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)

Shreveport-Bossier City turn LBC202 returns home with three GP38-2's and three GP32ECO's hauling 63 cars of local traffic across the Red River to Deramus Yard.

UP southbounds take a long and winding road through Shreveport. Here a St Louis-Houston manifest has crossed the Red River and is running back north, turning west onto KCS trackage rights to cont... (more)

Two former TFM SD70MAC's leads a loaded rock train down the Beaumont Sub along Interstate 49 in Shreveport.

A loaded Martin Lake coal train rolls through Wilson Alley on a beautiful day in Shreveport.