James D. Byrd

Kansas City Southern is a transportation holding company. The firm also engages in the freight rail transportation business operating through a single coordinated rail network. It focuses on the growing north/south freight corridor connecting key commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with major industrial cities in Mexico. The company was founded by Arthur E. Stilwell in 1887 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

SAK Construction LLC provides pipeline rehabilitation and tunneling contracting services. The firm offers repairing of the sewer and pipeline infrastructure in metropolitan areas without excavation or disruption by utilizing state-of-the-art trenchless technologies, including CIPP (cured-in-place pipe) pipeline rehabilitation. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in O'Fallon, MO.

Affholder, Inc. is a private company based in Missouri that provides pipeline contracting services.

Seven K Construction Co., Inc. provides construction services. The company is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Kansas City Southern Railway Co. provides freight transport services. It provides services for transportation of agricultural, mineral, chemical, petroleum, forest, minerals and coal products. The company was founded by Arthur Edward Stilwella in 1887 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.