All written content, photos, and videos copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). Leaders of St. Louis secured a Missouri charter in 1849 for the "Pacific Railroad" to extend "from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean". Early in the year a cholera epidemic struck. By the 1980s the system would own 11,469 miles of rail line over 11 states bounded by Chicago to the east, Pueblo, Colorado, in the west, north to Omaha, south to the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, and southeast along the Gulf seaports of Louisiana and Texas. Ton-miles for C&EI in 1970 presumably don't include the L&N portion. He fine-tuned the MP into a highly efficient system and was an early proponent of computerization. Lee Berglund photo. Coal was the first commodity Mo-Pac hauled in unit train service, a field the railroad entered in 1966. He also immediately began building a new management team. American-Rails.com collection. Subsequently, he purchased control of the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific and the Central Pacific. On July 4, 1851, ground was broken at St. Louis on the Pacific Railroad, the predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Two years later, on September 13, 1982 the Interstate Commerce Commission also gave its blessing and a much larger Union Pacific was born. Mo-Pac has the only single system route linking Chicago and Laredo, Texas, the foremost rail gateways to our neighboring countries. One of the company's most noteworthy leaders at this time was Downing Jenks, elected president in 1961 after spending a few years at the Rock Island. Item Information. Author's work. After months of negotiations to seek a new plan of reorganization, a formula was finally devised which proved satisfactory to all concerned. Missouri Pacific SD40-2 #3117 leads a long freight through western Kansas in the winter of 1974. Between Pueblo, Colorado and Salt Lake City, the Scenic Limited operated through the Royal Gorge over the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Meanwhile, financial difficulties in 1872 forced the reorganization of the Pacific Railroad, and when it emerged from receivership it had a new name: the Missouri Pacific Railway Co. About 1873 a New York financier, Jay Gould, became interested in western railroads when he acquired a large block of stock in the Union Pacific Railroad. Today, Amtrak continues to operate its Texas Eagle and Union Pacific paid homage to the railroad in 2005 by painting one of its new EMD SD70ACe locomotives On March 13, 1974, Amtrak restored passenger train service over segments of Missouri Pacific-Texas and Pacific's original Texas Eagle route between St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo with the Inter-American. Between 1948 and 1979 I worked various places on the MoPac and would like to point out . Corrections? The company's initials-MP-continued as symbols of the Modern and Progressive spirit of Missouri Pacific's heritage. This setback only increased the determination of the Missouri people. In his book, "The Texas Railroad: The Scandalous And Violent History Of The International And Great Northern Railroad, 1866-1925," author Wayne Cline points out that the StL&IM was originally envisioned to exploit iron ore deposits located aroundIronton, Missouri. (2,221) $7.00. The modern company was comprised of several noteworthy predecessors like the Texas & Pacific, International-Great Northern, and St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern. Electronic data processing was expanded; many miles of continuous welded rail were laid; an entirely new and automated wheel shop at North Little Rock was underway in 1963 and the first completely automated railroad freight station in the nation was placed in operation at St. Louis in 1963. Mr. Jenks came to the Mo-Pac from the Rock Island Lines where his election as president in 1956 at age 40 made him the youngest president in modern railroad industry. Georgia. While the Pacific Railroad was thus being started, other Missouri railroad projects were being fostered. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. A multi-stage modernization program carried out at Mo-Pac's major freight car repair complex at DeSoto, Mo., was completed in 1966 with construction of a car fabricating shop, the seventh new structure built during the project. Of his early escapades, battling the powerful Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railway is the best-remember. When the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) assumed passenger train operations on May 1, 1971, the only Missouri Pacific route included as part of Amtrak's basic system was its main line from St. Louis to Kansas City. Mike Bledsoe photo. An official, 1930 system map of the Missouri Pacific and subsidiaries. It was re-organized as the Missouri Pacific in 1956. was opened. In June, 1950, the Settegast Yard was opened at Houston. In 1946 work began on an extensive grade and line revision project on the Missouri Division, some 140 miles south of St. Louis, in the Granite Bend, Tip Top, Gad's Hill area. An 'important factor in Mo-Pac's recent history has been the Mississippi River Corp., a holding company which also controls subsidiaries involved in the production and transmission of natural gas as well as cement manufacturing. But Mo-Pac's most ambitious application of computer technology to date has been its Transportation Control System (TCS), a computer-based management information and control system that actually exceeds in scope and complexity the Apollo Moon Program used to launch, guide and land the astronauts. John O'Fallon and Daniel D. Page promptively joined Lucas. Work was started on the Brownsville end in 1903 and the Baton Rouge end was finished in 1909. The SP, led byCollis P. Huntington, had arrived there a few months earlier on May 19th, then continued building east, reaching Sierrra Blanca on November 25th. Special Agent Bernard J. Kelly. The Texas Eagle was an American streamlined passenger train operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Texas and Pacific Railway between St. Louis, Missouri, and multiple destinations in the state of Texas. In an effort to combat this threat, Gould engaged in a drawn out battle for control of the agriculture and cattle trade by constructing a tangled web of branch lines across Kansas. From this point, a dispatcher controls movements over a particular segment of track, i.e., territory. Its truck routes were not to be in competition with the railroad, but would supplement them. As it continued expanding westward Jay Gould became involved during the fall of 1879 and subsequently leased it to the MP in 1881. This pioneer company had been chartered by the State of Missouri on March 12, 1849 and was to "extend from St. Louis via Jefferson City to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the . It was also in 1874 that the Union Depot Company in St. Louis was incorporated. This includes the Texas & Pacific, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf, Alton & Southern and many other roads that were part of the MP family. At 12:01 AM onMarch 1, 1956 it finally exited receivership as the Missouri Pacific Railroad containing a 9,710-mile system. Mo-Pac began acquiring C&EI stock in 1961. A former Rock Island GP38-2 is ahead of this Missouri Pacific freight at Vinson Siding near Austin, Texas during the early 1980s. Later, the San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf was acquired to round out the system in southwest Texas. The merger plan was drafted and subsequently was approved by stockholders of the three companies at separate meetings in October, 1974. Subsequently, he purchased control of the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific and the Central Pacific. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 ignited the need for more rapid and dependable transportation to the West. Under his direction the T&P continued its march, reaching Sierra Blanca in West Texas onDecember 16, 1881 with a goal of connecting to the Southern Pacific at El Paso. Although no longer active, the Missouri Pacific Railroad, also referred to as MoPac or, more . This line had to link up with the Iron Mountain to provide through service from St. Louis to Texas. and cost the company $7,650.00. During Paul Neff's tenure in office, piggyback freight traffic gained impetus in American railroading and under his direction Missouri Pacific developed a specialized method of handling this type of business. New centers were built at Lee's Summit, Mo., and St. Louis in 1973. Another transport mode water was added to Mo-Pac's total transportation arsenal in 1969 with the establishment of Missouri Pacific Intermodal Transport, Inc., a non-vessel operator that handles the details of ocean freight forwarding for international shippers. An important intermodal step toward total transportation was made in 1972 when Missouri Pacific Airfreight, Inc. began operations in St. Louis. Under the leadership of Downing B. Jenks, who became president and chief executive in 1961, the company became a pioneer in the early days of computer-guided rail technology. The country was canvassed for the most competent engineer, and the choice fell on James P. Kirkwood, who had constructed some of the early Massachusetts railroads and had also been in charge of operation of the New York and Erie. A variety of Eagle trains were operated, with the first such train inaugurated in 1940. Author's work. In 1982, a Union Pacific-Missouri Pacific-Western Pacific merger was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Missouri Pacific Railroad | City of Hoisington The Missouri Pacific Railroad The first rail laid through Hoisington was 56 pound rail, just about half the weight of the present rails. The Cairo & Fulton built through Arkansas southward into Texarkana, a move that had been delayed by the Civil War. 810750-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-06 MP Missouri Pacific Eagles Route Box Car #18130 $24.95. After two years in the building, the Miller Street Freight Station in St. Louis opened January 2, 1952. This extended from Anchorage, opposite Baton Rouge, La., through Houston to Brownsville, Texas. While the United States Government was still considering allowing construction of a railroad across federal land in the West, Missouri funded its own first step across the continent. Lewis W. Baldwin became president of the company inApril 1923 and the acquisition of the Gulf Coast Lines and the International _Great Northern was an early project of his regime. As part of these attempts to get the railroad actually underway, theground breaking celebration was held on the Fourth of July, 1851. Missouri Pacific later acquired or gained a controlling interest in other lines in Texas, including the Gulf Coast Lines, International-Great Northern Railroad, and the Texas and Pacific Railway. However, physical improvements of the properties and diversification of its services were encouraged by the Federal Court. The new entity was called Pacific Rail Systems; though part of the Union Pacific Corporation, all three railroads maintained their own corporate and commercial identity. into a version of its famous blue and gray passenger livery When new streamlined trains were delivered, the Scenic Limited and Rainbow Special names faded, but the Sunshine Special had sufficient name recognition to co-exist along with the new streamliners into the late 1950s. The Iron Mountain was begun at St. Louis in 1853. The unit became MoPac #2260. Since the original impetus behind construction of the Iron Mountain railroad had been the desire to reach the iron ore and other mineral deposits thought to abound in the Ozark foothills south of St. Louis, an all-out effort was being made to complete the 84.5 miles to Pilot Knob as quickly as possible. By that same definition MP operated 10431 route-miles at the end of 1929, after A&G, SAS and Sugar Land had come under NOT&M; NO&LC operated 60 and DK&S (not subsidiary until 1931) operated 6. However, it really took off following several bankruptcies and the Staggers Act's passage in 1980. 613023-465 HO Scale ExactRail Platinum EP-80406-3 M.P. The result for the MoPac heritage locomotive was a two-tone blue and white color scheme that harkens back to the streamliner days and combines the buzz saw logo and screaming eagle graphic introduced in the 1960s. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. If you are a supplier, contractor or carrier, please visit the. The Missouri Trust Company was established in 1880, and the Third National Bank was established in 1882. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. 810751-455 HO Scale Intermountain 45812-11 MP . On May 2, 1872 the company's name was changed to the Texas & Pacific Railway and just a year later, the first segment between Marshall and Texarkana was completed (December 28, 1873). Modernization of the properties continued uninterruptedly, and in November, 1959 a $13-million double-crest automatic freight car classification yard was opened for service in Kansas City, Mo. Until the Santa Fe reached the Lone Star State in 1887, Gould boasted a virtual monopoly here. This included construction of new shops, expansion of yards, replacement of lightweight track with continuous welded rail, installation of Centralized Traffic Control, rebuilding of bridges and purchases of new freight cars and locomotives. In addition to these items, we have informative articles about various aspects of the operation of the railroad. Both setbacks left him only in command of the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific. In this regard he did have success. In 1937 the first diesel locomotives made their appearance on Missouri Pacific tracks. Missouri Pacific, however, maintained its own corporate and commercial identity until 1997, when it fully merged with Union Pacific. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. State aid was sought and secured and efforts to sell stock increased. Mike Bledsoe photo. Unfortunately, this was not to be. If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Explorer. Completion of the recapitalization of the Missouri Pacific was accomplished early in 1974. Its heritage traces back to the Houston & Great Northern Railroad's (H&GN), originally chartered on October 22, 1866 to link Houston with the Red River. American-Rails.com collection. Missouri Pacific Lines Timetable 1953 The St Louis Gateway Route of the Eagles Color Brochure Great Ads. In May of the same year, Mo-Pac and the Mississippi River Corp. filed a joint application with the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to acquire control of the Santa Fe. The citizens had turned out en masse to take part in the ground-breaking celebration for the start of construction of the Pacific Railroad, the first railroad west of the Mississippi River. The T&P retained control of the 203-mile Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf, and of the 335-mile Midland Valley Railroad. At the time of their construction, these lines were subsidiaries of the Frisco. Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great Depression, and entered into trusteeship. Because the route selected required the construction of two tunnels west of what became Kirkwood, and because tunnel excavation was necessarily slower, work on these tunnels was also begun at that time. With the death of Mr. Baldwin in 1946, Paul J. Neff, then senior executive assistant in charge of the lines in Texas, became chief executive officer under the Trustee. Thousands of new freight cars and hundreds of locomotives have been added to the Mo-Pac System freight fleet, which ranks as one of the best-maintained and youngest fleets in the rail industry. These routes included the Missouri River Eagle (St. Louis-Kansas City-Omaha), the Delta Eagle (Memphis, Tennessee-Tallulah, Louisiana), the Colorado Eagle (St. Louis-Pueblo-Denver), the Texas Eagle (St. Louis to Texas), and the Valley Eagle (Houston-Corpus Christi-Brownsville, Texas). Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. The acquisition provided Mo-Pac a direct route between Kansas City and the Southwest by way of Oklahoma -a route 319 miles shorter than the previous one. In the two-year period, 1962-1963, more than $100,000,000 was spent to improve the equipment, track and structures of the system. It was placed in service in 1856. On December 9, 1852, a passenger train, with the company's officers and leading citizens of St. Louis aboard, inaugurated the new Pacific Railroad with a trip to the end of the line. Missouri and the West needed railroads, and St. Louisans visualized a railroad all the way to the Pacific Ocean and wanted very much for that railroad to start from their city. It made its last run during September of 1970, carrying just seventeen passengers as part of a two-car consist. Meanwhile, work on the Iron Mountain had continued southward from St. Louis and by May, 1857, the 800-ft.-long tunnel at Vineland had been completed along with a bridge over the Meramec River. Announcing the contract, Federal Railroad Administrator Asaph H. Hall noted Mo-Pac's progress in transportation control via TCS. Centralized traffic control, to expedite the movement of trains, was extended to include much more trackage after World War 11, and radio communications equipment became standard on all the company's locomotives. The Iron Mountain charter of The Missouri Pacific Lines had its real beginning on July 4, 1851, when, amid colorful ceremonies, ground was broken at St. Louis for construction of the Pacific Railroad. In this table "MP" includes New Orleans Texas & Mexico and all its subsidiary railroads (Beaumont Sour Lake & Western, I-GN, StLB&M, etc.) Lines formerly operated by it or a subsidiary should be tagged old_railway_operator = MP in addition to railway = rail (if still in use) or railway = abandoned . Recognizing the importance of its sales representatives, Mo-Pac established an in-depth sales training program in 1970. Heritage: Abilene & Southern Heritage: Artesian Belt Heritage: Central Branch Heritage: Chicago & Eastern Illinois Heritage: Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Heritage: Lincoln-Union Branch Heritage: Missouri-Illinois Heritage: Texas & Pacific Predecessors Chronology of Events INFORMATION Factsheet Reporting Marks Location not listed. James H. Lucas offered to be one of three to make up $100,000, a large sum for those days. This latter point also witnessed interchange traffic from the nearby International & Great Northern (I&GN), which connected with the T&P at Longview. Like other early subscribers those men acted in the public interest rather than in expectation of any early direct return on their investments. The company was reorganized and the trusteeship ended in 1956.[1]. DeSoto, Mo., was reached in September, but the event escaped mention in the newspapers, probably because there was no DeSoto until after the railroad came, In 1909 many smaller subsidiaries were formally merged with the parent Missouri Pacific Railway, and in March, 1917, a final merger of the Missouri Pacific Railway and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (Iron Mountain), Archives Collection & Prototype Information. In December, 1880 Gould gained control of the I&GN (later leased to the MK&T as of June 1, 1881) and it appeared his grip on Texas was firmly established. Its saga began on March 3, 1871 when Congress awarded the then-Texas Pacific Railroad a rare federal charter to establish a southern transcontinental route along the 32nd parallel from Marshall, Texas to San Diego, California. With the Missouri Pacific as a foundation, Gould then welded together a great network of rail lines known as the "Southwest System" In 1880, five other smaller western railroads were consolidated with the Missouri Pacific, and in 1881 control of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern was acquired. PrettyPaper09. The railroad was conceived by the leaders of St. Louis who had hoped to see the railroad stretched to the Pacific Ocean, hence its name. The former was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway (1872) while the latter became the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway (1876), better remembered as the "Frisco.". The stock market crash of 1929 only made matters worse and before long it had slipped into bankruptcy once more. MoPac has actively promoted this new route and is moving an increasing amount of traffic as trade among the U.S.., Canada and Mexico continues to grow. The latter suffered a receivership in 1913 as one result of which it lost the Gulf Coast properties. Specifically, the recapitalization involved issuing one share of $5 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock for each share of previously outstanding Class A Common Stock and the issuance of 16 shares of Common Stock, plus $850 in cash, for each share of previously outstanding Class B stock. ). The system's major components included St. Louis & Iron Mountain, from St. Louis south, chartered in 1851; International & Great Northern, in Texas (1873); and Gulf Coast Lines, a 1913 merger creation of a collection of roads between New . The Texas Eagle was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971, although . To permit the free interchange of cars with those eastern railroads which had standard gauge and which expected to use the new bridge, in 1869 the Pacific Railroad changed its original " wide gauge" track to standard gauge. Perhaps they had more trackage and trains than either the Union Pacific or the ATSF and certainly more than the CRIP, SLSF or Katy in the state of Kansas. However, he, too, suffered the same fate as his father when the financial Panic of 1907 broke up his empire. It was a major hauler of coal, grain, ore, autos, dry goods and shipping containers. On April 2, 1858 it opened to Pilot Knob (very near Ironton), then continued expanding southwestward. Missouri Pacific Railroad "The MOPAC" MP GP #1606, at Monroe, LA. Leaders of St. Louis secured a Missouri charter in 1849 for the Pacific Railroad to extend "from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean." This carrier, led by William Barstow Strong, had quickly established itself as a powerful western railroad. It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. American-Rails.com collection. Photo by David Harris, 2981. Russel L. Dearmont, for 20 years counsel for the Trustee, was elected president to succeed Mr. Neff. However, the Pacific Railroad itself established a fleet of twelve steamboats to connect with the trains at Jefferson City and transport passengers and freight on up the river to Kansas City and beyond. By then, Jay Gould had made a name for himself as a shady but successful Wall Street speculator; he first entered the railroad industry during 1859 and within a decade had blossomed into an influential tycoon. By 1994 all motive power of the Missouri Pacific was repainted and on January 1, 1997, the Missouri Pacific was officially merged into the Union Pacific Railroad by the Union Pacific Corporation. These subsidiaries have become a major trucking system, operating more than 3,100 units of equipment over 18,000 miles of highway routes in Missouri Pacific's mid-America territory. Enter US $2.75 or more [ 1 bid] The Missouri Pacific's immediate ancestry can be traced back to the Pacific Railroad. The Amtrak version runs over former MoPac and T&P trackage for much of its route. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). More than 24,000 feet of track were involved in the initial phases of the project including blasting out cuts 47 feet deep through rock harder than granite. The Missouri Pacific Railroad was one of the major freight and passenger railroads in the midwest U.S. until 1982, and is now part of UP. Bridges, buildings, tracks and rolling stock were destroyed all the way from Franklin to Kansas City. Even the prospect of laying a grade was extremely difficult due to the region's remoteness, sparse population, and lack of infrastructure. The lines passenger operations were turned over to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) in 1971. As a group, these railroads acted as a bridge route, connecting the MP at St. Louis with the T&P at Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas. This was part of a long-range program to improve that part of the mainline to Texas to provide higher speed track for the advent of the Texas Eagle streamliners. In 1982 the Missouri Pacific merged with the Union Pacific and Western Pacific Railroad companies to form the Union Pacific System, under the holding company Union Pacific Corporation. And Missouri's capitol city was still another seventy miles away. The Missouri Pacific Railroad, also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. For his many faults, Gould is credited with establishing many of the classic systems we know so well today; names like the Wabash,Katy, Rio Grande, and Wheeling & Lake Erie. Missouri and the West needed railroads, and St. Louisans visualized a railroad all the way to the Pacific Ocean with that railroad starting from their city. In 1916 they were sold to the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, and operated as the Gulf Coast Lines. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. Gould developed a system extending through Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. So little was then known of much of central Missouri that Kirkwood's civil engineers surveyed five possible routes to enable a proper choice of the best one. These trains, and others, reached far and wide across its vast network. Photo by Jim Holder, 11/10/1987. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, formerly (1849-72) Pacific Railroad, former American railroad founded to build the first rail line west of the Mississippi River. Mo-Pac made major strides in improving the efficiency of its operations through mergers and acquisitions. The StLIM&S began as theSt. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad (StL&IM), chartered by the state of Missouri on March 3, 1851. By extending much further than what had been stipulated, Gould took Huntington to court. Learn about the vital importance of Illinois to the nation's railroads and enjoy dinner aboard a train at the Monticello Railway Museum. As the industry struggled through the 1970's the merger movement gained evermore momentum. The Missouri Pacific Heritage locomotive was unveiled in Omaha, Neb., on July 30, 2005. The Kansas City and proved so successful that similar, single-crest classification yard was built in North Little Rock, Ark., and went in service March, 1961. But it was not until two years later, on March 1, 1956, that the United States District Court at St. Louis officially ended Missouri Pacific's 23 years of receivership. The Pacific was chartered by Missouri in 1849 to extend "from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean ." [1] About the Missouri Pacific R.R. Hub of the I-GN, which was built from Longview and Fort Worth to San Antonio and Houston in the late '70s and early '80s, is Palestine, for it is where one stem breaks off to San Antonio and Laredo and the other angles southward to Houston and Galveston. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. Rails were purchased in England and were shipped to New Orleans for transfer to St. Louis by river steamboats. It operated a number of popular services but is best known for its fleet ofEagles; theAztec Eagle,Colorado Eagle,Missouri River Eagle,Valley Eagle,Louisiana Eagle, and the renownedTexas Eagle. After the GSL was added in 1926, management turned its attention to the Texas & Pacific. Within four years these Eagles had run 2,616,904 miles and had carried 2,062,000 passengers. Ground was broken in 1851 and the first section of track completed in 1852. For the automobile industry, Mo-Pac also operates special trains that carry parts to assembly plants and move finished vehicles to unloading/distribution facilities at strategic trackside locations. This train was renamed the Texas Eagle in 1981, resurrecting the name of the famous MoPac train. At its peak the T&P owned 1,982-miles, including1,109 miles in Texas. In this same period developments in the field of electronic data processing found increased railroad applications and the company soon acquired its first computers and the complex array of component equipment. An important factor in developing the new team was the lowering of Mo-Pac's retirement age from 70 to 65 which made it possible both. In his book, "Classic American Railroads: Volume III," author and historian Mike Schafer notes that to secure further funding the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad was incorporated for the purpose of opening a southwestern corridor from Franklin to Rolla. On May 6, 1874 the StL&IM was reorganized as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway (StLIM&S or "Iron Mountain Route") at which time it leased theCairo, Arkansas & Texas and Little Rock & Fort Smith. Those trains replaced the famed Sunshine Special and made their inaugural runs on August 15, 1948. Today, the East St. Louis terminal and classification yard of the Alton & Southern, now owned jointly by the Missouri Pacific and Cotton Belt, continue to play a major role in moving rail traffic through the St. Louis gateway, classifying freight for Mo-Pac and nine other railroads. A flat switching yard, Settegast fulfilled a need for expanded facilities to service the fast-growing Texas Gulf Coast petrochemical industry. Missouri Pacific GP7 #230 with an interesting baggage-coach caboose, used in branch line service to handle remaining passenger business; May, 1968. 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