September 30, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Mark Davis appeared on The Kansas City Star website on September 29.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern’s Mexico subsidiary said this morning it has secured a $52.2 million loan to finance locomotives, another sign that some lenders and...
September 23, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following appeared on the Kansas City Star website on September 22.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern Railway announced today that the Federal Highway Administration had approved the railway’s proposed East Loop Bypass Project in Laredo, Texas. It will be...
September 22, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Steve Bandy appeared on the Marshall News Messenger website on September 21.) MARSHALL, Texas — Jefferson will be among the communities in eight states to host Kansas City Southern’s Holiday Express train when it makes its eighth annual...
September 22, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 19.) NEW YORK — Railroad operator Kansas City Southern said Friday its Mexican subsidiary plans to contest a court ruling that would give another Mexican railroad primary rights to operate on some of its...
September 17, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 16.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rail operator Kansas City Southern said its service in the Texas Gulf region is still being hurt by the flooding caused by Hurricane Ike. The company said on Tuesday that it...
August 25, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by David Tewes appeared on the Victoria Advocate website on August 22.) VICTORIA, Texas — Victoria is on the verge of getting a railroad bypass, but not before the train company builds temporary tracks through the city. “If we can get Kansas City...
August 19, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Randolph Heaster appeared on The Kansas City Star website on August 19.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Kansas City Southern chairman and chief executive Mike Haverty recently received an entrepreneurship award, he invoked the name of the railroad’s...
August 11, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Alison Bath appeared on the Shreveport Times website on August 11. Connell Jackson is a member of BLET Division 632 in Minden, La.) SHREVEPORT, La. — Every time he gets behind the wheel of his car, Connell Jackson sees the face of the man he...
August 6, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following appeared on the Kansas City Star website on August 5.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John S. Jacobsen has been named as vice president and chief engineer for Kansas City Southern, the company announced today. The appointment of Jacobson, who Jacobsen is now...
August 1, 2008 | Headlines, KCS
(The following story by Steve Korris appeared on the Southeast Texas Record website on July 31.) BEAUMONT, Texas — Kansas City Southern Railway has already paid a family to settle a wrongful death suit and expected to recover the cost from Union Pacific Railroad, but...
