Download or read book Kansas City Southern Railway written by Thad Hillis Carter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kansas City Southern Railway initially offered freight service to the immediate Kansas City area south. As the line expanded toward Texas, each tiny community had its own railway station with access to daily passenger service and less-than-carload lot freight services. No one could have foreseen that the road would eventually haul international import and export goods or that its line would reach into Mexico. Photographs in this book include the railway's involvement in operating steam engines over its lines as well as pictures from the files of esteemed rail photographers Harold K. Vollrath and Gary Coates.