Missouri Pacific’s far western extension to Pueblo, Colorado, completed in 1887 as a sign of its transcontinental intentions under Jay Gould, disappeared a century later, gobbled up by all-devou... (more)
Two years ago Missouri Pacific asked the ICC for permission to drop number 16, the Missouri River Eagle. But on April 26, 1965, the train known to local railroaders as the “Bird,” is still fly... (more)
Snow was a rarity in Central Texas in the winter of 1947, but so were steam locomotives on the Sunshine Special
which by this time had been dieselized. The abbreviated consist was indicative of ... (more)