Mo-Pac Airfreight, with operations bases at several key cities, takes advantage of Missouri Pacific's terminals and the trucks of the railroad's two motor carrier subsidiaries to offer shippers expedited forwarding of air cargo to and from all major airport cities in the U.S., and to points in Canada and Mexico. American-Rails.com collection. American-Rails.com collection. This is the movement of great tonnage's of single bulk products between two points on a regularly scheduled basis. But Gould was unable long to retain control of his vast rail empire. A second premier train, the Sunshine Special began operating on December 5, 1915, between St. Louis and San Antonio via Little Rock and Austin. However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource). As it continued expanding westward Jay Gould became involved during the fall of 1879 and subsequently leased it to the MP in 1881. Two years later, on September 13, 1982 the Interstate Commerce Commission also gave its blessing and a much larger Union Pacific was born. In May, 1928, Missouri Pacific occupied its new 22 story general office building in downtown St. Louis and continued the task of amalgamating its merged properties into a smooth running and efficiently functioning system. Missouri Pacific E7A #26 departs St. Louis Union Station with train #17, the "Missouri River Eagle," during the 1960s. The company's initials-MP-continued as symbols of the Modern and Progressive spirit of Missouri Pacific's heritage. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 ignited the need for more rapid and dependable transportation to the West. was opened. The three-year Ft. Worth project involved both expanding the yard's capacity and converting it to automated, electronic operation. 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 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. 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. At the end of 1960 MP operated 9362 route-miles, NO&LC and DK&S were the same, and M-I operated 172 miles. Tipton was also the eastern terminus for a new overland mail service to San Francisco. 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. 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. In 1946 work began on an extensive grade and line revision project on the Missouri Division, some 140 miles south of St. Louis, in the Granite Bend, Tip Top, Gad's Hill area. ). North Little Rock also is the location of the railroad system headquarters for distribution of materials and supplies. The Iron Mountain was begun at St. Louis in 1853. The railroad was conceived by the leaders of St. Louis who had hoped to see the railroad stretched to the Pacific Ocean, hence its name. 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. State aid was sought and secured and efforts to sell stock increased. MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great Depression, and entered into trusteeship. The Pacific Railroad (not to be confused with Union Pacific Railroad) was a railroad based in Missouri. 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 completion of Eads Bridge in 1874 extended the new standard gauge track through St. Louis to the Atlantic states. 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. Work was started on the Brownsville end in 1903 and the Baton Rouge end was finished in 1909. The time from San Francisco to St. Louis was 24 days, 18 hours and 26 minutes, about 10 days faster than the old Isthmus of Panama route. Coal was the first commodity Mo-Pac hauled in unit train service, a field the railroad entered in 1966. Its last 26 years as an independent entity were defined by strong management and high quality service. American-Rails.com Location not recorded. 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. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, formerly (184972) Pacific Railroad, former American railroad founded to build the first rail line west of the Mississippi River. 613023-465 HO Scale ExactRail Platinum EP-80406-3 M.P. Both setbacks left him only in command of the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific. Author's work. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco, the Scenic Limited operated over the Western Pacific Railroad. 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] As a group, these railroads acted as a bridge route, connecting the MP at St. Louis with the T&P at Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas. 'MOPAC' then went into receivership itself in 1933, for 23 years! Another early Texas railroad was the Galveston, Houston & Henderson, chartered in 1853. The lines passenger operations were turned over to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) in 1971. 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. About the Missouri Pacific R.R. "T&P" includes its subsidiary roads (A&S, D&PS, T-NM etc. He fine-tuned the MP into a highly efficient system and was an early proponent of computerization. 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. A variety of Eagle trains were operated, with the first such train inaugurated in 1940. Missouri Pacific E8A #40 (built as #7020), circa 1968. However, the process was slow. Mo-Pac also has had success in refining its services and in developing marketing concepts that have enhanced the company's competitive position. 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. 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. In 1896, Gould's portfolio was handed over to his son, George, who continued his father's transcontinental ambitions. American-Rails.com collection. Cooperative service arrangements with other railroads have been, and continue to be used when they can improve equipment utilization and upgrade _ transportation service. A flat switching yard, Settegast fulfilled a need for expanded facilities to service the fast-growing Texas Gulf Coast petrochemical industry. More recently, all-new intermodal distribution centers have been built at St. Louis, Memphis, Ft. Worth, Monroe, La.,and Wichita. By the 1980s the system would own 11,469 miles of rail line over 11 states bounded by Chicago to the east, Pueblo, Colorado, in the west, north to Omaha, south to the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, and southeast along the Gulf seaports of Louisiana and Texas. 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. This changed in May, 1915, with the inauguration of the Scenic Limited between St. Louis, Kansas City, and San Francisco. 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. The Missouri Pacific Railroad was one of the major freight and passenger railroads in the midwest U.S. until 1982, and is now part of UP. 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. But the all-important thing was that the service was in operation by 1874. were completed. It made its last run during September of 1970, carrying just seventeen passengers as part of a two-car consist. 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. Thanks to World War II's incredible traffic blitzkrieg these upgrades continued and by 1955 dieselization was completed. In addition, Texas awarded twenty sections per mile within its borders. Those trains replaced the famed Sunshine Special and made their inaugural runs on August 15, 1948. 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). 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! Location not listed. Canadian Pacific (CP) is currently hiring Conductor Trainees. While these surveys were in progress, efforts were continued to secure aid from Congress. into a version of its famous blue and gray passenger livery However, following World War II it made dramatic transformation into a profitable Midwestern carrier. Throughout the 1960's the railroad perfected the use of electronics, which led to the Transportation Control System (TCS). 810750-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-06 MP Missouri Pacific Eagles Route Box Car #18130 $24.95. 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. John O'Fallon and Daniel D. Page promptively joined Lucas. Alleghany Corp. joined the suit the next year. Ocean and river freight costs amounted to another $1,000, and a local contractor charged $200 to haul it 14 blocks over the city streets from the wharf to the railroad depot. The Texas Eagle was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971, although . Its truck routes were not to be in competition with the railroad, but would supplement them. It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. So it was not surprising that the 1849 railroad plans were delayed. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Missouri Pacific was under the control of New York financier Jay Gould from 1879 until his death in 1892. 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. The unit debuted The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. Then, a few months later (June/1866) the original Pacific Railroad (St. Louis-Kansas City) was sold while the Southwest Branch fell into General John Fremont's hands. Please consider becoming a member and help us keep this history alive. 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. The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company is a major carrier serving the Midwest and Southwest with routes from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, and Memphis to the Mexican border and the Gulf of Mexico. 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. 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. 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. Time left: 6d 23h | Current bid: US $2.50 [ 1 bid] Bid Amount - Enter US $2.75 or more. In 1975, the Federal Railroad Administration awarded Mo-Pac a $5.5 million contract to develop an automated freight car scheduling system, built upon the data base and operating applications of Missouri Pacific's TCS. Now grain and ore, as well as coal, move in Mo-Pac unit trains. 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. During the Civil War, raids were made against all of the Missouri railroads and great damage was done. Leaders of St. Louis secured a Missouri charter in 1849 for the "Pacific Railroad" to extend "from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean". In 1855, work on the original PR resumed as it reached Jefferson City. The train began service on June 21, 1942 and replaced those . With Jenks still calling the shots, it was obvious the MoPac needed to find its own partner to ensure long-term survival. At its peak the T&P owned 1,982-miles, including1,109 miles in Texas. Thus in 1974, Mo-Pac was enabled to take a further step toward corporate simplification: the merger of The Texas & Pacific Railway as well as the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad into the Missouri Pacific to create a system unified in name as well as in fact. The Burlington Northern mainline is in the background. Within four years these Eagles had run 2,616,904 miles and had carried 2,062,000 passengers. American-Rails.com collection. It was also in 1874 that the Union Depot Company in St. Louis was incorporated. Yard capacity was doubled at San Antonio in 1964 and late in 1967 Mo-Pac announced a massive project for Lancaster Yard at Ft. Worth. This latter point also witnessed interchange traffic from the nearby International & Great Northern (I&GN), which connected with the T&P at Longview. 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. 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. These trains, and others, reached far and wide across its vast network. 810751-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-11 MP . 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. Condition:--not specified. Missouri Pacific Railroad "The MOPAC" MP GP #1606, at Monroe, LA. 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. But, the Great Depression proved a turning point as the MP slowly transformed itself into a modern, respectable, and profitable carrier. Missouri Pacific GP7 #230 with an interesting baggage-coach caboose, used in branch line service to handle remaining passenger business; May, 1968. Union Pacific then allowed the Missouri Pacific & Western Pacific railroads to create a new scheme. 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 . Locomotives and cars came the same way. His son George Gould inherited control upon his father's death, but lost control of the company after it declared bankruptcy in 1915. Missouri Pacific later acquired or gained a controlling interest in other lines in Texas, including the Gulf Coast Lines, International-Great Northern Railroad, and the Texas and Pacific Railway. Unfortunately, despite escaping the Goulds' grip the railroad remained hampered by heavy debt and in need of considerable improvements. After two years in the building, the Miller Street Freight Station in St. Louis opened January 2, 1952. On March 13, 1974, Amtrak restored passenger train service over segments of Missouri Pacific-Texas and Pacific's original Texas Eagle route between St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo with the Inter-American. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad also sought control of the C&EI. Find the locations in Minnesota here which harken back to the bygone era of rail travel when dinner was served aboard the train. Mr. Lloyd joined Mo-Pac as vice president-operation, the same post he had held with the Rock Island Lines. However, physical improvements of the properties and diversification of its services were encouraged by the Federal Court. As-mentioned, the T&P held a principal connection with the International & Great Northern at Longview. The Missouri Pacific Railroad, which was in operation between 1851 and 1997, was one of the first railroads to be constructed west of the Mississippi River.. During its active years, it ran through Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. 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. 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. The company continued to use it in marketing high-speed freight services. -. In 1885, the T&P entered receivership and by losing the MK&T through court-order in 1888 Gould also lost the I&GN. In 1916 they were sold to the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, and operated as the Gulf Coast Lines. While the Pacific Railroad was thus being started, other Missouri railroad projects were being fostered. The Amtrak version runs over former MoPac and T&P trackage for much of its route. Another first was Missouri Pacific's introduction the same year of a fully-automated materials management system providing computer determination of reorder points and quantities, automatic Surplus checking, purchase order writing and automatic vendor selection. The fight was finally resolved when the"Gould-Huntington Agreement" was signed on November 26, 1881. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. The train to make that trip was pulled by a locomotive made in the new St. Louis locomotive plant of Palm & Robertson. It was a major hauler of coal, grain, ore, autos, dry goods and shipping containers. 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). State aid was sought and secured and efforts to sell stock increased. Russel L. Dearmont, for 20 years counsel for the Trustee, was elected president to succeed Mr. Neff. Despite unfavorable weather and shaky finances, this was accomplished on April 2,1857. Screen and interview candidates (2-3 weeks). 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. 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. Railroad Notes, Abbreviations & Sources: Several "2500 Series" GP35s were later re-#d 2600-17. 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. It then built a station that served the railroads until 1894, when the present Union Station at 18th and Market Sts. The Texas Western Railroad, chartered in 1852 to build from the eastern to the western boundary of the state, later became the Texas & Pacific. Mr. Lloyd succeeded Mr. Jenks as president of the Missouri Pacific in 1972 and was elected chief executive officer of Mo-Pac in 1974. Its tracks covered 375 acres. American-Rails.com collection. However, it really took off following several bankruptcies and the Staggers Act's passage in 1980. 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. Lines formerly operated by it or a subsidiary should be tagged old_railway_operator = MP in addition to railway = rail (if still in use) or railway = abandoned . 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