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Norfolk Southern power operating on the Union Pacific. These two units are seen returning to the yard in Addis after delivering cars to the Dow Chemical plant in nearby Plaquemine. (Above and the Next Series of Photos)
Crowell & Spencer Lumber Company Locomotive #400 was abandoned in Longleaf back in the early 1950s, today it is one of three logging locomotives in the Southern Forest Heritage Museum collection. (Above)
The CPKC train continues thundering eastward out of Gibsland and into open country. (Above)
The same CPKC train, again, taken further away as it approaches the LNW yard.
CPKC units still in Kansas City Southern paint parked just outside the engine facilities in Baton Rouge. (Above and Below.)
The LNW facilities in Gibsland were very quiet on this afternoon. (Above and Below)
A Union Pacific local departs the yard just outside of Westlake Chemical in Lake Charles. (Above and Below)
A UP train is seen here waiting for authority to proceed northward out of Fenton. (Above and Below)
The second logging locomotive owned by the Southern Forest Heritage Museum is Meridian Lumber Company 2-6-0 #202 which is presently being stored in a old machine shop awaiting a possible future restoration.
Last bur not least is former Red River and Gulf 4-6-0 #106, which is presently being restored by the Southern Forest Heritage Museum. It is their belief that this locomotive will steam out of this shed under its own power sometime within the next few years.
Acadiana Railroad locomotive 4106 sits idle awaiting its next assignment in Eunice. (Above and Below)
Ex Santa Fe Locomotive 2533 has traveled a long way from its old home in California to be simply be abandoned by its present owner LTEX. The unit arrived in Eunice in 2008 and was moved to the end of a siding where it still sits today. Oddly it has never been used by the Acadiana Railroad.
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