Kansas City Southern: Southeast Division

The KCS system (now part of CPKC) in the U.S. sprawls across nine Midwestern states with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. The system reaches into Illinois to Jacksonville, Springfield, and East St. Louis (former ICG route).

The original southern main line moves traffic to Dallas, New Orleans, and Port Arthur, Texas. Later additions carry KCS rails east through Monroe, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi, to Meridian and Artesia, Mississippi, and touches the state of Tennessee at Counce. Southern Texas and Mexico-bound traffic rolls from Beaumont through Houston to Corpus Christi and Laredo, where its rails continue deep into Mexico.

This volume chronicles KCS south from Shreveport to New Orleans (former Louisiana & Arkansas), across the Meridian Speedway from Shreveport to eastern Mississippi, north into southern Tennessee, east into western Alabama, and from Jackson, Mississippi, south to the Gulf of Mexico at Gulfport (former IC and ICG routes).