SP Yard 2         
Here are the yard office and engine terminal at Lake Charles yard. SW1500 2472 and MP15AC 2709 are coupled cab-to-cab, while SW1500 2669 is by itself. The track curving off to the right was once the beginning of the branch to Deridder.
Date: 5/27/1987 Location: Lake Charles, LA   Map Show Lake Charles on a rail map Views: 1277 Collection Of:   Michael Palmieri
Author:  Michael Palmieri
SP Yard 2
Picture Categories: Yard This picture is part of album:  Lake Charles, Xouisiana
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Chris Balducci General What is that thing that looks like a grain silo? 7/18/2010 7:21:22 PM
Michael Palmieri General It is the sand tower. 7/21/2010 2:59:49 PM
Dale Weir General Notice the track with the single empty gondola on it, next to the microwave tower. In the 60's we used to tie up a caboose there every other night, after a typical 15.5 hour day. The trainmen would bring ice onto the cab. plug the screen wire holes with cotton, let down the bunks and sleep a few hours before heading back to Beaumont the next day. The engine men were subsidized with a motel room... 8/10/2011 10:48:38 AM

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