Stretching Out at Shannon - a photo on Flickriver

            If you were to imagine just a bit, this could be a hotshot freight carrying traffic from the midwest to the Port of Mobile over the GM&O mainline. Even with a sizeable train in tow, 3 geeps are plenty of power for the flatlands of eastern Mississippi near the Alabama border.

Unfortunately, the old GM&O through Mississippi hasn’t been a through route since the ICG started pruning and abandoning in mass during the early 1980s. This is of course just a KCS local, the Saltillo Turn, handling traffic from the Cornith and Tupelo areas south to the yard at Artesia. Stretching out through the wide-open farm fields near Shannon, the matching trio of Belle geeps make for a fine sight on a bitterly cold (high of 16 that day, a bit much for us natives of the deep south!) winter afternoon.

That sting of autoracks does give the impression of this being a hot through train, and you might be wondering what those are doing on a KCS local. Those are interchange traffic off the BNSF at Tupelo, loaded with new Toyotas from the assembly plant near New Albany. With those being interchanged to the KCS such a short distance from the plant, I’ve always assumed that those loads are destined for export to Mexico.

Taken in: United States / Mississippi / Shannon (show map)

Taken on: December 23, 2022

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KCS Artesia Subdivision

KCS Saltillo Turn

KCS LAR305

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Mississippi « less

Sets appears in: • 2022: South, Southwest, and Northwest Journeys • Kansas City Southern: The Final Days more » • New Ektachrome « less

Groups appears in: • Trains On Film • Kansas City Southern Rails

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