Achieve fuel efficiency of 1.24 gallons per 1,000 GTMs

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 5 May 2020
Due: 31 Dec 2020
Delivered: 31 Dec 2020

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What the company said

“2020 Full Year Goal: 1.24”

SourceKansas City Southern Form 8-K press release, 2020-05-05
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as stated2020
Deadline used31 Dec 2020, the last day of the stated period
TypeOther
Permanent referenceKI-C-2020-C054480-019576
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2020-C054480-019576/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Later filings report full-year 2020 fuel efficiency of 1.24 gallons per 1,000 GTMs, matching the 1.24 goal for the year ended December 31, 2020.

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Kansas City Southern 8-K filed 2021-01-22 Regulatory filing · published 22 Jan 2021 · retrieved 21 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 8124d3374ea8
“These actions resulted in significant improvements to train length and fuel efficiency, improving 12% and 5%, respectively.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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Kansas City Southern 10-K filed 2021-01-29 Regulatory filing · published 29 Jan 2021 · retrieved 21 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint d44441679d42
“Fuel efficiency (gallons per 1,000 GTM's) (v)1.241.315%” ✓ confirmed on the page
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Kansas City Southern 8-K filed 2021-03-02 Regulatory filing · published 2 Mar 2021 · retrieved 21 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 7697c65ea566
“Fuel efficiency (gallons per 1,000 GTM’s) 1.37 1.31 1.24 1.16” ✓ confirmed on the page
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Kansas City Southern 10-K filed 2022-02-01 Regulatory filing · published 1 Feb 2022 · retrieved 21 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC
“Fuel efficiency (gallons per 1,000 GTM's) (iv)1.231.241% (i) Gross velocity is the average train speed” ✓ confirmed on the page

Checked 21 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 5 May 2020

Deadline 31 Dec 2020 (“2020”) · target 1.24 gallons per 1,000 GTMs
Version 2 · stated 4 Aug 2020

Deadline 31 Dec 2020 (“FY 2020”) · target 1.19 gallons per 1,000 GTM's

“Fuel efficiency (gallons per 1,000 GTM’s) 1.31 1.21 8% 1.24 1.19”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Other
Indicative materiality: Low rules
Action: Achieve
Deliverable: Fuel efficiency of 1.24 gallons per 1,000 GTMs
Target: 1.24 gallons per 1,000 GTMs
In the company’s control: High
Specificity: High

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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