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The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (reporting mark KCS) was an American Class I railroad.Founded in 1887, it operated in 10 Midwestern and Southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Kansas City Southern (KCS) was a transportation holding company with railroad investments in the United States, Mexico, and Panama and operated from 1887 to 2023. The KCS rail network included about 7,299 miles (11,747 km) of track in the U.S. and Mexico.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad (“KCFS&M”) was a railway system which, at its maximum extent, operated across Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, a total of over 881 miles (1,418 kilometres). Its predecessor company started in 1865, and another railroad assumed ownership in 1928.
The Kansas City Terminal Railway (reporting mark KCT) is a Class III terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the United States' second largest rail hub after Chicago. [1] It is operated by the Kaw River Railroad. [2] [3] Kansas City Union Station
Kansas City Belt Railway: Kansas City Belt Railway: 1886 1910 Kansas City Terminal Railway: Kansas City, Burlington and Santa Fe Railway: ATSF: 1870 1881 Ottawa and Burlington Railroad: Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railway: SLSF: 1885 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kansas City Connecting Railroad: KCC 1914 1983 N/A Kansas ...
The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad was a railway company that began operations in the 1890s and owned a main-line between Kansas City, Missouri, and Port Arthur, Texas. It was led by Arthur Stilwell before being thrown into receivership and eventually being absorbed by the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1900.
The Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad was a 20-mile railway located throughout the suburban Kansas City area and is considered the first company in what would become the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The railroad ran from the Argentine District of Kansas City, Kansas through Kansas City, Missouri to Independence, Missouri.
An entity called the Kansas and Missouri Railway and Terminal Company, which was incorporated in Kansas on November 15, 1922, bought the assets of Outer Belt out of a subsequent foreclosure sale. [8] That entity, at first partially and later completely owned by the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS), ended up with 5.56 miles of track, and began ...