December 28, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Allison Miles appeared on the Victoria Advocate website on December 26, 2009.) VICTORIA, Texas — Construction is complete on the Kansas City Southern rail line and trains run through Victoria daily, but there’s still more to go. The next...
December 15, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Andrew Nash appeared on The Morning Sun website on December 15, 2009.) PITTSBURG, Kan. — It may not have been Christmas on Sunday, but it sure seemed that way to more than 1,544 people who came to the Holiday Express train. The train, in its...
December 14, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Maggie Borman appeared on the Journal-Courier website on December 14, 2009.) ROODHOUSE, Ill. — A limited amount of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas and the addition of new stops to the south mean a holiday train will make only one stop...
December 7, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by JJ Velasquez appeared in the Victoira Advocate December 4, 2009.) VICTORIA, KS – Isabella Bruno hopped aboard the Kansas City Southern Holiday Express train Friday to see Santa Claus and ask him one question: Is he missing a reindeer? The...
November 19, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on November 18, 2009.) Kansas City Southern announced its subsidiaries the Kansas City Southern Railway Co. and Kansas City Southern de México S.A. de C.V. have implemented the new Umler™ system and have...
November 11, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(Kansas City Southern issued the following on November 10, 2009.) KANSAS CITY, M0. — Kansas City Southern’s Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the outstanding KCS 4% non-cumulative preferred stock. The dividend is payable...
November 11, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(Kansas City Southern issued the following on November 10, 2009.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In its ninth annual run, Kansas City Southern’s (NYSE: KSU) (KCS) Holiday Express train will bring Santa Claus and his elves on 23 dates to 22 communities in eight states throughout...
November 3, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by David Tewes appeared on the Victoria Advocate website on November 3, 2009.) VICTORIA, Texas — Kansas City Southern announced a year ago a $20 million rail bypass plan for Victoria and El Campo, but state and county officials said they’ve...
October 30, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The Associated Press circulated the following on October 29, 2009.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Regional railroad operator Kansas City Southern says its third-quarter profits fell 47 percent as the economy continued to cut shipping volume. Railroads have suffered as customers...
October 29, 2009 | Headlines, KCS
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on October 28, 2009.) Kansas City Southern’s newly rehabilitated Victoria-to-Rosenberg, Texas, line and new international intermodal service already are generating traffic in a corridor between Houston and...