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KCS Train No. 54 |
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Kansas City Southern train No. 54 was leaving New Orleans behind GP40-2 799, F7A slug 4060, and GP40-2 797. The 799 was built in August 1979 along with the 798, while the 797 came in February 1981 along with the 796. Between April and September 1981 the railroad ran slugs 4050 and 4060 into New Orleans between pairs of GP40-2’s, as shown here. While all four of the GP40-2’s were set up to power slugs, the slugs could only draw power from one end, so the second geep didn’t contribute any horsepower to the slug. The use of road slugs into New Orleans resumed in August 1982, between a GP40-2 and another geep. This continued through the end of 1990 when the arrival of SD60’s and used geeps enabled the railroad to retire its road slugs. |
Photo Date: |
5/10/1981 Upload Date: 11/23/2020 10:39:48 AM |
Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image |
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Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 797(GP40-2) KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
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391 Comments: 0 |
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KCS F7A SLUG 4060 |
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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) |
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1142 Comments: 0 |
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KCS F7A SLUG 4060 |
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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) |
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631 Comments: 1 |
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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) |
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637 Comments: 0 |
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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) |
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701 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
KCS F7A (SLUG) |
Description: |
F7A #4060 had begun life as KCS #73D when delivered in August of 1950. Later, it was renumber #90. It suffered a fire in 1977, at which time it was rebuilt as a slug and renumbered 4060. It was semi-perminantly paired with the 799 at the time of this shot. Later, it was preserved in 1991 at Decatur AR, renumbered back to 73D and painted in the Southern Belle scheme. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/1984 Upload Date: 8/10/2007 10:55:43 PM |
Location: |
Baton Rouge, LA |
Author: |
Charles Freericks |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
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2003 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
KCS freight w/Funit slug at DeQuincy,La |
Description: |
F7A #4060 was one of the few remaining F units operating on the KCS (converted to a slug unit) If you look real close the painted line to keep passengers from getting to close to the tracks was still there -- about 16 years after the last Southern Belle. |
Photo Date: |
12/10/1985 Upload Date: 7/25/2010 5:09:18 PM |
Location: |
DeQuincy, LA |
Author: |
Gary Morris |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
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1141 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
KCS No. 53 |
Description: |
Southbound Kansas City Southern train No. 53 was on the Norfolk Southern (New Orleans Terminal Co.) at Stroelitz Street in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. The 99-car train had an NS crew, and was on its way from the KCS to the CSX GENTILLY YARD with GP40 768, F7A slug 4060 and GP40-2-796. |
Photo Date: |
9/26/1987 Upload Date: 7/17/2019 5:09:44 PM |
Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
Author: |
TOM BLACKWELL photo |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 768(GP40) KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
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695 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Dirty KCS 1 |
Description: |
Two KCS GP40s and a road slug - all looking very much the worse for wear - decend towards the Linwood Avenue overpass - a bridge that crosses two other bridges. |
Photo Date: |
8/1/1988 Upload Date: 11/17/2015 11:13:13 PM |
Location: |
Shreveport, LA |
Author: |
Robert Powers |
Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 794(GP40) KCS 4060(Road Slug) KCS 796(GP40-2) |
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717 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Dirty KCS 3 |
Description: |
A converted road slug F-unit - the first and last time I ever saw an F-unit in mainline revenue service. |
Photo Date: |
8/1/1988 Upload Date: 11/17/2015 11:21:13 PM |
Location: |
Shreveport, LA |
Author: |
Robert Powers |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
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639 Comments: 4 |
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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) |
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783 Comments: 0 |
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