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A standard format folding timetable brochure issued for the Kansas City Southern Lines and the services south from that city to Shreveport, La., and onwards to Port Arthur, Tx., and New Orleans, La., the latter service conveying the through services and cars of the "Southern Belle".

Other services in the timetables include the "Flying Crow", from Shreveport to Kansas City, and "The Shreveporter" from Hope, Minden, Shreveport and Port Arthur. The Lines consisted of the Kansas City Southern Railway Company and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railways; railways rather than railroad.

The map shows the lines of the two associated companies stretching south towards the Gulf of Mexico through Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.

A standard format folding timetable brochure issued for the Kansas City Southern Lines and the services south from that city to Shreveport, La., and onwards to Port Arthur, Tx., and New Orleans, La., the latter service conveying the through services and cars of the "Southern Belle".

Other services in the timetables include the "Flying Crow", from Shreveport to Kansas City, and "The Shreveporter" from Hope, Minden, Shreveport and Port Arthur. The Lines consisted of the Kansas City Southern Railway Company and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railways; railways rather than railroad.

The cover shows a stereotypical 'Southern Belle'.

Located at the Cookeville Railroad Depot, Engine #509 is a 4-6-0 ten-wheeler steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1913. The 4-6-0 designation is a classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, having four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie (or chassis) and six powered & coupled driving wheels on three axles with the absence of trailing wheels. This engine was originally used by the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway and was acquired by the Cookeville Depot Museum in 2002 from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. At this time, its appearance was modified to match contemporary Tennessee Central engines.

This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!

Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Louisiana and Arkansas Railway No. 99 (2-8-0 Consolidation); Built 1919 by Baldwin Locomotive Works.

This engine was used in local freight and branch line service. The 2-8-0 “consolidation” wheel arrangement was developed in the 1870s for freight service. A popular configuration, it permitted a larger boiler carried on 8 drivers to yield a great deal of pulling power. The two smaller wheels ahead of the drivers guided the engine at higher speeds. In 1954, No. 99 was retired and abandoned in the swamps until discovered by IRM in 1971.

Caboose No. 383 was built in 1952 by the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, a subsidiary of the Kansas City Southern Railway. The caboose was retired from Kansas City Southern Railway service in 1990. Caboose No. 385 is a rare and intact example of a bay window-type caboose remaining in Arkansas. The caboose is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.