Stories about Missouri Pacific from non-employee supporters and fans.
Stories from MPHS members and other MP fans on why they are interested in our favorite railroad.
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It was a slippery slope from the beginning. Dad hired out with the Mopac in Jefferson City in 1950 but was told he’d be working in Osawatomie, Kansas. Mom remembers […]
...My interest in the MoPac was solidified when my family moved from St. Louis to Little Rock in 1956 when I was 10 years old (Yes, Mr Ogden, I’m older […]
...I grew up along the old Pleasant Hill branch in Robeline. We lived about a hundred feet from the tracks! I remember seeing steam locomotives when I was very small. […]
...As I wrote in Rails Around Missouri, I grew up along the Oak Hill line in south St Louis, between Fyler yard and Beck Ave. The MoP switched several customers […]
...I had an uncle who lived across the street from me in San Antonio who was foreman of the city gas department. He passed away in 1948, but not before […]
...I grew up in Shreveport and came from a family on my dad’s side where all the males going back three generations worked for the TP in either Marshall, Texarkana […]
...As for me, I grew up in a little town (Mer Rouge, in Northeastern Louisiana) that was so sleepy that it only sprung to life when the train came through […]
...My grandparents’ next-door neighbor, A.C. Russell, ran the day switch engine in the yard at Jefferson City and gave me the railroad – and MoP – fever. He hired out with the […]
...Good topic. Growing up in the 80’s I was babysat by my grandma who lived a block from the Union Pacific main line in Marysville, Ks. I would sneak down […]
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