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Owner: Kansas City Southern
Model:EMD SD40Built As:KCS 608 (SD40)
Serial Number:32109Order No:7914
Frame Number:7914-9Built:11/1966
Other locos with this serial:  KCS 608(SD40) NS 3428(SD40-2) CR 6965(SD40-2R)
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KCS 608 Southbound
Title:  KCS 608 Southbound
Description:  Between August 1970 and August 1971, the Kansas City Southern operated unit coal trains from the Howe Coal Co. mine just north of Heavener, Arkansas to the railroad’s new coal export terminal at Port Arthur, Texas using a fleet of 75 six-axle 150-ton rotary-dump gondolas. Here is one of the last of these trains heading south at Bloomburg, Texas (milepost 507) with SD40's 608, 607 and 604 on the head end and 621 as the mid-train slave unit. The mine began working in 1968 and coal initially moved to New Orleans in 100-ton hopper cars for shipment to Japan, but the mine had some serious problems which created difficult mining conditions and these caused its early closure. The cars spent most of their career in Louisiana hauling woodchips to Baton Rouge.
Photo Date:  8/21/1971  Upload Date: 1/26/2021 2:25:13 PM
Location:  Bloomburg, TX
Author:  WARREN CAILEFF image
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 608(SD40)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
KCS 608
Title:  KCS 608
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/10/1979  Upload Date: 2/25/2011 9:10:34 PM
Location:  DeQueen, AR
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 608(SD40)
Views:  778   Comments: 0
Kansas City Southern
Title:  Kansas City Southern
Description:  A passing view of 3 white KCS units.
Photo Date:  9/7/1984  Upload Date: 5/11/2011 9:24:37 PM
Location:  Louisburg, KS
Author:  Jeff Williams
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 608(SD40) KCS 616(SD40)
Views:  708   Comments: 0
KCS 608
Title:  KCS 608
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/16/1989  Upload Date: 4/3/2019 7:52:12 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  John Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 608(SD40)
Views:  241   Comments: 1


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