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Pictures of SOU 6143
 
Owner: Southern
Model:EMD FP7ABuilt As:CNOTP 6143 (FP7A)
Serial Number:12339Order No:6144
Frame Number:6144-A4Built:11/1950
Other locos with this serial:  ASML 6143(FP7A) SOU 3498(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A) NEWG 3498(FP7A) SMPX 6143(FP7A)
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SOU 6133
Title:  SOU 6133
Description:  1:30 P.M. Northbound Piedmont arrives with 6 cars from Atlanta.
Photo Date:  5/7/1972  Upload Date: 10/14/2020 8:49:50 PM
Location:  Salisbury, NC
Author:  Dennis Mize
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6133(FP7A) SOU 6708(F3A) SOU 6131(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1219   Comments: 0
Southern #7
Title:  Southern #7
Description:  Southern 6143 leading southbound train #7 was photographed by Gary W. Zeitler at Alexandria, VA in September 1973. The train, the remnants of the "Birmingham Special", ran between Washington and Lynchburg, VA until June 1, 1975, often carrying piggyback traffic behind the coach. Scanned from an original slide in my collection (date approximate)
Photo Date:  9/1/1973  Upload Date: 7/17/2025 5:51:08 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Gary W. Zeitler
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
Piedmont arriving crossing King Street - 1976
Title:  Piedmont arriving crossing King Street - 1976
Description:  4 Car Southbound Train
Photo Date:  11/30/1976  Upload Date: 1/21/2012 11:24:12 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6147(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  902   Comments: 0
Pidemont Arriving Alexandria - November 1976
Title:  Pidemont Arriving Alexandria - November 1976
Description:  4 Car Southbound Train
Photo Date:  11/30/1976  Upload Date: 1/21/2012 11:25:18 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6147(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1157   Comments: 0
Southern FP7A # 6143 - 1976
Title:  Southern FP7A # 6143 - 1976
Description:  4 Car Southbound Train
Photo Date:  11/30/1976  Upload Date: 1/21/2012 11:26:02 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  679   Comments: 0
Closeup of "Piedmont" F unit #6143 - 1976
Title:  Closeup of "Piedmont" F unit #6143 - 1976
Description:  4 Car Southbound Train
Photo Date:  11/30/1976  Upload Date: 1/21/2012 11:29:58 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Model,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
Southern "Piedmont" departing Alexandria - 1976
Title:  Southern "Piedmont" departing Alexandria - 1976
Description:  4 Car Southbound Train - Note old Duke Street Bridge
Photo Date:  11/30/1976  Upload Date: 1/21/2012 11:30:42 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Model,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6147(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  891   Comments: 0
Southerns FP-7s
Title:  Southerns FP-7s
Description:  Three of the Southerns four FP-7s head north at Easley, SC
Photo Date:  5/1/1979  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 4:53:21 PM
Location:  Easley, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1091   Comments: 0
SOU 6143--FP7A
Title:  SOU 6143--FP7A
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/6/1979  Upload Date: 12/21/2011 9:05:14 PM
Location:  Louisville, KY
Author:  Tom Smart
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1203   Comments: 0
Southern Directors Special
Title:  Southern Directors Special
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/1979  Upload Date: 7/11/2010 9:12:53 PM
Location:  Hamilton, OH
Author:  Darrell Land
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  745   Comments: 0
SOU 6141
Title:  SOU 6141
Description:  Analysts' special with all four FP7As backed into the McDonough facility (out of sight to the right)
Photo Date:  7/1/1979  Upload Date: 8/13/2016 4:05:48 PM
Location:  McDonough, GA
Author:  Christopher Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6141(FP7A) SOU 6138(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6147(FP7A)
Views:  1360   Comments: 2
SOU 6141
Title:  SOU 6141
Description:  Analysts' special with all four FP7As backed into the McDonough facility
Photo Date:  7/1/1979  Upload Date: 8/13/2016 4:08:16 PM
Location:  McDonough, GA
Author:  Christopher Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6141(FP7A) SOU 6138(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6147(FP7A)
Views:  1152   Comments: 0
Office car special
Title:  Office car special
Description:  An eastbound office car special passes through Arlington GA enroute to Albany just before sundown with a pair of F's leading several office cars.
Photo Date:  3/7/1980  Upload Date: 10/22/2006 11:52:35 PM
Location:  Arlington, GA
Author:  Bryan Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1024   Comments: 1
Office car special
Title:  Office car special
Description:  A pair of F's lead an office car special through Blakely GA enroute from Dothan AL to Albany GA.
Photo Date:  3/7/1980  Upload Date: 10/22/2006 11:54:28 PM
Location:  Blakely, GA
Author:  Bryan Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  904   Comments: 1
SOU 6143
Title:  SOU 6143
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/13/2016 8:04:31 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Christopher Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  620   Comments: 0
SOU 6143
Title:  SOU 6143
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1981  Upload Date: 10/25/2010 10:51:11 PM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Dave Johnson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  676   Comments: 0
Southern 6143
Title:  Southern 6143
Description:  SOU 6143 pulling an excursion up the loops above Old Fort.
Photo Date:  8/15/1981  Upload Date: 7/23/2011 8:17:40 AM
Location:  Old Fort, NC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  891   Comments: 0
Southern 6143
Title:  Southern 6143
Description:  6143 on a westbound excursion train after exiting Swannanoa Tunnel.
Photo Date:  8/15/1981  Upload Date: 7/23/2011 8:20:11 AM
Location:  Ridgecrest, NC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  824   Comments: 1
Southern 6143
Title:  Southern 6143
Description:  6143 at Biltmore Junction, Asheville.
Photo Date:  8/15/1981  Upload Date: 7/23/2011 8:28:59 AM
Location:  Biltmore, NC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1024   Comments: 0
Southern 6143
Title:  Southern 6143
Description:  6143 leading a westbound excursion train through Greenlee, NC
Photo Date:  8/15/1981  Upload Date: 7/23/2011 9:15:51 AM
Location:  Greenlee, NC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  727   Comments: 0
SOU 6147
Title:  SOU 6147
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/24/1981  Upload Date: 1/28/2018 12:39:36 PM
Location:  Georgetown, IN
Author:  George Redmond
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6147(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6138(FP7A)
Views:  752   Comments: 0
Southern Railway FP7s
Title:  Southern Railway FP7s
Description:  These two FP7s assisted 611 and 750 down from DC. Here they are shown at Southern's Hull Street Yard. That's S&A 750 in the background. Exact date unknown.
Photo Date:  6/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/20/2008 1:28:06 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1013   Comments: 1
S&A 750 with its F unit helpers
Title:  S&A 750 with its F unit helpers
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1983  Upload Date: 4/14/2012 12:31:10 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SA 750(4-6-2) SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  1330   Comments: 0
S&A 750 with SRR F units
Title:  S&A 750 with SRR F units
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1983  Upload Date: 4/14/2012 12:35:28 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Steam
Locomotives:  SA 750(4-6-2) SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  1667   Comments: 0
S&A 750 with F unit helpers
Title:  S&A 750 with F unit helpers
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1983  Upload Date: 4/14/2012 12:42:01 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SA 750(4-6-2) SOU 6141(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1507   Comments: 0
Southern Railway F unit Helpers for S&A 750 powered excursion train
Title:  Southern Railway F unit Helpers for S&A 750 powered excursion train
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1983  Upload Date: 4/15/2012 2:26:09 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Station
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  2296   Comments: 0
Southern F unit helpers for S&A 750
Title:  Southern F unit helpers for S&A 750
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1983  Upload Date: 4/15/2012 2:29:50 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  1130   Comments: 0
SR FP7 6143
Title:  SR FP7 6143
Description:  Southern FP7's 6143 and 6141 rest between assignments at Alexandria.
Photo Date:  7/1/1983  Upload Date: 7/11/2015 8:25:07 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  912   Comments: 0
SR FP7 6143
Title:  SR FP7 6143
Description:  Southern FP7's 6143 and 6141 rest between assignments at Alexandria.
Photo Date:  7/1/1983  Upload Date: 7/11/2015 8:28:07 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
S&A 4-6-2 750
Title:  S&A 4-6-2 750
Description:  S&A 4-6-2 750 rests at Alexandria with SR FP7s 6143 and 6141.
Photo Date:  7/1/1983  Upload Date: 7/11/2015 8:33:10 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SA 750(4-6-2) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  921   Comments: 0
Southern elegance
Title:  Southern elegance
Description:  A Norfolk Southern fantrip from Alexandria to Hagerstown MD is led by a pair of Southern FP 7s at a photo runby on the NS Shenandoah line.
Photo Date:  7/16/1983  Upload Date: 10/6/2011 12:41:07 AM
Location:  Rectortown, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  1280   Comments: 0
Theres always one....
Title:  Theres always one....
Description:  on every fantrip. The guy who just won't get out of the way. In this case, he's at Hagerstown on an Alexandria-Front Royal-Hagerstown trip on the NS during the weekend of the 1983 NRHS convention. Close but no cigar...
Photo Date:  7/16/1983  Upload Date: 11/16/2013 4:47:34 AM
Location:  Hagerstown, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6141(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1213   Comments: 0
FP 7
Title:  FP 7
Description:  NS still rostered four of the ex Southern FP 7s, which turned up on excursions on a regular basis. This was on an Alexandria-Front Royal-Hagerstown trip. The untis were being watered before the return trip. They must have been using a garden hose, it took three hours.
Photo Date:  7/16/1983  Upload Date: 11/12/2013 1:25:34 AM
Location:  Hagerstown, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  744   Comments: 0
Triple crossing. Hope you enjoy, Bernie.
Title:  Triple crossing. Hope you enjoy, Bernie.
Description:  From a postcard in association with the 1983 National Railway Historical Society Convention.
Photo Date:  7/19/1983  Upload Date: 6/25/2012 3:01:01 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Jim Conroy
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 8295(B30-7) SBD 6719(GP40) SOU 6143(FP7A) SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  5775   Comments: 9
SOU FP7 6143
Title:  SOU FP7 6143
Description:  Southern Railway FP7 6143 at Harrodsburg, Kentucky on an unknown day in September 1983, slide by Phil Ragland, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  9/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/19/2013 6:11:15 PM
Location:  Harrodsburg, KY
Author:  Phil Ragland
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  666   Comments: 0
SOU FP7 6141
Title:  SOU FP7 6141
Description:  Southern Railway FP7 6141 and 6143 at Burnside, Kentucky on an unknown day in October 1983, slide by Phil Ragland, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/9/2013 1:39:38 PM
Location:  Burnside, KY
Author:  Phil Ragland
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  SOU 6141(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  1419   Comments: 1
SOU 6147
Title:  SOU 6147
Description:  Built as Southern Railway (CNO&TP) 6147 and 6143. Later renumbered to 3499 and 3498, respectively. Sold to New Georgia Railroad in 1987, transferred to SMRR after demise of the New GA.
Photo Date:  7/5/2007  Upload Date: 7/25/2007 11:56:21 PM
Location:  Stone Mountain, GA
Author:  Andrew Durden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6147(FP7A) SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  3491   Comments: 2
SOU 6143
Title:  SOU 6143
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2007  Upload Date: 3/20/2007 3:27:52 PM
Location:  Bluefield, WV
Author:  Jay Tester
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  662   Comments: 1
SOU 6143
Title:  SOU 6143
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2007  Upload Date: 3/20/2007 3:48:29 PM
Location:  Boyce, VA
Author:  Jay Tester
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6143(FP7A)
Views:  734   Comments: 1

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