January 5, 2023 | Headlines, KCS
(Source: Television station KOAM, January 4, 2023) PITTSBURG, Kan. — Kansas City Sothern today hosted a hiring event at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Pittsburg. Officials with the company say they are trying to fill a number of conductor positions. Full...
December 20, 2022 | Headlines, KCS
(Source: Kansas City Southern press release, December 19, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced today that the 22nd KCS Holiday Express program raised over $215,000 to benefit The Salvation Army in 20 communities in eight states where the KCS...
November 1, 2022 | CP, Headlines, KCS, Mexico
(Source: Kansas City Southern press release, October 31, 2022) LAREDO, Texas — Today, Kansas City Southern (KCS) ceremonially broke ground on both sides of the new International Railroad Bridge spanning the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas....
October 31, 2022 | CP, Headlines, KCS, Mexico
(Source: Laredo Morning Times, October 30, 2022) Kansas City Southern will break ground Monday, south of Zaragoza Street on the east side of the tracks, on a second span of the new international bridge. Full story: www.lmtonline.com
October 27, 2022 | Headlines, KCS
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 25, 2022) Kansas City Southern will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for the second span the railway is building over the Rio Grande at Laredo. Full story: Trains Magazine
October 26, 2022 | BNSF, CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 25, 2022) Union Pacific has taken issue with a video that Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern showed federal regulators of a KCS grain train “breezing through Houston.” UP says the video painted an incomplete picture that...
October 5, 2022 | CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 4, 2022) Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern will make their closing arguments for their merger on Thursday, the sixth and final day of Surface Transportation Board hearings on the first Class I railroad combination in two...
September 8, 2022 | Headlines, KCS, Mexico
(Source: Freight Waves, September 7, 2022) Kansas City Southern is letting customers know that it has created an industrial development program for companies seeking shovel-ready sites near its network in the U.S. and Mexico. Full story: Freight...
September 7, 2022 | CP, Headlines, KCS, Mexico
(Source: Railway Age, September 6, 2022) Construction is expected to start in October or November on a second Kansas City Southern international rail bridge at the U.S./Mexico border connecting the border cities of Laredo, Tex. and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Full story:...
September 6, 2022 | COVID, Headlines, KCS
(Source: Kansas City Southern press release, September 6, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced today the first return to the rails of the KCS Holiday Express train since the start of the pandemic in 2020. This year, the festive, six-car...
