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April 16, 2016 at 4:41 am #5716

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From Yahoo Pass Consist list:

Missouri Pacific train #3 was the Ozarker, primarily a mail and express train operating between St. Louis and Little Rock, with MP bus connection to Texarkana. In October 1950, No. 3 was scheduled to depart St. Louis at 7:22am, Poplar Bluff at 12:40pm, arriving Little Rock at 5:45pm, after making many stops en route.

The consist of No. 3 on October 14, 1950 (from conductor train book)

6614 4-6-2
MP 88232 box express (mail)
REX 6216 refrigerator express (mail)
MP 2579 baggage-mail (30-foot RPO)
MP 4183 70-ft baggage (mail)
MP 4212 70-ft baggage (baggage & mail)
MP 6554 80-seat coach
MP 8184 68-seat coach
MP 10910 42-seat cafe-parlor-coach
MP 6556 80-seat coach

Note: car 88232 does not appear in the 1950 or 1951 ORPTE. It is unknown whether this was a standard MP boxcar, or whether numbers were transposed. The MP box express series was 88300-88324.

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