|
Title: |
KCS Slug 4050 |
Description: |
KCS road slug 4050 and a small mystery. The unit came out of EMD in 1947 as F3A 30A. It was supposdly rebuilt into a slug at Shreveport in mid 1983 for use in Texas. It's shown here two years prior to that with its fans and exhaust already missing as well as blanked cab windows and in need of nose paint. As far as I can tell it was in KC headed to Mid America Car, who would repaint it and remove the center porthole- a configuration it had in later yers. |
Photo Date: |
1/28/1981 Upload Date: 12/25/2012 9:38:37 AM |
Location: |
Kansas City, MO |
Author: |
Rick Morgan |
Categories: |
|
Locomotives: |
KCS 4050(Road Slug) |
Views: |
795 Comments: 3 |
|
|
|
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: |
1199 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
Title: |
Slugs and mates |
Description: |
Southbound train 23 arriving from Hope, Ar With KCS 4050 leading. The KCS Cab unit slugs were rebuilt with control stands so they could lead a consist. The train crews liked them because they were quiter than powered units. |
Photo Date: |
3/26/1985 Upload Date: 6/20/2016 12:53:38 PM |
Location: |
Minden, LA |
Author: |
Mose Crews |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4050(Road Slug) KCS 4064(F7A) KCS 4059(F7A) KCS 4055(Road Slug) |
Views: |
1808 Comments: 2 |
|
|
|
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: |
2070 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
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: |
1216 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
Title: |
F-unit set on detour train at Sibley, La. |
Description: |
Train detour due to washout between Minden and Shreveport. Train had to go east on ICG and then runaround train to go west. It ran with a caboose on each end for convenience. Train is about to cross over the KCS mainline. |
Photo Date: |
12/2/1986 Upload Date: 6/20/2016 12:56:40 PM |
Location: |
Sibley, LA |
Author: |
Mose Crews |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4055(Road Slug) KCS 4059(F7A) KCS 4050(Road Slug) KCS 4064(F7A) |
Views: |
1054 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
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: |
1655 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
2493 Comments: 2 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS 4056, 789, 784, and 4101 at West Yard |
Description: |
KCS Power is hostled outside the KCS West Yard diesel facility. F-Unit slug 4056 is paired up with GP40 789 while GP40 784 is paired up with GP30 4101. |
Photo Date: |
11/12/1988 Upload Date: 11/15/2017 8:18:28 PM |
Location: |
Metairie, LA |
Author: |
Christopher Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4056(Road Slug) KCS 789(GP40) KCS 784(GP40) KCS 4101(GP30) |
Views: |
2013 Comments: 2 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS 632 Leads No 54 |
Description: |
KCS train number 54 rolls through Shrewsbury on the NS New Orleans Terminal. SD40 632, SD40 631, GP40-2 798, F7A road slug 4056, and GP38-2 4013 power today's train - New Orleans Area - 2-11-1990 - C.M.Palmieri Photo. |
Photo Date: |
2/11/1990 Upload Date: 9/7/2018 10:30:34 PM |
Location: |
Metairie, LA |
Author: |
Christopher Palmieri |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 632(SD40) KCS 631(SD40) KCS 798(GP40-2) KCS 4056(Road Slug) KCS 4013(GP38-2) |
Views: |
818 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS Train No. 54 |
Description: |
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 |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 797(GP40-2) KCS 4060(Road Slug) |
Views: |
391 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
1142 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
631 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
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: |
637 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
701 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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) |
Views: |
2003 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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) |
Views: |
1141 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
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) |
Views: |
695 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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) |
Views: |
717 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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) |
Views: |
639 Comments: 4 |
|
|
|
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: |
783 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
600 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS #4075 |
Description: |
Scanned from a print I took. (F7B) |
Photo Date: |
8/13/1989 Upload Date: 1/8/2023 5:45:10 PM |
Location: |
Shreveport, LA |
Author: |
Rich Varner |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4075(Road Slug) |
Views: |
100 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS 4076 |
Description: |
Notes: Built as F3B 59C 8/50, rebuilt by KCS to road slug in 11/77. |
Photo Date: |
7/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/20/2006 10:11:25 PM |
Location: |
Sulphur Springs, TX |
Author: |
Mike Murray |
Categories: |
|
Locomotives: |
KCS 4076(Road Slug) |
Views: |
727 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS 4076 |
Description: |
Notes: Built as F3B 59C 8/50, rebuilt by KCS to road slug in 11/77. |
Photo Date: |
7/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/20/2006 10:13:10 PM |
Location: |
Sulphur Springs, TX |
Author: |
Mike Murray |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4076(Road Slug) |
Views: |
542 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
681 Comments: 3 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS Deramus Yard with road slug |
Description: |
I ran into KCS's three B-unit road slugs a few times, but this is the only time I got anything close to a decent picture of one. |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1988 Upload Date: 4/30/2017 12:56:49 AM |
Location: |
Shreveport, LA |
Author: |
Robert Powers |
Categories: |
Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 681(SD40-2) KCS 798(GP40-2) KCS 4076(Road Slug) |
Views: |
477 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
759 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
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: |
505 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS 797, 4077, and 4007 Lead No. 53 |
Description: |
KCS GP40-2 797, KCS Road Slug 4077, and KCS GP38-2 4007 pause at Louisa Street on the CSX as the train nears its destination of CSX Gentilly Yard. |
Photo Date: |
8/2/1987 Upload Date: 11/26/2017 5:59:22 PM |
Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
Author: |
Christopher Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
KCS 797(GP40-2) KCS 4077(Road Slug) KCS 4007(GP38-2) |
Views: |
920 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS 4077 |
Description: |
|
Photo Date: |
7/1/1989 Upload Date: 6/30/2008 8:29:46 AM |
Location: |
Neosho, MO |
Author: |
howard biby |
Categories: |
|
Locomotives: |
KCS 4796(GP40-3) KCS 4077(Road Slug) |
Views: |
740 Comments: 2 |
|
|
|
Title: |
KCS #4077 |
Description: |
Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. |
Photo Date: |
1/5/1992 Upload Date: 1/22/2023 11:17:39 PM |
Location: |
Kansas City, MO |
Author: |
Rich Varner |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4077(Road Slug) |
Views: |
111 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|