KCS Through the Ozarks and Ouachitas! 2022 KCS Heavener Sub: Part 1

KCS trains tackling the Ozark Mountains on the Heavener Sub in the last year before the CPKC merger. Enjoy!

As soon as the CPKC merger was announced, I made plans to go film the Shreveport and Heavener Subs. On this trip, the weather didn't cooperate at Rich Mountain, so we focused on the Heavener Sub.

It runs from Heavener, OK to Pittsburg, KS, leaving the Ouachitas between Heavener Yard and Poteau. It rolls through the Arkansas River Valley, crossing the UP in Sallisaw. It then runs through the western part of the Ozark Mountains from Marble City, OK to Joplin, MO, crossing the BNSF in Neosho, MO.

Part 1 features on mainline action between Heavener and Neosho. Part 2 will feature KCS 4859, a chase of a SB coal train through the Ozarks, and the Marble City short line. Part 3 will have a KCS 4006 chase in Oklahoma and the BNSF-KCS junction at Neosho.

TIMESTAMPS
0:04 SB Grain rolls into Heavener, OK for a crew change
1:50 CTXKC departs after refueling the DPUs at the pad
4:43 GKCDQ rounds a curve north of Howe
6:58 CWEKC at Bunch
10:53 SB Grain at an S-curve near Westville
13:39 SB Manifest at a wide curve south of Watts
20:55 SB Grain by the KCS F-Unit in Decatur, AR
24:37 OKCCPPA at the AR-59 Butler Creek Overpass
27:34 CKCWE or CKCGE meeting the CWEKC at McElhany, MO

Thanks for watching and Happy Empress Chasing!
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