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	Encyclopedia: Kansas City, Missouri
		Situated at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, it lies along the boundary between Missouri and Kansas, and is directly opposite Kansas City, Kansas.
		Often abbreviated KCMO, Kansas City is the center of the Kansas City 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 Kansas City a city with the potential of attaining world city status.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kansas-City,-Missouri (9278 words)

	Kansas City Southern Industries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kansas City Southern Industries(NYSE:KSU) is the former diversified parent company of the Kansas City Southern railroad, a Class 1 railroad headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
		It is also sometimes known as "The NAFTA Railroad" because its operations carry goods between the midwest and Mexico.
		Kansas City Southern was founded in 1887 by Arthur E. Stilwell, with the goal of connecting the U.S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas_City_Southern_Industries (252 words)

	Kansas City Southern Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark KCS) is a United States-based Class I railroad operating over 3,130 track miles in 10 central and southeastern states.
		The Kansas City Southern is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri and has approximately 430 locomotives, 15,000 freight cars and 2,700 employees.
		A parent company of the Kansas City Southern Railway was organized in 1962 as Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. In 2002 the name of the parent company was shortened to Kansas City Southern.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas_City_Southern_Railroad (501 words)

	Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad, a Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Kansas & Neosho Valley Railroad Company was organized on March 8, 1865 under the general laws of Kansas to build a line from Kansas City south into the Neosho Valley of eastern Kansas, and thence, hopefully, south to the Gulf of Mexico.
		The City of Kansas City immediately voted $200,000 in city bonds to be exchanged for stock of the road, and Johnson and Miami counties in Kansas in November, 1865 voted $200,000 each in aid of the K&NV.
		The Kansas City Clinton & Springfield Railroad was chartered in Missouri on ?, 1884 to build the Missouri portion of the line.
	tacnet.missouri.org /~mgood/clintonrr/kcfsm.html (3344 words)

	SAGA OF KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN LINES
		Accordingly, the Texarkana and Fort Smith was acquired, and the Kansas City, Nevada and Fort Smith was reorganized almost immediately as the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad.
		The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf soon was earning $5,000 a mile a year, and Stilwell, appointed as President of the line in 1897, was at the high point of his career.
		Kansas City Southern's subsidiary Fort Smith and Van Buren acquired the original portion of the line from Coal Creek to McCurtain and the balance of the line west from McCurtain to Guthrie was scrapped.
	www.kcshs.org /schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm (8640 words)

	ipedia.com: Panama Railway Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The project was begun in 1850 and the railroad was completed in 1855, with the first train running from ocean to ocean on 28 January of that year.
		Ownership of the railroad was originally by a publicly traded corporation based in New York City, which bought exclusive rights to build across the isthmus from the government of Colombia (Panama was a province of Colombia at the time).
		The Atlantic terminal is in Colón, Panama; the Pacific in Panama City.
	www.ipedia.com /panama_railway.html (715 words)

	Kansas City Northern Railroad
		The Kansas City Northern Railroad is an all volunteer, not for profit, 501 (c)(3) corporation in association with the Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Parks & Recreation Commissioners Volunteers in Parks Program.
		The Kansas City Model Railroad Club has been in operation for close to 40 years and is co located with the Kansas City Northern Railroad.
		Conceived and approved for development during the 1980's, the HO scale Brush Creek & Western Railroad is a midwestern freelance bridge route with the modeled portion of the layout portion of the layout representing the area roughly from mid-Missouri to South-central Kansas through the Kansas City area.
	www.geocities.com /zephyr64118/KCNRR.htm (723 words)

	Railway Age: Mexico's railway privatization: KCS maps "The NAFTA Railroad." - Kansas City Southern Railroad
		When a joint venture of Kansas City Southern Industries and Transportacion Maritima Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. bid $1.4 billion for the 50-year concession to operate the Northeast Line of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico, a number of observers were amazed at the amount KCSI and TMM were willing to pay.
		KCS could also reach Chicago from Kansas City, depending on agreements with the Washington Group, which is in the process of acquiring controlling interest in the former Soo Line Kansas City-Chicago line from Canadian Pacific.
		As for the railroad itself and its Mexico City-Laredo main line, KCS officers say top priorities will go toward building and lengthening passing tracks to accommodate longer trains and toward increasing train speeds to 65 mph for intermodal trains and to 55 mpb for other services.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_n1_v198/ai_19077893 (1452 words)

	Kansas City Southern Approves Mexican Railroad Bid
		Kansas City Southern said Tuesday that its stockholders approved acquisition of Mexico's largest railroad.
		It connects Mexico City, three major ports and the industrial heartland to KCS’s domestic railways at the Laredo, Texas, border.
		TFM will operate as an independent Mexican corporation under control of KCS, which also owns the Kansas City Southern Railway Co., the Texas Mexican Railway Co. (known as the “Tex Mex”) and the Gateway Eastern Railway Co.
	www.ttnews.com /members/topNews/0012747.html (162 words)

	ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Kansas City Southern's Landon Rowland
		Kansas City Southern is a company with a long and illustrious history.
		In the early l960s, Kansas City Southern concluded that the regulatory environment and capital returns in the railroad industry were very discouraging.
		A: In Panama, we were approached by the government to rebuild the railroad across the country and link the two sides of the isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
	www.businessweek.com /2000/00_13/b3674024.htm (1787 words)

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		Kansas City Southern, which was reluctant to provide the property for the project in the beginning, eventually agreed to sell the land to the Port of Port Arthur, which in turn would provide it to the seaman's center, with the provision that the facility be built to look like the old depot.
		Port Arthur City Council will appoint members to a newly created Port Arthur Community Foundation, to administer projects that will be made possible by funds granted by the foundations.
		He agreed that the funds could be used for the project to replicate the Kansas City Southern Depot at the western end of Procter Street, as originally planned in the development of the Port Arthur Seafarers Center.
	www.guidrynews.com /04March/07704KCS.htm (1193 words)

	Kansas City Southern News
		A 50-year tradition that few, if any, other colleges continue might not still be alive if not for a Kansas City, Kan., woman picking it up two decades ago as a favor to her son.
		Kansas City Southern will prepay about $645,000 worth of 2005 property and real estate taxes to three Texas counties and two Louisiana parishes that were hit by Hurricane Rita.
		Kansas City Southern Railroad tracks were expected to reopen tonight after a two-car derailment Monday.
	www.topix.net /com/ksu (1138 words)

	The Godchaux Plantation Railroads - Mississippi River Sugar Belt Railroad
		At that time the company, realizing that MRSB RR on its cars and locomotives did not convey the name Godchaux, which was well advertised to the public as the brand name of the planatation's sugar, subsequently painted the Godchaux logo on all of the locomotives.
		The brakeman riding the pilot beam was killed, and another railroad employee, also riding the pilot beam, lost one of his legs.
		All the Godchauxs were extremely proud of their railroad and always insisted on their engines being kept in mint condition.
	www.stjohnparish.com /grh/rails.htm (2364 words)

	KCTV5 - Homepage
		KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A 20-year-old man was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the death of a bicyclist who was killed on his way home from work.
		KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Police were investigating the city's latest homicide on Friday, and they hadn't yet identified any suspects.
		KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Interstate Bakeries Corp. said Tuesday it is laying off 450 workers as it consolidates operations in three regions across the country.
	www.kctv.com (773 words)

	Railroad
		Stilwell received his flair for railroading from his grandfather, Hamblin Stilwell, who was one of the founders of the New York Central Railroad and builder of the Erie Canal.
		The new line was incorporated on January 8, 1887 as the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railway Co. In 1889, while constructing the "Belt Line", Martin and Stilwell were considering the coal fields to the south in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas and organized the Kansas City, Nevada, and Fort Smith Railroad.
		The city of Shreveport floated a bond issue to raise $250,000 to aid the railroad and at 3:00 p.m.
	www.fs.fed.us /oonf/oklahoma/hist/rail.html (1115 words)

	kansas city southern railroad sites on the web Resources - FREE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		The Chinese and the Transcontinental Railroad -- Brown Quarterly --...
	search-now140.com /sites/railroad/kansas_city_southern_railroad.html (239 words)

	Forbes.com: TEXT-Moody's cuts Kansas City Southern Railway ratings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		KCRs railroad has operated more reliably in the recent past, as the MCS (the railroad's train operating system) is now fully implemented and the railroad workers are complying with the disciplines required of the system.
		Moody's also notes that because each of these matters are separate, should the put be exercised and the total amount become the liability of KCR because of the inability of TMM to perform on its share, KCRs financial condition and liquidity could be weakened resulting in a further downgrade.
		Kansas City Southern Industries Issuer Rating at B3 Kansas City Southern, based in Kansas City Missouri, operates a Class I railway and has interests in Mexico and Panama.
	www.forbes.com /markets/newswire/2004/03/16/rtr1300564.html (1359 words)

	Business Wire: Louisiana Supreme Court Decides Duncan v. Kansa... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kansas City Southern (KCSR) lawsuit, which affirmed a lower court finding of liability against the railroad.
		KCSR does not agree with the decision and has petitioned for a rehearing before the Louisiana Supreme Court.
		Notwithstanding, KCSI management believes it is necessary and consistent with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidelines to adjust its third-quarter earnings at this time to reflect the court's decision pending appeal or a decision by the court to rehear the case.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:67044478&refid=ink_tptd_np (266 words)

	Railroad News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Railroad news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		The short-line railroad industry, which has grown substantially in the last decade in Canada, is headed down a track with a lot of potential but with some major challenges along the lines.
		Workers digging a subway extension unearthed the skeletal remains of 108 people that officials believe were buried in the city's original cemetery for the poor.
	www.topix.net /business/railroads (1251 words)

	Kansas City Port Authority \| Kansas City Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Port of Kansas City is the largest storage and distribution center serving the Missouri River and acts as a true intermodal facility, transferring product between barge, rail, and truck.
		It is the city’s only barge distribution facility, with approximately 60,000 tons of covered bulk storage space and outside storage pads for steel product.
		The Port Authority is the lead development agency in the conversion of Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base into an international freight gateway/intermodal facility, with 500+ acres of potential development.
	www.kcportauthority.com /kc_ports (116 words)

	Operation Respond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Kansas City Southern Railroad has re-established a link with the OREIS software to provide an additional layer, above the USDOT requirements, of electronic hazardous materials data about the content of railcars to emergency responders.
		This linkage has been re-established and tested and is currently functional for OREIS 6.0 users located within the Kansas City Southern's operating range.
		We are very happy that the Kansas City Southern has recognized this focus on security and re-established their connection with OREIS to provide vital data to emergency responders."
	www.oreis.org /ori_info/kcrr.cfm (325 words)

	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Ark. Railroad Depot Collection
		A set of 175 fl and white picture postcards, all of them photographic prints, of railroad depots in Arkansas, was purchased from Mid America Paper Collectibles, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 4, 1987.
		Usually the name of the railroad and the date the depot was photographed are also provided, either on the front of the postcard or handwritten on verso.
		In the descriptions the name of the town (all are in Arkansas) is given first, followed by the name of the railroad and the date of the photograph (when this information has been included on the postcard).
	libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/findingaids/arkrrdepot.html (280 words)

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		Photo (of Deramus) and article about the recent history of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, headed by 62-year-old William Deramus III, "the chairman of Kansas City Southern Industries" with offices in Downtown Kansas City.
		Description of the railroad's increase in stock value in recent years and Deramus's long experience in managing railroads since "the Bengal & Assam in India for the U. Army in World War II."
		Kansas City Public Library : 14 West 10th Street : Kansas City, MO 64105
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=121946 (132 words)

	Tex-Mex Railroad - Great Plains-West Rail Gallery
		By 1881, Tex Mex had become the first United States railroad to arrive at this strategically important gateway to Mexico.
		After the turn of the century, the Mexican government acquired control of the Tex Mex and held it in a trust until 1982, when it was sold to the shipping conglomerate Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM).
		Effective as of today, the Texas Mexican Railroad is now completely owned and controlled by Mexrail, parent company of TFM Industries.
	www.trainweb.org /screamingeagle/gallery/tm.html (680 words)

	Railroads in Kansas: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Kansas Pacific, Katy, Rock Island Railroad \| www.kansasheritage.org
		Railroads in Kansas: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Kansas Pacific, Katy, Rock Island Railroad
		We are endeavoring to make available the history of the railroads in the State of Kansas.
		We hope to expand and further develop railroad history in Kansas.
	www.kansasheritage.org /research/rr/index.html (164 words)

	Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Director Becky Matticks notes that The Kansas Oil Museum and Hall of Fame, Butler County Historical Society, in El Dorado has artifacts from the first “scientifically discovered” oil wells, which drew the new petroleum geologists who were learning about anticlines and traps and ancient sea beds.
		In Morgan City, La., the International Petroleum Museum and Exposition is a non-profit corporation established for the purpose of educating the general public, and the next generation, on the significance of the offshore oil and gas industry and its affect on the local area, the state, the nation, and the world.
		Spindletop/Gladys City Boomtown Museum, operated by Lamar University in Beaumont, is a 15-building complex, which re-creates Gladys City, an early 1900s era boomtown on the historic Spindletop oilfield.
	www.oil-n-gas.com /museums.php (5535 words)

	Park Genealogical Books
		Some of the railroads were very small, and existed for a short time, before going bankrupt or being acquired by larger lines.
		The intent would be to assist those who know where their subjects lived, but who are unsure of the railroad to research.
		For example, "My great grandfather worked for the railroad, and lived in X and Y." Please give us feedback on whether you think this is a good or a bad idea.
	www.parkbooks.com /Html/res_rail.html (818 words)

	Calcasieu Parish Aerial Map Collection
		CGG-8-1 (2) Chloe, intersection of Southern Pacific Railroad and Farmers Land and Canal Co.
		CGG-8-84 (2) Bayou Arceneaux, Louisiana Irrigation Canal, junction of Bayou Serpent and unnamed tributary
		CGG-11-15 (2) Kansas City Southern Railroad southwest of Calcasieu Parish's northern panhandle
	library.mcneese.edu /depts/archive/aerial066.htm (1961 words)

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