"Ready for Liftoff!"
On the morning of November 18th, 2021, a Long Island Crane & Rigging crane operator begins to lift ex-Missouri Pacific caboose 13456 from its trucks at ... (more)
"Final Preparations"
On the morning of November 18th, 2021, NRHS Twin Forks Chapter VP, Gerard Jewels, makes last minute adjustments to ex-Missouri Pacific caboose 13456's a... (more)
"Caboose & Crane at Kroemer"
On the morning of November 18th, 2021, ex-Missouri Pacific Railroad caboose 13456 awaits a lift while Long Island Crane & Rigging crews prep one... (more)
"Cabooses Ready to Depart Kroemer"
Ex-Missouri Pacific Railroad cabooses 13456 & 13388 sit ready for removal from the old Kroemer Siding, just off of Long Island Rail Road'... (more)
The St. Louis to Denver train 11, the 'Colorado Eagle" with MoPac's E8A 7018 and E7A 7010, sweeps into town westbound with twelve blue and gray cars to pick up passengers at the Kirkwood,M... (more)
Four new MoPac SD50s await their first revenue move at Yard Center. Tom Golden photo.
All four locomotives passing the foundation of MP's Independence passenger station are Missouri Pacific - sort of. All are lettered Missouri Pacific, but only the third unit (SD40-2 3266) is 100%... (more)
Coal and non-coal SD40-2s bring a coal train across the former Frisco on the MP line to Coffeyville. We are years into the Power River era, but this mix-and-match power and train look like a non-... (more)
A coal service SD40-2 (SD40-2c to MP) teams with two more SD40s to take a grain extra off the Salina branch. Regular trains on the branch typically rated just a pair of GP38s.
Following the December 1982 merger of the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific into the Union Pacific in 1982, MoPac’s large fleet of 281 GP38-2s was flung over the entire UP syste... (more)
A hybrid yellow MP SD40-2 leads a WP GP40-2 and four more units, two in MP blue, and two in Armour yellow.
A shot made from the top of the bleachers at the KWU stadium shows the UP's McPherson turn headed south behind a MP GE.
Three SD40s are still accelerating their KC-bound train a couple miles out of Coffeyville yard.
The UP-MP merger is not quite a done-deal, but an MP GEBB is at the head of UP's McPherson turn as it heads south and out of town.
SD40s speed a freight down the Van Buren Sub toward North Little Rock. The line is about to 'get busy' as new Powder River coal trains use the route to reach Texas generating plants.