Ben Sevier

A question I’ve been asked fairly often over the years, as I’ve not lived in MP/TP territory for almost 50 years. I grew up in West Texas, with the T&P […]

Matt Kauffman

I grew up in south Kansas City, about a mile west of the old Bendix plant and the MOP Coffeeville sub.  I could hear the trains blowing for the crossings […]

Jerry Green

I started on the C&EI railroad in 1969, 2 weeks after I turned 17 as a labor in the roundhouse. Work my way up to a locomotive inspector by age 18. That […]

Ron Zimmer

My interest probably started when I was very young, maybe 4 or 5 in the late 1940s.  We lived a few blocks from the Shaw Ave crossing of the Oak […]

Rich Zellich

Right after WW2, when I was 3 or 4 years old, my parents bought a house in Arnold, MO, in the middle of nowhere on top of a long hill above […]

Rob Rogers

I grew up in Shreveport and came from a family on my dad’s side where all the males going back three generations worked for the TP in either Marshall, Texarkana […]

Nate Obermeyer

Good topic. Growing up in the 80’s I was babysat by my grandma who lived a block from the Union Pacific main line in Marysville, Ks. I would sneak down […]

Nick Gulley

I’m mostly a lurker, but I’ll pipe up since asked. As a kid in Los Angeles  I would occasionally see engines in normal (yellow/grey or scarlet/grey) with strange lettering like […]

Pat Hiatte

My grandparents’ next-door neighbor, A.C. Russell, ran the day switch engine in the yard at Jefferson City and gave me the railroad – and MoP – fever. He hired out with the […]

Patrick Jacob

I grew up along the old Pleasant Hill branch in Robeline.  We lived about a hundred feet from the tracks!  I remember seeing steam locomotives when I was very small.  […]