(Source: Slate, January 23, 2017)
NEW YORK — Spare a thought for Kansas City Southern. One of America’s great railway companies, based in the heartland, it is the self-professed “NAFTA Railway”: Its network consists largely of railroads that reach deep into Mexico, through Mexico’s industrialized northeast, and extending to the Pacific Port of Port of Lázaro Cárdenas and Gulf of Mexico ports like Tampico and Veracruz. On the U.S. side, Kansas City Southern’s lines wend from Texas into Louisiana and Mississippi, and straight up the spine of the country through Oklahoma and Arkansas to Kansas City.
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