The Kansas City Terminal Railway is a Class III terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the United States' second largest rail hub after Chicago.[1] It is operated by the Kaw River Railroad.[2][3]
The railway owns and dispatches 95 miles of track in Kansas and Missouri.[4] It no longer owns Kansas City Union Station. It leases six locomotives and no freight cars. Maintenance operations are subcontracted to BNSF Railway.
KCT now serves the Class I railroads BNSF, Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Norfolk Southern, and