The KCS Bossier Local rolls through the former site of Junction Yard on its way to Deramus Yard.

A pair of Taco Belle's leads a manifest train southbound on the Beaumont Sub on their trek to Mexico.

Light power rolls back to their train at Deramus Yard prior to departing for Kansas City.

A pair of KCS EMD GP32ECO's rolls to the south end of the yard to fetch a cut of cars for their outbound trip from the yard.

KCS 691 works a cut of cars on the north side of the KCS Deramus Yard on a beautiful evening.

KCS 5023 leads a train out of Deramus Yard to begin its trip up to Kansas City.

A KCS GP40-2 stands by on the ready track for its next assignment at Shreveport Louisiana.

A birds eye view of the KCS Shop and Deramus Yard in Shreveport.

Sadly the KCS will be a thing of the past with the new CPKC taking things over. Various KCS units sits just outside of the KCS Shop in Shreveport on a beautiful Louisiana morning. KCS Pride was es... (more)

A mottled up example. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

April is a great time for rail photography as evidenced by this shot by Dave Petke. By this late date unrebuilt 35s were rather rare and this one got a "Kodachrome" paint job as well as... (more)

It took some chutzpah to go with a white locomotive paint scheme, or was it Murphy's law. Hey, it was interesting. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

The railroad is a 24 hour operation, as shown here as the blue hour sets in at sunset. Meanwhile Mechanical stays busy working on locomotives at the big KCS facility in Shreveport. Rumor has it th... (more)