Muskogee memories
…we anticipated would result in an encounter with some of the Kansas City Southern’s massive 2-10-4 types. However, on August 26, 1950, we suffered a setback when we were denied… […]
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The bridge at Ginger Blue
…and Kansas City Southern (KCS), sent me to Kansas City in late May 2024 to capture KCS motive power before its identity vanished under the unified railroad’s new paint. Videographers… […]
Conditions placed on CP-KCS merger designed to ensure competition, smooth operations
…of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, including a novel way of enforcing the railways’ promise to not tamper with current interchanges. Nearly all of the conditions were proposed by… […]
Canadian Pacific goes old school in ad against CN-KCS merger
Canadian Pacific placed this half-page ad in The Washington Post today to rouse opposition to the proposed Canadian National-Kansas City Southern merger. KCS last month backed out of its planned… […]
CPKC system cutover triggers service woes in some former KCS locations
…Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger has gone smoothly over the past two years — until a long-planned computer system cutover last month in former Kansas City Southern territory in the… […]
Life-Like Proto 1000 HO scale FM Erie-built diesels
…construction of the Eries. The earliest units, those built for the Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, and Milwaukee Road, had a lower cab roof, with an angled step down from… […]
Bicentennial diesel locomotives photo gallery
…locomotive be any more appropriately lettered? American Cast Iron Pipe’s 1937 900-hp “high-hood” Alco posed in Birmingham, Ala. Lon Coone, J. David Ingles collection Kansas City Southern SD40 No. 616… […]
STB chairman updates status of long-running proceedings
…consideration by the board this month. — An August 2023 filing by Kansas City Southern requesting enforcement of conditions imposed in the board’s approval of Union Pacific’s acquisition of the… […]
Rail impact of US-Mexico trade deal is uncertain NEWSWIRE
With a BNSF Railway unit in the lead, a Mexico-bound empty auto rack train pulls into Robstown, Texas, on Kansas City Southern tracks in November 2017. Bill Stephens The trade… […]
CPKC, BNSF CEOs urge shippers to speak out on UP-NS merger
…— The CEOs of Canadian Pacific Kansas City and BNSF Railway took aim at the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger during the first day of the Midwest Association of Rail… […]
CPKC reports higher profits, forecasts continued growth despite trade concerns
…[see “Wabtec earnings surge …,” Trains News Wire, July 24, 2024]. CPKC continues to upgrade former Kansas City Southern locomotives so that they can lead trains in Canada, which will… […]
UK investment analyst seeks paths to Class I mergers
…Class I carriers – Norfolk Southern, CSX, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Union Pacific, and BNSF Railway —effectively control the long-haul network as regional operating duopolies. The advisor noted… […]
