[8] Moyers worked to improve and rebuild these lines to allow trains to increase their average speeds from 10 miles per hour (16 km/h) to 25 mph (40 km/h).
[7] After Moyers left MidSouth, the lines were later acquired by Kansas City Southern Railroad in 1993,[9] effective on January 1, 1994.
[12] He soon set to work reducing costs to the railroad including cutting payroll and selling excess rolling stock.
[12] Moyers also tried to bring the MidSouth lines back into the Illinois Central portfolio with a takeover bid announced on December 3, 1990, a move that was seen as positive by rail analysts at the time.
[21] Moyers also questioned the efficiency of the former Rio Grande's Tennessee Pass line versus its Moffat Tunnel line; he noted that the steep grades of Tennessee Pass led to increased fuel and maintenance costs to the railroad, favoring the shorter and lower elevation Moffat route.
[25] He was also active with Louisiana Tech as chair of the university's Centennial Campaign and provided an endowment for honors students in the school's College of Business.
He was one of the individual investors of Noel Group, which spent $8 million to acquire the western network of railroad lines in Brazil from the Brazilian government; Moyers' direct consultation and business plan development was credited as essential in this transaction[26] that created Ferronorte.
He was survived by his wife Helen, son Paul, daughter Nancy, sister Mary Ann, brother Pat, and their respective children.