Kansas City Southern Announces 20th Anniversary Holiday Express Fundraising Results to Date & Challenge Grant to Benefit Salv...
02 December 2020 - 1:41AM
Business Wire
Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) announced in September
that it would celebrate the 20th anniversary of its KCS Holiday
Express program and partnership with The Salvation Army with a
fundraiser to benefit the Salvation Army in 20 communities on its
U.S. rail network. To date this year, the KCS Holiday Express
project has raised $148,115 for this cause. The company is now
issuing a challenge grant to raise even more.
“This year, contributions from the KCS Holiday Express project
to The Salvation Army in 20 communities on our rail network are
more important than ever,” said KCS president and CEO Patrick J.
Ottensmeyer. “That’s why on this Giving Tuesday, I am proud to
announce that KCS will donate $2 for every $1 raised by the Holiday
Express project, up to an additional $100,000, between November 28
and December 15, 2020. Help us help The Salvation Army rescue
Christmas for families in need.”
The 20 communities that will receive the funds raised for The
Salvation Army include Kansas City, Joplin and Mexico, Mo.,
Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Houston, Laredo and Port Arthur,
Texas, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport and Westlake, La.,
Gulfport, Jackson and Vicksburg, Miss., Decatur, Ark., East St.
Louis, Ill., Pittsburg, Kan. and Heavener, Okla.
Special thanks to our major sponsors to date who have gotten us
to the contribution level mentioned earlier. These sponsors include
Bartlett, a Savage Company; Deanne Porter and Patrick Ottensmeyer
Family Foundation; Elkay Manufacturing; Kansas City Southern
Historical Society; Lockton Companies; Michael and Marlys Haverty
Family Foundation; Wabtec Corporation; Watco Companies; and
Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam. A complete list of sponsors can
be seen here on the KCS website. It is not too late for your
contribution to be recognized and for you to be listed among these
generous individuals and organizations.
Over 19 years, the charitable component of the KCS Holiday
Express project has raised well over $2.1 million, which was
donated to The Salvation Army at each scheduled train stop to help
provide warm clothing and other necessities for children in need in
the local community. Anyone interested in making a tax-deductible
contribution to the 2020 KCS Holiday Express fundraising campaign
may do so at http://www.salarmy.us/HolidayExpress.
The KCS Holiday Express was built on the tradition of the Santa
Train that ran on a segment of the network bought by KCS in 1997.
In 2000, a group of warm-hearted KCS employees noticed that the
Santa Train was the only Christmas some kids had, and that some
kids did not have essential items like coats, hats and gloves, so
they committed to elevating the project. In 2001, volunteers
transformed a retired freight train to the KCS Holiday Express
experience that thousands have enjoyed for the past 19 years. In
2020, we honor one of the founding volunteer elves, Tillie Caileff,
who was integral to the program’s success, and who passed away
earlier this year.
In each of the past 19 years, the KCS Holiday Express train
stopped in 20 or more communities in five or six states between
Thanksgiving and Christmas. At each stop, visitors could board the
train, meet Santa and his elves and tour the inside of three cars
of the festive six-car train. These events will not take place in
2020 due to the pandemic.
Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., KCS is a transportation
holding company that has railroad investments in the U.S., Mexico
and Panama. Its primary U.S. holding is The Kansas City Southern
Railway Company, serving the central and south central U.S. Its
international holdings include Kansas City Southern de Mexico, S.A.
de C.V., serving northeastern and central Mexico and the port
cities of Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico and Veracruz, and a 50 percent
interest in Panama Canal Railway Company, providing ocean-to-ocean
freight and passenger service along the Panama Canal. KCS’ North
American rail holdings and strategic alliances with other North
American rail partners are primary components of a unique railway
system, linking the commercial and industrial centers of the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada.
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C. Doniele Carlson, 816-983-1372, dcarlson@kcsouthern.com
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