An interesting way to advertise the McKeen Motor Car

Jason Midyette · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2025 12:25 pm

I found another gem in the items saved from the Kansas City Southern files by longtime (1940-1984) KCS employee Robert Campbell;

This is a January 16, 1912 Memorandum from KCS Telegraph Superintendent R.L. Logan to KCS General Manager J.E. Muhlfeld regarding his visit to the McKeen Motor Car Works in Omaha, Nebraska.

Jason Midyette

Daylight25 · **Joined:** Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:00 pm **Posts:** 187

This would interest the McKeen Motor Car Company Historical Society

https://mckeencar.com/

Larry Lovejoy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:58 pm

Looks like a early but likely unintentional example of what rail vehicle engineers now call "crash energy management".

/s/ Larry
Lawrence G. Lovejoy, P.E.

M.M.C.C.H.S. · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2025 4:55 am

I have known about this incident for a good while, but the nice quality photos, as opposed to printed photo in a magazine, is quite nice, and what a coincidence, as I recently bought a General Electric Motor Car Catalog from the Kansas City Southern I believe.

Daylight25 wrote:

This would interest the McKeen Motor Car Company Historical Society

https://mckeencar.com/

M.M.C.C.H.S. · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2025 4:56 am

Jason Midyette, Would you mind emailing me at McKeenMotorCar@gmail.com?

Jason Midyette wrote:

I found another gem in the items saved from the Kansas City Southern files by longtime (1940-1984) KCS employee Robert Campbell;

This is a January 16, 1912 Memorandum from KCS Telegraph Superintendent R.L. Logan to KCS General Manager J.E. Muhlfeld regarding his visit to the McKeen Motor Car Works in Omaha, Nebraska.

Jason Midyette