Unfortunately, this was not to be. Another corporate change took place a few years later when, on October 15, 1976, it formally dissolved the C&EI and T&P, giving it a total network of roughly 12,000 route miles. 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. 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. 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. Gould also purchased control of the International Great Northern and completed the line of this latter railroad into Laredo, Texas. Unfortunately, despite escaping the Goulds' grip the railroad remained hampered by heavy debt and in need of considerable improvements. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3193 and SD40 #3027 have the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train" near Kyle, Texas, circa 1982. For a fascinating background of this carrier and how it wound up under Gould's direction purchase a copy of Mr. Cline's book. 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. As part of these attempts to get the railroad actually underway, theground breaking celebration was held on the Fourth of July, 1851. By 1955 all steam locomotives had been retired from service and soon all were scrapped. By 1911 it operated 1,106 miles. Another disaster occurred when fire, which broke out on a river steamboat, spread and destroyed twenty-two other boats, and a considerable part of the business district. In 1855, work on the original PR resumed as it reached Jefferson City. 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. 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. However, following World War II it made dramatic transformation into a profitable Midwestern carrier. To permit the free interchange of cars with those eastern railroads which had standard gauge and which expected to use the new bridge, in 1869 the Pacific Railroad changed its original " wide gauge" track to standard gauge. Acting for Missouri Pacific, the railroad was bought on 6/20/24 by the New Orleans, Texas & Mexican Railway Company, which was then bought outright by Missouri Pacific in 1925. In short, the MP owned a web of main lines and secondary corridors which were spread out across Missouri, Kansas, eastern Colorado, eastern Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. The stock market crash of 1929 only made matters worse and before long it had slipped into bankruptcy once more. On July 4, 1851, ground was broken at St. Louis on the Pacific Railroad, the predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Pacific Railroad (not to be confused with Union Pacific Railroad) was a railroad based in Missouri. During the Civil War, raids were made against all of the Missouri railroads and great damage was done. 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. Subsequently, he purchased control of the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific and the Central Pacific. 613023-465 HO Scale ExactRail Platinum EP-80406-3 M.P. 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. Mr. Jenks was elected president, and Mr. Dearmont was elected chairman of the board, in 1961. While the Pacific Railroad was thus being started, other Missouri railroad projects were being fostered. 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". Its last 26 years as an independent entity were defined by strong management and high quality service. During Mr. Jenks' presidency. To speed construction and get into operation as quickly as possible, bridges over the White, the Arkansas and the Red rivers were passed up for the time being and passengers and freight were transferred by ferry until the bridges could be constructed. Perhaps the most dramatic development in Missouri Pacific service since 1961 has been what Mo-Pac calls "total transportation" Mo-Pac has made steady progress toward its goal: operation as a total transportation company using all transport modes to offer all the combinations of service that a shipper may need. Tipton was also the eastern terminus for a new overland mail service to San Francisco. 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. Afterwards, following theInternational-Great Northern Railroad reorganization in 1922 it, also joined the MoPac (January 1, 1925). Bridges, buildings, tracks and rolling stock were destroyed all the way from Franklin to Kansas City. 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. Ton-miles for C&EI in 1970 presumably don't include the L&N portion. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. This extended from Anchorage, opposite Baton Rouge, La., through Houston to Brownsville, Texas. Mo-Pac began acquiring C&EI stock in 1961. This carrier, led by William Barstow Strong, had quickly established itself as a powerful western railroad. The Missouri Pacific's immediate ancestry can be traced back to the Pacific Railroad. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. After hearings were completed, the ICC in 1968 authorized Mo-Pac and the Chicago & North Western Railroad to purchase the A&S. 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. The accounting data in this report, therefore, cover the period from . In the succeeding years the T&P continued expanding, most notably to Denison (opening an interchange there with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas) and a secondary line into Texarkana that passed through Paris. 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. 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. Missouri Pacific E8A #40 (built as #7020), circa 1968. New centers were built at Lee's Summit, Mo., and St. Louis in 1973. Mike Bledsoe photo. 2600 from 2008 (2007:1), nee 630 2601 from 2501, nee T&P 601 . American-Rails.com collection. Location not recorded. Mike Bledsoe photo. Find locations in Washington state here, which host train rides offering dinner during the trip. In 1975, the Federal Railroad Administration awarded Mo-Pac a $5.5 million contract to develop an automated freight car scheduling system, built upon the data base and operating applications of Missouri Pacific's TCS. If you are a supplier, contractor or carrier, please visit the. Early in 1864, rails, locomotives and cars had been taken by Missouri River steamboats to Kansas City and construction eastward from that point started. Interestingly the Eagle name did not disappear after passenger services ended. 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. Extensions were built through Kansas and Colorado to Pueblo, western terminus of the Missouri Pacific system, while the Iron Mountain's southern line was completed into Alexandria, Louisiana. Missouri Pacific Railroad "The MOPAC" MP GP #1606, at Monroe, LA. In his book, "The Texas Railroad: The Scandalous And Violent History Of The International And Great Northern Railroad, 1866-1925," author Wayne Cline points out that the StL&IM was originally envisioned to exploit iron ore deposits located aroundIronton, Missouri. While a court order forced him to divest control of the latter in 1888 he used the quartet to greatly increase his presence throughout Texas. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, formerly (1849-72) Pacific Railroad, former American railroad founded to build the first rail line west of the Mississippi River. Item Information. They were not considered satisfactory, however, and the Pacific Railroad soon began to build its own cars. Because of corporate ties extending back to the Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific at one time[when?] He fine-tuned the MP into a highly efficient system and was an early proponent of computerization. Time left: 6d 23h | Current bid: US $2.50 [ 1 bid] Bid Amount - Enter US $2.75 or more. This was also true with the Missouri Pacific, which he acquired in 1879. I must however defend the position that the "MoPac" played a major part in Kansas railroading. Certain branch lines in Arkansas and Louisiana were purchased. 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. 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. The completion of Eads Bridge in 1874 extended the new standard gauge track through St. Louis to the Atlantic states. 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. 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. Application was made to the Interstate Commerce Commission which authorized the merger in May, 1976, Mo-Pac's 125th anniversary year. This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed approval of the merger until September 13, 1982. Included were 3,217 new freight cars and 156 new locomotives. In addition to these items, we have informative articles about various aspects of the operation of the railroad. 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. Location not listed. 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. Then, a few months later (June/1866) the original Pacific Railroad (St. Louis-Kansas City) was sold while the Southwest Branch fell into General John Fremont's hands. One was Houston's first railroad, the Houston Tap. 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. 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. Missouri Pacific was under the control of New York financier Jay Gould from 1879 until his death in 1892. The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. 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. 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). 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. The merger plan was drafted and subsequently was approved by stockholders of the three companies at separate meetings in October, 1974. The Midland Valley and the KO&G subsequently weremerged into theT&P in 1967 and 1970, respectively. It was re-organized as the Missouri Pacific in 1956. Welcome to our online archives section We have a large collection of documents and images in our archival holdings. 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. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD #1847 ORIGINAL KODACHROME SLIDE. The design implies both power and speed. American-Rails.com collection. Cooperative service arrangements with other railroads have been, and continue to be used when they can improve equipment utilization and upgrade _ transportation service. Members of the Missouri Pacific Historical Society are entitled to a discount on most of our merchandise. 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. 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. On January 1, 1997, Missouri Pacific Railroad legally was merged into Union Pacific Railroad, with UPRR remaining as the surviving corporation. 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. The Missouri Pacific is a corporation of Missouri, having its principal office at St. Louis, Mo. The Missouri Pacific Heritage locomotive was unveiled in Omaha, Neb., on July 30, 2005. collection. New ownership then abandoned the Red River project in favor of opening a connection to the T&P. 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. and cost the company $7,650.00. 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