Last year, I presented a 1956 Kansas City Southern timetable that was a fold-out brochure with the equivalent of eight pages. This one from three years before is a more standard booklet-style timetable but still only eight pages, glued not … Continue reading
Based on this timetable, a better name for Kansas City Southern might have been Shreveport Northern. Table 1 shows three trains a day between Shreveport and Kansas City. Table 2 shows two trains a day between Shreveport and New Orleans. … Continue reading
This timetable fills 20 pages, but they are only 4″x9″, so are equal to ten pages of a regular 8″x9″ timetable. Despite its heft, the publication lists just three trains: the Kansas City-New Orleans Southern Belle; trains 9 & 10, … Continue reading
Completed in 1897, Kansas City Southern‘s line from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas, may have carried a lot of freight, but it didn’t attract many passengers. However, in 1939 KCS merged with the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, creating a … Continue reading
