My grandma (now deceased) lived a few miles north of three Shreveport KCS yard from 96 to 2018. I've seen the White ghost and Grey ghost all the time growing up when I visited her. Saw a White switcher once. They've all been repainted sadly. There's also a motocrycle club called the Grey Ghosts behind the rail yard as well. My dad used to drive me around so I could rail fan when I visited.
I miss the white ghosts a lil bit more than the gray ones. The gray I miss the most belonged to the MidSouth Rail Corp. And then the KCS 652 appears. NICE!!!
I remember a few white units. They were all gone by the time I started to take pictures. Speaking of Midsouth, we actually just got two HO scale Midsouth GP10's.
@@LouisianaRailProductions I have one of the GP10s, and I hope to get the other 4 (including the AOK unit). The only thing I can see wrong with the MSRC units is the engine number under the cab window is too big. Microscale has a MidSouth decals set (MC 4090) that can fix that.
@@LouisianaRailProductions A friend of mine has cans of the actual paint used to paint the MidSouth engines back in the 80s. He made a paint stick with the samples of the gray & green. I sent that to Intermountain so they could match the paint correctly. They matched it perfectly! I closely examined my engine (1035) to my pictures of the real life 1035. Absolutely spot-on! When Athearn came out with their CF7s several years ago, they offered a MidSouth unit. However, they did not apply gray paint to it at all! They relied on the color of the plastic to be a suitable substitute for the color. Needless to say, I did not waste my money on that laziness.
I remember seeing those CF7's. Couldn't agree more. Terrible model with no effort to match the prototype. Shame that they didn't get the same treatment as the more well known railroads.
They’re used to be a gray kcs sd40-2 that would pass my house almost everyday when I lived in reserve Louisiana, I lived about 50 yards from the track and got to see a lot of kcs locos over the years
I tell ya what Bishop this was awesome. I’ve said for years that the KCS Grey is my favorite class 1 paint scheme. Unfortunately I have not been able to shoot one, but I have been able to shoot a couple patched up KCS Grey locos on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh which is cool. Great vid!
Hey when you where videoing southern 4501 in 2019 did you happen to see v12 productions there, he’s a train guy as well from Atlanta and does a lot of Norfolk southern and CSX
I've been browsing your channel for years and i don't recall seeing the majority of these catches, lol. Great work Bishop! I've only seen one KCS Grey Ghost as we speak. If your counting the TFM ones then two, lol. Those along with any KCS in general are quite rare around here :( Also, i have a question that maybe you can answer or maybe not.............i was informed that KCS no longer has the 70MAC's around with the arrival of their new T4 GEVO's...........is that true?
KCS sold half of them in auction back in summer. They still have half of them but they're not used in much service anymore. KCS also just leased some T4 SD70's so we're thinking they'll replace the remainder of the MACs.
No F***ING way I was just thinking about making a modern day questar intro THANK YOU. I grew up watching questar and they are the reason I'm a railfan
any remaining Gray Ghost KCS trains are going to be ending up repainted in Canadian Pacific colors if the KCS/CP merger goes through.
I will certainly miss the Gray Ghosts. No doubt about it!
My grandma (now deceased) lived a few miles north of three Shreveport KCS yard from 96 to 2018. I've seen the White ghost and Grey ghost all the time growing up when I visited her. Saw a White switcher once. They've all been repainted sadly. There's also a motocrycle club called the Grey Ghosts behind the rail yard as well. My dad used to drive me around so I could rail fan when I visited.
I miss the white ghosts a lil bit more than the gray ones. The gray I miss the most belonged to the MidSouth Rail Corp.
And then the KCS 652 appears. NICE!!!
I remember a few white units. They were all gone by the time I started to take pictures. Speaking of Midsouth, we actually just got two HO scale Midsouth GP10's.
@@LouisianaRailProductions I have one of the GP10s, and I hope to get the other 4 (including the AOK unit). The only thing I can see wrong with the MSRC units is the engine number under the cab window is too big. Microscale has a MidSouth decals set (MC 4090) that can fix that.
You have a good eye. I didn't even notice that.
@@LouisianaRailProductions A friend of mine has cans of the actual paint used to paint the MidSouth engines back in the 80s. He made a paint stick with the samples of the gray & green. I sent that to Intermountain so they could match the paint correctly. They matched it perfectly! I closely examined my engine (1035) to my pictures of the real life 1035. Absolutely spot-on!
When Athearn came out with their CF7s several years ago, they offered a MidSouth unit. However, they did not apply gray paint to it at all! They relied on the color of the plastic to be a suitable substitute for the color. Needless to say, I did not waste my money on that laziness.
I remember seeing those CF7's. Couldn't agree more. Terrible model with no effort to match the prototype. Shame that they didn't get the same treatment as the more well known railroads.
Never seen a KCS loco with flashing ditch lights before...cool!
That unit was a former Conrail unit. That's why the ditchlights flash.
Actually KCS used Mars lights before replacing them with normal ditch lights.
They’re used to be a gray kcs sd40-2 that would pass my house almost everyday when I lived in reserve Louisiana, I lived about 50 yards from the track and got to see a lot of kcs locos over the years
I tell ya what Bishop this was awesome. I’ve said for years that the KCS Grey is my favorite class 1 paint scheme. Unfortunately I have not been able to shoot one, but I have been able to shoot a couple patched up KCS Grey locos on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh which is cool. Great vid!
Glad you enjoyed. You should make a trip down south for a better chance for a grey unit haha!
Hey when you where videoing southern 4501 in 2019 did you happen to see v12 productions there, he’s a train guy as well from Atlanta and does a lot of Norfolk southern and CSX
would you rather, grey ghosts be a dying breed, or KCS get merged into one of the Canadian roads?
I caught a grey ghost GP-38 in heavner about a year ago.
I love my grey ghosts. Thank you! Bob
Thanks!
Thanks for the video!
Awesome video.. Long live the KCS (and their ghosts!).
Bishop such a great vid, love the KCS and love the ghost grey, great job...gary
Thanks!
Wow boss it's so nice and good vedios share with us and am enjoy and let's support each other
Sweet vid!
I've been browsing your channel for years and i don't recall seeing the majority of these catches, lol. Great work Bishop! I've only seen one KCS Grey Ghost as we speak. If your counting the TFM ones then two, lol. Those along with any KCS in general are quite rare around here :( Also, i have a question that maybe you can answer or maybe not.............i was informed that KCS no longer has the 70MAC's around with the arrival of their new T4 GEVO's...........is that true?
KCS sold half of them in auction back in summer. They still have half of them but they're not used in much service anymore. KCS also just leased some T4 SD70's so we're thinking they'll replace the remainder of the MACs.
@@LouisianaRailProductions Bummer :( Who did they sell them to, LTEX or something? I'll have to look into more. Thanks for the info!
I'm not too sure who bought them.
Great video! Say, where and when did you film 0:54? If that was in Louisiana I'd love to see it.
Monroe, Louisiana about a year ago.
Thanks, I'm probably gonna go and see it if it runs this year