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.
Situated at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, it lies along the boundary between Missouri and Kansas, and is directly opposite KansasCity, Kansas.
Often abbreviated KCMO, KansasCity is the center of the KansasCity metropolitan area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri and 27th in the United States.
As the city and surrounding metropolitan area is consistently growing, the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network, a project of Birmingham University in the United Kingdom recently designated KansasCity a city with the potential of attaining world city status.
KansasCitySouthern Industries(NYSE:KSU) is the former diversified parent company of the KansasCitySouthernrailroad, a Class 1 railroad headquartered in KansasCity, Missouri.
It is also sometimes known as "The NAFTARailroad" because its operations carry goods between the midwest and Mexico.
KansasCitySouthern was founded in 1887 by Arthur E. Stilwell, with the goal of connecting the U.S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.
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