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July 10, 2015 at 1:17 pm #5343peggyrothschildParticipant
Back in 1978 I rode the local between Hoisington and Horace (and back, you don’t want to be left in Horace). I took my camera and shot a roll of the equipment, switching, caboose views of the train, etc. After the MPHS Pueblo meet I stopped at Shields, Kansas and took the same view as I did in 1978 except the elevator is out of business, obviously no train, no tracks and lots of trees. Comparisons like this do make you feel a little older.
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July 12, 2015 at 1:51 pm #6751bargetanikaParticipantCharlie, I don’t know much about that west end of the MP headed toward Pueblo. That “is” the old main line, isn’t it? It looks like it’s totally gone now, if so I did not know that. Whst happened, did the UP soak up of everyone render it redundant? Please tell. Pat Flory
July 12, 2015 at 1:51 pm #6752bargetanikaParticipantCharlie, I don’t know much about that west end of the MP headed toward Pueblo. That “is” the old main line, isn’t it? It looks like it’s totally gone now, if so I did not know that. Whst happened, did the UP soak up of everyone render it redundant? Please tell. Pat Flory
July 14, 2015 at 12:46 pm #6769peggyrothschildParticipantHere’s a modern map of the railroads in Kansas. You can see how the former Mopac line is abandoned in several places
https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burRail/rail/publications/KansasRailroadMap2015.pdf
August 5, 2015 at 12:49 am #7002mopacKeymasterBack in the 1980s my job took me to Salina several times. South of town a few miles was the tiny burg of Bridgeport, where MP had a long passing track along the Pueblo main. UP’s Salina-McPherson branch also paralleled the MP (separated by just a few yards) for 3-4 miles from there into Lindsborg. It was an odd sight – three parallel tracks in the middle of nowhere – with just the Bridgeport elevator to otherwise mark an empty, empty spot. All three tracks are long gone, with little evidence they were ever there.
June 3, 2017 at 1:54 pm #8343peggyrothschildParticipantWas moving some stuff around in the basement yesterday and came across a CD marked “KS Local”. I’d documented this train in a past issue of the Eagle but thought I’d share some of the images here as well. The T&P caboose had recently come out of the shops; new thickly padded seats in the cupola and a fresh coat of red. I remember the flat car in front of the caboose was a bad order going back to TXX shops; I’d forgot we had a multilevel in the consist until I posted this again so not sure where it was headed or why but it was probably another bad order headed for a rip track. Interesting that the recently out shopped caboose received the MPL buzz saw rather than the Eagle style.
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October 29, 2023 at 1:43 am #10534AnonymousInactive@David Harris wrote:
Back in the 1980s my job took me to Salina several times. South of town a few miles was the tiny burg of Bridgeport, where MP had a long passing track along the Pueblo main. UP’s Salina-McPherson branch also paralleled the MP (separated by just a few yards) for 3-4 miles from there into Lindsborg. It was an odd sight – three parallel tracks in the middle of nowhere – with just the Bridgeport elevator to otherwise mark an empty, empty spot. All three tracks are long gone, with little evidence they were ever there.
Good Evening,
This is Jan Groves. I am a new Historical Society, having joined a couple of weeks ago. I read your information about working in the McPherson, Kansas area. I grew up in Elyria, Kansas. I watched the local MoPac train travel through Elyria for years. A great memory from childhood. I have always been curious if MoPac ever had passenger service on this route in the early 1900’s. I am considering modeling the McPherson route on my O scale layout, when I redo it. I would really like to include landscaping in the Elyria area, complete with buildings like the grain elevators, grocery store, and MoPac storage building. In traveling back to Elyria within the last few years, I have noticed that all sidings by the grain elevator have been removed, although the mainline is still used by the K & O railroad.
If you have any information, I would be very interested in visiting with you about it.
Cordially
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