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. Abandoned Railroads In the early years of the 20th century, most Missouri Pacific and St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern passenger trains were designated by number only, with little emphasis on premier name trains. Author's collection. 1, 1956) Mr. Jenks was elected president, and Mr. Dearmont was elected chairman of the board, in 1961. 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. Mr. Jenks came to the Mo-Pac from the Rock Island Lines where his election as president in 1956 at age 40 made him the youngest president in modern railroad industry. In 1971, Mr. Jenks was elected Mo-Pac chairman and the same year was elected president and chief executive officer of Mississippi River Corp. following the death of Mr. Marbury. Afterwards, four notable systems joined the MoPac: the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (StLIM&S); Texas & Pacific (T&P); International & Great Northern (I&GN); and finally the Missouri, Kansas & Texas ("Katy"). American-Rails.com collection. Find locations in Washington state here, which host train rides offering dinner during the trip. complete with an eagle adorning the locomotives nose. The lines passenger operations were turned over to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) in 1971. One of the company's most noteworthy leaders at this time was Downing Jenks, elected president in 1961 after spending a few years at the Rock Island. Perhaps the most dramatic development in Missouri Pacific service since 1961 has been what Mo-Pac calls "total transportation" Mo-Pac has made steady progress toward its goal: operation as a total transportation company using all transport modes to offer all the combinations of service that a shipper may need. Efficient movement of freight depends in part on Mo-Pac's locomotive and freight car repair and service facilities, among the most complete and modern in the industry. It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. Shortly after hostiles ended the railroad finally reached Kansas City (September 19, 1865) but with damage sustained by Confederate raiders, coupled with further financial difficulties, the entire PR system was placed under Missouri state control during February of 1866. Even the prospect of laying a grade was extremely difficult due to the region's remoteness, sparse population, and lack of infrastructure. Members of the Missouri Pacific Historical Society are entitled to a discount on most of our merchandise. This sale, finalized in 1969, gave the L&N joint ownership and common usage of C&EI's Chicago to Woodland Junction Line and outright ownership from Woodland Junction south through Danville, Ill., to Evansville, Ind. Missouri Pacific Railroad "The MOPAC" MP GP #1606, at Monroe, LA. That train was the first to be operated west of the Mississippi River, and ran the five miles from the depot on Fourteenth Street to Cheltenham in some ten minutes. The completion of Eads Bridge in 1874 extended the new standard gauge track through St. Louis to the Atlantic states. ); operated route-miles totaled 2259 at the end of 1929 (after C, PVS and TSL had become subsidiaries) and 2033 at the end of 1960. Through intensive repairs, the railroad's serviceable cars were increased to more than 97 per cent of its 57,577-car fleet. 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. But unfortunate financial conditions developed in 1933, and the company was placed in the hands of a Trustee, with Mr. Baldwin as chief executive officer. The unsuccessful attempt to merge with the Santa Fe and other merger proposals which had either been rejected or not seriously pursued because of Mo-Pac's capital structure pointed to the need for MRC, which controlled Mo-Pac's Class A stock, and Alleghany Corp., which controlled the Class B stock, to resolve their long-standing differences. Missouri and the West needed railroads, and St. Louisans visualized a railroad all the way to the Pacific Ocean with that railroad starting from their city. The "Missouri Pacific Lines" became the familiar name in the company's public image. On December 9, 1852, a passenger train, with the company's officers and leading citizens of St. Louis aboard, inaugurated the new Pacific Railroad with a trip to the end of the line. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. 18, 2008 (under St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway: St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company; chartered June 6, 1903; became part of the Missouri Pacific Lines on Jan. 1, 1925, but continued to operate as a separate company until it was merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company on Mar. Another named train, the Rainbow Special, was placed in service in July 1921 between Kansas City and Little Rock. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, formerly (1849-72) Pacific Railroad, former American railroad founded to build the first rail line west of the Mississippi River. It operated a number of popular services but is best known for its fleet ofEagles; theAztec Eagle,Colorado Eagle,Missouri River Eagle,Valley Eagle,Louisiana Eagle, and the renownedTexas Eagle. The company's first locomotive, namedPacific(built by theTaunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company of Taunton, Massachusetts), arrived on August 20, 1852; shortly thereafter the first 5 miles from St. Louis to nearby Cheltenham opened. 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. EOW: Friday, March 11, 1932. Work was started on the Brownsville end in 1903 and the Baton Rouge end was finished in 1909. He had entered service of the Missouri Pacific as a district attorney at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1930 and was appointed counsel for the Trustee in 1936. In 1885, the T&P entered receivership and by losing the MK&T through court-order in 1888 Gould also lost the I&GN. The T&P retained control of the 203-mile Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf, and of the 335-mile Midland Valley Railroad. 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. This division extended 38 miles to Franklin, now Pacific, Mo. collection. One Mr. Jenks brought in 1961 was John H. Lloyd. 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. In his book, "Classic American Railroads: Volume III," author and historian Mike Schafer notes that to secure further funding the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad was incorporated for the purpose of opening a southwestern corridor from Franklin to Rolla. After hearings were completed, the ICC in 1968 authorized Mo-Pac and the Chicago & North Western Railroad to purchase the A&S. By that same definition MP operated 10431 route-miles at the end of 1929, after A&G, SAS and Sugar Land had come under NOT&M; NO&LC operated 60 and DK&S (not subsidiary until 1931) operated 6. Despite T&P's 1885 bankruptcy, the two carriers had maintained a close working relationship until the MP finally acquired majority stock control in 1928. Hub of the I-GN, which was built from Longview and Fort Worth to San Antonio and Houston in the late '70s and early '80s, is Palestine, for it is where one stem breaks off to San Antonio and Laredo and the other angles southward to Houston and Galveston. 613023-465 HO Scale ExactRail Platinum EP-80406-3 M.P. St. Louis - Sedalia - Kansas City - Omaha, Osawatomie, Kansas - Wagoner, Oklahoma - North Little Rock, Arkansas, Pleasant Hill, Missouri - Wichita - Geneseo, Kansas, St. Louis - Little Rock - Texarkana, Texas, East St. Louis, Illinois - Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Little Rock - McGehee, Arkansas - Lake Charles, Louisiana, Brownsville, Texas - Baton Rouge - New Orleans, New Orleans - Donaldson - Alexandria, Louisiana, El Paso - Longview - Livonia, Louisiana - New Orleans. The change was also of advantage at Kansas City where the Pacific connected with the newly started Kansas Pacific, which later became the Union Pacific. The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. This carrier, led by William Barstow Strong, had quickly established itself as a powerful western railroad. Under war-time restriction in 1942, the "Colorado Eagles,' St. Louis to Denver diesel-powered passenger trains, replaced the Scenic Limited on June 21. Like other early subscribers those men acted in the public interest rather than in expectation of any early direct return on their investments. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. These early switch engines were followed by passenger locomotives which powered the company's first lightweight, streamlined train, the "Missouri River Eagle", placed in service in 1940. Texas also was engaged in building railroads before the Civil War. With the Missouri Pacific as a foundation, Gould then welded together a great network of rail lines known as the "Southwest System" In 1880, five other smaller western railroads were consolidated with the Missouri Pacific, and in 1881 control of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern was acquired. The country was canvassed for the most competent engineer, and the choice fell on James P. Kirkwood, who had constructed some of the early Massachusetts railroads and had also been in charge of operation of the New York and Erie. Lee Berglund photo. This service was inaugurated early in 1956. This is the movement of great tonnage's of single bulk products between two points on a regularly scheduled basis. By extending much further than what had been stipulated, Gould took Huntington to court. With the heart of its business destroyed by fire and almost a tenth of its inhabitants dead of cholera, the city exhibited an ominous picture of early death and financial ruin. After two years in the building, the Miller Street Freight Station in St. Louis opened January 2, 1952. It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. The StLIM&S began as theSt. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad (StL&IM), chartered by the state of Missouri on March 3, 1851. As the industry struggled through the 1970's the merger movement gained evermore momentum. Unfortunately, funding could not be sustained and construction stalled. It was placed in service in 1856. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad also sought control of the C&EI. 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. Russel L. Dearmont, for 20 years counsel for the Trustee, was elected president to succeed Mr. Neff. The unit debuted In 1982 the Missouri Pacific merged with the Union Pacific and Western Pacific Railroad companies to form the Union Pacific System, under the holding company Union Pacific Corporation. In an effort to combat this threat, Gould engaged in a drawn out battle for control of the agriculture and cattle trade by constructing a tangled web of branch lines across Kansas. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. Looking back, it was the discovery of gold in California in 1848 that brought forcibly to the attention of the American people the urgent need for more rapid and dependable transportation facilities in the West. See a list of lines from 1916 (just before a . and cost the company $7,650.00. It was also in 1874 that the Union Depot Company in St. Louis was incorporated. When designing the locomotive, the creative team concentrated on two particular time periods: the 1940s, when Mo-Pac introduced a blue, gray and white color scheme with a thin yellow accent stripe, and the 1960s, when the paint scheme was altered to a solid dark blue with the MP buzz saw logo. Photo by Jim Holder, 11/10/1987. A long-range program of installing radio in wayside stations to maintain contact with trains on the line was begun in that period. A flat switching yard, Settegast fulfilled a need for expanded facilities to service the fast-growing Texas Gulf Coast petrochemical industry. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD #1847 ORIGINAL KODACHROME SLIDE. Its tracks covered 375 acres. It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. Other notable MoPac trains operated included: Missouri Pacific gained a reputation for aggressively discontinuing passenger trains after the mid-1960s. The other three systems have their own interesting stories, far too long to cover in any great detail within this article. Missouri Pacific E7A #26 departs St. Louis Union Station with train #17, the "Missouri River Eagle," during the 1960s. Bridges, buildings, tracks and rolling stock were destroyed all the way from Franklin to Kansas City. Value for items from a line like Missouri Pacific Railroad can be in a huge range from a couple dollars for something small like a pinback or deck of cards, to thousands for a builder's plate off a famous locomotive or hundreds for a hard to find lantern. Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. to promote people already with the railroad and to make room for personnel brought in from outside. Leaders in St. Louis, Missouri, soon visualized a railroad to the Pacific Ocean. Please use the main menu to navigate to the item category of your choice. ). On December 9th the company's inaugural train, also credited as the first to operate west of the Mississippi River, chugged down this track carrying local dignitaries and officials. Such operations include run-through trains with pooled locomotive of Mo-Pac and other roads and coordinated transcontinental service for which the Missouri Pacific joins with one or more other rail carriers to provide streamlined transportation. According to Joe Collias's book "Frisco Power: Locomotives And Trains Of The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, 1903-1953," it was chartered in March of 1849 by the State of Missouri to link St. Louis with the Pacific coast. The merger plan was drafted and subsequently was approved by stockholders of the three companies at separate meetings in October, 1974. Alleghany Corp., a New York based holding company, once controlled the Missouri Pacific and when the railroad emerged from reorganization in 1956, Allegheny's common stock holdings were transformed into Class B shares. Screen and interview candidates (2-3 weeks). Afterwards, following theInternational-Great Northern Railroad reorganization in 1922 it, also joined the MoPac (January 1, 1925). When the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) assumed passenger train operations on May 1, 1971, the only Missouri Pacific route included as part of Amtrak's basic system was its main line from St. Louis to Kansas City. Mississippi Board Chairman William G. Marbury's candidate to succeed Russell L. Dearmont as president of Mo-Pac was Downing B. Jenks. These subsidiaries have become a major trucking system, operating more than 3,100 units of equipment over 18,000 miles of highway routes in Missouri Pacific's mid-America territory. American-Rails.com 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. 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. 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. The Missouri Pacific's immediate ancestry can be traced back to the Pacific Railroad. This line had to link up with the Iron Mountain to provide through service from St. Louis to Texas. 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. Missouri Pacific E8A #40 (built as #7020), circa 1968. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. This includes the Texas & Pacific, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf, Alton & Southern and many other roads that were part of the MP family. For his many faults, Gould is credited with establishing many of the classic systems we know so well today; names like the Wabash,Katy, Rio Grande, and Wheeling & Lake Erie. A former Rock Island GP38-2 is ahead of this Missouri Pacific freight at Vinson Siding near Austin, Texas during the early 1980s. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD #1847 ORIGINAL KODACHROME SLIDE. Location not recorded. 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. West from that point the railroad was purposely located away from the Missouri River for fear that it would be unable to compete with the steamboats. The Cairo & Fulton built through Arkansas southward into Texarkana, a move that had been delayed by the Civil War. As a result, any attempt to do so here would be impossible. A consistent industry leader each year in both growth and volume of piggyback and containerized traffic, Mo-Pac has invested heavily-more than $20 million since 1961 in the facilities and hardware needed to efficiently handle intermodal movements. Progress, though, was interrupted again by the Civil War's outbreak. 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. The Pacific was chartered by Missouri in 1849 to extend "from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean ." [1] 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. ", Union Pacific Diesel Locomotive Paint Schemes, Handbook of Texas: Missouri Pacific System, Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missouri_Pacific_Railroad&oldid=1093663531, This page was last edited on 18 June 2022, at 02:28. About the Missouri Pacific R.R. The result for the MoPac heritage locomotive was a two-tone blue and white color scheme that harkens back to the streamliner days and combines the buzz saw logo and screaming eagle graphic introduced in the 1960s. The Sunshine Special soon eclipsed the other trains in travel volume, becoming the signature train of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The George Washington became the C&O's flagship train between Cincinnati and Norfolk after it was inaugurated in 1932. It operated from 1948 to 1971. While these surveys were in progress, efforts were continued to secure aid from Congress. Two years later, on September 13, 1982 the Interstate Commerce Commission also gave its blessing and a much larger Union Pacific was born. Since the early Sixties, the Missouri Pacific has steadily increased its traffic share of such major commodities as chemicals, automobiles and auto parts, wheat and other food grains, lumber and paper products, steel, iron ore, sand and gravel, and coal. The former MoPac building has undergone rehab as apartments and is now known as Park Pacific. Locomotives and cars came the same way. His expansion efforts were so aggressive that, according to the article, "Building The Main Line Of The Missouri Pacific Through Kansas" by A. Bower Sageser, the MoPac had reached Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1882 and Pueblo, Colorado on December 2, 1887. However, the merger was delayed by parties seeking reconsideration of the Commission's order. Missouri Pacific, however, maintained its own corporate and commercial identity until 1997, when it fully merged with Union Pacific. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. 2600 from 2008 (2007:1), nee 630 2601 from 2501, nee T&P 601 . 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. Media related to Missouri Pacific Railroad at Wikimedia Commons, Learn how and when to remove this template message, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, "About Missouri Pacific: A Brief Overview. MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great Depression, and entered into trusteeship. 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