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. The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. 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. [1] The line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS) and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Of his early escapades, battling the powerful Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railway is the best-remember. This service was inaugurated early in 1956. North Little Rock also is the location of the railroad system headquarters for distribution of materials and supplies. In 1967, the railroad operated 9,041 miles of road and 13,318 miles of track, not including DK&S, NO&LC, T&P, and its subsidiaries C&EI and Missouri-Illinois. The Iron Mountain was begun at St. Louis in 1853. The first telephone was installed in August 1880, and by 1881, 225 telephones were in use, with phone . The strategic geographical position of the System afforded connections with all major rail lines that extended to the four corners of the nation and into Canada and Mexico. Photo by David Harris, 2981. About the Missouri Pacific R.R. 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. This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. However, the ICC required that the C&EI sell its Evansville line to the L&N. 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. However, a study in late 1983 indicated the expense of all three railroads paint schemes were too costly. The Midland Valley and the KO&G subsequently weremerged into theT&P in 1967 and 1970, respectively. 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. Repairs to the damaged property were ultimately completed and the railroad resumed construction. It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. Announcing the contract, Federal Railroad Administrator Asaph H. Hall noted Mo-Pac's progress in transportation control via TCS. Its new success and the mega-merger movement led to its 1982 acquisition by Union Pacific. Under war-time restriction in 1942, the "Colorado Eagles,' St. Louis to Denver diesel-powered passenger trains, replaced the Scenic Limited on June 21. Author's collection. While the Pacific Railroad was thus being started, other Missouri railroad projects were being fostered. Copyright 2007-2023 American-Rails.com. Electronic data processing was expanded; many miles of continuous welded rail were laid; an entirely new and automated wheel shop at North Little Rock was underway in 1963 and the first completely automated railroad freight station in the nation was placed in operation at St. Louis in 1963. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. Throughout the 1960's the railroad perfected the use of electronics, which led to the Transportation Control System (TCS). 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. An important intermodal step toward total transportation was made in 1972 when Missouri Pacific Airfreight, Inc. began operations in St. Louis. In 1964, Mo-Pac's Texas and Pacific Railway subsidiary assumed control through stock purchase of three railroads making up the 767-mile Muskogee Co. system which operated in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Texas. An advertisement of that period stated that at Jefferson City passengers could step from the train to the waiting steamboat and that by this route, the time from St. Louis to Kansas City had been cut to only 50 hours! The unit debuted 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. 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. 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. ); 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. In 1937 the first diesel locomotives made their appearance on Missouri Pacific tracks. They were not considered satisfactory, however, and the Pacific Railroad soon began to build its own cars. This line had to link up with the Iron Mountain to provide through service from St. Louis to Texas. Mike Bledsoe photo. In 1872 the line was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway, and in 1879 it came under the control of New York financier Jay Gould, who developed a system extending through Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. The 1920's were a banner decade which witnessed a great deal more expansion. Enter US $2.75 or more [ 1 bid] Troy, N.Y. Occupying more than five acres, the huge building had space for 180 freight cars under one roof. As a group, these railroads acted as a bridge route, connecting the MP at St. Louis with the T&P at Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas. And Missouri's capitol city was still another seventy miles away. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company Detailed Land Maps - Page 3 - Summary Information Repository UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture Title Missouri Pacific Railroad Company Detailed Land Maps Date 1917-1918 Extent 40.0 linear feet Language English Language of Materials Materials Entirely in English Citation Notes The StLIM&S began as theSt. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad (StL&IM), chartered by the state of Missouri on March 3, 1851. DeSoto, Mo., was reached in September, but the event escaped mention in the newspapers, probably because there was no DeSoto until after the railroad came. Condition:--not specified. The George Washington became the C&O's flagship train between Cincinnati and Norfolk after it was inaugurated in 1932. On April 2, 1858 it opened to Pilot Knob (very near Ironton), then continued expanding southwestward. 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. American-Rails.com collection. Another training program for Mo-Pac personnel features regular lessons on such topics as ICC law, international and government traffic, freight claims and pricing regulations. Mo-Pac's acquisition of the C&EI made possible a direct service over the Missouri Pacific System between Chicago and the West and Southwest, bypassing the busy St. Louis gateway via Thebes in southern Illinois. Application was made to the Interstate Commerce Commission which authorized the merger in May, 1976, Mo-Pac's 125th anniversary year. The accounting data in this report, therefore, cover the period from . 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. Mr. Jenks was elected chairman of the board of Mississippi in 1973. The company continued to use it in marketing high-speed freight services. The Colorado Eagle was an American streamlined passenger train operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP) in the mid 20th century. Mr. Lloyd succeeded Mr. Jenks as president of the Missouri Pacific in 1972 and was elected chief executive officer of Mo-Pac in 1974. The International and Great Northern was completed to Longview where connection was made with the Texas & Pacific. Item Information. 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. 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. Afterwards, following theInternational-Great Northern Railroad reorganization in 1922 it, also joined the MoPac (January 1, 1925). But the all-important thing was that the service was in operation by 1874. Later it acquired other lines in the Gulf area and in Texas, extending its operating area to several Midwestern and Southwestern states. Special Agent Bernard J. Kelly. The company's initials-MP-continued as symbols of the Modern and Progressive spirit of Missouri Pacific's heritage. Despite paltry and insignificant patronage, the public and state/government officials fought discontinuance, largely out of nostalgia. American-Rails.com collection. The Pacific Railroad (not to be confused with Union Pacific Railroad) was a railroad based in Missouri. Railroad Notes, Abbreviations & Sources: Several "2500 Series" GP35s were later re-#d 2600-17. Two years in building, it embodied the latest advances in electronic technology. At the time of their construction, these lines were subsidiaries of the Frisco. Missouri Pacific Railroad "The MOPAC" MP GP #1606, at Monroe, LA. But Mo-Pac's most ambitious application of computer technology to date has been its Transportation Control System (TCS), a computer-based management information and control system that actually exceeds in scope and complexity the Apollo Moon Program used to launch, guide and land the astronauts. 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. To speed construction and get into operation as quickly as possible, bridges over the White, the Arkansas and the Red rivers were passed up for the time being and passengers and freight were transferred by ferry until the bridges could be constructed. Screen and interview candidates (2-3 weeks). Mo-Pac immediately applied to the Commission for authorization to control the C&EI, which was granted in 1967. 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. This included construction of new shops, expansion of yards, replacement of lightweight track with continuous welded rail, installation of Centralized Traffic Control, rebuilding of bridges and purchases of new freight cars and locomotives. 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. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Within four years these Eagles had run 2,616,904 miles and had carried 2,062,000 passengers. The railroad's multi-million dollar automated classification yard at North Little Rock, which went into operation in 1961, was first expanded in 1962, again in 1964 when eight classification tracks were added to make a total of 64, and again in 1966 when a special adjoining city freight yard was built. Its heritage traces back to the Houston & Great Northern Railroad's (H&GN), originally chartered on October 22, 1866 to link Houston with the Red River. The train began service on June 21, 1942 and replaced those . Location not listed. 810750-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-06 MP Missouri Pacific Eagles Route Box Car #18130 $24.95. MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great Depression, and entered into trusteeship. The new lines provided all-rail routes between St. Louis, Dallas and Houston, and through Pullman cars soon ran. 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. 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. 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. American-Rails.com collection. 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. Subsequently, he purchased control of the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific and the Central Pacific. Missouri Pacific Railroad Police Department, RR. 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. complete with an eagle adorning the locomotives nose. One such system was the so-called "Gulf Coast Lines" (GSL). In the succeeding years the T&P continued expanding, most notably to Denison (opening an interchange there with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas) and a secondary line into Texarkana that passed through Paris. The initial goal involved following the Missouri River's south bank to reach Kansas City. This route is now served by Amtrak's Missouri River Runner (named for the fact that it runs mostly parallel to the Missouri River). 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. 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. American-Rails.com collection. While a court order forced him to divest control of the latter in 1888 he used the quartet to greatly increase his presence throughout Texas. Time left: 6d 23h | Current bid: US $2.50 [ 1 bid] Bid Amount - Enter US $2.75 or more. 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. By 1911 it operated 1,106 miles. 1, 1956) These properties serving Texas and Louisiana were formally merged in 1925 with the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Other installations there have included a rail welding plant, producing quarter-mile lengths of continuous welded rail for the entire system, that was completed in 1967, and a diesel locomotive repair and overhaul complex which began operation in 1969. Activity in new railroad building and extension of existing trackage was practically stopped by the 1892 depression, but between then and 1910 major projects completed included the Illinois Division, the lines from Helena, Ark., south to Ferriday, La., the White River line from Carthage, Mo., to Batesville, Ark., and the River Route between Jefferson City and Boonville, Mo. Hundreds of miles of conventional rail have been replaced by continuous welded rail; many bridges have been rebuilt or upgraded; millions of dollars have been invested in new terminals to handle piggyback and small shipments and still more millions in automated freight classification yards. It was placed in service in 1856. Bridges, buildings, tracks and rolling stock were destroyed all the way from Franklin to Kansas City. The Amtrak version runs over former MoPac and T&P trackage for much of its route. 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. TCS, whose implementation began in 1969, is helping Mo-Pac to keep an incredibly tight rein on the railroad, to provide pin-point control of 400 trains moving 70,000 cars every day over Missouri Pacific's 12-state, 12,000-mile system. Learn about the vital importance of Illinois to the nation's railroads and enjoy dinner aboard a train at the Monticello Railway Museum. 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. These trains, and others, reached far and wide across its vast network. Coal was the first commodity Mo-Pac hauled in unit train service, a field the railroad entered in 1966. Now grain and ore, as well as coal, move in Mo-Pac unit trains. John O'Fallon and Daniel D. Page promptively joined Lucas. Author's work. The line from Kansas City to Independence (Kansas City's first railroad) had been opened to the public on August 1, 1864, but even this disconnected section did not escape Price's fury. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed approval of the merger until September 13, 1982. 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. American-Rails.com collection. During July of 1853 the line was extended west to Franklin, Missouri (now known as Pacific), a distance of 38 miles. 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. Missouri Pacific E8A #40 (built as #7020), circa 1968. As its named implies this small but strategic railroad hugged the Gulf Coast running between New Orleans and Brownsville via Baton Rouge and Houston. Train between Cincinnati and Norfolk after it was inaugurated in 1932 between missouri pacific railroad Louis to.. Train at the Monticello Railway Museum to several Midwestern and Southwestern states service from Louis... 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