Gould also purchased control of the International Great Northern and completed the line of this latter railroad into Laredo, Texas. 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. Missouri Pacific GP7 #230 with an interesting baggage-coach caboose, used in branch line service to handle remaining passenger business; May, 1968. Mr. Lloyd succeeded Mr. Jenks as president of the Missouri Pacific in 1972 and was elected chief executive officer of Mo-Pac in 1974. At Tipton, the mail and passengers were transferred to a waiting Pacific Railroad special train for the run to St. Louis. It took congressional action to overcome this handicap. Railroad Notes, Abbreviations & Sources: Several "2500 Series" GP35s were later re-#d 2600-17. The T&P retained control of the 203-mile Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf, and of the 335-mile Midland Valley Railroad. The stock market crash of 1929 only made matters worse and before long it had slipped into bankruptcy once more. The Burlington Northern mainline is in the background. 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. By then, Jay Gould had made a name for himself as a shady but successful Wall Street speculator; he first entered the railroad industry during 1859 and within a decade had blossomed into an influential tycoon. However, physical improvements of the properties and diversification of its services were encouraged by the Federal Court. 2023 Missouri Pacific Historical Society, This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. 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. During Paul Neff's tenure in office, piggyback freight traffic gained impetus in American railroading and under his direction Missouri Pacific developed a specialized method of handling this type of business. Growth by merger was on Mo-Pac's mind early in 1966 when it began buying shares of Santa Fe Railway preferred stock. As it continued expanding westward Jay Gould became involved during the fall of 1879 and subsequently leased it to the MP in 1881. Bridges, buildings, tracks and rolling stock were destroyed all the way from Franklin to Kansas City. 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. In 1868 the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River was started at St. Louis, thus beginning what Kirkwood had thought impossible, a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River. 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. Fredericktown Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot, also known as the Fredericktown Depot, is a historic train station located at Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri.It was built in 1917 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, later Missouri Pacific Railroad.It is a one-story rectangular brick building with a low-pitched red tile hipped roof with Prairie School and Bungalow . American-Rails.com collection. Author's work. Although no longer active, the Missouri Pacific Railroad, also referred to as MoPac or, more . Also known as the "Erie War," Gould eventually defeated the Commodorefor control of the company before being ousted, himself, as president in 1872. 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. 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. Freight terminals, piggyback facilities and track-rail installations were either built new or greatly improved and expanded throughout the Sixties at San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, North Little Rock, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1855, work on the original PR resumed as it reached Jefferson City. Colorado Eagle: (St. Louis - Pueblo - Denver), Louisiana Sunshine Special: (Little Rock - Lake Charles), Missouri River Eagle: (St. Louis - Omaha), Missourian: (St. Louis - Kansas City/Wichita), Rainbow Special: (Kansas City - Little Rock), Southerner: (St. Louis - El Paso/San Antonio/New Orleans), Sunflower: (St. Louis - Kansas City/Wichita), Sunshine Special: (St. Louis - Hot Springs/San Antonio), Texas Eagle: (St. Louis - El Paso/San Antonio/Palestine/Galveston). MoPac has actively promoted this new route and is moving an increasing amount of traffic as trade among the U.S.., Canada and Mexico continues to grow. The train to make that trip was pulled by a locomotive made in the new St. Louis locomotive plant of Palm & Robertson. Mike Bledsoe photo. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. 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. The unit debuted The new lines provided all-rail routes between St. Louis, Dallas and Houston, and through Pullman cars soon ran. While the Pacific Railroad was thus being started, other Missouri railroad projects were being fostered. Interestingly, as Mike Schafer notes in his book, "More Classic American Railroads," when the merger occurred MP actually carried more locomotives route mileage than UP. By 1911 it operated 1,106 miles. Alleghany Corp. joined the suit the next year. We strive to offer a variety of merchandise that is related to the Missouri Pacific Railroad and all of its predecessors and affiliates. The completion of Eads Bridge in 1874 extended the new standard gauge track through St. Louis to the Atlantic states. By the early 20th century the younger tycoon had, once again, nearly accomplished the feat through control of the Missouri Pacific, Western Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Western Maryland, and Wheeling & Lake Erie along with the Wabash. One was Houston's first railroad, the Houston Tap. But it was not until two years later, on March 1, 1956, that the United States District Court at St. Louis officially ended Missouri Pacific's 23 years of receivership. An advertising slogan in 1933 proclaimed: "It's 70-degrees in the Sunshine when it's 100-degrees in the shade," referring to the fact that the Sunshine Special was one of the first air-conditioned trains in the southwest. This was also true with the Missouri Pacific, which he acquired in 1879. The Pacific Railroad was chartered in 1851, opened the next year, and renamed Missouri Pacific in 1870. 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. An important part of Missouri transportation service is transportation consultation, provided to customers by Mo-Pac sales representatives. But, the Great Depression proved a turning point as the MP slowly transformed itself into a modern, respectable, and profitable carrier. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. 613023-465 HO Scale ExactRail Platinum EP-80406-3 M.P. After hearings were completed, the ICC in 1968 authorized Mo-Pac and the Chicago & North Western Railroad to purchase the A&S. and cost the company $7,650.00. In the streamliner era, the Missouri Pacific's premier passenger trains were collectively known as the Eagles. The Missouri Trust Company was established in 1880, and the Third National Bank was established in 1882. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3193 and SD40 #3027 have the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train" near Kyle, Texas, circa 1982. Corrections? At the time of their construction, these lines were subsidiaries of the Frisco. 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] The Cairo & Fulton built through Arkansas southward into Texarkana, a move that had been delayed by the Civil War. The merger plan was drafted and subsequently was approved by stockholders of the three companies at separate meetings in October, 1974. 810751-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-11 MP . It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. 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. This changed in May, 1915, with the inauguration of the Scenic Limited between St. Louis, Kansas City, and San Francisco. The company was reorganized and the trusteeship ended in 1956.[1]. In December, 1880 Gould gained control of the I&GN (later leased to the MK&T as of June 1, 1881) and it appeared his grip on Texas was firmly established. Mo-Pac made major strides in improving the efficiency of its operations through mergers and acquisitions. American-Rails.com collection. 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. Through intensive repairs, the railroad's serviceable cars were increased to more than 97 per cent of its 57,577-car fleet. Specifically, the recapitalization involved issuing one share of $5 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock for each share of previously outstanding Class A Common Stock and the issuance of 16 shares of Common Stock, plus $850 in cash, for each share of previously outstanding Class B stock. Two years in building, it embodied the latest advances in electronic technology. On July 30, 2005, UP unveiled a brand new EMD SD70ACe locomotive, Union Pacific 1982, with Missouri Pacific paint and logos, as part of a new heritage program. Author's work. 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. into a version of its famous blue and gray passenger livery 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. The process had been ongoing since the late 1950's as executives sought to cut red ink. Construction of this segment began on July 19, 1853 but required upwards of seven years before it was finally completed in 1860. James H. Lucas offered to be one of three to make up $100,000, a large sum for those days. This latter point also witnessed interchange traffic from the nearby International & Great Northern (I&GN), which connected with the T&P at Longview. So little was then known of much of central Missouri that Kirkwood's civil engineers surveyed five possible routes to enable a proper choice of the best one. John O'Fallon and Daniel D. Page promptively joined Lucas. Learn about the vital importance of Illinois to the nation's railroads and enjoy dinner aboard a train at the Monticello Railway Museum. I must however defend the position that the "MoPac" played a major part in Kansas railroading. For a fascinating background of this carrier and how it wound up under Gould's direction purchase a copy of Mr. Cline's book. The people of Missouri then had their first look at a steam railroad. However, the process was slow. Location not recorded. And so as it entered its 113th year of service to the public, the Missouri Pacific - Texas & Pacific System, with its 12,000 miles of railroad in twelve states, had become a dominant force in the transportation services available to the dynamic west-southwest territory it helped to build. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. 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. 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. Thanks to World War II's incredible traffic blitzkrieg these upgrades continued and by 1955 dieselization was completed. 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. Like other early subscribers those men acted in the public interest rather than in expectation of any early direct return on their investments. 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. In the two-year period, 1962-1963, more than $100,000,000 was spent to improve the equipment, track and structures of the system. 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. Between 1885 and 1892, however, there was a large increase of Missouri Pacific mileage through construction of subsidiary lines. The citizens had turned out en masse to take part in the ground-breaking celebration for the start of construction of the Pacific Railroad, the first railroad west of the Mississippi River. 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 this same period developments in the field of electronic data processing found increased railroad applications and the company soon acquired its first computers and the complex array of component equipment. 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. This program, one of the first in the railroad industry, has been expanded and upgraded since. While the Pacific Railroad was thus being started, other Missouri railroad projects were being fostered. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3117 leads a long freight through western Kansas in the winter of 1974. 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. Now grain and ore, as well as coal, move in Mo-Pac unit trains. See a list of lines from 1916 (just before a . The Iron Mountain charter of The Missouri Pacific Lines had its real beginning on July 4, 1851, when, amid colorful ceremonies, ground was broken at St. Louis for construction of the Pacific Railroad. A key factor in Mo-Pac's intermodal performance has been the operations of the railroad's two motor carrier subsidiaries: Texas and Pacific Motor Transport Co., and Missouri Pacific Truck Lines, Inc., established in 1929 and 1938, respectively. Location not listed. It was re-organized as the Missouri Pacific in 1956. (2,221) $7.00. North Little Rock also is the location of the railroad system headquarters for distribution of materials and supplies. 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. 'MOPAC' then went into receivership itself in 1933, for 23 years! Construction of this segment began on July 19, 1853 but required upwards of seven years before it was finally completed in 1860. By 1955 all steam locomotives had been retired from service and soon all were scrapped. Vintage 1950's 60's 5 advertising matchbooks, transportation, Railroad, service station. Acting for Missouri Pacific, the railroad was bought on 6/20/24 by the New Orleans, Texas & Mexican Railway Company, which was then bought outright by Missouri Pacific in 1925. Item Information. The most serious one on the Pacific was that led by Sterling Price in the fall of 1864. 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. 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. Its saga began on March 3, 1871 when Congress awarded the then-Texas Pacific Railroad a rare federal charter to establish a southern transcontinental route along the 32nd parallel from Marshall, Texas to San Diego, California. However, it really took off following several bankruptcies and the Staggers Act's passage in 1980. Of all the lines which Gould had joined to the Missouri Pacific only the Iron Mountain remained at the end of 1888. More recently, all-new intermodal distribution centers have been built at St. Louis, Memphis, Ft. Worth, Monroe, La.,and Wichita. These were the St. Louis & Iron Mountain, the Cairo & Fulton, the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad, the North Missouri, and the Hannibal & St. Joseph. With its driving wheels five feet in diameter, the engine weighed 29,000 lbs. The Missouri Pacific Railroad constructed a brick shop building, and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad established a hospital. 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. 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. One such system was the so-called "Gulf Coast Lines" (GSL). In 1967 it gained stock control of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, which provided a coveted entry into Chicago. The Missouri Pacific Heritage locomotive was unveiled in Omaha, Neb., on July 30, 2005. To further one such enterprise in 1958, some $3 million was spent to build a 27-mile spur to service a new iron ore mine operation set up near Sullivan, Mo. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. As a group, these railroads acted as a bridge route, connecting the MP at St. Louis with the T&P at Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas. The Iron Mountain was begun at St. Louis in 1853. That year, however, turned out to be a very hard one for St. Louis. By 1969 only two MoPac trains, one of which was the famed Texas Eagle. Unfortunately, despite escaping the Goulds' grip the railroad remained hampered by heavy debt and in need of considerable improvements. The company continued to use it in marketing high-speed freight services. 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. On May 6, 1874 the StL&IM was reorganized as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway (StLIM&S or "Iron Mountain Route") at which time it leased theCairo, Arkansas & Texas and Little Rock & Fort Smith. 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