In 1947 and thereafter Texas law required all freight locomotive tenders to have a doghouse in which the head brakeman was to ride. However, as seen in this view of Mikado No. 1113 rolling backw... (more)

Blue skies and blue diesels: Missouri Pacific locomotives fill the locomotive storage tracks at Yard Center at Dolton, Illinois, on September 15, 1985. MP No. 6052 is a SD40-2 purchased with dynam... (more)

a pair of GP 15-1's work the yard at Quindaro Blvd in the Fairfax district of Kansas City. KS

The UP Colton Switcher has an unusual consist today including 3 SP units. SP 7442, 9297 and merger unit 7310 heads west on the SF track at the Colton crossover diamond.

A four axle trio move a freight south through Missouri Pacific's Dolton yard.

St. Louis-bound auto train.

Covered in ice and frost from an overnight low temperature of -12 degrees, an original Missouri Pacific lettered open hopper catches the first of the morning sun rays, stored in a spur in the smal... (more)

A pair of former Missouri Pacific GP15-1s smoke it up on a transfer freight at Kansas City, Missouri, on September 16, 1990. In the background is a portion of BN’s Hannibal Bridge across the Misso... (more)

Unit train MAR shuttled pelletized iron ore between the mine at Pea Ridge and Lone Star Steel in East Texas.

MP Topeka local preparing to depart the capitol city for points east

BN (SLSF) GP38-2 2365 leads local train 111 past an empty UEL waiting on a new crew. The local is on the former SLSF St Louis-Memphis line, while the UEL will take the MP branch in the foregroun... (more)

Missouri Pacific 2020 sits inside the North Platte diesel shops. My wife and I were given a special one on one tour of the diesel shops. Almost 30 years later, I ask myself, how were we so fortuna... (more)

2052 and 2084 are two of the many Missouri Pacific locomotives stored in the Union Pacific Yermo yard. Taken with permission.

An MP freight is southbound behind two F7 units near Buffalo, Texas on New Year's Day.

A southbound Missouri Pacfic freight wih a mixture of units is just north of Austin on New Year's Day 1971. My future wife is learning what she's in for as she sits in my 1967 Alfa Romeo coupe. We... (more)