Vintage 1950's 60's 5 advertising matchbooks, transportation, Railroad, service station. Now grain and ore, as well as coal, move in Mo-Pac unit trains. The unit debuted On January 1, 1997, Missouri Pacific Railroad legally was merged into Union Pacific Railroad, with UPRR remaining as the surviving corporation. [1] The line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS) and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. 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. 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 change was also of advantage at Kansas City where the Pacific connected with the newly started Kansas Pacific, which later became the Union Pacific. Today, its 12,000-mile network comprises a significant component of the country's largest and most powerful railroad. 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. As a group, these railroads acted as a bridge route, connecting the MP at St. Louis with the T&P at Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas. On May 2, 1872 the company's name was changed to the Texas & Pacific Railway and just a year later, the first segment between Marshall and Texarkana was completed (December 28, 1873). 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. ", 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. Missouri Pacific Railroad Police Department, RR. Condition:--not specified. This line had to link up with the Iron Mountain to provide through service from St. Louis to Texas. But the all-important thing was that the service was in operation by 1874. Leaders in St. Louis, Missouri, soon visualized a railroad to the Pacific Ocean. 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. Subsequently, he purchased control of the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific and the Central Pacific. 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. The other three systems have their own interesting stories, far too long to cover in any great detail within this article. But Gould was unable long to retain control of his vast rail empire. 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. On July 4, 1851, ground was broken at St. Louis on the Pacific Railroad, the predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. collection. With the death of Mr. Baldwin in 1946, Paul J. Neff, then senior executive assistant in charge of the lines in Texas, became chief executive officer under the Trustee. While these surveys were in progress, efforts were continued to secure aid from Congress. 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. 1, 1956) 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. Learn about the vital importance of Illinois to the nation's railroads and enjoy dinner aboard a train at the Monticello Railway Museum. This is the movement of great tonnage's of single bulk products between two points on a regularly scheduled basis. American-Rails.com collection. 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. More than 24,000 feet of track were involved in the initial phases of the project including blasting out cuts 47 feet deep through rock harder than granite. 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. The "Missouri Pacific Lines" became the familiar name in the company's public image. It was re-organized as the Missouri Pacific in 1956. From this point, a dispatcher controls movements over a particular segment of track, i.e., territory. Several other pre-Civil War railroads became parts of today's Missouri Pacific Railroad. Missouri Pacific GP7 #230 with an interesting baggage-coach caboose, used in branch line service to handle remaining passenger business; May, 1968. In 1967 it gained stock control of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, which provided a coveted entry into Chicago. From that humble beginning grew the vast network of rail lines that nurtured the great west and southwest, and from which eventually came the Missouri Pacific Railroad of today. 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. Missouri Pacific Railroad Operated Routes in the Following States: Arkansas, Colorado . The SP, led byCollis P. Huntington, had arrived there a few months earlier on May 19th, then continued building east, reaching Sierrra Blanca on November 25th. 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 this regard he did have success. Missouri Pacific, however, maintained its own corporate and commercial identity until 1997, when it fully merged with Union Pacific. A second premier train, the Sunshine Special began operating on December 5, 1915, between St. Louis and San Antonio via Little Rock and Austin. Missouri Pacific Railroad "The MOPAC" MP GP #1606, at Monroe, LA. 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. to promote people already with the railroad and to make room for personnel brought in from outside. Work was started on the Brownsville end in 1903 and the Baton Rouge end was finished in 1909. Through intensive repairs, the railroad's serviceable cars were increased to more than 97 per cent of its 57,577-car fleet. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. Author's work. Missouri Pacific Railroad | City of Hoisington The Missouri Pacific Railroad The first rail laid through Hoisington was 56 pound rail, just about half the weight of the present rails. In 1880 Gould gained control of the Texas & Pacific, and then had his Missouri Pacific lease the Missouri, Kansas & Texas system. They were not considered satisfactory, however, and the Pacific Railroad soon began to build its own cars. Of his early escapades, battling the powerful Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railway is the best-remember. With Jenks still calling the shots, it was obvious the MoPac needed to find its own partner to ensure long-term survival. Meanwhile, railroad financial circles had been stirred in 1954 when another attempt was made to take Missouri Pacific out of bankruptcy. The stock market crash of 1929 only made matters worse and before long it had slipped into bankruptcy once more. Unfortunately, despite escaping the Goulds' grip the railroad remained hampered by heavy debt and in need of considerable improvements. After months of negotiations to seek a new plan of reorganization, a formula was finally devised which proved satisfactory to all concerned. These trains, and others, reached far and wide across its vast network. Although it acquired title to its original property on May 12, 1917, it did not commence recording the results of the operations of its property in its books until June 1, 1917. The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. 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. Mike Bledsoe photo. During Mr. Jenks' presidency. 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! 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. Lewis W. Baldwin became president of the company inApril 1923 and the acquisition of the Gulf Coast Lines and the International _Great Northern was an early project of his regime. In that year, the Texas & Pacific extended from Marshall to Texarkana and also into Dallas. Construction was started in 1856, and WI en it was finished it was the first railroad touching the Texas Gulf Coast. Before the issue came to trial, the parties agreed on a recapitalization plan late in 1972 which was approved by the court early the next year. 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. Mr. Neff was elected president of the new Missouri Pacific, but a year later-in May, 1957-he relinquished the presidency and was named chairman of the board. 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. 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. Location not listed. 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 Missouri Pacific Railroad logo (red). It survived until Amtrak in 1971. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. Mo-Pac's computer applications have since expanded into the areas of traffic and market analyses, equipment control, car accounting and car tracing. Early in 1864, rails, locomotives and cars had been taken by Missouri River steamboats to Kansas City and construction eastward from that point started. You will find links to many of these items in the sub-categories listed under this main category. As soon as it gained control of the C&EI in 1967, Mo-Pac began to rebuild the railroad and bring it up to the modern standards of the rest of the Mo-Pac System. 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. By July, 1858 the Pacific Railroad was completed the 160 miles to Tipton, Mo., then the end of the line from St. Louis. The former MoPac building has undergone rehab as apartments and is now known as Park Pacific. 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. 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. Beginning in 1961, Mr. Jenks initiated an intensified plant and equipment modernization program that continues today. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. Perhaps they had more trackage and trains than either the Union Pacific or the ATSF and certainly more than the CRIP, SLSF or Katy in the state of Kansas. 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. The Pacific Railroad (not to be confused with Union Pacific Railroad) was a railroad based in Missouri. EOW: Friday, March 11, 1932. 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. American-Rails.com collection. 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. Under the leadership of Downing B. Jenks, who became president and chief executive in 1961, the company became a pioneer in the early days of computer-guided rail technology. The Burlington Northern mainline is in the background. The Missouri Pacific Railroad logo (blue). In 1855, work on the original PR resumed as it reached Jefferson City. 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 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. It may have been the discovery of gold in California in 1848 that ignited in the American people the urgent need for more rapid and dependable transportation facilities in the West. It was also in 1874 that the Union Depot Company in St. Louis was incorporated. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. This changed in May, 1915, with the inauguration of the Scenic Limited between St. Louis, Kansas City, and San Francisco. The Cairo & Fulton built through Arkansas southward into Texarkana, a move that had been delayed by the Civil War. 810743-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-05 MP Missouri Pacific Eagles Route Box Car #18108 $24.95. The company was reorganized and the trusteeship ended in 1956.[1]. The accounting data in this report, therefore, cover the period from . 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. Nevertheless, under the Trusteeship, the railroad continued to improve and modernize its properties and it kept pace with the changing patterns of rail transportation. The Missouri Pacific is a corporation of Missouri, having its principal office at St. Louis, Mo. -As it name implies, CTC offers safer and more efficient operations by centralizing dispatching in one location. In short, they comprised the bulk of Missouri Pacific's network. The Missouri Trust Company was established in 1880, and the Third National Bank was established in 1882. Because of corporate ties extending back to the Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific at one time[when?] In 1885, the T&P entered receivership and by losing the MK&T through court-order in 1888 Gould also lost the I&GN. Please use the main menu to navigate to the item category of your choice. ). The Texas Eagle was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971, although . State aid was sought and secured and efforts to sell stock increased. Its truck routes were not to be in competition with the railroad, but would supplement them. The company also increased its efforts to attract new industries to its 12-state territory. 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. Troy, N.Y. By extending much further than what had been stipulated, Gould took Huntington to court. This accord gave the T&P trackage rights over the Southern Pacific into El Paso but also forfeited its charter and franchises west of that point which were awarded to SP. At the time of their construction, these lines were subsidiaries of the Frisco. 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. Updates? Another early Texas railroad was the Galveston, Houston & Henderson, chartered in 1853. Between Pueblo, Colorado and Salt Lake City, the Scenic Limited operated through the Royal Gorge over the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Meanwhile, financial difficulties in 1872 forced the reorganization of the Pacific Railroad, and when it emerged from receivership it had a new name: the Missouri Pacific Railway Co. 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. Unfortunately, funding could not be sustained and construction stalled. 2600 from 2008 (2007:1), nee 630 2601 from 2501, nee T&P 601 . As with other key projects which began west of the Mississippi River (Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Northern Pacific) land grants would aid the T&P's development; the government awarded twenty sections per mile through California and forty sections within the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico. 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. (2,221) $7.00. At its peak the T&P owned 1,982-miles, including1,109 miles in Texas. 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 Railroad logo (blue). In the streamliner era, the Missouri Pacific's premier passenger trains were collectively known as the Eagles. One such intermodal service -Piggyback-received substantial upgrading beginning in 1964 with the introduction of the first of a seriesof special piggyback trains to provide highway competitive service between Chicago and St. Louis and key Texas cities. 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. As part of these attempts to get the railroad actually underway, theground breaking celebration was held on the Fourth of July, 1851. 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. 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. However, in spite of the cholera and the fire, optimism prevailed, and on January 31, 1850, a preliminary organization was formed and stock subscription lists were opened. The International and Great Northern was completed to Longview where connection was made with the Texas & Pacific. 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). The country was canvassed for the most competent engineer, and the choice fell on James P. 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