Stories from employees on their careers and interest in the MP and its subsidiaries/predecessors.
My maternal great-grandfather was the T&P agent in Marshall, Texas for many years until his death in 1920. His daughter, my grandmother, married a man whose brother was an engineer […]
...My grandfather worked for the Missouri Pacific for 50 years from 1901 to 1951. His name was Alvia Smith and they called him BAD Alvia! Started out in the NLR […]
...I grew up in Homewood, Illinois in the south suburbs of Chicago during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Naturally this means I grew up an Illinois Central fan. However, due to […]
...I learned about the MPHS on-line. I found the MOPAC modeling group on Yahoo, and wanted to know more about modeling the Missouri Pacific during the 1950s. As for my […]
...My primary interest is in the Rock Island, since my family rode the Twin Star Rocket from Houston to Minnesota to visit my mother’s family. However, MP was a major […]
...In 1951, when I was 14 years old, my Dad bought a small farm on the outskirts of Cabot, Arkansas. The MoPac was under steam on the Little Rock to […]
...My Missouri Pacific experience began about 10 months after the shutdown of the Rock Island and Milwaukee Road lines in early 1981. The MoPac came to the University of Wisconsin […]
...C. R. (Bob) Kilgore “My first job(s) with MoPac” Graduation from Christian Brothers High School in St Joe, Mo in 1951 (63 years ago) was fast approaching and I had […]
...What was your first job on the Texas & Pacific and what were the daily duties? Operating a passenger elevator in the 12 story T&P building FtWorth. 8 of the […]
...Locations worked I began at Yard Center in Dolton, a south suburb of Chicago. We covered. Yard Center, 37th Street intermodal, 26th Street Yard in Chicago Heights and the CHTT […]
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