Register to access Secure Tools, Applications and Reports to help simplify your business. 1, 1956) 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. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad also sought control of the C&EI. American-Rails.com collection. Mo-Pac filed an application with the Interstate Commerce Commission to acquire the A&S, proposing that its ownership would be joint with other line-haul carriers so that this terminal facility would continue to be open to all railroads. Because of corporate ties extending back to the Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific at one time[when?] One such system was the so-called "Gulf Coast Lines" (GSL). Bridges, buildings, tracks and rolling stock were destroyed all the way from Franklin to Kansas City. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, formerly (184972) Pacific Railroad, former American railroad founded to build the first rail line west of the Mississippi River. We strive to offer a variety of merchandise that is related to the Missouri Pacific Railroad and all of its predecessors and affiliates. This route is now served by Amtrak's Missouri River Runner (named for the fact that it runs mostly parallel to the Missouri River). 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. Beginning in 1961, Mr. Jenks initiated an intensified plant and equipment modernization program that continues today. In 1916 they were sold to the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, and operated as the Gulf Coast Lines. 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. Please use the main menu to navigate to the item category of your choice. Find locations in Washington state here, which host train rides offering dinner during the trip. An A-B set of Missouri Pacific E7s, led by #7006, hustle west out of St. Louis with what appears to be train #11, the "Colorado Eagle," during a summer's afternoon in the late 1950s. On September 19, 1865, the last spike was driven connecting the two parts of the railroad, and the next day a train was run through from Kansas City to St. Louis, leaving at 3:00 a.m. and arriving in St. Louis at 5:00 p.m. With the end of the War, new construction and extension of the other Missouri and Texas railroads was resumed and 1873 saw a large amount of railroad building going on. Location not recorded. A coin was- flipped to see which of the three would take the odd thousand dollars and O'Fallon won the toss. 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 John O'Fallon and Daniel D. Page promptively joined Lucas. 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. 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. A long-range program of installing radio in wayside stations to maintain contact with trains on the line was begun in that period. 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. 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. All written content, photos, and videos copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). When Downing Jenks achieved the presidency he immediately took steps to eliminate this money-losing venture, which by 1962 amounted to more than $12 million annually. It was placed in service in 1856. This carrier, led by William Barstow Strong, had quickly established itself as a powerful western railroad. The T&P retained control of the 203-mile Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf, and of the 335-mile Midland Valley Railroad. Later, the San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf was acquired to round out the system in southwest Texas. It operated from 1948 to 1971. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3117 leads a long freight through western Kansas in the winter of 1974. In 1880, all three came under Gould's control. Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot may refer to any of following former and active train stations previously used by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, many of which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP): (by state then city) Missouri-Pacific Depot-Altus, Altus, AR, listed on the NRHP in Arkansas As a group, these railroads acted as a bridge route, connecting the MP at St. Louis with the T&P at Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 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, 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), Archives Collection & Prototype Information. American-Rails.com collection. It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. 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. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3193 and SD40 #3027 have the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train" near Kyle, Texas, circa 1982. 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. complete with an eagle adorning the locomotives nose. Completion of the recapitalization of the Missouri Pacific was accomplished early in 1974. He said, "This is a laudable pioneering effort by the Missouri Pacific and it is one which other railroads may utilize to improve the reliability of the transportation product, the utilization of the freight car fleet and the communication with customers". An important factor in developing the new team was the lowering of Mo-Pac's retirement age from 70 to 65 which made it possible both. 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. As the industry struggled through the 1970's the merger movement gained evermore momentum. For now, he had more pressing matters, specifically the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. His son George Gould inherited control upon his father's death, but lost control of the company after it declared bankruptcy in 1915. [1] The line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS) and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Unfortunately, despite escaping the Goulds' grip the railroad remained hampered by heavy debt and in need of considerable improvements. 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. 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. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. 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. There was arguably no other component quite as important to MoPac's system as the Texas & Pacific. 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. That same year it began marketing itself as the "Missouri Pacific Lines" to better reflect the many subsidiaries comprising the system. Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific Lines, Soo Line. The task was especially difficult because the old yard was kept operating while the new one was built on top of it. However, he, too, suffered the same fate as his father when the financial Panic of 1907 broke up his empire. 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. Unfortunately, most perks and comforts were removed by the 1960's as the public abandoned railroads were automobiles and airlines. 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. On October 15, 1976, merger of the T&P and the C&EI into the Missouri Pacific Railroad was consummated under the ICC's original order when the Fifth Court of Appeals in New Orleans denied a request to stay the effectiveness of that order. 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. That year, however, turned out to be a very hard one for St. Louis. But the all-important thing was that the service was in operation by 1874. The temporary organization was succeeded by a permanent one, with Thomas Allen as president. 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. 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. Item Information. During March of 1917 a new company was born by merging the original Missouri Pacific Railway; St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern; and a number of smaller carriers into the new Missouri Pacific Railroad. Gould also purchased control of the International Great Northern and completed the line of this latter railroad into Laredo, Texas. 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. Despite paltry and insignificant patronage, the public and state/government officials fought discontinuance, largely out of nostalgia. Condition:--not specified. 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. 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. The Missouri Pacific's corporate history is an intriguingly complicated affair involving numerous twists, turns, subsidiaries, and bankruptcies. 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. The process had been ongoing since the late 1950's as executives sought to cut red ink. 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. The accounting data in this report, therefore, cover the period from . 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. 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. Many were pulled up in the 1970's and 1980's although others were removed long before that. 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. 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 includes the Texas & Pacific, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf, Alton & Southern and many other roads that were part of the MP family. 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. Mo-Pac's computer applications have since expanded into the areas of traffic and market analyses, equipment control, car accounting and car tracing. 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. 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 Heritage locomotive was unveiled in Omaha, Neb., on July 30, 2005. 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. 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. In 1896, Gould's portfolio was handed over to his son, George, who continued his father's transcontinental ambitions. 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. Author's work. About 1873 a New York financier, Jay Gould, became interested in western railroads when he acquired a large block of stock in the Union Pacific Railroad. Mike Bledsoe photo. But Congress denied aid for the Missouri project. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. 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." The stock market crash of 1929 only made matters worse and before long it had slipped into bankruptcy once more. 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 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. This is the movement of great tonnage's of single bulk products between two points on a regularly scheduled basis. 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. 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. 2600 from 2008 (2007:1), nee 630 2601 from 2501, nee T&P 601 . The Pacific Railroad reached Jefferson City late in 1855. 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 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. 810743-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-05 MP Missouri Pacific Eagles Route Box Car #18108 $24.95. The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. 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. The former was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway (1872) while the latter became the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway (1876), better remembered as the "Frisco.". After two years in the building, the Miller Street Freight Station in St. Louis opened January 2, 1952. Another named train, the Rainbow Special, was placed in service in July 1921 between Kansas City and Little Rock. In this table "MP" includes New Orleans Texas & Mexico and all its subsidiary railroads (Beaumont Sour Lake & Western, I-GN, StLB&M, etc.) Thanks to World War II's incredible traffic blitzkrieg these upgrades continued and by 1955 dieselization was completed. By 1969 only two MoPac trains, one of which was the famed Texas Eagle. Union Pacific then allowed the Missouri Pacific & Western Pacific railroads to create a new scheme. 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