"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