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Michael Palmieri's Collection
 
4/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Kansas City Southern
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:KCS 798 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:786232-1Order No:786232
Frame Number:786232-1Built:8/1979
Other locos with this serial:  KCS 798(GP40-2) KCS 4798(GP40-3) KCS 2974(GP40-3)
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KCS GP40-2 798
Title:  KCS GP40-2 798
Description:  Kansas City Southern GP40-2 798 was parked at WEST YARD, just west of New Orleans. It was coupled to F3A slug 4050 and GP40-2 796.
Photo Date:  4/26/1981  Upload Date: 5/21/2009 5:51:33 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 798(GP40-2)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
KCS Train 53
Title:  KCS Train 53
Description:  At 8:45 Kansas City Southern train No. 53 was near the end of its run from Dallas to the Seaboard System's Gentilly Yard in eastern New Orleans. The train was on the Southern Railway's New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary near Elysian Fields Avenue, and was about to get onto the SBD at L&N Junction. The motive power was GP40-2 798, F7A slug 4060 and GP40 788.
Photo Date:  2/14/1983  Upload Date: 9/10/2017 12:08:49 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 798(GP40-2) KCS 4060(Road Slug)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
KCS GP40-2 798
Title:  KCS GP40-2 798
Description:  Kansas City Southern GP40-2 798 was on train No. 54 at the Labarre Road grade crossing in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.
Photo Date:  9/27/1983  Upload Date: 2/21/2008 7:28:31 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 798(GP40-2)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
KCS GP40-2 798
Title:  KCS GP40-2 798
Description:  This was the Kansas City Southern’s first GP40-2, the 798, at West Yard near New Orleans, mated with F3A slug 4050. The 798 was ordered as KCS 900, but its number was changed before it was completed. All four of the railroad's GP40-2's (796-799) were built with the ability to power slugs.
Photo Date:  9/10/1984  Upload Date: 8/29/2018 1:11:07 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 798(GP40-2)
Views:  416   Comments: 0


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