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KCS Holiday Express raises over $215K to benefit 20 communities
December 21st, 2022
December 21, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced that the 22nd KCS Holiday Express program raised over $215,000 to benefit The Salvation Army in 20 communities in eight states where the KCS Holiday Express train stopped this year. In...
UP and Canadian Pacific/KCS spar on Houston rail traffic during merger hearing at STB
October 26th, 2022
October 25, 2022 - Trains.com -Union Pacific said that a video of a KCS train "breezing through Houston" misled federal regulators about Houston terminal operations.The railroads played the video, shot from the lead locomotive, for the Surface Transportation Board on...
KCS to break ground next week on 2nd span of new International Bridge in Laredo
October 24th, 2022
October 24, 2022 - TRA Newswire -A ceremony next week will mark the start of groundbreaking on both sides of the Rio Grande for a new international railroad bridge between Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The formal groundbreaking will...
CP and KCS defend merger, says no extra capacity needed through Houston
October 13th, 2022
October 6, 2022 - Trains.com -WASHINGTON — Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern made closing arguments for their proposed merger on Thursday, telling regulators that their combination was in the public interest and that critics either didn’t do their homework...
EL Campo TX named as a KCS Certified Premier Site for rail park
September 25th, 2022
September 25, 2022 - TRA Newswire -An industrial rail park in El Campo, along the U.S. 59 /I-69 corridor in the Texas Gulf Coast region, has been named a Kansas City Southern (KCS) Certified Premier Site, one of 6 U.S....
Supply chain troubles: KCS offers crews to UP and BNSF to move snarled trains in Houston
April 30th, 2022
April 30, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Railroads are having a tough go with supply chain hiccups across the country and Texas is not immune to the consequences.In a letter to the Surface Transportation Board, Kansas City Southern (KCS) indicated that...
BNSF Railway to seek concession to operate in Mexico, CPKC trackage rights to Laredo
January 18th, 2022
January 14, 2022 - TRAINS.com -
BNSF Railway, in a Thursday regulatory filing related to the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern (CPKC) merger, said it may seek trackage rights on Kansas City Southern to reach the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas.
The...
Feds say review of CP-KCS acquisition can proceed
November 25th, 2021
November 24, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has given the nod to hear the application for Canadian Pacific's (CP) acquisition of Kansas City Southern (KCS) railroad after objections from other Class 1 railroads were rejected. The...
STB gets paperwork from CP and KCS to form CPKC
November 5th, 2021
November 4, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
Lets get the alphabet soup sorted out first.
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has received an application jointly filed by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) that would create a single-line...
KCS Holiday Express Train announces 5 Texas cities to benefit from the charity
September 29th, 2021
September 29, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
The 21st annual Kansas City Southern (KCS) Holiday Express program will benefit five cities in Texas this year. In partnership with a fundraiser to benefit the Salvation Army the yearly holiday train has raised...