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KCS Holiday Express comes to Pittsburg, Kan.

(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...

KCS Holiday Train stops in Roodhouse this week

(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...

KSC Holiday train fosters Christmas feeling

(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...

KCS Board of Directors declares quarterly preferred dividend

(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...

KCS bypass plans moving slower than expected

(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...

Kansas City Southern 3Q profits fall 47 percent

(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...

KCS mines traffic from Mexican intermodal corridor

(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...