Vision Accomplished

William Galligan was employed at Kansas City Southern from 1992 to 2018, responsible for the company's investor relations program as well as being involved in special projects. Now retired, he now splits his time between Kansas City, MO, and Guilford, CT.

Acknowledgements Introduction Maps 1. The Story Begins 2. Arthur E. Stillwell: Early Years 3. The Push South, 1860-1893 4. The Final Drive to the Gulf, 1894-1897 5. Receivership: The End of the Line for KCP&G 6. Stilwell's Final Years 7. The Dawn of a New Century Brings Prosperity 8. William N. Deramus II: An Era Begins 9. William N. Deramus III 10. The KCSI Years 11. Years of Turmoil, 1960-1979 12. Recovery 13. The Great Contraction: Consolidation in the 1990s 14. A Change at the Top: The Haverty Era Begins 15. Growth on the Fast Track 16. The Panama Canal Railway Company 17. The Birth of the Mexican Railroad System 18. The Game Changer 19. From KCSI to KCS; From TFM to KCSM 20. KCS Turns a Page 21. KCS Looks to the Future 22. Service Begets Growth 23. Game On: Private Equity Strikes First 24. The Canadians Pay a Visit-and Decide to Stay 25. The Curtain Falls on a Great Adventure A Note on Sources

"Vision Accomplished is delightful. Galligan shows us how this small but feisty railroad survived over the not-so-kind years as the character and personalities of its leaders kept a long-standing company culture intact. Emphasizing how they met the challenge without burying the reader in numbers makes it a page turner. An ideal book for any MBA candidate."-W. C. (Bill) Lyman "With the publication of Vision Accomplished, the KCS story is made eminently readable by no less than Bill Galligan who led its communications team. While the book brings to life its unique personalities, markets and culture, more importantly it makes the company's evolution easier to understand by highlighting underlying themes, my favorites being long term thinking; respect; culture; non-traditional strategy; and lack of false modesty. With KCS' Vision Accomplished as the result of the CPKC merger, the timing is good for this book to inspire others'. Hopefully the quality of their work will be as good as Mr. Galligan's."-Henry Posner III - Chairman, Iowa Interstate Railroad, and Adjunct Professor, Dietrich College of the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University "Bill Galligan has opened a window on the history of an important railroad that historians and journalists have mostly ignored. His account of how Kansas City Southern survived one crisis after another and then flourished in this century is riveting. Read it and be amazed at what determined people can do."-Fred Frailey - Formerly Special Correspondent and Columnist, Trains magazine and author of Last Train to Texas