Document Archive

Historic documents from the MPHS archives.

Stories from employees on their careers and interest in the MP and its subsidiaries/predecessors.

If you were an employee of the Missouri Pacific or one of its subsidiaries, you are welcome to add your story. Submit your article to webmaster@mopac.org.

Originally posted by Charlie Duckworth, 16 July, 2014

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What was your first job on the Mopac and what were the daily duties?I guess I can’t count being a management trainee as a job, but it certainly was a […]

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Chuck Jordan, Missouri Pacific Marketing & Sales Immediately following a one-year tour of duty working as a stenographer at Headquarters, U. S. Army, Vietnam, I began working for the MoPac on […]

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My father was a MoPac Superintendent so I became a second generation MoPac employee. After high school graduation, I started as a summer employee on the Section gang in Atchison, […]

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Wade Clutton’s write up made on January 11,2011.  Wade passed away March 8, 2015. I went from Chief Clerk (local traffic office) at Joplin, Missouri (September 1962 through December 1962).  […]

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What was your first job on the Mopac and what were the daily duties?Hired 12/27/72 Wichita,KS   What was the most interesting job on the railroad you had? Durand TSE What […]

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First train order copied May 25, 1969 at 6:19 am  January 1, 1973 Telegrapher Seniority Roster showing 6 McVeys working on the White River.  Steve is the fourth from the […]

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Originally posted by Charlie Duckworth, 11 July, 2014

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Originally posted by Charlie Duckworth, 11 July, 2014

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When I was two years old, my parents moved into a house next to the Missouri Pacific yard in Carthage, MO. The first time that I saw a train go […]

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