Salina was no North Platte, but it did see a pretty good variety of power over the old Kansas Pacific. Here, a somewhat unlikely duo of MP GP38-2 & Milwaukee GP40 are being utilized in yard and ... (more)

A Texas bound train is a few minutes out of North Little Rock Yard as it passes Union Station. Last out in the consist are a couple of GP's that are likely headed back to an outlying point after c... (more)

The famous Missouri Pacific "screaming eagle" logo, as seen on the side of a covered hopper on a UP grain train earlier this week.

Smoke from hot wheels and brakeshoes obscures most of the train and the surroundings as three Missouri Pacific F7's lead a gravel train down Kirkwood Hill, Missouri in August 1969.

An early recipient of the over-all red treatment is MoPac (T&P) No. 13238 at Kansas City, Mo., in June 1969. No photographer information on slide.

A trio of GP35's wearing the large MoPac "screaming eagle" on the long hood, near Dupo, Illinois May 18, 1968. No photographer information on slide.

Missouri Pacific EMD F3(A) 724 with T&P GP9 394 and two F7A's T&P 897 and MP 842 in Dallas, Texas April 08, 1967.

UP eastbound coal load near Morrison

On a fine October afternoon in 1965, Missouri Pacific GP7’s 186 and 221, both dressed in the classic blue and gray Eagle passenger scheme, hustle15 cars and a caboose east from Herrington, Kansa... (more)

Missouri Pacific owned over 300 SD40-2s, but the locomotive that really defined the MP in the 1970s and beyond was the EMD GP38-2 - The MoPac owned 264 GP38-2s (along with 6 GP38s). Built in Augu... (more)

A trio of Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (3205, 3215 and 3190) maneuver through the yard in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 2nd, 1983. Meanwhile, a coal train led by Burlington Northern C30-7 5006... (more)

The Endless American Prairie

The American prairie is a vast, flat expanse. Heading east across these plains under a cloudless azure sky is a Missouri Pacific freight train, led by S... (more)

Departing the Texas & Pacific yard in Longview, Texas, is a train led by Missouri Pacific GP38 856, MP GP18 430 and T&P GP9 398. This view, taken on March 3rd, 1973, shows a yard full of "cl... (more)

Dress Blues

Idling in Horace, Kansas, on August 22nd, 1980, are a pair of Missouri Pacific engines: SD40-2 3204 and SD40 3030.

This is still mesquite and prairie grass in August, 1977, as Missouri Pacific 3186 heads to Fort Worth with another load of autos from the General Motors plant in Grand Prairie. The second unit, 3... (more)