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In Doug Brush’s book on the Northern Kansas Division there’s a shot of a MP gas-electric pulling a M-I baggage car. So one has to speculate that this was more of a longterm arrangement than a car on a train from Texas to St. Louis.
On the freight side of this question, I remember working in Texarkana in 1976 and seeing the clerks reporting freight interchange between the TP and MP and thinking how silly was that. You still had freight interchange between the C&EI, TP, M-I and the MP until these roads were finally merged into the Mopac on October 15, 1976.
Just think of all the clerks in Houston, Palestine, Ft. Worth and St. Louis dedicated to reporting inter-company interchange on both passenger and freight equipment the 1956 reorganization would have eliminated these positions.
