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In summer, Kansas City Southern plans to open a rehabilitated, cross-border Victoria-to-Rosenberg, Texas, line and a 100-acre intermodal terminal in Rosenberg. The Class I then will begin offering a new premium intermodal service between Houston and various Mexican destinations, including Monterrey, San Luis Potosi, Mexico City and Lazaro Cardenas.

In the meantime, KCS is seeking ideas from stakeholders — such as employees, customers and investors — to name the new service. KCS executives will select a winning name and announce it at an opening ceremony to be held sometime in summer.

"The branding of the new Houston-to-Mexico train service can be an important signal to our customers, employees and shareholders that we are serious about changing our philosophy toward becoming a first-class intermodal transportation provider,” said KCS President and Chief Operating Officer David Starling in an item posted on the “KCS News” Web site.

The rehabilitated line will shorten KCS’ cross-border route by about 70 miles and eliminate the need to operate over 160 miles of Union Pacific Railroad-owned track.

“This is an attractive corridor currently dominated by truckload carriers where no single-line, truck-competitive intermodal service exists today,” KCS officials said. “This project is key to the development of [our] International Intermodal Corridor and the railroad’s intermodal strategy.”

For more information on the new Texas infrastructure and service, and their implications to KCS, follow this link to read Editor Pat Foran’s “Bordering on Intermodal” article that appears in Progressive Railroading’s  May issue.