Kansas City Southern’s Meridian Speedway

Few railroads have undergone as many changes in the past dozen years as has the Kansas City Southern. During that time their Meridian to Dallas Line has become part of a major transcontinental corridor, and KCS has acquired full ownership of the largest Mexican Railroad and access to Mexico via Laredo. Today the 316 mile Meridian to Shreveport line known as the Meridian Speedway is poised to become part of the busiest corridor between the Southeast and the Southwest and Norfolk Southern recently paid three hundred million dollars for part ownership of the Speedway. This program documents the growing traffic on the Speedway by showing all of the trains on Kansas City Southern’s Vicksburg Subdivision between Monroe, Louisiana and Vicksburg, Mississippi in October of 2006.