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Owner: Kansas City Southern
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:KCS 796 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:806040-1Order No:806040
Frame Number:806040-1Built:2/1981
Other locos with this serial:  KCS 4796(GP40-3) KCS 796(GP40-2) KCS 2976(GP40-3)
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KCS GP40-2 796
Title:  KCS GP40-2 796
Description:  Clean 2-month-old GP40-2's 796 was outside the engine house at WEST YARD, just west of New Orleans, along with F3A slug 4050 and GP40-2 798.
Photo Date:  4/26/1981  Upload Date: 5/21/2009 5:36:21 PM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 796(GP40-2)
Views:  1325   Comments: 0
KCS Train 53
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)
Views:  938   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
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


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