Document Archive

Historic documents from the MPHS archives.

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

I’m mostly a lurker, but I’ll pipe up since asked. As a kid in Los Angeles I would occasionally see engines in normal (yellow/grey or scarlet/grey) with strange lettering like […]

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I grew up in a two railroad town, Marshall, Missouri. The MOP mainline ran around the east side of town alongside the city park. I spent many church picnics eagerly […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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I was born in Sikeston MO on  the line between Dexter and Belmont landing.Sikeston was located where the big road Frisco and little road MP crossed and made interchange through […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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