{"id":4332,"date":"2025-07-20T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:51:37","slug":"southern-railway-nw5-locomotive-2100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/07\/20\/southern-railway-nw5-locomotive-2100\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Railway NW5 Locomotive #2100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In late 2023 I published a photograph of the Southern’s rare NW5 locomotive<\/strong><\/a>, the #2100. The locomotive and train it pulled were largely backlit with a setting sun, and the details of the locomotive weren’t easily discernible. That image was recorded in June of 1965. Today I’m offering a couple other views of the #2100 taken in later years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bit over five years later, in August of 1970, Mike Walsdorf recorded this view of the #2100. One noticeable change made to the locomotive is the headlight, now using twin sealed beam lamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Southern NW5 Locomotive #2100 is crossing St. Claude Avenue to the median, New Orleans, Louisiana. -Mike Walsdorf<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Photographer Mike Palmieri captured this view of the #2100 in April of 1976. She now sports spark arrestors atop her stacks, but has lost the class lights on the long hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2100 was the only NW5 on the Southern, and one of only 13 locomotives of this model. It was built in January 1947, and spent most of its life in and around New Orleans. It finally left after the arrival of some new MP15DC’s in August 1977, and was retired two years later. The passenger car is ex-New York Central 4-4-2 IMPERIAL EMBLEM<\/em>, which was owned by the New Orleans Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. -Mike Palmieri<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The NW5 was EMD’s response to the Alco RS1 locomotive. It was a 1000 hp NW2 switcher built over a stretched frame which allowed the use of Blomberg trucks* and larger fuel and water tanks. They also added the short hood to house a steam generator for use with passenger equipment. It isn’t clear (to me) whether this Southern unit had that option within its short hood. *These were smoother riding “road” trucks, designed for the F and later GP unit locomotives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In late 2023 I published a photograph of the Southern’s rare NW5 locomotive, the #2100. The locomotive and train it pulled were largely backlit with a setting sun, and the details of the locomotive weren’t easily discernible. That image was … Continue reading →<\/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-4332","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\/4332","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=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}