Talk:Kansas City Southern Railway

Question

i want to know about strenght of kansas city incorporation —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.26.136.2 (talk • contribs) .

In what sense? Are you looking, for example, for financial, employee or operational data? Slambo (Speak) 16:47, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

not to Chicago

I think it should be noted somewhere in the article that this is the only American class I railroad that does not go to Chicago, IL. 65.167.146.130 (talk) 18:59, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Advertisement

This whole article, except for the history section, sounds like a corporate advertisement written by KCS staff.

Example: "Ferromex is the only other Class I operating in Mexico, and it doesn't own any tracks into the US." This isn't even related to KCS and serves no purpose in the article other than to make KCS look better to a potential investor. Additionally, the article is filled with biased adjectives like 'important', 'key', and 'efficient' that really don't added to the readers knowledge of the subject so much as they attempt to make a brochure of this article. Skissors (talk) 08:39, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Contradiction

In the "Subsidiaries" section, the leading sentence mentions four subsidiary railroads, yet there seems to be more than than, considering the Gateway Eastern Railway Company, Meridian Speedway, LLC., and Kansas City Terminal Railway. Ctempire (talk) 23:18, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Update needed

The purchase status of this major rail company has changed. This or something in the next five days should be added.https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/12/kansas-city-southern-picks-canadian-pacific-31-billion-bid-for-railroad.html 04:25, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

You are correct, I have updated the article accordingly. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 19:13, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Abbreviation

I'm not necessarily opposed to using KCSR instead of KCS as the abbreviation, although personally I think KCS is better because that's the Reporting mark by which it's known in the industry. But I do think we should use one or the other consistently. GA-RT-22 (talk) 21:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

@GA-RT-22: The predominantly used abbreviation is KCS in reliable sources, so that is what we should stick with here. The editor who changed the abbreviation and name appears to be an undisclosed paid editor on behalf of Kansas City Southern (see the message I left on their talk page). Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:39, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Union Pacific Not Due to Mergers

Just because the Union Pacific trades under the name of one of the railroads that merged to form the current railroad, doesn't mean that the current railroad doesn't result from mergers of earlier railroads. If you look at the History section of the Union Pacific article, it indicates that the current railroad is the corporate successor of the Southern Pacific and that they renamed to company to the better known Union Pacific Name. 24.169.30.178 (talk) 19:24, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Exactly. I have no idea why this is still in this article. This is pretty much common knowledge at this point LiamCorbett (talk) 21:49, 13 April 2023 (UTC)