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. It would be my understanding that to get from NO to KS the Southern Belle had to stop in Winnfield.

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 served. The ultimate winner of the competition, Margaret Landry Moore, was the winner of the local competition in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was selected as "Miss Southern Belle" at the final competition in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 24, 1940. She briefly became a screen actress, being most famous for her cameo as Teresa Guadalupe in The Leopard Man of 1943.

The last run of the Southern Belle was on November 2, 1969.

This is the KCS Southern Bell Dinning car #42 that was located at the mill next to the Winn rock quarey. When the mill was bought out it was moved to a Georgia-Pacific plywood plant in Gloster, MS If you have any photos of it when it was in winnfield please submit them. It was hooked up with AC and kitchen running next to the office and they used to eat lunch in it. This would be one of the cars that ran on the L&A later to become the KCS.
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This is a photo of another Southerb Belle dinning car at Jackson La that you can go view.