{"id":4802,"date":"2026-05-03T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:37:32","slug":"double-headed-freight-on-the-loam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2026\/05\/03\/double-headed-freight-on-the-loam\/","title":{"rendered":"Double-headed Freight on the LOAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a Saturday in August of 1975, Louis Saillard recorded this view of a doubled-headed eastbound freight train west of Searcy, Louisiana. Headed up by Louisiana Midland locomotives #1120 and #1111, these ALCO RS-1s are of former GM&O heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The #1111 was nicknamed the “Four Aces” and was the recipient of a rather wild paint job of white, red and purple. A bit over a year ago I posted a color photo<\/a><\/strong> taken while it was working the pulpwood yard in Rhinehart, Louisiana. Dan Watson<\/em> had relayed this tidbit to me: “The story behind this paint scheme was that the LOAM General Manager dispatched the crew to the local hardware store to buy paint for the locomotive, but as cheaply as possible. They came back with several cans of paint leftovers and mismatches, but of various colors, none enough to paint the whole loco with one color. So they came up with this scheme, using what they had”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"LOAM<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is another photograph from the Ron Findley collection. Tony Howe<\/em> graciously provided me with the information of the who, when and where for this image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a Saturday in August of 1975, Louis Saillard recorded this view of a doubled-headed eastbound freight train west of Searcy, Louisiana. Headed up by Louisiana Midland locomotives #1120 and #1111, these ALCO RS-1s are of former GM&O heritage. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","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\/4802","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=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}