An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.
A fifty eight car freight is westbound near Eads Colorado in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
Fort Worth TX (January) 1974 — Missouri Pacific SD40-2 742 makes its way past city center as it approaches Tower 55. My photo.
FORT WORTH TX March 15 1981 — Missouri Pacific SD40-2 3143 has the lead on a tied down covered hopper train. All it needs is a crew and it will be on its way. EMD built the unit (b/n 73748-5) in... (more)
SAINT LOUIS MO Aug 2 1976 -- Missouri Pacific SD40-2 3194 idles at the shops. Can anyone identify the loco with the spark arrestors that appears to be numbered 72. I promise this is the scan of an... (more)
FORT WORTH TX March 15 1981 — Missouri Pacific SD40-2 3281 hauls a mixed freight. EMD built the 3281 in July 1974. My photo.
FORT WORTH TX May 26 1985 — Missouri Pacific SD40-2 6000 is tied down and awaiting an assignment. EMD built the unit (b/n 756145-01) in July 1976. On July 24 1986 it was renumbered to UP 3900. O... (more)
Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific locomotives are gathered at Yard Center at Dolton on December 3, 1988. MP was merged into UP on December 22, 1982, and initially it was to remain separate in nam... (more)
Carrying a Mars light is a give away that this is unit was dedicated to coal service, some of it on the D&RGW.
MOP was a sharp outfit.
Monroe was a favorite place back in the day. Things have settled down unfortunately. The great original paint scheme seems to be trying to get out.
A trio of dirty Missouri Pacific EMD SD40-2s sit at the locomotive facility in Yard Center at Dolton, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.
Tiptoe through the mesquite. A caboose hop trundles along it an area that appears to have just had some rail. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.
Thirteen-month-old Missouri Pacific GP15-1 1686 was photographed just six months after the MoPac was absorbed into the Union Pacific. While this locomotive is technically a UP possession in this ... (more)
