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Stack- Nothing against the KCS which has survived well into the age of the giants of the railroad industry. I think you need to compare KCS of the time with MoPac and MKT. KCS has a long north south line with few customers struggling to compete with the IC (ICG). The Meridian speedway was long in the future as was the traffic the Midsouth acquisition brought. In short, the KCS had neither the traffic of the MoPac nor the location of the MKT and ranked lower on the list of merger candidates. This is my take on it. Perhaps others more informed can fill in the particulars. LC [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dblstack Its interesting how KCS stands out in the Mid-south region. In the 80's, UP gobbled up MoPac and MKT, but KCS remained standing. [dinner] Does anyone have any perspective on what made these others more attractive? We KCS redundant to UP after these mergers? Its great to keeps some independent lines like this, its just odd that UP or BNSF didn't find a way to gobble KCS up. [%-)] Thanks, - Stack [/quote]
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