Kansas City Southern 1 leads the Holiday Express out of Deramus Yard as a mixed freight passes right beside the train

The northbound KCS OCS accelerates out of Shreveport, LA as it crosses Caddo Lake at Mooringsport, LA bound for Kansas City.

The northbound KCS OCS snakes along Big Creek at Page, OK bound for Kansas City.

KCS's Holiday Train slowly comes to a stop in a siding at Calhoun to wait for a westbound to pass by before continuing east to Monroe, Louisiana

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 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)

KCS 2 leads the KCS Office Car Special southbound to Laredo, Texas.

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)