advice, Larry.
For the L&N, I have two C420 and one RS-11.
It is meant to be an old and weary trio, soldiering on and on...
There is no place for a Family Line locomotive like the Dash 7s or GP38-2...
It´s hard to find models in N scale sometimes.
The only one that could match is an U25B, but the loco is available at a high price only.
I will think about it, maybe I will replace one of the C420 by an U25B of the Family Lines.
Yes, N Scale does lack a lot of road names..
In your case I think I would just use the L&N Alcos since they was still plentiful on the L&N in the 70s..In fact a L&N RS3 worked out of Maysville, Ky until being replaced by a GP9 around 78.
Brakie Wrote:Yes, N Scale does lack a lot of road names..
In your case I think I would just use the L&N Alcos since they was still plentiful on the L&N in the 70s..In fact a L&N RS3 worked out of Maysville, Ky until being replaced by a GP9 around 78.
I own at least three locos of each Railroad mentioned in my first post.
So I cover quite a lot and variety is guaranteed.
My main interest is the Rock Island, followed by the Illinois Central Gulf.
Brakie Wrote:In fact a L&N RS3 worked out of Maysville, Ky until being replaced by a GP9 around 78.
Just to clear up something here, working for the L&N through the 1970's I can tell you that the power assigned to the Paris-Maysville branch was always one of the EMD re-powered ALCo S-2's, usually number 50 or 67. Most of the RS-3's were off the roster by the early 70's. Having worked at both Paris and Maysville a couple of times in the 70's, the train would run to Maysville, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, returning to Paris on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. When TTIS took over the branch in 1979, they first leased L&N 67 for power until they purchased the three former MP EMD re-engined RS-3's. Track speed on the Maysville Branch was 10 mph through this period and for some time after TTIS took over and began to rebuild the line.
Ed,I had a photo of that RS3 in Maysville but, the photo was lost along with over 3,000 other photos and slides in the '07 Bucyrus flood.I lost several locomotives and cars( those was in a rubber storage container) as well as 90% of my house hold goods.