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Vi fortsatte til Shreveport, og ankom efter mørkets frembrud. Vi vidste ikke hvor vi skulle indlogere os, men tog et hæfte med rabatkuponer på en tankstation. Holiday Inn midt i Shreveport havde et godt tilbud, og så ud til at ligge tæt på den interessante forgrening mellem UP og KCS ved floden. Vi havde ikke engang sat vores kufferter ned før vi hørte bulderet fra lokomotiver udenfor...! Det viste sig at Holiday Inn lå lige ved forgreningen (bygningen til højre). Vi nød et par tog inden vi begav os til en "sports bar" i nærheden som også havde et fremragende Cajun-køkken. Og kæmpestore Long Island Ice Teas... Billedet er taget tidligt næste morgen, hvor et lokalgodstog trækker igennem den skarpe kurve fra UP til KCS. Broen i baggrunden fører KCS' Transcon Division over Red River. Selvfølgelig skete der ikke mere den morgen, og efter nogle timer måtte vi se at komme afsted østpå lange Transcon Division.

We continued to Shreveport and arrived after dark. We didn't know where to stay, but grabbed a coupon book at a gas station. The Holiday Inn near Downtown had a good offer, and we figured that would be close to the interesting junction of KCS and UP by the river. We had not even sat our suitcases down before we heard locomotives outside...! It turned out the Holiday Inn is located right by the junction (the building to the right). We enjoyed a few trains that night, before heading on to dinner at a nearby sports bar with great Cajun food and huge Long Island Ice Teas... Anyway, here we are early the next morning, as a local pulls onto the KCS from the UP. The bridge in the background carries the KCS Transcon Division over the Red River. Of course nothing else happened that morning, and after some hours of waiting we had to head east along the Transcon.