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. By then, Jay Gould had made a name for himself as a shady but successful Wall Street speculator; he first entered the railroad industry during 1859 and within a decade had blossomed into an influential tycoon. were completed. However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his, If you are researching anything EMD related please visit, If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the, C&O's George Washington (Train): Timetable, Route, Consist, 9103, 9117-9119, 9150-9155, 9160-9161, 9198-9199, 9120-9127, 9133-9141, 9148-9149, 9162-9167, 513B-518B, 525B-526B, 553B-556B, 561B-570B, 1100-1166, 1175-1201, 1255-1259, 1263-1279, 1280-1289, 6, 12, 2208, 2502, 8510, 8552, 8562, 8601, E (Various), Northern (Rebuilt from its fleet of Bekshires. 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. 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. 2023 Missouri Pacific Historical Society, This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. 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. 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". This latter point also witnessed interchange traffic from the nearby International & Great Northern (I&GN), which connected with the T&P at Longview. Members of the Missouri Pacific Historical Society are entitled to a discount on most of our merchandise. Since the original impetus behind construction of the Iron Mountain railroad had been the desire to reach the iron ore and other mineral deposits thought to abound in the Ozark foothills south of St. Louis, an all-out effort was being made to complete the 84.5 miles to Pilot Knob as quickly as possible. The Cairo & Fulton built through Arkansas southward into Texarkana, a move that had been delayed by the Civil War. 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. Construction was started in 1856, and WI en it was finished it was the first railroad touching the Texas Gulf Coast. The Amtrak version runs over former MoPac and T&P trackage for much of its route. Missouri Pacific Railroad "The MOPAC" MP GP #1606, at Monroe, LA. -As it name implies, CTC offers safer and more efficient operations by centralizing dispatching in one location. In the two-year period, 1962-1963, more than $100,000,000 was spent to improve the equipment, track and structures of the system. Of all the lines which Gould had joined to the Missouri Pacific only the Iron Mountain remained at the end of 1888. 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. Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. Subsequently, he purchased control of the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific and the Central Pacific. 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. They were not considered satisfactory, however, and the Pacific Railroad soon began to build its own cars. By 1969 only two MoPac trains, one of which was the famed Texas Eagle. During July of 1853 the line was extended west to Franklin, Missouri (now known as Pacific), a distance of 38 miles. This picture from 1981 shows a small Missouri Pacific Railroad yard near the stadium (to the right of the area shown in the photo) in Lincoln, Nebraska. An important intermodal step toward total transportation was made in 1972 when Missouri Pacific Airfreight, Inc. began operations in St. Louis. 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. An official, 1930 system map of the Missouri Pacific and subsidiaries. complete with an eagle adorning the locomotives nose. Both setbacks left him only in command of the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific. 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. While the United States Government was still considering allowing construction of a railroad across federal land in the West, Missouri funded its own first step across the continent. 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 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. A flat switching yard, Settegast fulfilled a need for expanded facilities to service the fast-growing Texas Gulf Coast petrochemical industry. 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. On July 4, 1851, ground was broken at St. Louis on the Pacific Railroad, the predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Georgia. He had entered service of the Missouri Pacific as a district attorney at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1930 and was appointed counsel for the Trustee in 1936. 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. Meanwhile, railroad financial circles had been stirred in 1954 when another attempt was made to take Missouri Pacific out of bankruptcy. 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. Even the prospect of laying a grade was extremely difficult due to the region's remoteness, sparse population, and lack of infrastructure. The Burlington Northern mainline is in the background. The International and Great Northern was completed to Longview where connection was made with the Texas & Pacific. The company also increased its efforts to attract new industries to its 12-state territory. The Missouri Pacific is a corporation of Missouri, having its principal office at St. Louis, Mo. The company continued to use it in marketing high-speed freight services. However, the process was slow. This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. He fine-tuned the MP into a highly efficient system and was an early proponent of computerization. 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. However, a study in late 1983 indicated the expense of all three railroads paint schemes were too costly. Missouri Pacific Diesel Power, by Kevin EuDaly Railroad & Railfan magazine Trains magazine; Return to Fallen Flags. 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. North Little Rock also is the location of the railroad system headquarters for distribution of materials and supplies. 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. 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. Welcome to our online archives section We have a large collection of documents and images in our archival holdings. to promote people already with the railroad and to make room for personnel brought in from outside. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. Updates? 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. Missouri Pacific E8A #40 (built as #7020), circa 1968. He also immediately began building a new management team. This line had to link up with the Iron Mountain to provide through service from St. Louis to Texas. The Pacific Railroad of Missouri was the St. Louis' and state of Missouri's response to Asa Whitney's and others ideas. Work was started on the Brownsville end in 1903 and the Baton Rouge end was finished in 1909. Photo by Jim Holder, 11/10/1987. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD #1847 ORIGINAL KODACHROME SLIDE. 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. Shops have been built new or modernized and highly sophisticated computer, communications and signal installations have been made across the railroad. At the time of their construction, these lines were subsidiaries of the Frisco. Gould also purchased control of the International Great Northern and completed the line of this latter railroad into Laredo, Texas. Thousands of new freight cars and hundreds of locomotives have been added to the Mo-Pac System freight fleet, which ranks as one of the best-maintained and youngest fleets in the rail industry. The passenger cars which arrived shortly thereafter, seated 60 persons and cost $2,300 each, f.o.b. EOW: Friday, March 11, 1932. Missouri Pacific E7A #26 departs St. Louis Union Station with train #17, the "Missouri River Eagle," during the 1960s. 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. The Missouri Pacific Heritage locomotive was unveiled in Omaha, Neb., on July 30, 2005. In 1998 a gentleman by the name ofAndre Kristopans put together a web page highlighting virtually every unit out-shopped by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. 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. I must however defend the position that the "MoPac" played a major part in Kansas railroading. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. Those trains replaced the famed Sunshine Special and made their inaugural runs on August 15, 1948. 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. Special Agent Bernard J. Kelly. 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. The Missouri Pacific Railroad, also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. Mississippi began buying Mo-Pac stock in 1959 and gained voting control in 1962. American-Rails.com In 1880 Gould gained control of the Texas & Pacific, and then had his Missouri Pacific lease the Missouri, Kansas & Texas system. New centers were built at Lee's Summit, Mo., and St. Louis in 1973. In the background is the Museum of Transportation, which was just over a decade old in this scene. New ownership then abandoned the Red River project in favor of opening a connection to the T&P. Author's collection. His son George Gould inherited control upon his father's death, but lost control of the company after it declared bankruptcy in 1915. The acquisition provided Mo-Pac a direct route between Kansas City and the Southwest by way of Oklahoma -a route 319 miles shorter than the previous one. Rails were purchased in England and were shipped to New Orleans for transfer to St. Louis by river steamboats. American-Rails.com collection. One Mr. Jenks brought in 1961 was John H. Lloyd. Railroad Notes, Abbreviations & Sources: Several "2500 Series" GP35s were later re-#d 2600-17. 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. Two years later, on September 13, 1982 the Interstate Commerce Commission also gave its blessing and a much larger Union Pacific was born. Despite paltry and insignificant patronage, the public and state/government officials fought discontinuance, largely out of nostalgia. Because of corporate ties extending back to the Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific at one time[when?] In 1967, a holder of Mo-Pac Class B shares sued the railroad over its dividend policy. The Pacific Railroad was chartered in 1851, opened the next year, and renamed Missouri Pacific in 1870. Following the settlement, construction continued eastward with the railroad arriving in New Orleans onSeptember 12, 1882. Subsequently, he purchased control of the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific and the Central Pacific. 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. 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. The Missouri Pacific's immediate ancestry can be traced back to the Pacific Railroad. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco, the Scenic Limited operated over the Western Pacific Railroad. In 1967 it gained stock control of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, which provided a coveted entry into Chicago. 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. The Missouri Pacific Railroad logo (blue). that officially merged into MP in 1956. It was also during this period that the main stem of what later became the Gulf Coast Lines was constructed. The Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP), commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. 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. The Missouri Pacific Railroad logo (red). Another first was Missouri Pacific's introduction the same year of a fully-automated materials management system providing computer determination of reorder points and quantities, automatic Surplus checking, purchase order writing and automatic vendor selection. Item Information. 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 . Abandoned Railroads However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource). A variety of Eagle trains were operated, with the first such train inaugurated in 1940. The T&P sold the third line -the 104-mile OklahomaCity-Ada-Atoka Railway-to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Of his early escapades, battling the powerful Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railway is the best-remember. 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. 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. Within four years these Eagles had run 2,616,904 miles and had carried 2,062,000 passengers. 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. Growth by merger was on Mo-Pac's mind early in 1966 when it began buying shares of Santa Fe Railway preferred stock. Certain branch lines in Arkansas and Louisiana were purchased. While these surveys were in progress, efforts were continued to secure aid from Congress. An important part of Missouri transportation service is transportation consultation, provided to customers by Mo-Pac sales representatives. Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific Lines, Soo Line. Now grain and ore, as well as coal, move in Mo-Pac unit trains. In May of the same year, Mo-Pac and the Mississippi River Corp. filed a joint application with the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to acquire control of the Santa Fe. Mr. Lloyd joined Mo-Pac as vice president-operation, the same post he had held with the Rock Island Lines. But Congress denied aid for the Missouri project. As the industry struggled through the 1970's the merger movement gained evermore momentum. 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. Alleghany Corp. joined the suit the next year. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. Please consider becoming a member and help us keep this history alive. During MoPac's final years its traffic-base was widely diversified ranging from coal, agriculture, and manufacturing to trailer-on-flat-car (TOFC), ore, and automobiles. Occupying more than five acres, the huge building had space for 180 freight cars under one roof. In 1896, Gould's portfolio was handed over to his son, George, who continued his father's transcontinental ambitions. Author's work. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, formerly (184972) Pacific Railroad, former American railroad founded to build the first rail line west of the Mississippi River. The T&P retained control of the 203-mile Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf, and of the 335-mile Midland Valley Railroad. The Texas Western Railroad, chartered in 1852 to build from the eastern to the western boundary of the state, later became the Texas & Pacific. The Missouri Trust Company was established in 1880, and the Third National Bank was established in 1882. 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. Some of these early railroads are now in the Missouri Pacific family. 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". A threat to the efficiency of traffic handling at the important St. Louis gateway developed in 1966 when the Cotton Belt, a Southern Pacific subsidiary, attempted to monopolize the Alton & Southern Railroad, a vital terminal switching facility. At the time of its mega-merger in 1982, the MoPac owned more and newer locomotives and operated more track than partner Union Pacific Railroad. 2600 from 2008 (2007:1), nee 630 2601 from 2501, nee T&P 601 . Later, the San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf was acquired to round out the system in southwest Texas. 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. A long-range program of installing radio in wayside stations to maintain contact with trains on the line was begun in that period. The Missouri Pacific Railroad constructed a brick shop building, and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad established a hospital. ", 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. Mo-Pac pioneered the use of containers in 1928 and remains a leader in containerization with one of the industry's most extensive line-ups of container handling facilities and services. By July, 1858 the Pacific Railroad was completed the 160 miles to Tipton, Mo., then the end of the line from St. Louis. In June, 1950, the Settegast Yard was opened at Houston. Like other early subscribers those men acted in the public interest rather than in expectation of any early direct return on their investments. 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. However, the merger was delayed by parties seeking reconsideration of the Commission's order. In 1855, work on the original PR resumed as it reached Jefferson City. 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. 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. American-Rails.com collection. The 1920's were a banner decade which witnessed a great deal more expansion. The people of Missouri then had their first look at a steam railroad. But the all-important thing was that the service was in operation by 1874. 810751-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-11 MP . After the GSL was added in 1926, management turned its attention to the Texas & Pacific. Construction of this segment began on July 19, 1853 but required upwards of seven years before it was finally completed in 1860. This issue was problematic industry-wide, resulting in many trains running far longer than they should have. The project was ambitious but formidable with numerous challenges, the most critical of which was procuring a steady flow of capital. This service, called "The Overland Mail', made its initial eastward stagecoach run from San Francisco on September 16, 1858, arriving at Tipton on October 10. 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. Alleghany Corp., a New York based holding company, once controlled the Missouri Pacific and when the railroad emerged from reorganization in 1956, Allegheny's common stock holdings were transformed into Class B shares. 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. 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. In 1916 they were sold to the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, and operated as the Gulf Coast Lines. By July 1853 work on the two tunnels west of Kirkwood was completed so that the "First Division" of the railroad could be opened. 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