Stories from employees on their careers and interest in the MP and its subsidiaries/predecessors.
Mike Legg: Purchasing and Materials 12/74-4/83 I hired on the Mop as a management trainee in December 1974. Jim Hamilton in Personnel made...
Larry was a career railroader that finished his career working out of Jefferson City as a conductor. In the early ’70s he ran...
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...
I grew up in south Kansas City, about a mile west of the old Bendix plant and the MOP Coffeeville sub. I could...
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...
Right after WW2, when I was 3 or 4 years old, my parents bought a house in Arnold, MO, in the middle of nowhere...
Like some others have indicated, my primary interest is in another railroad. In my case, the Southern Railroad. But, as I’m sure a...
It sure seems like growing up near Mopac influenced a lot of us. I’m no exception.My childhood home was located near Tower 18,...
My earliest years of railfanning were family vacations along the Santa Fe and Route 66. At thirteen (1975), I moved with my family from...
Looking out my front door growing up, I would see the Clarksville, Ark MOP depot. Many times I helped unload boxcars full of...
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