Kansas City Southern in Color
The Era of “Streamlined Hospitality”
1940-1970

by Jim Boyd

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Kansas City Southern was one of the first railroads to operate a real non-articulated diesel-powered streamliner when it introduced the Southern Belle in 1940. Over the next 30 years the image and spirit of “Streamlined Hospitality” defined the railroad.

The KCS and L&A (Louisiana and Arkansas) were created, merged and operated by men with strong ideas and personalities. It was never a conformist, heading south when everyone else was scrambling westward and embracing the concept of long, slow freights when everyone else was focusing on high speed service.

The KCS should have been a dead duck by the 1970s, but it made its way to the 21st century as a major independent player in the railroad merger game. Its most colorful era, however, were those three fascinating decades illustrated herein – 1940-1970.

Even though this is an In Color book, there are a number of b&w steam and diesel photographs in addition to color photographs. Also included are maps and timetable reproductions plus more text than commonly seen in other In Color books.