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KCS Slug 4050
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:  832   Comments: 3
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:  1235   Comments: 0
Slugs and mates
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:  1884   Comments: 2
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:  2120   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:  1248   Comments: 1
F-unit set on detour train at Sibley, La.
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:  1104   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:  1691   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:  2531   Comments: 2
KCS 4056, 789, 784, and 4101 at West Yard
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:  2054   Comments: 2
KCS 632 Leads No 54
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:  885   Comments: 0
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:  1218   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:  685   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:  700   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:  749   Comments: 0
KCS F7A (SLUG)
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:  2078   Comments: 0
KCS freight w/Funit slug at DeQuincy,La
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)ß!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:  1204   Comments: 1
Dirty KCS 1
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:  765   Comments: 0
Dirty KCS 3
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:  699   Comments: 4
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 715(SD60) KCS 4113(GP30) KCS 4060(Road Slug)
Views:  870   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:  624   Comments: 0
KCS #4075
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:  122   Comments: 0
KCS 4076
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:  745   Comments: 0
KCS 4076
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:  564   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:  711   Comments: 3
KCS Deramus Yard with road slug
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:  521   Comments: 0
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:  783   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:  530   Comments: 1
 KCS 797, 4077, and 4007 Lead No. 53
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:  960   Comments: 1
KCS 4077
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:  776   Comments: 2
KCS #4077
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:  132   Comments: 0


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