Stories from employees on their careers and interest in the MP and its subsidiaries/predecessors.
Mike Legg: Purchasing and Materials 12/74-4/83 I hired on the Mop as a management trainee in December 1974. Jim Hamilton in Personnel made me the offer after interviewing with George […]
...Larry was a career railroader that finished his career working out of Jefferson City as a conductor. In the early ’70s he ran for the union office of General Chairman […]
...A question I’ve been asked fairly often over the years, as I’ve not lived in MP/TP territory for almost 50 years. I grew up in West Texas, with the T&P […]
...I grew up in south Kansas City, about a mile west of the old Bendix plant and the MOP Coffeeville sub. I could hear the trains blowing for the crossings […]
...I started on the C&EI railroad in 1969, 2 weeks after I turned 17 as a labor in the roundhouse. Work my way up to a locomotive inspector by age 18. That […]
...Right after WW2, when I was 3 or 4 years old, my parents bought a house in Arnold, MO, in the middle of nowhere on top of a long hill above […]
...Like some others have indicated, my primary interest is in another railroad. In my case, the Southern Railroad. But, as I’m sure a lot of you may know, the Southern […]
...It sure seems like growing up near Mopac influenced a lot of us. I’m no exception.My childhood home was located near Tower 18, a crossing just northeast of Fort Worth […]
...My earliest years of railfanning were family vacations along the Santa Fe and Route 66. At thirteen (1975), I moved with my family from California to Scotland, AR. No trains nearby, […]
...Looking out my front door growing up, I would see the Clarksville, Ark MOP depot. Many times I helped unload boxcars full of lumber for my Dad. (Yes, Boxcars. With Lumber. […]
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