KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City Southern has largely cleared cross-border congestion that bogged down its busy railroad between Laredo, Texas, and Mexico City. KCS on Oct. 16 placed an embargo on certain types of merchandise traffic to help ease a logjam of cars in Mexico as well as those waiting to cross the border […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern has leased 30 locomotives, shifted additional crews to northern Mexico, and is working with customers as part of an effort to fix cross-border congestion problems. “Our performance this quarter did not meet our own expectations,” CEO Patrick Ottensmeyer told investors and analysts on the railroad’s earnings call on […]
A northbound Kansas City Southern empty grain train passes Union Pacific’s yard in Laredo, Texas, as it crosses the International Railway Bridge over the Rio Grande in November 2017. Bill Stephens KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With interchange partner Union Pacific jumping on the Precision Scheduled Railroading bandwagon, will Kansas City Southern follow suit or at […]
A Kansas City Southern train pauses in the Wylie Intermodal Terminal near Dallas in 2015, when the terminal opened. Kansas City Southern KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern has completed an expansion that doubles the capacity of its Dallas-area intermodal terminal. KCS spent $9 million to expand the David L. Starling Wylie Intermodal Terminal, […]
Kansas City, MO. — Kansas City Southern announced today its schedule for the 18th annual Holiday Express train, which will stop in 22 communities in eight states on 27 dates. At each stop, visitors can board the train, visit with Santa and his elves and tour the inside of three cars of the festive six-car […]
LAREDO, Texas — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen say that members of Congress are “shocked” to learn that Mexican crews are running trains into the United States on a nine-mile section of Kansas City Southern, a move the union says is unsafe and threatens jobs. But the railroad disputes the BLET claim that […]
Kansas City Southern INDEPENDENCE, Ohio – The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, which last week lost a federal court decision regarding Kansas City Southern’s use of international crews at the Laredo, Texas, gateway, is now appealing to the court of public opinion. The union has asked President Trump to intervene on its behalf. “Mr. […]
A Kansas City Southern empty grain train stops to change crews on the International Bridge linking Laredo, Texas, with Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, in November 2017. The American crew climbs aboard the General Electric ES44AC as the Mexican crew begins the walk back to Nuevo Laredo. Bill Stephens INDEPENDENCE, Ohio – The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers […]
CHICAGO — Kansas City Southern announced its U.S. and Mexico rail subsidiaries will acquire a combined total of 50 new locomotives from GE Transportation to be delivered during 2019, as well as digital solutions to drive improved operational and fuel efficiency. With the North American rail market improving and freight volume up roughly 5 percent […]
Patrick J. Ottensmeyer, Kansas City Southern CEO Trains: David Lassen NEW YORK — Kansas City Southern has ordered 50 new locomotives for delivery next year in anticipation of continued traffic growth, CEO Patrick Ottensmeyer told an investor conference on Wednesday. “We actually just placed an order for some locomotives that will be delivered early next […]
Kansas City Southern CEO Patrick J. “Pat” Ottensmeyer TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — Kansas City Southern has enough motive power and train crews to handle anticipated traffic growth this year, but its key route to Mexico has experienced slowdowns over the past five months amid congestion on Union Pacific in the Houston area. “While we […]
NEW YORK — Kansas City Southern’s latest growth opportunity — shipping gasoline, propane, and other refined petroleum products to Mexico — is beginning to take off as new distribution facilities open on KCS de Mexico lines. The Mexican government ended the state-run oil and gas monopoly in 2013, opening the sector to private investment and […]
