Reply To: Using ICC Reports for MP Research

[Bill Pollard]

The published information (which is on line) is only a small fraction of the entire valuation file. To my knowledge, there are no valuation maps on line, and likewise no on line listing for equipment inventory, etc. To retrieve the maps when visiting the National Archives, you need to know the valuation section itself. It would be a worthwhile project for MPHS to compile the valuation section lists for each state. The Arkansas valuation sections are listed below as an example of the numbering format.

Arkansas valuation sections for Missouri Pacific (similar numbering systems exist for each MP served state)

1AB-Arkansas Ark-Mo line (Corning) to Texarkana
2AB-Arkansas Knobel-Wynne-Helena-McGehee
3A-Arkansas Bald Knob-West Memphis
4-Arkansas West Memphis-Helena-Marianna
5AB-Arkansas Helena-Clarendon and Pine City Junction to Brinkley
6ABC-Arkansas Diaz to Cricket and Cushman branch
7ABC-Arkansas North Little Rock-Van Buren
7D-Arkansas Little Rock area ???
8AB-Arkansas Fort Smith-Greenwood
8C-Arkansas Fort Smith-Paris (Arkansas Central)
9AB-Arkansas Little Rock-Pine Bluff-McGehee-Wilmot
10ABC-Arkansas Arkla-Eudora; Trippe Jct.-Arkansas City
11-Arkansas Baxter-Colliers
12-Arkansas Thebes-Montrose-Hamburg-Snyder-Crossett
13ABC-Arkansas Hardin-Prague-Benton-Hot Springs
14ABC-Arkansas Gurdon-Burtsell-Okolona-Caddo Gap-Womble
15ABC-Arkansas Gurdon-Reader-El Dorado-Felsenthal-Huttig
16-Arkansas Hope-Nashville
20A-Arkansas Barham-Military Junction
20B-Arkansas Camp Pike (North Little Rock)
24-Arkansas Hot Springs (former MD&G trackage, structures purchased 1928)

The published text of the MP valuation was indeed Valuation Docket 1006, Volume 40V page 249. This was after the Valuation Dockets began to be published in a separate valuation series, rather than in the ICC Reports number series. Valuation volumes starting with the 22nd one were split out into this separate series. The Valuation series, including volume 40, can be found at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003919131?type%5B%5D=subject&lookfor%5B%5D=%22%20Railroads%20Valuation%22&ft=

Bill Pollard