KCS ES44AC heads into the siding at Marathon
KCS ES44AC 4828 pulls Deltaport, BC to Vaughan, ON stacks around Peninsula Bay approaching Marathon to take the siding for hotshot 101
The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. The KCS goes up around the Quachita Mountains near the Oklahoma/Arkansas Stateline. Here trains go from 500 feet to the s... (more)
A chilly Monday, November 14, 2022 sees a northbound manifest train cruising downhill south of Page, Oklahoma. Having just crossed the state line, this train is coming down off of the Rich Mountai... (more)
A KCS Southern Belle locomotive is the rear distributed power on a northbound train at The Iron Cross in Basic City.
A Martin Lake empty coal train has a good roll on them as they pass thru De Queen with a KCS leader. The train is at D&E Connection between north and south De Queen. This control point is jacked u... (more)
I believe these Martin Lake BNSF coal trains do not get loop at the plant when they are unloaded? So once in awhile the extra DP power put on at Pittsburg, leads the empties back north. As is the ... (more)
2 GE's are just beginning the hard shove on the back of this grain train as they dig into the 1% grade towards Rich Mountain. 4 GE's will fight gravity for the next 20 miles as they climb from 538... (more)
NS train 340 eases off of KCS' tracks and onto the NS northbound main as it departs town.
KCS 4828 leads the M-SHAR (Manifest Shreveport, LA - Artesia, MS) across the east end of the Meridian Sub with all of its roller coaster-like "hogbacks".
As a light fog sets in on the James River Valley, a brand new KCS ES44AC leads eastbound manifest 16T across the bridge in Natural Bridge.
