The Kansas City Southern owns the Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC). KCS is in the process of purchasing the Texas Mexican Railway (TexMex), the Mexican railroad Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM) from their holding company, Grupo TMM. Although KCS itself is planned to be a holding company for the Kansas City Southern Railway, TexMex and TFM, the whole four-railway system is marketed to shippers as the NAFTA Railway, emphasizing the KCS's abilities in cross-border transportation. However, the railroads are all operated as subsidiary companies.
American Business Journals, Inc. (October 6, 2004). Mexican agency OKs KCS purchase of railroad stake (http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2004/10/04/daily22.html). The Business Journal
Heaster, Randolph (December 15, 2004). Kansas City Southern amends deal to acquire Mexican railroad (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/10422867.htm?1c). Kansas City Star.
Trainboard members (2004), KCS Purchase of TFM (http://www.trainboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/ubb/get_topic/f/75/t/000063.html). Retrieved December 16, 2004.
The KansasCitySouthern is headquartered in KansasCity, Missouri and has approximately 430 locomotives, 15,000 freight cars and 2,700 employees.
A parent company of the KansasCitySouthern Railway was organized in 1962 as KansasCitySouthern Industries, Inc. In 2002 the name of the parent company was shortened to KansasCitySouthern.
KansasCitySouthern Industries(NYSE:KSU) is the former diversified parent company of the KansasCitySouthern railroad, a Class 1 railroad headquartered in KansasCity, Missouri.
KansasCitySouthern was founded in 1887 by Arthur E. Stilwell, with the goal of connecting the U.S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.
An early slogan for the company was "The shortest route from KansasCity to salt water." Its original network linked KansasCity with Port Arthur, Texas.
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