Missouri Pacific Railroad
The Missouri Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark MP ) was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River.
History
Took place on July 4, 1851 in St. Louis, Missouri, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Pacific Railroad. At the same time it was also the beginning of the history of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The first section was completed in 1852, 1865 was the Pacific Railroad, the first railway company, the Kansas City served after the construction was interrupted by the Civil War. 1872, the Pacific Railroad was then reorganized the Missouri Pacific Railway.
From 1879 to 1915 led Jay Gould, a New York financier, society. Under his leadership the route network was expanded up to Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. 1917 merged the company with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, and was renamed the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
The Missouri Pacific was a Class 1 railway company, which had grown out of a number of mergers and acquisitions. Some of the so- integrated companies were the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, Texas and Pacific Railway, Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, Midland Valley Railroad, Gulf Coast Lines, International -Great Northern Railroad, New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway, Missouri - Illinois Railroad and the small Central Branch Railway and joint ventures, such as Alton and Southern Railroad.
In the 1980s, had the Missouri Pacific 18458 route kilometers in eleven states, more than 1,500 mostly modern diesel locomotives and was a pioneer in the computer-based railway operations. She was one of the major railway companies for the transportation of grain, coal, ore and cars. 1982 entertained the Missouri Pacific, more and more modern locomotives and more route kilometers as their fusion partner, the Union Pacific Railroad.
On 22 December 1982, the Missouri Pacific merged with the Union Pacific and the Western Pacific Railroad to the Union Pacific system. The company was indeed now placed under the holding company of Union Pacific Cooperation, retained its name but to 1997.
Passenger trains
In 1915 they started to give individual a "model trains " name. Thus arose about the Scenic Limited between St. Louis, Kansas City and Pueblo or the Sunshine Special, which ran between St. Louis, Little Rock, Austin and San Antonio. The Sunshine Special was in the 30s, one of the first air-conditioned trains in the southwestern United States.
At times the streamlined shape all Missouri Pacific trains as Eagles were known. So there was about the Missouri River Eagle ( between St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha ), the Delta Eagle ( between Memphis and Tallulah ), the Colorado Eagle ( between St Louis, Pueblo and Denver), the Texas Eagle (of St. Louis to Texas) and Eagle Valley ( from Houston to Corpus Christi and Brownsville ). In the 60s, the volume of passenger traffic fell sharply, so that Amtrak took over only the path of the Missouri River Eagle in its network after its founding in 1971. 1974 but also the route of the Texas Eagle was included in the Amtrak network.