The KCS system (now part of CPKC) in the U.S. sprawled across nine Midwestern states with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. The system reached into Illinois to Jacksonville, Springfield, and East St. Louis. The traditional southern main line moved 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 an even later addition touches Tennessee at Counce. Southern Texas and Mexico-bound traffic rolls from Beaumont through Houston to Corpus Christi and Laredo, where KCS rails continue deep into Mexico. This volume chronicles KCS east from Kansas City across the former Gateway Western and south from Kansas City to the end of the Shreveport Subdivision at Shoreline, Louisiana. The book features 256 pages, 371 photos, and 7 maps. Hardbound with dust jacket, all color.