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. Despite paltry and insignificant patronage, the public and state/government officials fought discontinuance, largely out of nostalgia. The first telephone was installed in August 1880, and by 1881, 225 telephones were in use, with phone . The Iron Mountain was begun at St. Louis in 1853. A multi-stage modernization program carried out at Mo-Pac's major freight car repair complex at DeSoto, Mo., was completed in 1966 with construction of a car fabricating shop, the seventh new structure built during the project. Until the Santa Fe reached the Lone Star State in 1887, Gould boasted a virtual monopoly here. Those trains replaced the famed Sunshine Special and made their inaugural runs on August 15, 1948. 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. In short, they comprised the bulk of Missouri Pacific's network. It made its last run during September of 1970, carrying just seventeen passengers as part of a two-car consist. Today, its 12,000-mile network comprises a significant component of the country's largest and most powerful railroad. Location not listed. 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. It took congressional action to overcome this handicap. 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. 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. 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. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3117 leads a long freight through western Kansas in the winter of 1974. 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. This service was inaugurated early in 1956. During that decade the already very-large Burlington Northern system (formed in 1970) added the St. Louis-San Francisco, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific attempted their own marriage, and Union Pacific was eyeing the Western Pacific. On December 9th the company's inaugural train, also credited as the first to operate west of the Mississippi River, chugged down this track carrying local dignitaries and officials. The Pacific Railroad was chartered in 1851, opened the next year, and renamed Missouri Pacific in 1870. It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. This route is now served by Amtrak's Missouri River Runner (named for the fact that it runs mostly parallel to the Missouri River). The Texas Eagle was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971, although . 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". Between 1885 and 1892, however, there was a large increase of Missouri Pacific mileage through construction of subsidiary lines. The reorganized Missouri Pacific which Mr. Dearmont now headed continued to progress, with the railroad making an all-out bid to regain freight traffic lost to over-the-highway truck lines. 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. For these reasons, the MoPac's complete story could fill many volumes; even those systems previously mentioned have been thoroughly covered in books and magazines. ", 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. 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. 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. Learn about the vital importance of Illinois to the nation's railroads and enjoy dinner aboard a train at the Monticello Railway Museum. Its last 26 years as an independent entity were defined by strong management and high quality service. As-mentioned, the T&P held a principal connection with the International & Great Northern at Longview. The 1920's were a banner decade which witnessed a great deal more expansion. That year, however, turned out to be a very hard one for St. Louis. 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. After months of negotiations to seek a new plan of reorganization, a formula was finally devised which proved satisfactory to all concerned. 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. that officially merged into MP in 1956. In 1917 the line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad. In 1967, a holder of Mo-Pac Class B shares sued the railroad over its dividend policy. 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. 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. 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. Updates? Abandoned Railroads Screen and interview candidates (2-3 weeks). With Jenks still calling the shots, it was obvious the MoPac needed to find its own partner to ensure long-term survival. was opened. Our mission is to preserve and promote the heritage of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and it's affiliates. 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. The project was ambitious but formidable with numerous challenges, the most critical of which was procuring a steady flow of capital. Mississippi began buying Mo-Pac stock in 1959 and gained voting control in 1962. This was part of a long-range program to improve that part of the mainline to Texas to provide higher speed track for the advent of the Texas Eagle streamliners. American-Rails.com collection. Despite unfavorable weather and shaky finances, this was accomplished on April 2,1857. Mike Bledsoe photo. Mo-Pac's heavy investment in shops and yards has been matched with both investment and innovations in service to improve the railroad's competitive position. Despite these changes the I&GN did transform into a respectable system reaching Galveston, Columbia, Mineola, Austin, San Antonio, the Mexican border at Laredo, and of course Longview. One was Houston's first railroad, the Houston Tap. A consistent industry leader each year in both growth and volume of piggyback and containerized traffic, Mo-Pac has invested heavily-more than $20 million since 1961 in the facilities and hardware needed to efficiently handle intermodal movements. Mo-Pac made major strides in improving the efficiency of its operations through mergers and acquisitions. The former MoPac building has undergone rehab as apartments and is now known as Park Pacific. 1, 1956) At the end of 1960 MP operated 9362 route-miles, NO&LC and DK&S were the same, and M-I operated 172 miles. Missouri Pacific's auto distribution center at Arlington, Texas, was doubled in size in 1967. Limited by law for several years to handling less-than-carload traffic in railsubstitute service, Mo-Pac's truck lines achieved a major breakthrough in 1975 when they were granted authorization to handle interstate traffic on their own, instead of railroad, billing, Missouri Pacific's trucking subsidiaries have played an important role in Mo-Pac total transportation operations, both performing on their own and assisting the railroad to perform several intermodal operations and services. 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. 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. The Missouri Pacific Railroad logo (blue). An 'important factor in Mo-Pac's recent history has been the Mississippi River Corp., a holding company which also controls subsidiaries involved in the production and transmission of natural gas as well as cement manufacturing. 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. The FRA also noted that while some other railroads had spent as much as Mo-Pac in the area of movement control, only the Missouri Pacific had accomplished all of the steps essential as a working foundation for precise scheduling of individual freight cars, loaded and empty, dock-to-dock. In 1885, the T&P entered receivership and by losing the MK&T through court-order in 1888 Gould also lost the I&GN. However, a study in late 1983 indicated the expense of all three railroads paint schemes were too costly. Copyright 2007-2023 American-Rails.com. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. 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. 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. 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. 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 . The discovery of gold in California in 1848 ignited the need for more rapid and dependable transportation to the West. 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. When designing the locomotive, the creative team concentrated on two particular time periods: the 1940s, when Mo-Pac introduced a blue, gray and white color scheme with a thin yellow accent stripe, and the 1960s, when the paint scheme was altered to a solid dark blue with the MP buzz saw logo. Omissions? The unsuccessful attempt to merge with the Santa Fe and other merger proposals which had either been rejected or not seriously pursued because of Mo-Pac's capital structure pointed to the need for MRC, which controlled Mo-Pac's Class A stock, and Alleghany Corp., which controlled the Class B stock, to resolve their long-standing differences. 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. In 1982, a Union Pacific-Missouri Pacific-Western Pacific merger was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The new lines provided all-rail routes between St. Louis, Dallas and Houston, and through Pullman cars soon ran. 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. 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. About the Missouri Pacific R.R. Enjoy all the splendor West Virginia's natural beauty has to offer while enjoying dinner by train on the West Virginia Central and other locations. American-Rails.com collection. American-Rails.com As its named implies this small but strategic railroad hugged the Gulf Coast running between New Orleans and Brownsville via Baton Rouge and Houston. We strive to offer a variety of merchandise that is related to the Missouri Pacific Railroad and all of its predecessors and affiliates. Early in 1864, rails, locomotives and cars had been taken by Missouri River steamboats to Kansas City and construction eastward from that point started. 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. Progress, though, was interrupted again by the Civil War's outbreak. This includes the Texas & Pacific, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf, Alton & Southern and many other roads that were part of the MP family. This issue was problematic industry-wide, resulting in many trains running far longer than they should have. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, formerly (184972) Pacific Railroad, former American railroad founded to build the first rail line west of the Mississippi River. 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. New ownership then abandoned the Red River project in favor of opening a connection to the T&P. Media related to Missouri Pacific Railroad at Wikimedia Commons, Learn how and when to remove this template message, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, "About Missouri Pacific: A Brief Overview. The Midland Valley and the KO&G subsequently weremerged into theT&P in 1967 and 1970, respectively. Afterwards, four notable systems joined the MoPac: the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (StLIM&S); Texas & Pacific (T&P); International & Great Northern (I&GN); and finally the Missouri, Kansas & Texas ("Katy"). 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. Although no longer active, the Missouri Pacific Railroad, also referred to as MoPac or, more . 2023 Missouri Pacific Historical Society, This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. In 1885 the management of the Texas & Pacific was separated from that of the Missouri Pacific, and in 1888 the lease of the Katy railroad properties was terminated, a move which divorced the I-GN from Missouri Pacific control. 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. However, the ICC required that the C&EI sell its Evansville line to the L&N. The completion of Eads Bridge in 1874 extended the new standard gauge track through St. Louis to the Atlantic states. Mike Bledsoe photo. Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. Despite T&P's 1885 bankruptcy, the two carriers had maintained a close working relationship until the MP finally acquired majority stock control in 1928. 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. 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. As a group, these railroads acted as a bridge route, connecting the MP at St. Louis with the T&P at Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas. Georgia. Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. These routes included the Missouri River Eagle (St. Louis-Kansas City-Omaha), the Delta Eagle (Memphis, Tennessee-Tallulah, Louisiana), the Colorado Eagle (St. Louis-Pueblo-Denver), the Texas Eagle (St. Louis to Texas), and the Valley Eagle (Houston-Corpus Christi-Brownsville, Texas). 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. Please use the main menu to navigate to the item category of your choice. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3193 and SD40 #3027 have the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train" near Kyle, Texas, circa 1982. During is last years of service the MoPac was a fine operation; in 1979 it had a net income of $32.6 million and gross revenues of over $524 million. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 613023-465 HO Scale ExactRail Platinum EP-80406-3 M.P. Corrections? 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. While the railroad failed to reach its namesake ocean it later achieved a direct route into Chicago. 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. This is the movement of great tonnage's of single bulk products between two points on a regularly scheduled basis. advertised itself as being "The First Railroad West of the Mississippi". 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. At the time of their construction, these lines were subsidiaries of the Frisco. Rio Grande FTA #5494 and Missouri Pacific GP7 #4149 layover in Pueblo, Colorado during the 1950s. -As it name implies, CTC offers safer and more efficient operations by centralizing dispatching in one location. Through intensive repairs, the railroad's serviceable cars were increased to more than 97 per cent of its 57,577-car fleet. 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. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. Pacific Railroad jobs in Missouri Sort by: relevance - date 19 jobs Train Conductor Canadian Pacific 2.9 Kansas City, MO From $37.72 an hour Full-time + 1 Weekend availability + 1 Conductor Training Class - No Experience Required! The Cairo & Fulton built through Arkansas southward into Texarkana, a move that had been delayed by the Civil War. However, the merger was delayed by parties seeking reconsideration of the Commission's order. On July 30, 2005, UP unveiled a brand new EMD SD70ACe locomotive, Union Pacific 1982, with Missouri Pacific paint and logos, as part of a new heritage program. Unfortunately, this was not to be. The Missouri Pacific Railroad, also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. Its new success and the mega-merger movement led to its 1982 acquisition by Union Pacific. 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. By July, 1858 the Pacific Railroad was completed the 160 miles to Tipton, Mo., then the end of the line from St. Louis. The "Missouri Pacific Lines" became the familiar name in the company's public image. Under the direction of Chief Engineer Kirkwood, purchases of land were begun and grading started. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad also sought control of the C&EI. 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