American Auto Trail-Kansas City Southern Railway (Vivian LA to Atlanta TX)

This travel route explores from Vivian, Louisiana, to Atlanta, Texas. The Louisiana section of the route follows the Kansas City Southern Railway tracks. For more of our American Auto Trails and Slow Travels guides, available in print or eBook format, use one of the links below: Amazon Lulu Press Camera: Sony Active Camera FDR-X3000 Vehicle: “Sage” 2018 Nissan Rogue Image Credits: Texas Highway 47 (By Matthew Anderson - [1], [2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...) Louisiana Highway 8 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us...) Music Credits: Clover 3/Vibe Mountain Digital Memories/Unicorn Heads Alta Loma Terrace/Wes Hutchinson Large Smile Mood/Nico Staf Cameras/ALBIS Waterfall/Aakash Gandhi Town of 24 Bars/Unicorn Heads Friendly Dance/Nico Staf Watercolor Lilies/Aaron Kenny Endnotes: 1) Louisiana, A Guide to the State; Hastings House, New York, 1941. 2) “Zylks v. Kaempfer (Supreme Court of Louisiana-April 4, 1938)”; Casemine; https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us... 3) Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana; The Southern Publishing Company, Nashville and Chicago, 1890; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 4) McKinney, Karen; “Getting Out of the Mud: Louisiana and Good Roads before 1928”; Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 60, No. 3; https://www.jstor.org/stable/26864715 5) McManus, Lowell; “The Completion of the KCP&G-A Centennial History”; The Meridian Speedway; https://www.meridianspeedway.net/kcpg... 6) “Kansas City Southern Depot”; National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, National Park Service; https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail... 7) Farmer, Felicia; “Proposed Caddo Lake National Heritage Area. Phase Zero Feasibility Study”; https://silo.tips/download/proposed-c... 8) Jasinski, Laurie; “Three States, TX”; Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association; https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e.... 9) Hazlewood, Claudia; “Atlanta, TX (Cass County)”; Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association; https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e... 10) Jasinski, Laurie; “Smyrna, TX (Cass County)”; Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association; https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e...