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Owner: Southern Pacific
Model:Alco RSD12Built As:SP 7012 (RSD12)
Serial Number:83842Order No:21141
Frame Number:prime mover # 15277Built:3/1961
Notes:reblt RSD5 #5300, sold 4/7/77
Other locos with this serial:  WTNN 2054(RSD12) VLIX 2054(RSD12) VLIX 7012(RSD12) SP 2962(RSD12) PJS 7012(RSD12) SP 7012(RSD12) KMCX 2962(RSD12)
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Southern Pacific Transfer Run
Title:  Southern Pacific Transfer Run
Description:  Southern Pacific RSD12/DL702 locomotives 2958, 2964 and 2962 were on a transfer run at the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio’s CANAL YARD in New Orleans. Twenty-one of these units were built by Alco in 1961 for mainline work in California, using components from retired RSD5; but all were reassigned to less-demanding yard and transfer service at Houston and New Orleans in 1967, and they remained there until the last were retired in 1977. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  1/1/1971  Upload Date: 4/11/2021 7:18:14 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2962(RSD12)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
SP RSD12/DL702 2962
Title:  SP RSD12/DL702 2962
Description:  Southern Pacific RSD12/DL702 locomotives 2958, 2964 and 2962 were on a transfer run at the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio’s CANAL YARD in New Orleans; and here they were heading back to the south end of the yard, passing the yard office-scale house. Twenty-one of these units were built by Alco in 1961 for mainline work in California, using components from retired RSD5; but all were reassigned to less-demanding yard and transfer service at Houston and New Orleans in 1967, and they remained there until the last were retired in 1977. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  1/1/1971  Upload Date: 4/11/2021 7:19:01 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 2962(RSD12)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
SP 2951 and 2962
Title:  SP 2951 and 2962
Description:  Southern Pacific RSD12/DL702 locomotives 2951 and 2962 were on an eastbound transfer run operating over the Southern Railway at the Metairie Road grade crossing in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. Twenty-one of these units were built by Alco in 1961 for mainline work in California, using components from retired RSD5’s; but all were reassigned to less-demanding yard and transfer service at Houston and New Orleans in 1967, and they remained there until the last were retired in 1977. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  2/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/26/2021 5:21:39 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 2951(RSD12) SP 2962(RSD12)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
SP RSD12 2962
Title:  SP RSD12 2962
Description:  GM&O Canal Yard (date approximate)
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 5/22/2009 10:05:31 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  James H. Selzer, Jr.
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 2962(RSD12)
Views:  1806   Comments: 1
SP RSD12 2962
Title:  SP RSD12 2962
Description:  There was only one place where Southern Pacific Alco’s mingled with Gulf Mobile & Ohio geeps – the GM&O’s CANAL YARD in New Orleans. In this view, SP RSD12/DL702 2962 was with a pair of siblings on a transfer run from their AVONDALE YARD, while GM&O GP35 604 was one of three geeps that had come in on train No. 33 and – after some switching – they would return north on No. 32. Both of these locomotives rode on the trucks of old Alcos, those under the 2962 came from an RSD5 and those under the 604 from an FA1. Scenes like this disappeared the day of the IC-GM&O merger, less than a year away. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  10/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/11/2020 10:29:32 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2962(RSD12)
Views:  479   Comments: 0


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