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| Title: |
KCS 4303 and 4314 |
| Description: |
Recently-repainted Kansas City Southern SW7's 4303 and 4314 were picking up private car PCS 6 from New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal and moving it to a siding served by the KCS. PCS 6 was originally a New York Central car. |
| Photo Date: |
1/18/1975 Upload Date: 2/2/2019 5:33:42 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4303(SW7) |
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| Title: |
Southbound KCS |
| Description: |
In the late afternoon, a southbound Kansas City Southern train was rolling past the station at DeQueen, Arkansas with SD40-2 662 and SD40's 605 and 619. |
| Photo Date: |
2/9/1975 Upload Date: 1/19/2018 11:48:14 AM |
| Location: |
De Queen, AR |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
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| Title: |
KCS Retirement |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern engineer and railfan Robert "Tillie" Blank and his wife were being honored on his retirement. The event was in the lunch room at WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. Bob went into engine service on the New Orleans Public Belt around 1940, and after a couple of moves spent most of his railroad career as an engineer on the Louisiana & Arkansas/Kansas City Southern. He was a regular engineer on the SOUTHERN BELLE during that train's later years. |
| Photo Date: |
10/31/1976 Upload Date: 3/21/2018 6:14:37 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
KCS Slugs |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern yard slugs were not typically used at West Yard, just outside of New Orleans; but several of them were regularly kept at the yard in Baton Rouge, and these came to New Orleans for inspections and maintenance. Here were slugs 4257 and 4252 with F7A 4061 outside the diesel shop at West Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/1982 Upload Date: 10/23/2017 1:30:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4061(F7A) KCS 4257(Yard Slug) |
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| Title: |
KCS Transfer Run |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern NW2 4211 was operating over the New Orleans Public Belt at the Fern Street grade crossing with an 11-car transfer run, on its way from the KCS’s WEST YARD to the NOPB’s COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD. |
| Photo Date: |
1/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/1/2020 10:43:39 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4211(NW2) |
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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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704 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SEPX Coal Train |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern coal train No. 91 was changing crews at Blanchard, Louisiana, just north of the railroad's DERAMUS YARD. The train originated on the Burlington Northern in Wyoming and was headed for Southwest Electric Power's plant at Welch, Texas. (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/1983 Upload Date: 3/21/2018 4:49:37 PM |
| Location: |
Blanchard, LA |
| Author: |
LOUIS R. SAILLARD photo |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 663(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
KCS Power |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern SD40's 627 and 609 were parked outside the diesel shop at West Yard with SD40-2 674. |
| Photo Date: |
10/27/1983 Upload Date: 1/19/2018 5:58:47 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
MICHAEL M. PALMIERI photo |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 627(SD40) KCS 609(SD40) KCS 674(SD40-2) |
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742 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS West Yard |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern GP38-2 4001, GP40's 754 and 786, and GP30 4114 were parked outside the diesel shop at West Yard, near New Orleans, along with NW2 4211. |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/1984 Upload Date: 9/3/2018 6:17:27 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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| Title: |
KCS 4117 |
| Description: |
Back in 1984 transfer runs from the Kansas City Southern to the New Orleans Public Belt typically had 10-20 cars and were handled by a switch engine; but today the train had 40 loaded C&NW hoppers behind the 12 cars of mixed freight, so the railroad used one of the GP30's which were assigned to New Orleans for local work. The train is on the NOPB at Walnut Street. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/1984 Upload Date: 1/25/2010 1:20:23 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4117(GP30) |
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720 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 53 |
| Description: |
In the shadow of Causeway Boulevard, Kansas City Southern train No. 53 was turning off of the KCS and onto the Norfolk Southern BACK BELT at Shrewsbury Junction in Metairie, Louisiana. Powered by GP40 777, F3A slug 4050 and GP40-2 797, the train was on its way from Dallas to the Seaboard System's Gentilly Yard in eastern New Orleans. The little building with bullet-proof glazing was used by NS interchange clerks to do their paperwork for cars going to and from the KCS and ICG. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1984 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 12:26:57 AM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 777(GP40) |
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911 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS GP38-2 4008 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern GP38-2 4008 was outside the diesel shop at the railroad’s WEST YARD, just west of New Orleans. The locomotive was still wearing its original paint job, with microscopic cab numbers! |
| Photo Date: |
11/7/1984 Upload Date: 2/4/2019 5:56:39 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4008(GP38-2) |
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521 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCSZ 301897 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern flatbed semi-trailer KCSZ 301897 and a few of its siblings were loaded with concrete crossties and parked outside the diesel shop at WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/1985 Upload Date: 1/12/2021 3:52:22 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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| Title: |
Northbound KCS |
| Description: |
A northbound Kansas City Southern train was nearing the top of Hornbeck Hill at Hornbeck, Louisiana on recently-ballasted track. The train had SD40 628, SD40-2 645, SD40 612 and 76 cars; and U.S. Highway 171 is on the other side of the railroad.. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1987 Upload Date: 1/13/2018 1:44:28 PM |
| Location: |
Hornbeck, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 628(SD40) |
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670 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS No. 53 |
| Description: |
The caption on the billboard nicely describes the weather on this beautiful January day! KCS train No. 53, which runs from Dallas to the CSX yard in New Orleans, is parked on the CSX at the Louisa Street grade crossing, about a mile away from its destination. A Norfolk Southern crew has brought the train here fron the KCS-NS connection at Shrewsbury; and when the CSX is ready for the train, they will send a crew to bring it in. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1988 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 6:55:05 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 673(SD40-3) |
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746 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
Rocket Motor Train |
| Description: |
An eastbound KCS rocket motor train was parked along the Norfolk Southern BACK BELT at Shrewsbury Junction. Trains such as this transported segments of the solid fuel rocket motors for the NASA space shuttles between Morton Thiokol's rocket fuel plant in Corinne, Utah and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida via the UP-KCS-CSX-FEC. This train consisted of KCS SD40X 702 and SD40 629, escort car JANICE L., three covered hoppers, 16-wheel rocket motor flat cars MP 865025 and UP 50030, a covered hopper 500010, 8-wheel flat car UP 57952, a covered hopper, 16-wheel flat car SCL 109102, two more covered hoppers and four tank cars. |
| Photo Date: |
8/30/1988 Upload Date: 5/17/2010 4:53:10 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
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| Title: |
KCS GP38-2 4017 |
| Description: |
A trio of recently-acquired former Boston & Maine GP38-2's rest on the east side of the Kansas City Southern diesel shop at West Yard. KCS 4017, 4014 and 4015 were previously B&M 206, 202 and 204. All of these units wore 'STOP... for Safety' cab emblels promoting the Safety Training Observation Prog |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1989 Upload Date: 5/17/2010 8:27:03 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4017(GP38-2) |
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747 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS SD40-2 683 |
| Description: |
A pair of Kansas City Southern SD40-2's were in the New Orleans Public Belt's East Bridge Yard, with a transfer run from the UP (MP) to the NS. Apparently the KCS had sent the locomotives to the NS on run-through train No. 55, and the NS decided to use them on a transfer run before returning them to the KCS on No. 56. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1989 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:14:16 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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619 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS SD40-2 679 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern SD40-2's 679 and 663 were on a northbound ballast train in the Leesville yard, with 45 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
6/23/1989 Upload Date: 8/6/2010 12:08:44 PM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 679(SD40-2) |
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623 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 2 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern train No. 2 was stopped at Leesville, Louisiana for a crew change as it made its way north from Port Arthur to Kansas City. The locomotives were SD40-2's 639 and 638, SD40 634 and SD40-2 651. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1989 Upload Date: 1/28/2017 6:18:00 PM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 639(SD40-2) |
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617 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS 785 |
| Description: |
A pair of KCS GP40's were tied up on the engine track at Leesville. The cars in the yard would indicate that pulp wood and wood chips were big business around here! |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1989 Upload Date: 1/29/2010 5:20:35 PM |
| Location: |
Leesville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 785(GP40) |
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757 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Twelve KCS Units |
| Description: |
At 7:30 on this Monday morning, a dozen units were gathered around the KCS engine terminal at West Yard. GP38-2 4004 was with the 4012 and GP40 778, NW2's 4222 and 4211 were seperated by a bulkhead flat car, GP30 4119 was with the 4112 and 4101, recently-acquired GP38-2 4014 (ex-B&M 202) was with the 4009 and GP40 757, and GP30 4103 was in the engine house. |
| Photo Date: |
8/7/1989 Upload Date: 4/2/2010 4:45:01 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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1118 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS 4113 |
| Description: |
KCS GP30 4113 undergoes load testing outside the West Yard diesel shop. The load tester is an EMD dynamic brake assembly, and it was moved around with a fork lift truck. Note the Type-M truck under the unit. |
| Photo Date: |
9/2/1989 Upload Date: 1/16/2010 5:43:17 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4113(GP30) |
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882 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS No. 53/55 |
| Description: |
It's the day after Christmas at the Kansas City Southern's West Yard, and a combined train 53 (for the CSX) and 55 (for the NS) has spent the holiday here. In a little while, it will be seperated into two trains which will be sent to the CSX yard at Gentilly and the Norfolk Southern's Oliver Yard. The locomotives are SD40-2's 681 and 665, SD40X 701 and SD40-2 642. |
| Photo Date: |
12/26/1989 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 6:54:12 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 681(SD40-2) |
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681 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
KCS 719 |
| Description: |
Three-month-old Kansas City Southern SD60's 719 and 722 rest outside the diesel shop at West Yard. These locomotive are from the railroad's first order for this model, units 714-723, built in November and December 1989. When new, these units were regularly used on trains 9 and 10 between New Orleans and Kansas City. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/1990 Upload Date: 4/2/2010 4:43:33 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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629 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS SD40-2 652 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern SD40-2 652 was the railroad's first gray locomotive, completed at Shreveport at the beginning of April 1988; and when it was photographed outside the diesel shop at West Yard almost two years alter, gray units were still pretty uncommon. The other locomotives in this set of SD40-2's were snoot 690, the 649 and snoot 679. Quartets of 6-axle power were really unusual in New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/1990 Upload Date: 1/18/2017 9:41:18 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 652(SD40-2) |
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463 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Diesel Shop |
| Description: |
Kansas City Souther SW1500 4321, SD50 711 and GP40-2LW 4716 were gathered outside the east side of the diesel shop at WEST YARD, just west of New Orleans. At that time, the 4321 was one of the oldest locomotives on the railmoad. (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1997 Upload Date: 4/11/2018 4:36:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
BILL LANG photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4321(SW1500) KCS 711(SD50) KCS 4716(GP40-2LW) |
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| Title: |
KCS Victims |
| Description: |
KCS AC4400CW 2040 and GP40-2 4813 were receiving attention at the railroad’s West Yard in New Orleans so they could be sent to the BNSF for permanent repairs. These had been the second and third units on KCS New Orleans-Kansas City train 10 when they were sideswiped by ATSF C40-8W 902 on BNSF Memphis-Houston train H-MEMPTR at 3AM on 20 December 2000. The lead unit on KCS 10 was AC4400CW 2018 and it was not damaged.The accident took place on the IC on the west side of the New Orleans area at Orleans Junction, and was caused by the IC crew on H-MEMPTR running a red signal. KCS 10 was exercising trackage rights over the IC and was crossing over from the northbound to the southbound main when its trailing units were struck by the BNSF train. H-MEMPTR was detouring over the IC from Memphis to New Orleans because of weather-related problems on the UP in Arkansas, so the BNSF was responsible for the repairs. ATSF 902 ended up lying on its left side, BNSF SD40M-2 7302 was partially derailed, and NS C40-9W 9126 sustained some damage. |
| Photo Date: |
2/7/2001 Upload Date: 4/22/2017 1:39:51 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4813(GP40-3) KCS 2040(AC44CW) |
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685 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
PCRC F40's |
| Description: |
Panama Canal Railway Company 1859 and four other PCRC F40's were parked at the Kansas City Southern engine terminal at West Yard near New Orleans awaiting shipment to Panama. Along side were KCS AC4400CW 2041 - with the 2017 - and SD40M-2 628 - between SD60's 732 and 754. The PCRC units had been repainted at Paducah, Kentucky. |
| Photo Date: |
3/16/2001 Upload Date: 12/13/2016 10:12:22 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
PCRC 1859(F40PH) KCS 2014(AC44CW) |
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812 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS GP40-2 LW 4710 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern GP40-2LW 4710 was photographed at WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. The locomotive had been built in September 1974 as Canadian National 9491, and it was later renumbered KCS 2908. It was one of 23 wide-nose CN units purchased by the KCS in 1996 and all of them had dynamic brakes added by the Livingston Rebuilt Center. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/2001 Upload Date: 2/14/2021 5:35:24 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4710(GP40-2LW) |
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| Title: |
KCS SD50 712 and SD40-2 656 |
| Description: |
On Thursday morning 28 March 2002 Kansas City Southern northbound intermodal train No. 10 struck an 18-wheeler loaded with concrete piles at the Louisiana Concrete Products grade crossing in Baton Rouge. This photo was taken three days later, and shows the train’s first two engines parked on the BATON ROUGE MORNING ADVOCATE newspaper plant siding. The damage to the train’s lead unit, SD50 712, is obvious; while the second unit, SD40-2 656, had a gash on the engineer’s side of its fuel tank. The train’s third unit, SD40M-2 626, was unharmed, as was the crew. |
| Photo Date: |
3/31/2002 Upload Date: 12/1/2020 1:33:01 PM |
| Location: |
Baton Rouge, LA |
| Author: |
LOUIS R. SAILLARD image |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
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258 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train I-DAAT |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern intermodal train I-DAAT was highballing east through a light rain on the MERIDIAN SPEEDWAY at Rayville, Louisiana . The Dallas-Atlanta train was powered by KCS ET44AC 5024 and Norfolk Southern C44-9W 9249; and when this photo was taken, the 5024 was the newest locomotive on the KCS, having been built earlier in 2019. |
| Photo Date: |
11/7/2019 Upload Date: 8/2/2020 1:15:24 PM |
| Location: |
Rayville, LA |
| Author: |
Patricia Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 5024(ET44AC) |
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473 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train M-ARSH |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern train M-ARSH was passing under the Drummond Street bridge as it made its way through Vicksburg on the MERIDIAN SPEEDWAY. The train was on its way from Artesia, Mississippi to Shreveport with nearly-new ET44AC 5013 on the front and SD70ACE 4029 as the DPU on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
11/8/2019 Upload Date: 8/2/2020 1:22:01 PM |
| Location: |
Vicksburg, MS |
| Author: |
Patricia Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 5013(ET44AC) |
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283 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS MARSH |
| Description: |
Westbound Kansas City Southern train M-ARSH was crossing Mulberry Street in Tallulah, Louisiana after a meet with eastbound intermodal train I-DAAT. The Artesia to Shreveport train was powered by AC4400CW 4584 and GP38-2 1907 on the front, with ES44AC 4707 pushing on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
11/12/2019 Upload Date: 12/9/2019 1:29:29 PM |
| Location: |
Tallulah, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 1907(GP38-2) |
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208 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 2 |
| Description: |
SD40 613 and SD40-2's 675 and 668 lead train No. 2 into Deridder. The gate on the left protected the crossing with the Santa Fe's branch from Kirbyville, Texas. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1986 Upload Date: 8/21/2007 9:44:45 PM |
| Location: |
DeRidder, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 613(SD40) |
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1171 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS No. 9 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern number 9, the intermodal train from Kansas City, is operating over the Illinois Central as it approaches the grade crossing at Central Avenue. The trio of GP38-2's was the train's usual power. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1985 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 6:57:51 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
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636 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 53 |
| Description: |
Southbound train No. 53, with SD40-2'S 692 and 687 and SW1500 4323, waits for clearance to enter West Yard. This was shortly before No. 53 began running all the way to the L&N's Gentilly Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
1/3/1981 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 4:52:11 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 692(SD40-2) |
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848 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 53 |
| Description: |
It's 10:00 and southbound KCS train No.53 is on the Southern Railway in Metairie, en route from the KCS to the L&N. The motive power is GP40-2 796, F3A slug 4050, and GP40 783. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1982 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 5:37:15 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 796(GP40-2) |
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942 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 53 |
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KCS train No. 53 is on the Southern Railway (with a Southern crew) in Metairie, Louisiana. The Southern has just received the train from the KCS, and will deliver it to the L&N at Louisa Street, about seven miles away. Today's train has GP40-2 799, F7B slug 4077, and GP40 784. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1982 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 5:55:41 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 799(GP40-2) |
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798 Comments: 0 |
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KCS Train 53 |
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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) |
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2533 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 54 |
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SD40 615 and SD40-2 655 lead northbound train No. 54 out of West Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
6/9/1980 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 2:03:40 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 615(SD40) KCS 655(SD40-2) |
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1057 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train 54 |
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SD40-2s 680 and 678 prepare to leave West Yard on northbound train No. 54. |
| Photo Date: |
12/28/1980 Upload Date: 5/22/2009 12:15:36 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 680(SD40-2) |
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838 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS Train No. 54 |
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It's 6 P.M. and a Southern Railway yard crew has just delivered train No. 54 to the KCS at Labarre Road in Metairie. The train originated at the L&N's Gentilly Yard, and the Southern handled it from L&N Jct. to here. The Southern crew will get on KCS No. 55, which is right behind the photographer, and bring it to their Oliver Yard. Today's 54 has GP40-2 797, F7B slug 4076, and GP38-2 4002 with 112 cars and 5,895 tons. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1983 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 5:50:46 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Locomotives: |
KCS 797(GP40-2) |
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732 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
KCS Coal Train |
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Southbound coal train passing the burned-out depot at DeQueen. |
| Photo Date: |
10/3/1981 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 2:06:55 PM |
| Location: |
De Queen, AR |
| Author: |
Todd Minsk |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 674(SD40-2) |
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683 Comments: 1 |
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KCS 73B |
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Kansas CIty Southern F7B 73B was the last powered B-unit on the railroad. It was photographed at West Yard, in the New Orleans area, but it was not very common on this end of the railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/1983 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 2:02:51 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 73B(F7B) |
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1522 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
KCS 4359 |
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KCS SW1500 4359 in on the bridge over the drainage canal which seperates Orleans (on the right) and Jefferson Parishes. The engine is switching West Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
1/2/1981 Upload Date: 1/29/2010 5:20:00 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4359(SW1500) |
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569 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS No. 55 |
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It's 8 A.M. on a beautiful December morning along the Southern Railway's BACK BELT at Metairie Road, and we are greeted by the rare and wonderful sight of two Kansas City Southern F-units approaching with an eastbound train. The 4051 is a 3-porthole F3 built in 1947 and the 4061 is a 1951 F7 rebuilt with F9 side panels in 1956. This is KCS No. 55 and it will terminate at the Southern's Oliver Yard, on the east side of New Orleans. The train usually passes here in the late afternoon or early evening, so it is running about 12-16 hours late. In August 1982 the KCS began keeping a pair of F-units at New Orleans for situations just like this. The normal procedure was for the power that arrived on a southbound train to go out on that train's northbound counterpart, so the locomotives that arrived on No. 55 in the afternoon -- usually three geeps or a geep/slug/geep set -- would return north on No. 56 early the next day. Yesterday, No. 55 was running very late; so during the night the two F-units took No. 56 north until they met No. 55 and swapped trains. We dont know where the exchange took place, but the cab units went at least as far as Baton Rouge.Before the F-units arrived, the railroad would use a pair of locally-assigned SW1500s for this relief work; but this adversely affected the jobs that the switchers worked. Keeping a pair of elderly cab units here didn't tie up newer road power, and it allowed the switchers to handle their regular jobs without complications. The F-units were also used on heavy transfer runs. In March 1983 the schedule of one train -- No. 84 -- was changed so that there would always be a set of road power available in New Orleans, and the cab units were sent elsewhere. |
| Photo Date: |
12/20/1982 Upload Date: 1/18/2010 7:37:22 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4051(F3A) KCS 4061(F7A) |
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2309 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
KCS SD40 615 |
| Description: |
Kansas City Southern SD40 615 was photographed outside the diesel shop at West Yard, just outside of New Orleans. The locomotive was built in August 1968 and was sold to Pacific Railroad Leasing Co. (PacRail) in 1990, where it operated as PRLX 615. It was subsequently purchased by Conrail, where it was rebuilt into SD40M-2 6968 in April 1993; and it became CSX 8871 in 1999. |
| Photo Date: |
1/3/1981 Upload Date: 5/21/2009 2:04:47 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 615(SD40) |
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840 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
KCS 627 |
| Description: |
KCS West Yard |
| Photo Date: |
10/27/1983 Upload Date: 2/21/2008 7:22:57 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 627(SD40) |
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919 Comments: 2 |
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