Southern Belle (KCS train)
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southern-belle-kcs-train-296-820133
title:
Southern Belle (KCS train)
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The Southern Belle was a named passenger train service offered by Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) from the 1940s through the 1960s, running between Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The service was inaugurated on September 2, 1940. To promote the new train, KCS held a beauty contest to find "Miss Southern Belle," a young woman whose image would be used in advertising materials systemwide. Local competitions were held before the train's launch in all of the cities that the KCS
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Passenger train
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Belle_(KCS_train)
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2023-08-23T18:16:06Z
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