Sunday, November 16, 2025
Walthers Mainline KCS SD60
One of my all-time favorite locos is the conventional cab EMD SD50s-60s. I really like their extended hood length, it seems to fill the overall profile out better than SD40s and 45s. Fairly late in life I've come to like the Kansas City Southern. So I ordered a Walthers Mainline KCS SD60. (All photos mine.)
Ths fits a KCS roster from the 1980s and 90s that I'd already assembled:
I just wish these locos had ditch lights.
But at least my ScaleTrains ET44 has them, and ground lights as well:
I haven't gotten too many prototype photos of KCS power, esepcially in the gray scheme, but here's an SD70MAC I caught from the Amtrak sleeper window in Jackson, MS:
Units in the Southern Belle scheme make it out to California now and then:
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