Ft. Smith/Van Buren
Kansas City Southern Passenger Trains

J H Westbay photo, H. E. Huber Collection
KCS 4-6-0 #400 at the Ft Smith Union Station, Oct. 1927. Older pictures of KCS engines will show a lighter color boiler jacket. They were painted a light or pea green color.

H. E. Huber Collection
KCS 4-6-2 #808 with "Flying Crow" emblem on tender is in Union Station Ft. Smith, 4/10/36.

John Fink Photo, University of Oklahoma Collection
KCS # 600 4-6-0 with the Spiro, OK connection in Union Station Ft. Smith, 3/21/40

John Winfield, painting created from the above photo.

Mike Condren Photo
Beginning in 1941, passenger service was at least partially supplied to Ft. Smith via connecting buses to Sallisaw, OK. After the 1943 flood washed away some track in the Braden Bottoms, all trains were served from Ft. Smith via a connecting bus service.

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