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. 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. 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. Find the locations in Minnesota here which harken back to the bygone era of rail travel when dinner was served aboard the train. Georgia. Gould developed a system extending through Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. in addition, via the C&EI's western leg, Mo-Pac now had a line to provide direct service between the important Chicago and St. Louis gateways. Also known as the "Erie War," Gould eventually defeated the Commodorefor control of the company before being ousted, himself, as president in 1872. 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. In 1917 the line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. One Mr. Jenks brought in 1961 was John H. Lloyd. As it continued expanding westward Jay Gould became involved during the fall of 1879 and subsequently leased it to the MP in 1881. Photo by David Harris, 2981. With its driving wheels five feet in diameter, the engine weighed 29,000 lbs. About the Missouri Pacific R.R. Application was made to the Interstate Commerce Commission which authorized the merger in May, 1976, Mo-Pac's 125th anniversary year. The modern company was comprised of several noteworthy predecessors like the Texas & Pacific, International-Great Northern, and St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. was opened. But with financial difficulties now slowing progress, it took nineteen months before the next eighteen miles (to Washington, Mo.) Since the early Sixties, the Missouri Pacific has steadily increased its traffic share of such major commodities as chemicals, automobiles and auto parts, wheat and other food grains, lumber and paper products, steel, iron ore, sand and gravel, and coal. 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. You will find links to many of these items in the sub-categories listed under this main category. By the 1980s the system would own 11,469 miles of rail line over 11 states bounded by Chicago to the east, Pueblo, Colorado, in the west, north to Omaha, south to the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, and southeast along the Gulf seaports of Louisiana and Texas. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. In 1916 they were sold to the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, and operated as the Gulf Coast Lines. 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". For the time being, however, things did not quite go according to plan for mogul. American-Rails.com collection. To further one such enterprise in 1958, some $3 million was spent to build a 27-mile spur to service a new iron ore mine operation set up near Sullivan, Mo. This line had to link up with the Iron Mountain to provide through service from St. Louis to Texas. 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. 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 information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. During March of 1917 a new company was born by merging the original Missouri Pacific Railway; St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern; and a number of smaller carriers into the new Missouri Pacific Railroad. The unified system - a goal of Mo-Pac people for decades was accomplished. Progress, though, was interrupted again by the Civil War's outbreak. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. Item Information. 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). So it was not surprising that the 1849 railroad plans were delayed. From this point, a dispatcher controls movements over a particular segment of track, i.e., territory. In addition, Texas awarded twenty sections per mile within its borders. Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. One of the company's most noteworthy leaders at this time was Downing Jenks, elected president in 1961 after spending a few years at the Rock Island. It operated from 1948 to 1971. 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. Missouri Pacific F7A #811, F3B #810-B, and another F7A layover between assignments, circa 1965. 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. Meanwhile, railroad financial circles had been stirred in 1954 when another attempt was made to take Missouri Pacific out of bankruptcy. After two years in the building, the Miller Street Freight Station in St. Louis opened January 2, 1952. A former Rock Island GP38-2 is ahead of this Missouri Pacific freight at Vinson Siding near Austin, Texas during the early 1980s. At 12:01 AM onMarch 1, 1956 it finally exited receivership as the Missouri Pacific Railroad containing a 9,710-mile system. However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource). MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great Depression, and entered into trusteeship. 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. Early in the year a cholera epidemic struck. However, physical improvements of the properties and diversification of its services were encouraged by the Federal Court. After months of negotiations to seek a new plan of reorganization, a formula was finally devised which proved satisfactory to all concerned. An A-B set of Missouri Pacific E7s, led by #7006, hustle west out of St. Louis with what appears to be train #11, the "Colorado Eagle," during a summer's afternoon in the late 1950s. In 1855, work on the original PR resumed as it reached Jefferson City. The StLIM&S began as theSt. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad (StL&IM), chartered by the state of Missouri on March 3, 1851. In this table "MP" includes New Orleans Texas & Mexico and all its subsidiary railroads (Beaumont Sour Lake & Western, I-GN, StLB&M, etc.) Union Pacific then allowed the Missouri Pacific & Western Pacific railroads to create a new scheme. These trains, and others, reached far and wide across its vast network. American-Rails.com collection. The Iron Mountain was begun at St. Louis in 1853. The Burlington Northern mainline is in the background. 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. Today, its 12,000-mile network comprises a significant component of the country's largest and most powerful railroad. 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. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3193 and SD40 #3027 have the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train" near Kyle, Texas, circa 1982. 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. Tipton was also the eastern terminus for a new overland mail service to San Francisco. American-Rails.com collection. 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. 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. 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 former was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway (1872) while the latter became the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway (1876), better remembered as the "Frisco.". New centers were built at Lee's Summit, Mo., and St. Louis in 1973. ); operated route-miles totaled 2259 at the end of 1929 (after C, PVS and TSL had become subsidiaries) and 2033 at the end of 1960. 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