Selling the service
…its fleet of streamlined passengers trains that shuttled passengers between the Midwest and southwest. In 1940, Kansas City Southern (KCS) inaugurated its “Southern Belle” passenger train between Kansas City and… […]
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For an entertaining read about railroading, check out Fred W. Frailey’s first novel
…well-connected local grain magnate scoop up the Kansas City-Denver route. The upstart and underdog railroad is renamed South West Kansas. And the plot thickens from there. “I was bound and… […]
Rock Island history remembered
…a Twin Cities-Kansas City route in 1913 by leasing the St. Paul & Kansas City Short Line Railroad and building a line between Allerton and Carlisle, Iowa, a few miles… […]
CPKC caps train length on Meridian Speedway, clipping eastbound UP-NS intermodal service
…haulage rights on the Speedway for intermodal traffic that originates or terminates west of Dallas. The joint Kansas City Southern-Norfolk Southern Meridian Speedway is shown in green. Kansas City Southern… […]
CPKC says FRA is open to automated and streamlined track and train inspections
Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern locomotives lead a Canadian Pacific Kansas City grain train. CPKC CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Kansas City executives say they are encouraged by discussions… […]
STB backs CPKC in grain export dispute with Union Pacific
Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern locomotives lead a Canadian Pacific Kansas City grain train. CPKC WASHINGTON — Canadian Pacific Kansas City can send Midwestern grain to export at the… […]
Union Pacific asks regulators to reject CPKC trackage rights complaint
A pair Kansas City Southern locomotives lead loaded grain cars just north of DeQuincy, La., on April 29, 2008. Chris Guss WASHINGTON — Union Pacific has asked federal regulators to… […]
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern detail merger-related corridor upgrades
…Ohio Valley and Northeast via Kansas City. The railroads will join UP’s Los Angeles-El Paso, Texas, Sunset Route and the El Paso-Kansas City Golden State Route at Kansas City with… […]
National Train Show preliminary report
…New paint schemes. Apalachicola Northern; Ashley, Drew & Northern; Kansas City Southern; and Railbox (small herald). $9.95. September 2007. Ready-to-run. Trainman line. Atlas Model Railroad Co. Thrall 4.750-cubic-foot-capacity covered hopper…. […]
Must-see big steam for 2024
…Okla. Oct. 14: McAlester to Coffeyville, Kan. Oct. 15: Coffeyville to Kansas City Oct. 16: Kansas City viewing only – Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd. Oct. 17: Kansas City… […]
Floods ravage railroads in Arkansas and Oklahoma; BNSF and Union Pacific affected NEWSWIRE
…been carefully monitoring its Sedalia Subdivision from Kansas City to Jefferson City, Mo., where Amtrak and the Missouri Department of Transportation, joint operators of the Kansas City — St. Louis… […]
Five mind-blowing facts — Stilwell Oyster Car
…the railroad to Texas and the Gulf Coast. The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf — forerunner of the Kansas City Southern — headed toward Galveston, Texas. The voices, however, had… […]
