Document Archive

Historic documents from the MPHS archives.

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

Woodruff F. (Woody) Sutton – Missouri Pacific Various Jobs and Locations What was your first job on the Mopac and what were the daily duties?           […]

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A BIO OF THE  RAILROAD LIFE OF ROBERT  L. “BOB” FERGUSON What was the first job on the MOPAC and what were the daily duties? The duties consisted handling time cards from the 2nd shift […]

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My ambition in my youth was to be a pitcher for the New York Yankees. It never happened so instead I became a telegrapher for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. I […]

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Marv Winkeler – Various jobs, Dupo, Illinois, St. Louis and Omaha. Working on the MoPac Railroad What was your first job on the MoPac and what were the daily duties? […]

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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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