WPF 11/22-11/28

[Running Bear]

Just some old ones from me from 2008. This is an abandoned Southern Belle baggage car. I should say it was as it's been scrapped since the time these photos were taken. After KCS/L&A dropped passenger service in the late 60's the car was relegated to MoW service. When not in use it was parked behind the old KCS roundhouse (long gone now) in Leesville. A brush fire swept through the area and burned the hoses, cables and diaphrams off and the car was abandoned in place and sat forgotten on an abandoned spur for thirty some-odd years. These photos are some of the last to be taken of it. I'm in some of the photos. My friend David Parks was handling the cameras.