Three B30-7As - one if yellow with UP lettering - bring a southbound freight past the dormitory cars and other m of w equipment during a major redo of the UP's ex-MP line through Independence.

Missouri Pacific local pulls traffic from the KCS Yard.

A westbound manifest passes the Missouri Pacific Depot in the boyhood home of President Bill Clinton.

The brakeman signals the engineer at Missouri Pacific's interchange with the DeQueen and Eastern.

Don't believe everything you read.

SD40-2 3315 and a much older U30C are partners on an northbound train just outside Scott City, but the GE is close to the end, while the EMD will be around for a looong time.

SD40-2 3099 and a U30C - both partially covered in oil from some mechanical unhappiness - lead a train eastward toward Kansas City on Missouri Pacific's fine Pueblo line.

An eastbound D&RGW manifest - running on rights granted as part of UP/MP merger - has just cleared at Bridgeport, allowing a westbound coal empty to resume its trek behind an SD50/C36-7 duo. The ... (more)

A young fellow paces the GP38-2s heading down the middle of Fourth (or was it Fifth?) Street. Train is headed south on UP's McPherson Branch, but it is a new train, put on after UP/MP merger, and... (more)

Salina was located on a loop off MP's Pueblo main, and by the 1980s was served by local freights that were generally pretty short and typically pulled by a GP38 or two. When grain started moving,... (more)

Missouri Pacific GE B30-7A 55 units (4800-4854); MP 4800 painted yellow and gray in June 1984.

Housing a 3600 gallon fuel tank, this non-dynamic brake equipped GP38-2 painted UP yellow and gray with Missouri Pacific markings, at Fort Worth, Texas on April 16, 1987.

Missouri Pacific GE C36-7 60 units 9000-9059. Delivered new with yellow and gray paint and MP lettering. These C36-7's are husky engines measuring 67 feet, 3 inches long, and stand 15 feet, 4 inc... (more)

Missouri Pacific GP50 3509 in UP yellow with MP SD40-2 3301. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.