One of Missouri Pacific's most bizarre purchases was the acquisition of four A-B-A sets of Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 in the Babyface style carbody in late 1948. The units would not m-u with other powe... (more)

CPKC's Final Spike train crosses the Red River on its way to Shreveport. The city of Texarkana is known for sitting right along the Texas/Arkansas state line, with a photo op available at the post... (more)

A loaded grain train barely slows up for all the diamonds at Texarkana. The KCS crosses the UP Pine Bluff and the Little Rock Subs along with the shortline TENR. The train passes an old gray SD40 ... (more)

Nearly three years after the pair were delivered by builder Alco, wearing the Daylight paint, the St. Louis Southwestern's PA's 300 and 301 were well established at work in the Lone Star state... (more)

In early 1984 the Rio Grande gave a number of units to the Missouri Pacific to run off horsepower hours accrued by MP run thru power on the Colorado - Moss Point coal trains. One example is this G... (more)

At last light, a northbound coal empty was a few miles north of Texarkana, TX, headed for Kansas City.

Slowly taking the curve and for the junction with the other mainlines, the Big Boy comes into Texarkana with their train and are almost at their stop.

Union Pacific 4014 enters the Texarkana yard and is about to stop at the Amtrak Depot. The dispatcher can now get two westbound freight on the move out of the yard that have been waiting patientl... (more)

UP 4014 crosses a small bridge and prepares to stop in front of a large crowd at the depot in Texarkana.

A Cotton Belt freight has already crossed the Missouri Pacific diamonds and is about to hit the KCS diamond in the shadow of Cotton Belt Tower in Texarkana, TX. Second out in the engine consist i... (more)

The view here is 100% Missouri Pacific Railroad, even if it was photographed 3 years after the UP-MP-WP merger date. 3 SD's off an inbound train are in the west end of #1 in Texarkana Yard, while ... (more)

The MP service track is showing a nice representation of EMD power, as a GP50, SD40, and an ex Rock Island GP38-2 pose for the photographer. The days of this paint scheme are numbered as we are al... (more)

A coal train pauses by the KCS Yard on the north side of Texarkana with KCS 701 on the point. 701 was one of 4 SD40X's built by EMD and were the prototypes for the SD50's.

After the UP-MP-WP merger, some Western Pacific GP40's were reassigned to Fort Worth where thier dynamic brakes could be utilized on the Baird and Toyah Subs in West Texas. The 4 axle units were d... (more)

On the Missouri Pacific service track in Texarkana we find representatives of three railroads that are now fallen flags. The DRGW GP30 was running off horsepower hours at the time, and the WP GP40... (more)