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Kansas City Southern in the Deramus Era by Marre & Sommers W dust jacket
Kansas City Southern In The Deramus Era
BY Louis A. Marre and Gregory J. Sommers
Hardcover with dustjacket
232 pages
Copyright 1999 FIRST PRINTING
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments .5
Foreword7
1. A Short History of the KCS before 1939. 9
2. A Brief History of the L&A.. 13
3. A Brief History of the LR&N Co.. 17
4. The Kansas & Missouri Railway & Terminal Co.. 23
5. Kansas City Southern in the Deramus Era .. 24
6. The Joint Agency. 32
7. The KCS in its Centennial Year. 34
8. KCS Steam Power. 42
9. The Alco Experience. 66
10. The Baldwin Experience. 69
11. Opposed Pistons - What Could Go Wrong?. 71
12. E for Experimental - E for Everyday. 81
13. Streamlined Hospitality .. 96
14. F is for Frugal .. 108
15. EMD Road Switchers .. 122
16. EMD Switchers .. 133
17. Slugs.. 144
18. The Six-Motor Experience. 148
19. Demonstrations and Proposals. 160
20. Leases In and Leases Out .. 162
Appendix A. LR&N, L&A, and LA&T Steam Roster. 163
Appendix B. Business Cars. 176
Appendix C. Facilities.. 181
Appendix D. KCS Auxiliary Enterprises.. 199
Appendix E. KCS/L&A Diesel Roster .. 202
Appendix F. Locomotive Ownership Time Chart. 213
Appendix G. Assignment and Condition of Locomotives. 216
Appendix H. KCS in Color... 225
Index. 229
Foreword
The Kansas City Southern Railway has always been an unusual property, and this book is a study of some of the qualities that have made it so. Our focus is on the period during which its affairs were managed by three generations of the same family, the Deramus Era. William Neal Deramus became president of the railroad in 1941, and his grandson, William Neal Deramus IV, was president on December 31, 1989, where our story concludes. We are not strictly limited to telling the story of the Deramus Era, for these men did not create the railroad, but rather inherited it. Therefore our consideration ranges as far back in time as the construction of the road, and as far afield as a number of related enterprises into which the KCS ventured.
We have not undertaken a study of management or of financial affairs for their own sake, for this is a motive power and train operation study above all else. Nevertheless, locomotives are bought, operated, maintained, and discarded by managers along with a host of other employees. To assume that locomotives exist in a vacuum does not do justice to the true dimensions of a railroad operation. We have invoked a variety of allusions in the course of a motive power survey, driven by our sense of the unique personality of the railroad. To get a grip on the nature of this peculiar and original operation, we
have often been forced to cast our nets rather more widely than might have been the case with a more ordinary property.
The heart of this book is the diesel age, but the age of steam that preceded it (and co-existed with it for about 15 years) is not neglected. Among its many real achievements, the KCS introduced the diesel streamliner to its service territory, and the Southern Belle receives all due discussion as considerably more than an appendage to the diesel era. We are not, however, so interested in the passenger service that we give it more attention than is its due in the course of a larger history. We have included a full steam locomotive roster and a full diesel locomotive roster, but we look upon those as only the raw material for a discussion of the motive power and the trains it pulled and occasionally pushed - in the Deramus Era.
The book that has come out of a near-lifelong interest in this most individualistic property is, perhaps, as idiosyncratic as its subject. The symmetry is intentional. We hope that readers who find something of a peculiar flavor to this narrative will derive from it a vicarious sense of what it was to observe the passage of the Southern Belle or to hear a quartet of first-generation diesel locomotives crawl, though working at full throttle, up the grade at Rich Mountain.
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