KC Jct.

Bill White Photo

KC Jct. was the eastern end of "Broadway". KC Jct. was where the Southern, former Memphis and Charleston, crossed the Missouri Pacific and Nashville Chattanoga and St. Louis to get to their original Lauderdale Street station and yard. Those three lines also joined and paralleled the Frisco on their way to the downtown passenger stations, freight yards, freight houses, and the Mississippi River Bridges. At one time all trains had to stop here as it was not signaled. In a couple of the photos below you will note a gate that protected the Southern/Missouri Pacific crossing. The Missouri Pacific track even had to cross the Frisco here and again at Kentucky Street. That bottleneck was eliminated in the late 1960s when the Frisco and Missouri Pacific change the alignment at Kentucky Street and exchanged ownershop of the southern most track of "Broadway".

We see a busy KC Jct in 1967. Note the two Frisco, rebuilt with EMD engines, Baldwin switchers in the center of the picture. At the left is a NC&StL switcher heading for the downtown yard between Central and Union Stations. Larger View

Bill White Photo

Here we see a Southern passenger train that has just left KC Jct. on its way to the Memphis and Charleston station.

David Johnston Photo

L&N U28B #2500 on train MLN crosses over the Southern as it enters "Broadway" on its westbound trip to North Little Rock, AR, 5/28/77.

David Johnston Photo

SSW #6741 on train LNPBY from L&N Leewood Yard crosses over the Southern as it enters "Broadway" on its westbound trip to Pine Bluff, AR, 4/16/78.

David Johnston Photo

MP #3064 on a train crossing the Southern as it leaves Sargent Yard, 4/16/78.

David Johnston Photo

SLSF #344 on a run to President's Island.