{"id":4138,"date":"2025-02-23T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2025-02-23T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:46:09","slug":"up-river-job-at-port-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/02\/23\/up-river-job-at-port-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"UP River Job at Port Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January of 1988 Edgar Dayries found himself trackside in Port Allen, Louisiana.  He captured this view of the Union Pacific&#8217;s <em>River Job<\/em> as it was heading south across the Port Allen Canal bridge adjacent to the Port Allen Lock (to the Mississippi River).  The train is headed up by former Missouri Pacific GP38-2 locomotive #2190 decked out in new Union Pacific paint with the &#8220;interim&#8221; Missouri Pacific lettering. She is followed by three other GP38-2 locos still in their &#8220;Jenks Blue&#8221; paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Missouri Pacific lettering applied over Union Pacific paint began soon after a May 1984 corporate order and ceased being applied by January of 1986, with all units thereafter receiving Union Pacific lettering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/UP-River-Job-at-Port-Allen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/UP-River-Job-at-Port-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"UP River Job at Port Allen\" class=\"wp-image-4137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/UP-River-Job-at-Port-Allen.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/UP-River-Job-at-Port-Allen-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/UP-River-Job-at-Port-Allen-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/UP-River-Job-at-Port-Allen-478x300.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 1988 Edgar Dayries found himself trackside in Port Allen, Louisiana. He captured this view of the Union Pacific&#8217;s River Job as it was heading south across the Port Allen Canal bridge adjacent to the Port Allen Lock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/02\/23\/up-river-job-at-port-allen\/\">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-4138","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\/4138","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=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}