Mike Condren Photos
Southern Pacific
B30-7s

This B30-7 was damaged in an accident and rebuilt without a cab as seen in Memphis at Kentucky Street in Sept. 1986.

This consist of B36-7, SD40T2, and a SD45 are returning to their train after delivering a cut of cars to the ICG at South Yard on Dec. 6, 1986.

This Cotton Belt B30-7 is seen leading a train off the MacArthur Bridge in St. Louis, MO on May 28, 1989.

A pair of B36-7s lead a train past Kentucky Street on July 27, 1990.

Three B36-7s are seen leaving the Leewood Aulon Beltway at Aulon with a westbound freight from the former L&N Leewood Yard in Oct. 1981.

These two units are leading a stack train into Memphis on Aug. 18, 1990.

This westbound freight is passing Kansas Ave. in early 1996 in Memphis, TN.

A northbound freight is seen at Brinkley, AR on July 26, 1997.

An eastbound freight is seen entering Memphis, TN on Feb. 29, 1992.

A westbound SP freight is seen crosing Warford Rd. in Memphis, TN as the train prepares to leave Leewood Yard in Sept. 1986.

This westbound train is seen at Kentucky Street in Memphis, TN in Sept, 1986.

This westbound freight is seen coming off the former Rock Island at Brinkley, AR in July 1984. Note the Cotton Belt freight house and caboose on the end of the train.

This westbound freight is seen from the Hollywood Ave. overpass of a train coming around the connection at Aulon Tower in Dec. 1982.

This eastbound freight is seen on the curve just east of the Harahan Bridge in Memphis, TN Sept. 19, 1981.

This westbound is the daily run through from the Southern yard at Sheffield, AL and is seen in Germantown, TN in June 1983.

This freiht is seen at the passing track known as Heth, AR on August 4, 1985.

This train is exiting the Harahan Bridge into Memphis, TN in early 1996.

The second slide shows the train entering the ICG South Yard to deliver the train.

Is this a movie star in Memphis on July 6, 1997?

This shot on Aug. 21, 1981 is of a westbound freight and was one of the first train that I shot after taking the job at CBC.

This westbound train is seen pulling out of the ICG South Yard passing Kentucky Street Tower on July 27, 1990.

Onwye my first snow fall in Memphis, I discovered that CBC was closed. I took day off to head for Kentucky Street to get some pictures in the snow. This train is headed for the ICG South Yard but discovered ice in the frog of the crossing of the scissor wye and derailed the front truck of the lead unit. That tied up every line at Broadway except the Missouri Pacific.

This stack train is heading to the piggy back ramp in southwest Memphis, TN on March 22, 1987.

This northbound freight is seen at Jonesboro, AR in March 1984.

This train is coming around the connection from the former Rock Island to the Cotton Belt mainline in Brinkley, AR on July 28, 1996.

This freight is seen on the west end of the Harahan Bridge in West Memphis, AR on Dec. 6, 1986.

This consist is seen at Kentucky Street Tower in Memphis in Jan. 1984.

This eastbound freight is on the former Rock Island just east of the former Missouri & North Arkansas crossing and station in Sept. 1983.

This eastbound freight is passing Kentucky Street in Jan. 1984.

This freight is seen in Pine Bluff, AR in April 1984.

 
 

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