Jeff's Railroad Pictures: Kansas City Southern

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Click Here The disappearance of the GP10's from Tuscaloosa earlier this summer seems to have been temporary. This photo shows 1058 and 1079, both rare high-nose units.
Click Here Another GP10, no. 1084.
Click Here Yet another GP10, no. 1055.
Click Here Former GM&O (now KCS) trestle over 5th Street in Northport, Alabama.
Click Here KCS (ex-GM&O) bridge over the Black Warrior river, downtown Tuscaloosa.
Click Here Four KCS GP-40-2's. The train are were pulling has just arrived at Tuscaloosa and is being broken up in the yard.
Click Here KCS GP-40-2 no. 4795 as seen from the 6th Street bridge over the tracks.
Click Here This train is being pulled across the bridge by no. 4795 (from the previous picture) and four other locomotives. Notice how much smoke is coming out of the old MidSouth unit.
Click Here More of the same train, this time on the trestle over 5th St. in Northport.
Click Here KCS SD-40-2 no. 682 at the head of an intermodal train. Note that no. 682 is still in KCS's old white and red paint scheme.
Click Here KCS G38-2 4022 and (MidSouth) GP10 no. 1026 leading a train bound for Holt out of the Tuscaloosa yard.
Click Here KCS 618 is an SD45 that has been converted to an SD40-3, but retains the look of an SD45. I took this photo Jackson, MS.
Click Here A train headed by KCS 4701, a GP40-2W, waits in Northport, Alabama, on 2/18/97. There are plans to rennovate the unused depot seen in the picture for use as a model railroad clubhouse.
Click Here KCS employees inspect the crossing with NS. Photo taken 2/25/97.
Click Here Another picture taken in Northport, this time of a train stopped to make repairs on the lead unit, KCS GP40-2LW no. 4716. Note that the train also has a white KCS GP38-2 and a MidSouth GP10, making it a veritable feast of KCS paint schemes.
Click Here KCS Tuscaloosa yard, as seen from the Stillman Blvd. (9th Street) overpass.
Click Here KCS no. 642 was from the very first SD40-2 order, in 1972.
Click Here A KCS passenger special pulls into the yard, behind GP40-2LW no. 4704.

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