Wood
Magor-style
Baggage-Coach
Standard

MP 541 - side-door cab with no 'porches" at Star City, AR on 5/1/49. Built in November 1909, this car was originally owned by predecessor road St Louis Iron Mountain & Southern. The torn hunk of wood that appears to be on the roof is actually part of the building behind. - photo: C. W. Witbreck, John C. La Rue, Jr. collection/ Todd Greuter Purchased Collection. Contact John for a list of his r.r. photos.

MP 1103 - this drover caboose is typical of the type seen on the MoPac, and was built in 1930. Seen at Galveston, Texas, date unknown. - photo: W. H. B. Jones, John C. La Rue, Jr. collection/ Todd Greuter Purchased Collection. Contact John for a list of his r.r. photos.

Photos on other sites:

• St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern #138 - at MPHS's website. One of the earliest MoPac caboose photos, the car is seen in it's original paint. The Iron Mountain consolidated with Missouri Pacific in 1917.

Jerry Michels' book Cabooses of the Missouri Pacific Lines is an excellent resource chronicling the early Mopac wood cabooses.

The wooden "Muleys" lacked the end platforms, giving them a very distinctve appearance, and were a favorite design of the Texas & Pacific, owning 53 of the Long Muley class alone. T&P #2435 shown below was part of the first group of Long Muley's to be built at the T&P's Marshall shops in Texas during 1928. This class was stretched version of their earlier short Muley sisters.

Texas & Pacific 2435 - A Long "Muley" caboose, at Whitecastle, Louisiana on August 21, 1953. Notice the T&P tender in eagle colors coupled to the car. - photo: C. W. Witbeck, John C. La Rue, Jr. collection/ Todd Greuter Purchased Collection. Contact John for a list of his r.r. photos.

Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf short cabooses, #1529 and 1530 had an odd end cupola arrangement and rode on an old steam tender frames. Both were home-built by KO&G sister Midland Valley in 1933.

Back when the MP (via TP) assumed control of the MV/KOG, this caboose was assigned to the Kirkwood local. A jobs conductor had been complaining about the condition of his 700 series wood caboose and as a result this car was assigned to his train. After a few trips banging down the track, he wanted his wood hack back. (B. Hoss)

KO&G 1529 and 1530 were used at Muskogee and Tulsa for local switching.  The assignment at Muskogee was on the local that went all the way around town, from Shopton on the southeast side to the Gar track on the north side.  There were several customers in downtown Muskogee (where the mall is now) that were served on this track. Incidentally, the Gar track was the original mainline of the Muskogee Union RR, soon changed to the MO&G, and later to the KO&G. I never heard why it was referred to as the "Gar" track, but that was the way it was listed in the ETTs.  Perhaps it related to the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) in some way. (J. Fike)

#129 Is today privately owned and resides as part od a dress shop in Webster Groves, Missouri. Retired in the 1960's, this car is belived to never have went on to wear MoPac paint, though it was "assigned" a MP number as #13222.

Built in October 1948, the 1532-37 series were unusual in that they were built with plywood sides, though were a bit more of a standard home-built caboose design. All went on to be lettered for MoPac.

KO&G 1538 was a real oddity, built in 1949 and being a whopping 44 feet in length with a centered cupola, plywood sides and fishbelly underframe, it was possibly the longest caboose to run on the MoPac system. It went on to become Missouri Pacific 13230.

KO&G 1529 - at Wichita, Kansas circa 1953. This neat little caboose with the odd end cupola arrangement rides on an old steam tender frame, and was one of two home-built by MV. - photographer unknown, John C. La Rue, Jr. collection/ Todd Greuter Purchased Collection. Contact John for a list of his r.r. photos.

KO&G 1536 - in a later two-tone company scheme, . at Houston, Texas in October 1966. It went on to become MP 13228 before its retirement in 1968. - photographer unknown, John C. La Rue, Jr. collection/ Todd Greuter Purchased Collection. Contact John for a list of his r.r. photos.

Though officially a Float Idler car, these were essentially a caboose in construction, so they are also included here. MoPac had a number of these specialized cars, the X 284 below serviced from Vidalia, LA to Natchez, Mississippi. The Idler, or Reach cars were simply a flat car with crew accomodations, and were used by the locomotive crew to more safely "reach" cars on river ferrys.

M&I #25 pulling a cut of cars up the incline from the transfer boat, the "Ste Genevieve" at Ste Genevieve, MO, on the Mississippi River. Notice the M&I idler car/caboose just behind the steam tender. The M-&I had several of these cars, used to "reach" the freight cars and draw them from the ferry without putting the full weight of the locomotive on the deck. - David Beckermann Collection

MP X 284 - at Ferriday, Louisiana on April 26, 1969. Its actual built date is unknown, though a similar car, Idler X 638, was built in 1936. The X 284 was retired in 6/71. - John C. La Rue, Jr./ Todd Greuter Purchased Collection. Contact John for a list of his r.r. photos.

MP 1243 R - the "R" was added to designate this cab as being radio equipped. So impressed was MoPac with their first Magor-built cars (1937), that they undertook a program to produce home-built copies like this one at the Sedalia Shops in 1951 and 1953. Note that the side grab irons extend beyond the body to the end platform because of the narrow steps. Brenham (TX?), 6/76 - Brian Paul Ehni Photo or Collection, used with permission.

Missouri Pacific #13004 - Near Lake Providance, Louisiana; 4/11/99. - Jerry Sires Photo / www.angelfire.com/la2/siresphotos (Jerry also offers custom models - email him for a list)

T&P/KO&G 13241 - this International Railcar Co. built cab was added to the system through the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf subsidiary. Bryan (TX?) 11/69 - Brian Paul Ehni Photo or Collection, used with permission.

T&P 13242 - at Dupo, Illinois on July 28, 1973. Built in 1952 by IRC, the former KO&G 1550 is now lettered for T&P in full MoPac paint and numbers. - photographer unknown, John C. La Rue, Jr. Collection / Todd Greuter Purchased Collection. Contact John for a list of his r.r. photos.

The MoPac's "Magor" copies were strictly home-built, not made from Magor kits.  They had a very different arrangement of windows, end rails, door windows and cupola.  The C&EI "Magor" copies were AC&F cars, but looked much more like the original Magor cars. (J. Michels)

MP engine #230 with a disappearing breed - a WWII era steel baggage/coach caboose with a large side-door. Meant to meet the demands as a result of the war, these cars doubled as passenger carriers for the branchlines and were the first on the system to be built with steel sides. The company still owned five baggage door cabs in 1980. May 1968 - Lee Berglund photo/ Todd Greuter Collection ·

"November 27, 1982 finds Missouri Pacific's Classroom, a converted Drover's Caboose, at Dolton, Illinois." MP East One was recycled by the railroad as a company promo for railroad safety. The last word is that EASTONE is still being used today by UP - from postcard, Thomas J. Golden photo/ Todd Greuter Collection ·

Missouri Pacific Safety Instruction Car "East One" - at Longview, Texas; 3/8/83 - Jerry Sires Photo / www.angelfire.com/la2/siresphotos

MP 1229 - One of the 1950's series of standard steel cabooses, the #1229 poses for a photo sometime before the 1960's renumbering. This 1950s series had a porthole window in the door instead the standard square frame, as well as only one end brakewheel. - Missouri Pacific Photo/Daryl Favignano Collection

Missouri Pacific #12389 - at Bridge City, Louisiana; 7/25/87. It, along with a tank car and a boxcar, were donated to the Jefferson Parish Fire Training Center. No one knows what happen to the caboose, but the tank car and boxcar were sold for scrap and shortly afterwards the center director either got fired or quit. - Jerry Sires Photo / www.angelfire.com/la2/siresphotos

* Fall 2001 Update: One of only three Nebraska MoPac cabooses, the Papillion/Omaha car was repainted overall red due to its deteriorating condition. See most recent image below.
* 9/3/2003 Update: MP 13009 in Papillion/Omaha is owned by one Oscar Colmenaras at 9429 S 142nd and is located in the NW quadrant of I80 and 144th intersection behind the McDonalds as noted. (thanks to Elvin Klepzig)

MP #13309 - as it appears today after the owner has made repairs and repainted the vandalized caboose near the Papillion Exit, Nebraska; Fall 2001 - Todd Greuter Photo ·

MP 13350 - A dramatic shot, the newly rebuilt standard steel welded caboose sitting outside in back of the MoPac's Sedalia, Missouri shops. - Missouri Pacific Photo/Daryl Favignano Collection

MP 13384 - A Sedalia Shops built w/ welded-steel caboose. It glimmers in the dieing sunset and right where it belongs... riding at the end of a train - Stafford, Kansas, 6/72 - Lee Berglund photo/ - Todd Greuter Collection ·

MP 13430 - rests at Lincoln, Nebraska in September 1974, at the throat of the joint MP/C&NW railyard. Heading to the left the MoP branchline crosses the BN, then over Salt Creek to finally end at it's UP connection. - © copyright Glen Beans, used with permission. Note: this is a high-res file (327 kb) with excellent image detail.

Missouri Pacific #13487 - at DeQuincy, Louisiana; 1/28/96. The caboose is the same as on your site, but not encaged in a fence or under a building. A clearer shot. - Jerry Sires Photo / www.angelfire.com/la2/siresphotos

MP 13491 - rumbles over UP(?) track through Cozad, Nebraska on July 1977. - © copyright Glen Beans, used with permission. Note: this is a high-res file (236 kb).

MP 13309 - Showing the old heavy boxcar framework used in the building of these cabooses at MP's DeSoto shops. - Todd Greuter Photo

MP 13309 - On one visit I found the caboose had been broken-in and windows busted out, leaving it exposed to the elements. Like many display cabs, #13309 had been a victim of vandals. Unfortuantely, the damage has been extensive, the caboose's original paperwork was trampled, seats were slashed and trash everywhere. I recorded the results before all was completely totalled.

Looking toward the cupola and the "A" end.