Kansas City Southern will modernize its IT infrastructure, beginning July 31, in the U.S. and Mexico, resulting in greater capacity and performance and significant cost savings for the company.

KCS will move data from the old to the new infrastructure, which requires an eight-hour outage for the technology systems supported by this infrastructure. During the outage, no yard or local train activity will take place. Only pre-selected trains will continue to operate.

KCS' IT department has been preparing for this transition with various other departments for 18 months. The cut-over will be managed from command centers in Kansas City, Mo., Laredo, Texas and Monterrey, Mexico.