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. In 1917 the line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad. 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. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3193 and SD40 #3027 have the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train" near Kyle, Texas, circa 1982. The Pacific Railroad reached Jefferson City late in 1855. It was placed in service in 1856. Author's work. American-Rails.com Author's collection. -As it name implies, CTC offers safer and more efficient operations by centralizing dispatching in one location. Mr. Lloyd joined Mo-Pac as vice president-operation, the same post he had held with the Rock Island Lines. During the Civil War, raids were made against all of the Missouri railroads and great damage was done. State aid was sought and secured and efforts to sell stock increased. 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 . American-Rails.com collection. Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. 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. The company also increased its efforts to attract new industries to its 12-state territory. Announcing the contract, Federal Railroad Administrator Asaph H. Hall noted Mo-Pac's progress in transportation control via TCS. Construction of this segment began on July 19, 1853 but required upwards of seven years before it was finally completed in 1860. At the time of their construction, these lines were subsidiaries of the Frisco. 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. If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Explorer. In an effort to combat this threat, Gould engaged in a drawn out battle for control of the agriculture and cattle trade by constructing a tangled web of branch lines across Kansas. Coal was the first commodity Mo-Pac hauled in unit train service, a field the railroad entered in 1966. 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. 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. Missouri Pacific's auto distribution center at Arlington, Texas, was doubled in size in 1967. It then built a station that served the railroads until 1894, when the present Union Station at 18th and Market Sts. Screen and interview candidates (2-3 weeks). 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. However, due to outstanding bonds of the Missouri Pacific, its full merger into the Union Pacific Railroad did not become official until January 1, 1997. 810751-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-11 MP . Unfortunately, this was not to be. Beginning in 1961, Mr. Jenks initiated an intensified plant and equipment modernization program that continues today. Today, the East St. Louis terminal and classification yard of the Alton & Southern, now owned jointly by the Missouri Pacific and Cotton Belt, continue to play a major role in moving rail traffic through the St. Louis gateway, classifying freight for Mo-Pac and nine other railroads. By that same definition MP operated 10431 route-miles at the end of 1929, after A&G, SAS and Sugar Land had come under NOT&M; NO&LC operated 60 and DK&S (not subsidiary until 1931) operated 6. The Pacific Railroad was chartered in 1851, opened the next year, and renamed Missouri Pacific in 1870. Like other early subscribers those men acted in the public interest rather than in expectation of any early direct return on their investments. 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. 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. 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. All written content, photos, and videos copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). 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". Condition:--not specified. It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. Rails were purchased in England and were shipped to New Orleans for transfer to St. Louis by river steamboats. 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. 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. Missouri Pacific Lines Timetable 1953 The St Louis Gateway Route of the Eagles Color Brochure Great Ads. As-mentioned, the T&P held a principal connection with the International & Great Northern at Longview. 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. That year, however, turned out to be a very hard one for St. Louis. American-Rails.com collection. 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. 810750-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-06 MP Missouri Pacific Eagles Route Box Car #18130 $24.95. 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. 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. Because of corporate ties extending back to the Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific at one time[when?] 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. The new entity was called Pacific Rail Systems; though part of the Union Pacific Corporation, all three railroads maintained their own corporate and commercial identity. Gould also purchased control of the International Great Northern and completed the line of this latter railroad into Laredo, Texas. 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. 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. In 1967 it gained stock control of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, which provided a coveted entry into Chicago. In 1970, Missouri Pacific introduced Containerpak, a series of shipping plans that organized movements by container. Despite unfavorable weather and shaky finances, this was accomplished on April 2,1857. As a result, any attempt to do so here would be impossible. Mo-Pac's computer applications have since expanded into the areas of traffic and market analyses, equipment control, car accounting and car tracing. It operated from 1948 to 1971. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Missouri-Pacific-Railroad-Company, Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Missouri Pacific System. Under the direction of Chief Engineer Kirkwood, purchases of land were begun and grading started. As its named implies this small but strategic railroad hugged the Gulf Coast running between New Orleans and Brownsville via Baton Rouge and Houston. Missouri Pacific Box Car #269057 $52.95. 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). 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 Growth by merger was on Mo-Pac's mind early in 1966 when it began buying shares of Santa Fe Railway preferred stock. Throughout the 1960's the railroad perfected the use of electronics, which led to the Transportation Control System (TCS). 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. 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. and cost the company $7,650.00. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. 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 Pacific Railroad of Missouri was the St. Louis' and state of Missouri's response to Asa Whitney's and others ideas. Please consider becoming a member and help us keep this history alive. 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. Despite paltry and insignificant patronage, the public and state/government officials fought discontinuance, largely out of nostalgia. One such system was the so-called "Gulf Coast Lines" (GSL). In 1974, with this rebuilding job largely accomplished, Mo-Pac introduced its North American Rail Link, which provides single-carrier service across the United States between Canada and Mexico. Time left: 6d 23h | Current bid: US $2.50 [ 1 bid] Bid Amount - Enter US $2.75 or more. The Texas Eagle was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971, although . Of all the lines which Gould had joined to the Missouri Pacific only the Iron Mountain remained at the end of 1888. American-Rails.com collection. The Midland Valley and the KO&G subsequently weremerged into theT&P in 1967 and 1970, respectively. Missouri Pacific, however, maintained its own corporate and commercial identity until 1997, when it fully merged with Union Pacific. 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. 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. 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 recapitalization, which resolved the stock conflict and provided an essential stock restructuring, also gave Mo-Pac the potential for more active participation in the Western Railroad merger movement and cleared the way for the Missouri Pacific to proceed with its own corporate unification. This train was renamed the Texas Eagle in 1981, resurrecting the name of the famous MoPac train. 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. 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. Locomotives and cars came the same way. In 1855, work on the original PR resumed as it reached Jefferson City. This program's goals are more efficient and reliable freight transportation/distribution service, maximum utilization of Mo-Pac equipment, reduced paperwork and better communication with customers. It featured the use of demountable containers in truck-rail service, the trailer bodies being lifted off their wheels by gantry cranes and deposited onto flatcars for rail transport to destination. By 1994 all motive power of the Missouri Pacific was repainted and on January 1, 1997, the Missouri Pacific was officially merged into the Union Pacific Railroad by the Union Pacific Corporation. 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.