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KCS F3A SLUG 4050
Title:  KCS F3A SLUG 4050
Description:  Kansas City Southern F3A slug 4050 was photographed at West Yard, just outside of New Orleans. This unit was originally passenger engine 30A, and was subsequently sold to the Kiamichi. KCS slugs were very common into New Orleans during the early 1980's.
Photo Date:  10/6/1983  Upload Date: 6/12/2008 11:24:46 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4050(Road Slug)
Views:  1297   Comments: 0
Five F-Units
Title:  Five F-Units
Description:  This collection of locomotives at the Kansas City Southern's Deramus Yard included five F-units. From left to right are F7A slug 4055, F7A 4059, the front of GP40 754, the rear of F7A 4054, F7A 4064, F3A slug 4050, and an unidentified GP7.
Photo Date:  6/20/1985  Upload Date: 1/30/2010 5:04:15 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4050(Road Slug) KCS 4064(F7A) KCS 4059(F7A) KCS 4055(Road Slug)
Views:  2209   Comments: 1
Two F-Units
Title:  Two F-Units
Description:  Amid a veritable sea of geeps and SD's, F7A 4064 and F3A slug 4050 were parked outside the diesel shop at Deramus Yard.
Photo Date:  6/20/1985  Upload Date: 1/30/2010 5:23:55 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4064(F7A) KCS 4050(Road Slug)
Views:  1311   Comments: 1
KCS 4055
Title:  KCS 4055
Description:  KCS West Yard.
Photo Date:  7/5/1983  Upload Date: 6/14/2008 11:28:20 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4055(Road Slug)
Views:  1737   Comments: 0
KCS Train 53
Title:  KCS Train 53
Description:  KCS train #53 rolls across the Bonnet Carre Spillway, between Laplace and Norco, Louisiana. The train is nearing the end of its journey from Dallas to the Seaboard System's Gentilly Yard in New Orleans. No. 53 has GP40 785, F7A slug 4055, and GP40-2 796 with 144 cars.
Photo Date:  7/7/1983  Upload Date: 11/9/2006 10:47:23 PM
Location:  Norco, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 795(GP40) KCS 796(GP40-2) KCS 4055(Road Slug)
Views:  2606   Comments: 2
KCS F7A SLUG 4060
Title:  KCS F7A SLUG 4060
Description:  Kansas City Southern F7A slug 4060 was at WEST YARD, just west of New Orleans, between GP40-2 units 797 and 798. The 4060 had been built in August 1950 as F7A 73D. It was assigned engine number 90 in 1957, renumbered 4060 in 1978 and then rebuilt into a road slug in 1979. It was retired in 1990 and sold to Lloyd Peterson in 1991 who had it cosmetically restored as KCS 73D and placed it on display next to the KCS depot in Decatur, Arkansas in 1993.
Photo Date:  5/21/1981  Upload Date: 6/15/2008 12:08:13 AM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4060(Road Slug)
Views:  1287   Comments: 0
KCS F7A SLUG 4060
Title:  KCS F7A SLUG 4060
Description:  Kansas City Southern F7A slug 4060 was on train No. 53 in New Orleans, between GP40-2 798 and GP40 788. The 4060 had been built in August 1950 as F7A 73D. It was assigned engine number 90 in 1957, renumbered 4060 in 1978 and then rebuilt into a road slug in 1979. It was retired in 1990 and sold to Lloyd Peterson in 1991 who had it cosmetically restored as KCS 73D and placed it on display next to the KCS depot in Decatur, Arkansas in 1993.
Photo Date:  2/14/1983  Upload Date: 2/27/2009 11:38:19 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4060(Road Slug)
Views:  755   Comments: 1
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:  768   Comments: 0
KCS F7A SLUG 4060
Title:  KCS F7A SLUG 4060
Description:  Kansas City Southern F7A slug 4060 was parked outside the diesel shop at WEST YARD, just west of New Orleans, between GP40-2 798 and another geep. The 4060 had been built in August 1950 as F7A 73D. It was assigned engine number 90 in 1957, renumbered 4060 in 1978 and then rebuilt into a road slug in 1979. It was retired in 1990 and sold to Lloyd Peterson in 1991 who had it cosmetically restored as KCS 73D and placed it on display next to the KCS depot in Decatur, Arkansas in 1993.
Photo Date:  1/4/1984  Upload Date: 6/15/2008 12:01:55 AM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4060(Road Slug)
Views:  809   Comments: 0
KCS West Yard
Title:  KCS West Yard
Description:  An eclectic assortment of locomotives were gathered around the Kansas City Southern diesel shop at WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. From left to right, there were F7A slug 4060 with GP40-2 797 and GP40's 753 and 771; SD60's 715 with the 722; GP30 4113 with two siblings, and an unidentified switch engine in the shop.
Photo Date:  5/24/1990  Upload Date: 3/11/2018 4:48:26 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4060(Road Slug) KCS 715(SD60) KCS 4113(GP30)
Views:  958   Comments: 0
KCS 4075
Title:  KCS 4075
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/9/1981  Upload Date: 6/15/2008 12:53:11 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, TX
Author:  Todd Minsk
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4075(Road Slug)
Views:  652   Comments: 0
KCS 4076
Title:  KCS 4076
Description:  An uncommon view of a KCS F7B slug at West Yard, just outside of New Orleans, with nothing coupled to one end. The railroad had three B-unit slugs, and during this time they almost always showed up in New Orleans between a pair of geeps. The 4076 was coupled to GP40-2 797.
Photo Date:  2/13/1985  Upload Date: 12/28/2009 3:27:50 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4076(Road Slug)
Views:  748   Comments: 3
KCS 4077
Title:  KCS 4077
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/9/1982  Upload Date: 6/13/2008 5:54:27 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4077(Road Slug)
Views:  820   Comments: 0
KCS 4077
Title:  KCS 4077
Description:  Train No. 55
Photo Date:  5/23/1983  Upload Date: 12/28/2009 3:28:24 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4077(Road Slug)
Views:  570   Comments: 1


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