We’ll follow the railroad’s mainline from Kansas City, Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, with additional coverage of the Meridian Speedway and Texas Subdivision. See KCS EMDs wearing their white “ghost” paint scheme, as well as the newer gray paint scheme with yellow safety stripes.
As the 1980s came to a close, Norfolk Southern was coming closer to presenting a unified image, but Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway engines were still on the main.
Featuring the Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railway and the DM&IR low nose diesel models including the rare 2000 horsepower SD38 types, rebuilt SD9 & SD18 diesels, known as SDMs, and the 3000 horsepower SD40-3 tunnel motor units.
Here is the last railroad to use steam exclusively in freight service in the United States, the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad. Interviews with one of the railroad’s founders and the current president of the railroad add to the story.