MNO&P Division
In the early 1970's the Southern Pacific, L&N, and Seaboard
Coast Line started a pool train from Jacksonville to New Orleans and beyond.
One of the first things I remember about this train was that L&N train #400
would always carry at least 2 sets of pig flats on the rear of the train.
These flats with the L&N's loaded cars to be taken off the rear of the train and
then spotted at the Pensacola intermodal ramp. These were priority cars so they
were off loaded and then moved to the grocery store "Pantry Pride". They
usually arrived at the store before 10am each morning. Sometimes the pigs
had to be turned on the wye because the ramp at Pensacola could only unload pigs
/ trailers from one direction. - J. Larry Seale photo and information
Back when railroad business was booming in Pensacola, the
L&N 7:30 am yard job would either pull (as shown) or push their train to
downtown Pensacola. Besides interchanging with the Frisco and switching
the Port of Pensacola, there were a large number of small industries that were
switched by the L&N's yard jobs. - J. Larry Seale photo and information
GP-7 403 at Montgomery, Alabama on April 1, 1964 - Jerry
Lachaussee photo
Last run of train of train 409 at Pascagoula, Mississippi
on May 1, 1971 - Jerry Lachaussee photo
GP7 510 at Pascagoula, Mississippi on September 23, 1962 -
Jerry Lachaussee photo
GP9 511 at Pascagoula, Mississippi on April 10, 1966 -
Jerry Lachaussee photo
GP9 515 at Nicholson Avenue near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on Train #83 on
November 3, 1963 -
Jerry Lachaussee photo
GP9 552 at Pascagoula, Mississippi on July 29, 1965 -
Jerry Lachaussee photo
GP9 553 at New Orleans, Louisiana on March 24, 1961 -
Jerry Lachaussee photo
GP9 554 at Pascagoula, Mississippi on May 30, 1959 -
Jerry Lachaussee photo
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Railroad Historical Society. All rights reserved.
In the early 1970's the Southern Pacific, L&N, and Seaboard
Coast Line started a pool train from Jacksonville to New Orleans and beyond.
One of the first things I remember about this train was that L&N train #400
would always carry at least 2 sets of pig flats on the rear of the train.
These flats with the L&N's loaded cars to be taken off the rear of the train and
then spotted at the Pensacola intermodal ramp. These were priority cars so they
were off loaded and then moved to the grocery store "Pantry Pride". They
usually arrived at the store before 10am each morning. Sometimes the pigs
had to be turned on the wye because the ramp at Pensacola could only unload pigs
/ trailers from one direction. - J. Larry Seale photo and information
