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  The Railroad Trainman Magazine Accident, Kansas City Southern Railway, Near Tipton Ford, MO December 1914
Vol. 31, No. 12
1 page  
  Engineering News Magazine Concrete Railway Trestles February 3, 1916 1 page    
  Electric Railway Journal Magazine A Well-Lighted and Well-Ventilated Substation February 15, 1919
Vol. 53, No. 7
2 pages  
  Road and Street Monthly Issue
Engineering and Contracting
Magazine Strengthening Old Bridges by
Doubling Up Trusses
October 22, 1919 1 page  
  Railway and Locomotive Engineering Magazine A New Design of Pulverized Fuel Burning Locomotive April 1928 2 pages  
  Railway Age Magazine How the Kansas City Allots Expenditures December 7, 1929
Vol. 87, No. 23
page 1334
3 pages
   
  Railway Age Magazine An Appeal Based on Facts December 3, 1932 page 37
1 page
   
  Railway Age Magazine President Roosevelt Considers K.C.S. Wage Plan Dispute August 26, 1933 page 305   Complete article not available
  Fortune Magazine Magazine Faces of the Month
Paragraph on Harvey Crowley Couch
Chairman of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway 
April 1937 1 page
  Railway Age Magazine n/a May 15, 1937     G. M. Magee, assistant engineer, Kansas City Southern, discusses the reduction of maximum rail stresses by suitable design of locomotives and by changing characteristics of existing motive power.
  Railroad Magazine Magazine Illustrated Features:
Locomotives of the
Kansas City Southern Railway
April 1939      
X Railway Age Magazine K.C.S. - L.&A.
Streamliner "Southern Belle"
October 5, 1940 7 pages    
  Railroad Magazine Magazine Southern Belle
[by] Matt W. Connelly
January 1941
Vol. 29, No. 2
page 36 15˘        
Contents page / Inside pages / Back cover
  Railroad Magazine Magazine Locomotives of the Louisiana & Arkansas May 1941
Vil. 29, No. 6
page 49 15˘        
Contents page / Inside pages / Back cover
X Railway Age Magazine Train Communication on the K.C.S. November 11, 1944 4 pages  
  Railroad Magazine Magazine List of articles April 1945   25¢
  Railroad Magazine Magazine List of Articles August 1945   25¢  
  Railroad Magazine Magazine List of Articles December 1946   25¢  
  Trains Magazine The "OP" Diesel
May 1947 page 24
2 pages
  Fairbanks-Morse opposed-piston engine is used in Kansas City Southern's new 8000-horsepower locomotine for heavy freight service.
Second page
  Railroad Magazine Magazine Kansas City Southern October 1947
Vol. 44, No. 1
page 12 25˘  
  Railroad Magazine Magazine Photo: #32 F7 July 1949   35˘  
  Trains Magazine Route of the Southern Belle :
Kansas City Southern Lines
July 1949
Vol. 9, No. 9
page 18   by Willard V. Anderson
X Railroad Magazine Magazine Locomotives of the Kansas City Southern June 1952
Vol. 58, No. 1
page 100
8 pages
35˘
  Railway Progress Magazine Deramus of the KCS:
He's an expert at whipping
"Big Cats"
by Paul Miner
August 1954 page 4    
  Messenger
Maine Central RR
Publication Passenger Locos Sold to KCS November 1963
Vol. 4, No. 1
1 column
2 pages
 
  The Bulletin Publication Features articles on modern steam locomotives of the KCS 1964
Vol. 29, No. 2
    National Railway Historical Society
  Railroad Magazine Magazine Locomotive Rosters
by Sy Reich
Kansas City Southern Lines
February 1964   50˘  
  Trains Magazine We have no intention of going out of the passenger business:
Passenger service of the Kansas City Southern
by Louis A. Marre
November 1967 page 40   Kansas City Southern Railroad's resolve to remain in the passenger business
  Railroad Magazine Magazine Short Hauls:
Roster of KCS, including L&A
by Sy Reich
June 1968   50˘  
X Extra 220 South:
The Locomotive Newsmagazine
Magazine KCS Roster
1 meg, indexed
January 1970 page 25
3 pages
75˘ "Kansas City Southern Lines Roster
KCS Ry - Louisiana & Arkansas Ry"
by Gordon Morioka [&] Dan Dover
X The Lensmen:
A Portfolio for Railroad Photography
Publication The PDF
900 KB, not indexed
November 1975 2 pages $1.00  
X Locomotive Quarterly Magazine "Kansas City Southern:
Where Mallets Once Ruled"

12 meg, not indexed
Summer 1977
Vol. 1, No. 4
 80 pages   44 photos of KCS locomotives
X Passenger Train Journal Magazine Twilight Flight of the Flying Crow
2 meg, indexed
September 1977 page 18
5 pages
$1.50 Cover: "Hastings Rides the Crow"
Article: "Once in a timetable"
By Philip R. Hastings
  Trains Magazine The KCS Story - 1
August 1979 page 22  
  Rail Classics Magazine Kansas City Southern January 1984
Vol. 13, No. 1
  $2.95  
X Modern Railroads Magazine Kansas City Southern Looks Ahead February 1984
Vol 39, No. 2
page 21    
Passenger Train Journal Magazine Miss Belle and The Crow April 1986  
Back cover
    Passenger Train Journal Magazine [Article title unknown]  January-February
1987
     
  Modern Railroads Magazine "Eager" to Buy SP, Says KCS
May 1987 page 13  
X National Railway Bulletin Magazine Kansas City's Railroad
2.5 meg, not indexed

Kansas City Southern's E-Units
1 meg, not indexed
1990
Vol. 55, No. 1
page 4
14 pages

page 18
5 pages
  A Bulletin Staff Report
By Don G. Campbell
  Pacific Rail News Magazine Kansas City Southern:
In the land of helpers
September 1990
Issue 322
page 24  
  Railfan & Railroad Magazine KCS On Rich Mountain March 1992      
  Trains Magazine Kansas City Southern Fights Back June 1997 page 60   Surrounded by giants, KCS takes onthe feisty personality of its president.
by Steve Glischinski
X RailNews Magazine KCS in the Ouachitas:
Two Hundred-Car Trains, Saw-bys and a Lost Elephant

[by] Paul Walters and Carl Graves
July 1997
Issue 404
page 38
10 pages
$3.95 KCS on Rich Mountain [cover]
Sluggish two-hundred car trains are part of KCS' history on Rich Mountain. [contents page]
  RailNews Magazine Kansas City Southern January 1998
Issue 410
page 72      
Trains Magazine Locomotives
Kansas City Southern tests SD70ACe
July 2004  
  Trains Magazine Preservation
Union Station Kansas City buys Milwaukee train.
December 2004      
  Railfan & railroad Magazine The Panama Canal railway January 2005     Kansas City Southern-owned line across Panama.
by Tom Savio
  Trains Magazine Preservation
Kansas City Union Station gets FP9.
February 2005      
  Trains Magazine Railroad News & Photos
KCS, TFM ink new deal
March 2005      
Trains Magazine Map of the Month:
Kansas City Tonnage: K.C.'s traffic density in 1971 and 2003.
April 2005   By Mark W. Hemphill
  Railfan & Railroad Magazine Lineside Legacy:
Surviving Kansas City Southern Steam
December 2005     Four KCS locomotives on display.
by Jeff Terry
  Trains Magazine Preservation
Nation's newest rail museum opens in KC.
January 2006      
  Trains Magazine The Haywire becomes a live wire October 2006     The empire Kansas City Southern Chairman Mike Haverty has pieced together is poised to explode with new business.
By Fred W. Frailey
  Trains Magazine City Rail
Kansas City light rail faces engineering and political hurdles
May 2007      
  Diesel Era Magazine Colorful Kansas City Southern November / December
2007
Vol. 18, No. 6
page 35   The reintroduction of the "Southern Belle" paint scheme on its newest AC-drive locomotives has brought renewed interest in one of America's smaller Class 1 railroads. Join us as we take a look at the variety of schemes worn by KCS locomotives.
[by] Diesel Era staff
X Classic Trains Magazine Racing south on the Southern Belle
1.2 meg, indexed
Winter 2008
Vol. 9, No. 4
page 78
3 pages
  Cover: "Fast run on KCS's Southern Belle" w/ Santa Fe Alco pA #51
Article: "A veteran KCS hogger vowed to make a cab visitor "scared to death" as he made up time to Shreveport"
Article by Philip L. Moseley
Photos by J. David Ingles & Mike Condren
Donated by Steve Pawlow
  Trains Magazine Map of the Month:
Natural resources in KCS country

Locomotive
Meridian hosts classy NS, KCS F units
February 2008     Mines, fields, and forests kept KCS humming with traffic
By J. Parker Lamb
X Trains Magazine Ready for her close-up
3.8 meg, not indexed
March 2008
Vol. 68, No. 3
page 24
8 pages
  Cover: "Kansas City Southern puts a shine on an Office Car Special" w/ KCS 1
Article: "Ask the folks who run Kansas City Southern's office car train, the Southern Belle:  It's a lot of work to be beautiful"
Article by Peter A. Hansen; Photos by Roy Inman
Donated by Steve Pawlow
X Railroads Illustrated Magazine "40 Years Over Rich Mountain"
4.8 meg, not indexed
March 2008 page 24
12 pages
  Article by Carl Graves
  Railroads Illustrated Magazine Railroads of Kansas City August 2008     Kansas City's famous for barbeque, jazz and tons of rail traffic.
by John Leopard
Trains Magazine Gallery
BNSF Railway, Wellsville, Addison & Galeton, Ware Shoals Railroad, Penn Central, Kansas City Southern, and the Bloomer Line
January 2009  
X Trains Magazine News: Locomotive
EMD SD22ECO emerges
July 2009
Vol. 69, Issue 7
page 18 $5.95
  Trains Magazine News & Photos
Ethanol business slows, Modoc Northern closes, KCS improves Mexico connection
August 2009      
X Trains Magazine Midwest Mountain Railroading September 2009 page 33
7 pages
$5.95 Cover: "Steep grades, great scenery, and lots of trains! All in the heart of Kansas City Southern."
Article: "Kansas City Southern bucks the hills and mountains for 400 miles, starting in the railroad's namesake town."
by Fred W. Frailey
  Railroads Illustrated Magazine The New Feather is Kansas City Southern's Cap October 2009     KCS aquires the "Macaroni Line" in southern Texas
by Joshua Chlapk
X Trains Magazine A KCS Christmas Carol December 2009 page 24
8 pages
  Cover: How KCS's Santa train makes the holidays brighter
Article: The Ghost of Christmas Present is alive and well on Kansas City Southern's annual Holiday Express train.
by Peter A. Hansen
  Railroads Illustrated Magazine KCS's Mean Green Machines August 2010     Decked out in the "Southern Belle" paint scheme, these emissions-friendly locomotives run well and look better.
by Joshua Chlapek
  Trains Magazine Passenger
Kansas presents options to the traveling public for restoring train service between Kansas City and Texas
August 2010      
X Trains Magazine Freight Train, Unbounded
Distributed Power:
It's a bigger deal than you think

KCS: Ouachita Mountain Masters
September 2010
Vol. 70, Issue 9
page 29
1 page
$5.95
X Trains Magazine News & Photos
Restored route wins Kansas City Southern freight
November 2010
Vol. 70, Issue 11
page 8
1 page
$7.95 Railroad Family Trees
  Trains Magazine News & Photos
Q & A with Kansas City Southern CEO David L. Starling
December 2010      
X Trains Magazine Map of the Month:
Kansas City Southern Predecessors
June 2011
Vol. 71, Issue 6
page 44
2 pages
$5.95 This Class I railroad is a melting pot of historic names
By Matt Van Hattem and Bill Metzger
X Trains Magazine Special Report: Intermodal
Who Does It Best

Power of Perseverance
November 2011
Vol. 71, Issue 11
page 71 $7.95
Progressive Railroading Website Kansas City Southern Railway reaches 125th anniversary in good stead
by Jeff Stagl, managing editor
October 2012 1 page   Progressive Railroading KCS article search
  Trains Magazine Fred W. Frailey
How did Kansas City Southern remain independent?
January 2013      
  Barron's Website The Not-So-Little Railroad That Could June 29, 2013 1 page   by Christopher C. Williams
  Trains Magazine Kansas City Southern Bets Big on Mexico November 2013     Parts rolls south, cars come north, and business is growing.
By Roy Blanchard
  Transportation and
Logistics International
Website Port of Kansas City
2014 1 page   TLI KCS article search
Article by Chris Peterson
  Transportation and
Logistics International
Website Kansas City Southern
2014 1 page   TLI KCS article search
Article by Jim Harris
  Railroads Illustrated Magazine Flatlining Across Lousiana June 2014     If the medical definition of flatlining connotes a grim picture, the Kansas City Southern's definition may seem somewhat of a misnomer. The KCS "flat line" across northern Louisiana is the picture of growing health.
by Paul Jansson
  Railroads Illustrated Magazine Kansas City Southern's Shreveport Terminal November 2014     Trimming the delays at KCS' most congested terminal.
by Jeffrey A. Harwell
  Trains Magazine Kansas City Union Station revisited December 2014     A centennial assessment of rebirth, near death, and rebirth again.
By Peter A. Hansen
  Railfan & Railroad Magazine 100 Years of Kansas City Union Station January 2015     Bolstered by the arrival of the Kansas City Museum in 1999, Union Station celebrates its centennial as a vibrant part of the city’s culture.
by Steve Jessup