Having just completed a meet with a southbound grain train, Kansas City Southern merchandise train MSHKC17, heading from Shreveport LA to Kansas City MO, is just beginning to roll northward again,... (more)
Eastbound 101
Kansas City Southern SW1500 4349 was built by EMD in April 1971 as KCS 1529. (Kansas City, Kansas - June 19, 2022)
KCS 5019 brings southbound manifest MSHSZ04 through Allen's Landing Park in downtown Houston, crossing the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou on Main 2 of UP's Houston Sub.
KCS Manifest Freight CXSH from New Orleans to Shreveport, LA, is seen here at sunrise descending the Huey P Long Bridge superstructure into Lobdell, Louisiana. A lucky pick-up of a track warrant f... (more)
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)
Kansas City Southern Dash 9-44CW 4400's heritage is easy to discern, as it still wears the colors for BNSF Railway, from which GECX acquired it, and from whom the KCS leases it for "horsepowe... (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)
Eastbound 204 job making their way to Wylie yard from Dallas yard
Eastbound empty sand train with IC 1020 trailing engine.
Job 204 rare run in daylight making it way through Wylie from Dallas yard
Eastbound 101 returning to Wylie yard.
204 job making a rare daylight appearance on the Dallas sub crossing FM 544.
204 job making a rare daylight move on the Dallas sub.
A Kansas City Southern SW1500 has a string of boxcars in tow as it waits to head back to Knoche Yard after working the industrial park north of the yard in Kansas City, Missouri.
KCS 3937 leads a short LWY101 past the Plano Post Office on a warm June morning
Led by an AC4400CW and an ES44AC, a KCS grain train heads north across the Elk River near Ginger Blue, MO on the bright morning of June 13, 2022.
KCS 4005 prepares to depart Madison yard with T102.
