{"id":3781,"date":"2024-06-16T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2024-06-16T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:34:33","slug":"u-p-freight-crossing-bayou-plaquemine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/06\/16\/u-p-freight-crossing-bayou-plaquemine\/","title":{"rendered":"U.P. Freight Crossing Bayou Plaquemine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In April of 2018 my friend Ron Findley and I attended the annual spring railfan gathering of the Southeastern Louisiana Chapter of the N.R.H.S.  The event was held in Plaquemine, Louisiana, a small city located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, across from and a bit below Baton Rouge.  The Union Pacific Railroad&#8217;s mainline between New Orleans and Addis (formerly Texas &amp; Pacific) runs through here, and the track is routed through the center of the city&#8217;s old business district, flanked on each side by one-way avenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a bright and sunny spring day, and we enjoyed several passing trains while there.  Eventually Ron and I ventured a bit north from where the group was camped, and we were rewarded by a southbound freight train as it was crossing Bayou Plaquemine on the historic bridge located there.  Locomotive #4058, an EMD SD70M, leads the train and is assisted by another UP SD70M locomotive and a pair of Norfolk Southern visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UP-4058-at-Plaquemine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UP-4058-at-Plaquemine.jpg\" alt=\"UP Freight Train Crossing Bayou Plaquemine\" class=\"wp-image-3780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UP-4058-at-Plaquemine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UP-4058-at-Plaquemine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UP-4058-at-Plaquemine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UP-4058-at-Plaquemine-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April of 2018 my friend Ron Findley and I attended the annual spring railfan gathering of the Southeastern Louisiana Chapter of the N.R.H.S. The event was held in Plaquemine, Louisiana, a small city located on the west bank of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/06\/16\/u-p-freight-crossing-bayou-plaquemine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}