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Viewing Album:  KCS everywhere else
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:3/1/1984 - 5/1/2016
Album Info:KCS trains on lines other than the Heavener Sub, including Kansas City-Joint Agency, the L&A, the Meridian Speedway, and the Tex Mex.
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KCS transfer
Title:  KCS transfer
Description:  A KCS transfer behind an SW type on the New Orleans Public Belt. How did anyone ever see those engine numbers??
Photo Date:  3/8/1984  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 2:27:13 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4211(NW2)
Views:  466   Comments: 3
Local working industry
Title:  Local working industry
Description:  An SW 1500 works an industry in Baton Rouge. I don't know what railroad is on the diamond.
Photo Date:  3/9/1984  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 2:28:22 AM
Location:  Baton Rouge, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4356(SW1500)
Views:  496   Comments: 1
Long day turns into night
Title:  Long day turns into night
Description:  A KCS SW works a local at one of the chemical plants in Baton Rouge as the sun sets.
Photo Date:  3/10/1984  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:45:55 AM
Location:  Baton Rouge, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4356(SW1500)
Views:  287   Comments: 2
Laying over
Title:  Laying over
Description:  A pair of KCS units lays over at New Orleans. These units have the KCS herald on the cab, a great improvement over the plain white that was common at the time.
Photo Date:  3/10/1984  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:43:31 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 778(GP40) KCS 750(SD60)
Views:  484   Comments: 1
Power for KC
Title:  Power for KC
Description:  A Kansas City Power & Light train has arrived at Knoche yard, and will shortly head to the power plant, which is adjacent to the yard. U30C's were still fairly common then-I saw quite a few on BN coal trains.
Photo Date:  2/18/1986  Upload Date: 11/14/2014 2:23:34 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 5344(U30C) BN 7063(SD40-2)
Views:  379   Comments: 1
Kansas City Power & Light
Title:  Kansas City Power & Light
Description:  A KCPL train arrives at Knoche. The lead to the power plant is from the yard, and the train will shortly head in to unload.
Photo Date:  2/18/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:34:50 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 5551(C30-7) BN 5393(U30C) BN 7193(SD40-2)
Views:  449   Comments: 1
Knoche power
Title:  Knoche power
Description:  A mix of power sits at KCS Knoche yard. Also known as Joint Agency-it served KCS, MILW, DRGW-it was the Kansas City home of the Rio Grande, which came into KC via trackage rights over the ex MP from Pueblo. It was a good place to catch DRGW power.
Photo Date:  2/18/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:41:53 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DRGW 3103(GP40-2) KCS 659(SD40-2) KCS 654(SD40-2)
Views:  613   Comments: 2
Rio Grande in KC
Title:  Rio Grande in KC
Description:  The KCS yard was home for the Rio Grande in KC, Here a couple of DRGW units mix with KCS power.
Photo Date:  2/18/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:45:17 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DRGW 5361(SD40T-2) KCS 657(SD40-2) KCS 661(SD40-2) KCS 690(SD40-2)
Views:  917   Comments: 1
Tunnel motor
Title:  Tunnel motor
Description:  The other road to get tunnel motors was Rio Grande, which had plenty of them. One of their SD40T-2s sits at Knoche yard in KC
Photo Date:  2/18/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:48:08 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DRGW 5361(SD40T-2) DRGW 3103(GP40-2)
Views:  710   Comments: 1
KCS coal
Title:  KCS coal
Description:  KCS coal train ready to head south with a mix of KCS and BN power
Photo Date:  2/18/1986  Upload Date: 5/22/2011 2:37:59 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 636(SD40) BN 5514(C30-7) BN 5916(U30C)
Views:  774   Comments: 1
NW 2
Title:  NW 2
Description:  KCS at that time still had quite a few end cab switchers on the roster. This one is working at Knoche. Check out those spark arrestors.
Photo Date:  2/18/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:59:10 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4214(NW2)
Views:  530   Comments: 2
Blue Parkway arches
Title:  Blue Parkway arches
Description:  KCS 691 leads four other SD40-2s over Blue Parkway on the famous concrete arch bridge. This is old US 50.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 2/26/2011 2:49:32 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 691(SD40-2) KCS 620(SD40) KCS 654(SD40-2)
Views:  1249   Comments: 1
Coal with run through power
Title:  Coal with run through power
Description:  A southbound coal train has come off the BN and onto KCS for a trip south to Texas. It is just leaving Knoche Yard and heading through Airline Jct.
Photo Date:  2/6/1996  Upload Date: 5/16/2014 1:39:26 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  EMDX 9023(SD60) BN 9240(SD60M)
Views:  447   Comments: 1
Local
Title:  Local
Description:  A KCS switcher, one of their unremarked units, works at Airline Jct.
Photo Date:  2/6/1996  Upload Date: 5/16/2014 1:42:30 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4331(SW1500)
Views:  330   Comments: 1
Checking the line
Title:  Checking the line
Description:  Sperry car 128 rolls south through Airline Jct on its way to check the KCS.
Photo Date:  2/6/1996  Upload Date: 5/16/2014 1:45:18 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SRS 128(Doodlebug)
Views:  395   Comments: 1
Showing the flag
Title:  Showing the flag
Description:  KCS had recently acquired the Tex Mex. One of the KCS ex CN wide cab GPs sits at the engine house at Laredo
Photo Date:  4/11/1997  Upload Date: 4/15/2014 11:20:17 PM
Location:  Laredo, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4712(GP40-2LW)
Views:  460   Comments: 1
Tex Mex 858
Title:  Tex Mex 858
Description:  Tex Mex 858 sits at the Laredo yard
Photo Date:  4/11/1997  Upload Date: 4/23/2014 1:13:49 AM
Location:  Laredo, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  TM 858(GP38)
Views:  642   Comments: 1
Tex Mex power
Title:  Tex Mex power
Description:  The few Tex Mex units would soon be scattered. I was lucky enough to catch these in the yard while on a trip to Laredo
Photo Date:  4/11/1997  Upload Date: 4/15/2014 11:21:36 PM
Location:  Laredo, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  TM 868(GP35)
Views:  605   Comments: 1
KCS power at the Tex Mex shop
Title:  KCS power at the Tex Mex shop
Description:  KCS 4712 at the shop in Laredo
Photo Date:  4/15/1997  Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:02:47 AM
Location:  Laredo, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 4712(GP40-2LW) KCS 4033(GP38-2)
Views:  506   Comments: 1
Tex Mex power
Title:  Tex Mex power
Description:  A few Tex Mex units were on hand at the Laredo shop this day.
Photo Date:  4/15/1997  Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:03:41 AM
Location:  Laredo, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  TM 858(GP38) KCS 4710(GP40-2LW) TM 867(GP38-2)
Views:  1136   Comments: 1
Tex Mex power
Title:  Tex Mex power
Description:  Tex Mex and KCS units at the Tex Mex Laredo shop
Photo Date:  4/15/1997  Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:04:32 AM
Location:  Laredo, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  TM 867(GP38-2) KCS 4710(GP40-2LW)
Views:  901   Comments: 1
Rolling for Dallas
Title:  Rolling for Dallas
Description:  A westbound intermodal heads west out of Richland yard
Photo Date:  5/11/1997  Upload Date: 3/30/2014 3:52:54 AM
Location:  Richland, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 703(SD40X) KCS 672(SD40-3) KCS 662(SD40-2) KCS 647(SD40-2) KCS 639(SD40-2)
Views:  838   Comments: 1
Switching the pigs
Title:  Switching the pigs
Description:  A pair of GP 40s switches a pig flat at the east end of Richland yard
Photo Date:  5/18/1997  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 2:25:47 AM
Location:  Richland, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4789(GP40-3) KCS 4791(GP40-3)
Views:  424   Comments: 1
KCS 647
Title:  KCS 647
Description:  KCS 647 still in white heads west from Richland yard with mixed freight as seen from the US 49 embankment
Photo Date:  5/18/1997  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 2:20:26 AM
Location:  Richland, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 647(SD40-2) KCS 639(SD40-2) KCS 670(SD40-2)
Views:  1078   Comments: 2
Eastbound pigs
Title:  Eastbound pigs
Description:  An eastbound stack train arrives at Richland behind a pair of gray units. The box is a 48 foot Thermacube domestic container. J B Hunt had approximately 3000 of them at that time.
Photo Date:  5/18/1997  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 2:21:53 AM
Location:  Richland, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 742(SD60) KCS 673(SD40-3)
Views:  1577   Comments: 2
Eastbound stack eases up to the yard
Title:  Eastbound stack eases up to the yard
Description:  An eastbound stack train eases under US 49 approaching the Richland yard
Photo Date:  5/18/1997  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 2:24:11 AM
Location:  Richland, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 742(SD60) KCS 673(SD40-3)
Views:  479   Comments: 1
KCS Business train before the Belle
Title:  KCS Business train before the Belle
Description:  I caught the KCS business train at Knoche on Sunday while waiting on freight. The Choteau Trafficway was easy to get to, and I could park a bobtail tractor nearby, so I went train watching. Turned intot a good day. A coal train headed south on the KCS makes its way though the yard.
Photo Date:  1/17/1999  Upload Date: 3/15/2014 1:05:05 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 1(FP9A) KCS 3(F9B) KCS 2(FP9A) BN 5588(C30-7)
Views:  1331   Comments: 4
NAFTA unit
Title:  NAFTA unit
Description:  KCS painted one of its SD50s in this special scheme, here seen at Knoche Yard. Note the executive train on the right, and also the BN coal train approaching on one of the yard tracks. This was a good place for a truck driver laying over on a Sunday to watch the action.
Photo Date:  1/17/1999  Upload Date: 6/13/2012 12:40:31 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 2000(SD50) KCS 643(SD40-2)
Views:  1265   Comments: 1
Yard job
Title:  Yard job
Description:  By the 1990s there were not many end cab switchers still around. KCS was using this one at Knoche
Photo Date:  1/17/1999  Upload Date: 3/8/2014 2:59:52 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4330(SW1500)
Views:  327   Comments: 1
Mid South power
Title:  Mid South power
Description:  A pair of Mid South units sit outside the yard at Alexandria
Photo Date:  9/25/1999  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 2:30:04 AM
Location:  Alexandria, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MSRC 1014(GP10) MSRC 1080(GP10)
Views:  612   Comments: 1
Just before dark
Title:  Just before dark
Description:  I was heading north along US 59 south of Heavener when I saw this train going the other way. There was just enough light left when I got to Vandervoort to get him, a southbound M train with 23 freight, 21 stack platforms, and an interesting mix of power.
Photo Date:  1/10/2007  Upload Date: 2/4/2017 3:13:45 AM
Location:  Vandervoort, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 6106(SD40T-2) NREX 8503(B39-8E) KCS 691(SD40-2)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
TFM in Louisiana
Title:  TFM in Louisiana
Description:  A CXSH waits to yard south of Shreveport behind a pair of TFM units and one of KCS own.
Photo Date:  2/3/2007  Upload Date: 7/5/2016 3:48:08 AM
Location:  Bossier City, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TFM 1430(SD40-2) TFM 1410(SD40-2) KCS 6601(SD40-3)
Views:  344   Comments: 3
KCSM 4751 north
Title:  KCSM 4751 north
Description:  KCSM 4751 and two Belles along I 49. At the time catching three Belles as solo power was something of a novelty, so this was quite a catch.
Photo Date:  6/26/2010  Upload Date: 1/15/2011 12:50:05 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCSM 4751(ES44AC)
Views:  322   Comments: 1
KCS 4056
Title:  KCS 4056
Description:  KCS 4056 works as a DPU on a westbound train of tank cars as seen from the US 49 overpass in Richland Miss.
Photo Date:  4/7/2012  Upload Date: 5/3/2012 1:36:05 AM
Location:  Richland, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4056(SD70ACe)
Views:  304   Comments: 3
Just off the bridge
Title:  Just off the bridge
Description:  Westbound on the Speedway a few miles after clearing the Mississippi River bridge, notching out and getting up to speed
Photo Date:  7/1/2012  Upload Date: 7/4/2012 8:20:15 PM
Location:  Mound, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4768(ES44AC) KCS 4707(ES44AC)
Views:  316   Comments: 1
West at Tallulah
Title:  West at Tallulah
Description:  A westbound train on the Speedway has just met an eastbound at Tallulah LA and is now rolling through town.
Photo Date:  7/1/2012  Upload Date: 7/4/2012 8:22:34 PM
Location:  Tallulah, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4768(ES44AC) KCS 4707(ES44AC)
Views:  222   Comments: 2
Heading for the bridge
Title:  Heading for the bridge
Description:  A westbound on the Speedway is not making a lot of speed as it exits the tunnel under the Mississippi welcome center in Vicksburg and starts over the Mississippsi River
Photo Date:  7/1/2012  Upload Date: 7/4/2012 8:36:31 PM
Location:  Vicksburg, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4768(ES44AC) KCS 4707(ES44AC)
Views:  334   Comments: 2
Eastbound with NS power
Title:  Eastbound with NS power
Description:  KCS partners with NS east of Meridian Miss, so its not uncommon to see NS power all the way to Dallas. Here an eastbound behind a pair of horses rolls toward a meet with a westbound. The leader is a former Conrail unit.
Photo Date:  7/1/2012  Upload Date: 7/4/2012 8:24:37 PM
Location:  Tallulah, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8443(C40-8W) NS 9911(C40-9W)
Views:  162   Comments: 1
Leaving town
Title:  Leaving town
Description:  The grain train that met the Watco PSU unit at the yard gets out of town as the sun gets low.
Photo Date:  5/11/2013  Upload Date: 2/28/2018 4:20:28 AM
Location:  Pittsburg, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4057(SD70ACe) KCS 4796(ES44AC)
Views:  216   Comments: 2
Colorful meet
Title:  Colorful meet
Description:  A southbound grain train behind two Belles meets the Watco local, working at the KCS Pittsburg yard with one of the units specially painted for Pittsburg State U.
Photo Date:  5/11/2013  Upload Date: 2/28/2018 4:18:34 AM
Location:  Pittsburg, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4057(SD70ACe) KCS 4796(ES44AC) WAMX 3834(GP38-3)
Views:  273   Comments: 4

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