Kansas City Southern History Remembered

As a merger is now underway . . . We take another moment to consider this town's place in American history. 

Here's part of the backstory . . .

"In 1889 Arthur Stilwell began building the Kansas City, Nevada & Fort Smith Railroad (the Nevada being Nevada, Mo.), the earliest antecedent of a trunk line that would one day extend from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico. (The railroad’s name was changed to Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf in 1892.) Intended to facilitate the export of Midwestern grain, the railroad was built directly south from Kansas City, Mo., creating the shortest route from Kansas City to tidewater. In 1897 its rails reached the Gulf of Mexico at the new city of Port Arthur, Texas—which Stilwell built and named for himself."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City Southern history remembered - Trains

Kansas City Southern history is now appropriate to talk about since the seventh of seven Class I railroads in North America has been approved to merge with Canadian Pacific to make a larger No. 6 Class I railroad.