While it often seems we focus on a railroad as it draws near to the end, this project began soon enough to cover the railroad in its entirety in the U.S. Each chapter is accompanied by detailed maps. The Heavener Subdivision and Fort Smith Branch coverage is followed by a comprehensive look at the Shreveport Subdivision, which includes the well-known climb over Rich Mountain, a portion of the Ouachita Mountains. Then it’s south from Kansas City on the Pittsburg Subdivision to Pittsburg, Kansas. Louis subdivisions, as well as the Gateway Eastern branch. After covering various connections around Kansas City, it follows the former Gateway Western across the Mexico, Roodhouse, Springfield, Jacksonville, Godfrey, and East St. This first volume begins around Kansas City, and reaches back into photography beginning in the mid-1970s. A second volume will cover the other two divisions, which include Shreveport, the line to Dallas, the Meridian Speedway and Mississippi branch lines, and the Beaumont Subdivision through to the end of KCS in the U.S. It is the first of two volumes, and covers KCS from its home terminus in Kansas City, across the state on the former Gateway Western, and down the north-south main line to the end of the Midwestern Division at Shoreline, Louisiana (north of Shreveport).
Its anticipated release is likely the second quarter of 2022. Five years later, the first result of that effort nears completion with “Kansas City Southern Volume 1: Midwestern Division” nearing the final proofing stages.
In 2016, while on a fall excursion along KCS rails on the Rich Mountain climb (between Page, Oklahoma, and Mena, Arkansas), the result of a massive brush-clearing project sparked an interest in documenting KCS across the entire system. Photo Line: Kansas City Southern’s Midwestern Division
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