Kansas City Southern FP9s sitting in Monroe, Louisiana during one of the stops for the holiday train

KCS’s OCS is eastbound on the Mexico Subdivision, and is nearing their crew change point of Mexico, MO. The NS St. Louis District parallels here, and can be seen to the left.

KCS’s OCS heads east through Gilliam, passing the east siding switch.

KCS’s office car train heads east past the Odessa Siding west switch, on their way east over the Mexico Subdivision.

KCS’s office car train gets a wash in preparation for the run east the following day.

KCS’s office car train heads east over the Mexico Subdivision, passing through Oak Grove just after sunrise.

KCS’s office car train heads east over the Mexico Subdivision, passing through the small town of Alma, Missouri.

The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. Here we have many chasing the KCS business train that ran from Laredo to KC over a 4 days. The trip was for John Orr, the... (more)

The original KCS business train is going to head west today, but will have to wye before doing so.

Battling some hazy/high clouds is the fully loaded KCS business train. The governor of Louisiana, CP CEO Keith Creel, KCS CEO Pat Ottensmeyer, Amtrak president Steven Gardner, and the head of the ... (more)

After a mostly cloudy day a small group of us gathered at the western end of the Kansas City Southern's Bonnet Carre Spillway bridge to shoot the outbound business train as they began their deadhe... (more)

When you begin meeting trains in New Orleans at one pm, and don't escape the confines of UP and CN at their various snared junctions, you tend to end up much later out of town than you thought. Su... (more)

KCS B-KCLR has just stopped in the small town of Ashdown, Arkansas, to let a few people off, and is now floating along at 60mph leaving town. The combined KCS and CP business train was in the midd... (more)

KCS 1 Rich Mountain, Arkansas. We are deep in the Ouachita Mountain range as KCS 1, and the combination CPKC business train roar up the famed Rich Mountain grade on a moody morning. The southbo... (more)

KCS 1 and company look wonderful in the beautiful morning sunlight as they cross a small wooden trestle near Anacoco, Louisiana. The Business train is on day 3 of its multi-day trip to Laredo, Tex... (more)