…credits Chief Operating Officer John Orr and his team for the operational makeover. Orr, a veteran operating man with experience at Canadian National, Kansas City Southern, and Canadian Pacific Kansas… […]
…sills), Kansas City Southern (white), National Rys. of Mexico (green and orange), New York Central (lightning stripe scheme), Soo Line (Candy Apple Red), Southern Pacific (“Kodachrome” scheme), and Union Pacific… […]
…mid 1990s, NS stuck with DC, saying it couldn’t justify the higher cost of AC-traction units. Even little Kansas City Southern jumped aboard in 1997 with a batch of AC4400CWs…. […]
…at Kansas City Southern, who previously held positions at CSX and Canadian National; former Ohio governor John Kasich; Gilbert Lamphere, chairman of MidRail Corp. and cofounder of MidSouth Rail Corp.,… […]
…using Kansas City Terminal Ry. tracks across the city to reach its home yard. The author first chased the mixed in April 1964, photographing it a few times including… […]
…David Lassen WASHINGTON – Amtrak has urged federal regulators to reject Canadian National’s quest to obtain Kansas City Southern’s former Gateway Western trackage as a condition of the proposed Canadian… […]
A Norfolk Southern local approaches the diamond with CSX Transportation in Danville, Ill., on April 11, 2022. This local plays a vital role in NS first- and final-mile solutions. David… […]
A Norfolk Southern train passes south (railroad east) over the new Genesee Arch Bridge officials dedicated on May 24, 2018. Norfolk Southern/John Kucko Digital CASTILE, N.Y. — Ushering in a… […]
…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… […]
…on Sept. 1, 2017. The former Boston & Maine main line, part of the Pan Am Southern joint venture between Pan Am Railways and Norfolk Southern, provides NS with access… […]
…railroad held No. 154 at Knoxville for possible preservation. That August, Southern donated the engine to the city of Knoxville, and a truck carried it to the city’s Chilhowee Park,… […]
…own City of Kansas City, a turnaround out of St. Louis; a nameless overnight train to Council Bluffs, Iowa (which usually ran with some freight cars); and the City of… […]
