Modernization of the properties continued uninterruptedly, and in November, 1959 a $13-million double-crest automatic freight car classification yard was opened for service in Kansas City, Mo. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad also sought control of the C&EI. In 1880 Gould gained control of the Texas & Pacific, and then had his Missouri Pacific lease the Missouri, Kansas & Texas system. Interestingly the Eagle name did not disappear after passenger services ended. ). If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Explorer. The temporary organization was succeeded by a permanent one, with Thomas Allen as president. However, the Pacific Railroad itself established a fleet of twelve steamboats to connect with the trains at Jefferson City and transport passengers and freight on up the river to Kansas City and beyond. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 8x6 HISTORIC PHOTO OF OTTAWA KANSAS MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD DEPOT c1950 at the best online prices at eBay! Under war-time restriction in 1942, the "Colorado Eagles,' St. Louis to Denver diesel-powered passenger trains, replaced the Scenic Limited on June 21. Occupying more than five acres, the huge building had space for 180 freight cars under one roof. The Missouri Pacific Railroad ( reporting mark MP ), commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. To permit the free interchange of cars with those eastern railroads which had standard gauge and which expected to use the new bridge, in 1869 the Pacific Railroad changed its original " wide gauge" track to standard gauge. Enjoy all the splendor West Virginia's natural beauty has to offer while enjoying dinner by train on the West Virginia Central and other locations. In his book, "Missouri Pacific Lines: Freight Train Services And Equipment," author Patrick Dorin notes ground was broken in St. Louis on July 4, 1851. But with financial difficulties now slowing progress, it took nineteen months before the next eighteen miles (to Washington, Mo.) Enter US $2.75 or more [ 1 bid] Unfortunately, despite escaping the Goulds' grip the railroad remained hampered by heavy debt and in need of considerable improvements. Find the locations in Minnesota here which harken back to the bygone era of rail travel when dinner was served aboard the train. Completion of the recapitalization of the Missouri Pacific was accomplished early in 1974. Under his direction the T&P continued its march, reaching Sierra Blanca in West Texas onDecember 16, 1881 with a goal of connecting to the Southern Pacific at El Paso. James H. Lucas offered to be one of three to make up $100,000, a large sum for those days. It survived until Amtrak in 1971. Other predecessors included the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS), Texas and Pacific Railway (TP), Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI), St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway (SLBM), Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), Midland Valley Railroad (MV), San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad (SAU&G), Gulf Coast Lines (GC), International-Great Northern Railroad (IGN), Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota Railroad, New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway (NOTM), Missouri-Illinois Railroad (MI), as well as the small Central Branch Railway (an early predecessor of MP in Kansas and south-central Nebraska), and joint ventures such as the Alton and Southern Railroad (AS). The Kansas City and proved so successful that similar, single-crest classification yard was built in North Little Rock, Ark., and went in service March, 1961. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD #1847 ORIGINAL KODACHROME SLIDE. Its last 26 years as an independent entity were defined by strong management and high quality service. Certain branch lines in Arkansas and Louisiana were purchased. Of his early escapades, battling the powerful Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railway is the best-remember. In 1968, Mo-Pac and the Mississippi River Corp. withdrew their joint application, partly because of the complex nature of Mo-Pac's dual stock structure which had led to litigation between the two classes of Missouri Pacific stockholders. Despite unfavorable weather and shaky finances, this was accomplished on April 2,1857. It was re-organized as the Missouri Pacific in 1956. Extensions were built through Kansas and Colorado to Pueblo, western terminus of the Missouri Pacific system, while the Iron Mountain's southern line was completed into Alexandria, Louisiana. 810750-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-06 MP Missouri Pacific Eagles Route Box Car #18130 $24.95. American-Rails.com collection. Our History The Cairo & Fulton built through Arkansas southward into Texarkana, a move that had been delayed by the Civil War. Numerous plans for reorganization of the properties under the Trusteeship were advanced from time to time, but one after the other failed to meet the approval of the various parties of interest. While the United States Government was still considering allowing construction of a railroad across federal land in the West, Missouri funded its own first step across the continent. The railroad's largest maintenance center for locomotives and cars is at North Little Rock where an automated wheel shop and airbrake shop were built in 1964. As soon as it gained control of the C&EI in 1967, Mo-Pac began to rebuild the railroad and bring it up to the modern standards of the rest of the Mo-Pac System. Missouri and the West needed railroads, and St. Louisans visualized a railroad all the way to the Pacific Ocean and wanted very much for that railroad to start from their city. collection. Locomotives and cars came the same way. It operated from 1948 to 1971. Mike Bledsoe photo. With its driving wheels five feet in diameter, the engine weighed 29,000 lbs. The first locomotive was the "Pacific,' which also bore the number "3" It was made at Taunton, Massachusetts, and was unloaded on the river wharf on August 20, 1852. It may have been the discovery of gold in California in 1848 that ignited in the American people the urgent need for more rapid and dependable transportation facilities in the West. For the automobile industry, Mo-Pac also operates special trains that carry parts to assembly plants and move finished vehicles to unloading/distribution facilities at strategic trackside locations. The company also increased its efforts to attract new industries to its 12-state territory. Looking north from St. Louis, Mo-Pac had long recognized that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad represented a natural extension of its routes into Chicago, the nation's largest rail gateway and the primary gateway for traffic moving between the U.S. and Canada. Limited by law for several years to handling less-than-carload traffic in railsubstitute service, Mo-Pac's truck lines achieved a major breakthrough in 1975 when they were granted authorization to handle interstate traffic on their own, instead of railroad, billing, Missouri Pacific's trucking subsidiaries have played an important role in Mo-Pac total transportation operations, both performing on their own and assisting the railroad to perform several intermodal operations and services. With the Union Pacific Merger taking into effect on December 22, 1982, the Missouri Pacific sought to keep its Jenks Blue scheme. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. To effect economies in operation and eliminate costly duplicate facilities, a consolidation of the operations of the majority-owned Texas & Pacific Railway subsidiary into the Missouri Pacific lines was being effected in 1963. An official, 1930 system map of the Missouri Pacific and subsidiaries. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3193 and SD40 #3027 have the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train" near Kyle, Texas, circa 1982. Making airfreight and the other elements of total transportation work together has required prompt adoption of new technology, particularly in the areas of traffic control, communications and computer applications. During is last years of service the MoPac was a fine operation; in 1979 it had a net income of $32.6 million and gross revenues of over $524 million. Under the direction of Chief Engineer Kirkwood, purchases of land were begun and grading started. On December 22, 1982 the Missouri Pacific was purchased by the Union Pacific Corporation and combined with the Western Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad to form one large railroad system. In this table "MP" includes New Orleans Texas & Mexico and all its subsidiary railroads (Beaumont Sour Lake & Western, I-GN, StLB&M, etc.) Through intensive repairs, the railroad's serviceable cars were increased to more than 97 per cent of its 57,577-car fleet. Missouri railroads date back to 1849 when the Pacific Railroad (predecessor to the Missouri Pacific) was chartered to connect St. Louis with points to the west. Another transport mode water was added to Mo-Pac's total transportation arsenal in 1969 with the establishment of Missouri Pacific Intermodal Transport, Inc., a non-vessel operator that handles the details of ocean freight forwarding for international shippers. Throughout the 1960's the railroad perfected the use of electronics, which led to the Transportation Control System (TCS). PrettyPaper09. Those trains replaced the famed Sunshine Special and made their inaugural runs on August 15, 1948. John O'Fallon and Daniel D. Page promptively joined Lucas. Thus, in April, 1938, the Missouri Pacific Freight Transport Company was organized as a subsidiary of the railroad. Today, its 12,000-mile network comprises a significant component of the country's largest and most powerful railroad. As traffic recovered the MoPac began overhauling its network with infrastructure upgrades, improved and expanded freight service (in April of 1938 it launched a trucking division, Missouri Pacific Freight Transport Company), and later centralized traffic control. Missouri Pacific Diesel Power, by Kevin EuDaly Railroad & Railfan magazine Trains magazine; Return to Fallen Flags. This pioneer company had been chartered by the State of Missouri on March 12, 1849 and was to "extend from St. Louis via Jefferson City to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the . Missouri Pacific E8A #40 (built as #7020), circa 1968. For a fascinating background of this carrier and how it wound up under Gould's direction purchase a copy of Mr. Cline's book. During that decade the already very-large Burlington Northern system (formed in 1970) added the St. Louis-San Francisco, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific attempted their own marriage, and Union Pacific was eyeing the Western Pacific. The Missouri Trust Company was established in 1880, and the Third National Bank was established in 1882. Lee Berglund photo. In 1885, the T&P entered receivership and by losing the MK&T through court-order in 1888 Gould also lost the I&GN. I must however defend the position that the "MoPac" played a major part in Kansas railroading. At the end of 1960 MP operated 9362 route-miles, NO&LC and DK&S were the same, and M-I operated 172 miles. In 1885 the management of the Texas & Pacific was separated from that of the Missouri Pacific, and in 1888 the lease of the Katy railroad properties was terminated, a move which divorced the I-GN from Missouri Pacific control. The Missouri Pacific Railroad logo (blue). An 'important factor in Mo-Pac's recent history has been the Mississippi River Corp., a holding company which also controls subsidiaries involved in the production and transmission of natural gas as well as cement manufacturing. Another disaster occurred when fire, which broke out on a river steamboat, spread and destroyed twenty-two other boats, and a considerable part of the business district. An early obstacle that had to be overcome by the railroad's builders was the requirement of the U.S. War Department that Iron Mountain trains had to be pulled by horses or mules through the government property at the St. Louis Arsenal, the U.S. Marine Hospital and at Jefferson Barracks to avoid the hazard of fire from sparks from the woodbuming locomotives. On December 1, 1989, the Missouri Kansas Texas and the Galveston, Houston & Henderson were merged into the Missouri Pacific after having been acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation in 1988. However, he, too, suffered the same fate as his father when the financial Panic of 1907 broke up his empire. Afterwards, following theInternational-Great Northern Railroad reorganization in 1922 it, also joined the MoPac (January 1, 1925). On August 9, 1871 the first 25 miles were finished out of Houston but, alas, fate had different plans as Young was killed during an inspection trip that August day. North Little Rock also is the location of the railroad system headquarters for distribution of materials and supplies. On April 2, 1858 it opened to Pilot Knob (very near Ironton), then continued expanding southwestward. But, the Great Depression proved a turning point as the MP slowly transformed itself into a modern, respectable, and profitable carrier. However, it really took off following several bankruptcies and the Staggers Act's passage in 1980. It featured the use of demountable containers in truck-rail service, the trailer bodies being lifted off their wheels by gantry cranes and deposited onto flatcars for rail transport to destination. After two years in the building, the Miller Street Freight Station in St. Louis opened January 2, 1952. 'MOPAC' then went into receivership itself in 1933, for 23 years! Thousands of new freight cars and hundreds of locomotives have been added to the Mo-Pac System freight fleet, which ranks as one of the best-maintained and youngest fleets in the rail industry. Gould developed a system extending through Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. in addition, via the C&EI's western leg, Mo-Pac now had a line to provide direct service between the important Chicago and St. Louis gateways. A multi-stage modernization program carried out at Mo-Pac's major freight car repair complex at DeSoto, Mo., was completed in 1966 with construction of a car fabricating shop, the seventh new structure built during the project. Just type in a town or city and click on the timeline of maps at the bottom of the page! Mo-Pac immediately applied to the Commission for authorization to control the C&EI, which was granted in 1967. When new streamlined trains were delivered, the Scenic Limited and Rainbow Special names faded, but the Sunshine Special had sufficient name recognition to co-exist along with the new streamliners into the late 1950s. Railroad Notes, Abbreviations & Sources: Several "2500 Series" GP35s were later re-#d 2600-17. As part of these attempts to get the railroad actually underway, the, Meanwhile, work on the Iron Mountain had continued southward from St. Louis and by May, 1857, the 800-ft.-long tunnel at Vineland had been completed along with a bridge over the Meramec River. Mr. Lloyd succeeded Mr. Jenks as president of the Missouri Pacific in 1972 and was elected chief executive officer of Mo-Pac in 1974. As the majority owner of Class B stock, Alleghany had, in effect, a veto power over mergers or other major moves affecting the railroad's capitalization since a majority vote of each class of common' stock - B as well as A - was needed for approval. Mo-Pac's heavy investment in shops and yards has been matched with both investment and innovations in service to improve the railroad's competitive position. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. By July 1853 work on the two tunnels west of Kirkwood was completed so that the "First Division" of the railroad could be opened. In addition to these items, we have informative articles about various aspects of the operation of the railroad. As a result, any attempt to do so here would be impossible. That same year it began marketing itself as the "Missouri Pacific Lines" to better reflect the many subsidiaries comprising the system. As a result, a plan to join the UP/WP merger was worked out by all three railroads in 1980 (MP shareholders approved the deal on April 18th). A variety of Eagle trains were operated, with the first such train inaugurated in 1940. The first section of track was completed in 1852; in 1865, it was the first railroad in Kansas City, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. Under the leadership of Downing B. Jenks, who became president and chief executive in 1961, the company became a pioneer in the early days of computer-guided rail technology. In short, the MP owned a web of main lines and secondary corridors which were spread out across Missouri, Kansas, eastern Colorado, eastern Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. Although it acquired title to its original property on May 12, 1917, it did not commence recording the results of the operations of its property in its books until June 1, 1917. By 1955 all steam locomotives had been retired from service and soon all were scrapped. Other notable MoPac trains operated included: Missouri Pacific gained a reputation for aggressively discontinuing passenger trains after the mid-1960s. About the Missouri Pacific R.R. On May 2, 1872 the company's name was changed to the Texas & Pacific Railway and just a year later, the first segment between Marshall and Texarkana was completed (December 28, 1873). The Missouri Pacific Railroad constructed a brick shop building, and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad established a hospital. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco, the Scenic Limited operated over the Western Pacific Railroad. Bridges, buildings, tracks and rolling stock were destroyed all the way from Franklin to Kansas City. In his book, "The Rebirth Of The Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983," author Craig Miner articulately details how the MoPac became one of the Midwest's most prominent carriers during an era when several others were struggling. Missouri Pacific GP35's, with #620 out front, lead a northbound past the yard at Dupo, Illinois (just south of East St. Louis) on May 18, 1968. The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. One such system was the so-called "Gulf Coast Lines" (GSL). (2,221) $7.00. Mr. Neff was elected president of the new Missouri Pacific, but a year later-in May, 1957-he relinquished the presidency and was named chairman of the board. UP continued to use the MoPac headquarters building at 210 N. 13th St. in downtown St. Louis for its customer service center until February 15, 2005. Completed in 1971 and named Centennial Yard in honor of The Texas and Pacific Railway's 100th year, the new 44-track classification yard is one of the most modern in the nation. Gould noted the westward expansion policy of the new Missouri Pacific Railway as a threat to his Union Pacific, and in 1879 he bought a controlling interest in the company and became its president. However, in spite of the cholera and the fire, optimism prevailed, and on January 31, 1850, a preliminary organization was formed and stock subscription lists were opened. It had its origins when the Pacific Railroad (of Missouri) was chartered on March 12, 1849, to build from St. Louis to the western boundary . Welcome to our online archives section We have a large collection of documents and images in our archival holdings. In 1937 the first diesel locomotives made their appearance on Missouri Pacific tracks. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. These properties serving Texas and Louisiana were formally merged in 1925 with the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The task was especially difficult because the old yard was kept operating while the new one was built on top of it. By extending much further than what had been stipulated, Gould took Huntington to court. This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. Within four years these Eagles had run 2,616,904 miles and had carried 2,062,000 passengers. The system's major components included St. Louis & Iron Mountain, from St. Louis south, chartered in 1851; International & Great Northern, in Texas (1873); and Gulf Coast Lines, a 1913 merger creation of a collection of roads between New . While the railroad failed to reach its namesake ocean it later achieved a direct route into Chicago. The Missouri Pacific Railroad logo (blue). American-Rails.com collection. One Mr. Jenks brought in 1961 was John H. Lloyd. The Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP), commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. These railroads crossed at Muskogee, Okla., and through a connection at Okay, Okla., had direct "cut-across" access to lines into Wichita and Kansas City. during the summer of 2005 and received a number recognizing Missouri Pacifics final year of independence, 1982. Gould noted the westward expansion policy of the new Missouri Pacific Railway as a threat to his Union Pacific, and in 1879 he bought a controlling interest in the company and became its president. As with other key projects which began west of the Mississippi River (Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Northern Pacific) land grants would aid the T&P's development; the government awarded twenty sections per mile through California and forty sections within the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico. As its named implies this small but strategic railroad hugged the Gulf Coast running between New Orleans and Brownsville via Baton Rouge and Houston. New centers were built at Lee's Summit, Mo., and St. Louis in 1973. An important intermodal step toward total transportation was made in 1972 when Missouri Pacific Airfreight, Inc. began operations in St. Louis. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. In 1909 many smaller subsidiaries were formally merged with the parent Missouri Pacific Railway, and in March, 1917, a final merger of the Missouri Pacific Railway and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (Iron Mountain) was completed and a new company was formed - the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. The Missouri Pacific is a corporation of Missouri, having its principal office at St. Louis, Mo. Of all the lines which Gould had joined to the Missouri Pacific only the Iron Mountain remained at the end of 1888. American-Rails.com collection. However, due to outstanding bonds of the Missouri Pacific, its full merger into the Union Pacific Railroad did not become official until January 1, 1997. From this point, a dispatcher controls movements over a particular segment of track, i.e., territory. In 1967, a holder of Mo-Pac Class B shares sued the railroad over its dividend policy. Author's collection. 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