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MP 724 - The 2-10-2 literally fills the sky with hot steam on this frigid 21st of January day, 1951. It would be one of the last times steam would be seen on this mainline, as #1724 pulls a freight northward near Lake Street in Omaha, Nebraska - photo © copyright William W. Kratville, used with permission |
What a classic shot - The two Missouri Pacific crewmen pose in front of the cylinders of their turn-of-the-century 4-4-0 locomotive with a couple of kids looking-on from the gandy-dancer nearby. The MP's eight-wheel locos like this one were largely disposed of by 1905, though a few lasted until the Depression. Brownsville, Texas. Photo - The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection, [image number, e.g., 00199], courtesy of The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. |
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The following ten photos were once in the collection of Gene
Hull, the great Little Rock, Arkansas based railroad/trolley collector
and author of "The North Arkansas Line" |
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MP 9764 - a 0-8-0 - T. Greuter collection |
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MP 6628 - is another passenger train scene, showing the 4-6-2 with the Little Rock local leaving Memphis in 1948. Note the three heavyweight passenger cars and the Stratton Warren water tank in the background. - T. Greuter collection |
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M-I 502 - a fireman's side view of a 2-8-2 , by Furler. Again the photographer wrote the info on the photo border below. - T. Greuter collection |
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Mo Pac 2-8-2 1244 - seen from the fireman's side with full head of steam on April 20, 1935 at Poplar Bluff, Missouri. - T. Greuter collection |
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MP 1565 - this view of a 2-8-2, with the engineer resting his arm on the cab window and three builder's plates visible. - T. Greuter collection |
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MP 5341 - is seen in a distant view of the 4-8-2 heading south from St. Louis with "The Texan." No date given, but this is a great scene and shows the engine from a front engineer's side perspective, Mississippi River in background, signals and grain elevator showing in a fine "period" view. - T. Greuter collection |
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MP 5340 - As several crewmen buzz around the burly 4-8-4, MP 5340 pulls out of the yard with her passenger train at the St. Louis Union Terminal back on October 15, 1947 - old postcard image. |
There is supposedly a photo from the teens or earlier showing a loco painted in black with gold lettering and a green boiler (of all things). Prior to the 1920's MoPac did use gold on their steam locomotives - block lettering for the numbers and roman for the lettering, but this changed after L. W. Baldwin became president of MP. Nothing but austere black locos for him! |
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In April 1955 a string of the last steam locomotives lead by MP 124 puffed together toward Dupo, Ill., for disposal as scrap. The "Missouri River Eagle," the first diesel-powered, streamlined passenger train on the Missouri Pacific, went into service in 1940. - from MPRR Publication |
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