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Sightseeing - A State-by-state
Listing of MoPac Structures/Equipment as of Jan. 2002
Print this out and take it along with you for your next road trip. Here's
something of an incomplete listing of sights you might see today traveling
across the old Mopac territory. More info will be added as it's collected,
so check back once in awhile. Of course any of the items are subject to
changes, and this list is meant only as a guide.
Newest entries to this list are indictated by RED
type.
Note: Some of these listings may be out-dated! Due to the large area
covered, it is impossible to confirm every reported sight.
Preserved caboose locations can be found Here.
If you have a MoPac-related sight worth visiting or find any mistake
stated in the information given here, please share by dropping us an Email.
Arkansas:
- Arkadelphia
--restored depot, Amtrak and museum
- Atkins
--restored depot
- Bald Knob
--restored depot, model railroad hobby shop
- Camden
--restored depot
- Clarksville
restored depot
- Corning
- along 67 highway there is a restored section house or tool shed
- Cotter
- depot and caboose,
5th to Warrior Park
- Gurdon
depot and Hoo-Hoo monument on depot grounds
- Helena
- depot and caboose, Missouri St
- Hope
two restored depots, Missouri Pacific (brick) and Iron Mountain (frame)
- Kelso - MP Depot
(museum?)
- Kennesett
- MP caboose
- Little Rock - Little
Rock Union Station (near State Capitol). Near MP main line overpass
is Jenks Shop. Main St. crosses over the MP at Locust St Tower. Right
below the bridge in a track maintenance yard is/was a MP mail storage
box and an old pre-WWII boxcar.
- Malvern
existing depot, Amtrak and Arkansas Midland use
- McGeehee
- MP depot and caboose, S
1st St & Seamans
- Morrilton
--restored depot
- Newport --restored depot with two 70'
Express cars
- Ozark
restored depot
- Paris - a 0-6-0 steam
locomotive, I believe this is lettered Fort Smith, Subiaco and Rock
Island 2522.... the former MoPac 2522. Though in very sad shape,
it's one of only two known surviving Missouri Pacific steam engines.
- Pine Bluff --Union Station, used by MP and SSW with
70' Express car
- Prescott - MoPac
Depot, Nevada County Depot Museum
- Russellville
restored depot
- Walnut Ridge
restored depot, Amtrak and chamber of commerce
Colorado:
- Pueblo - Magor-style
caboose #1234, once used as visitor center , Pueblo Locomotive &
Rail Historical Society, Union Depot
Illinois:
- Dupo - MP 124?, only
the front-end exists because the city fathers didn't want a steam engine
donation.
- Rossville
- C&EI Depot, Rossville
Depot Railroad Museum, Danville Chapter NRHS
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Watseka - C&EI Depot, Iroquois County Historical Society
Kansas:
- Atchison - ATSF
Railroad museum has MP wide vision cabooses, Eagle Merchandise and Baggage
cars in blue/grey scheme, a snowplow converted from an old steam-tender,
as well as other equipment.
- Confirmed 2001
- Baldwin
City - caboose with Depot & coaches, West of town
- Blue Rapids - T&P-built,
steel caboose MP 12154, City park
- Carona - Mopac depot
(near Pittsburg, KS and Big Brutus), with an ex-MoPac Plymouth switcher.
- Council Grove -
wood frame station (still in yellow/brown) (1890's), wood frame telephone
booth (1910)
- Council Grove -
Standard steel/welded MP 13464
- Dodge City - east
of the main station rest two former Eagle passenger cars now wearing
IC colors, once used by the Dodge City Ford and Bucklin Railroad for
tourist operations. The dome is the former T&P PS dome, and the
two chair cars were supposedly former MoPac heavyweights given a minor
upgrades to permit them being used on lightweight trains.
- Downs - Downs Historical
Society, GP7 #4124 project. - Update May 14, 2008:
Restoration of the Downs Missouri Pacific Depot is completed, still located on active track in the center of the community of Downs which was founded by the railroad when it arrived in 1879. See the attached sites for some depot and engine photos. The GP-7 (with original high
nose) was donated to the society by Kyle Railroad and moved to Downs in 2001. The engine served as commuter power for NYC/PC/Conrail before being sold to Kyle RR who ran it on subsidiary Tennessee Central. It was returned to Kyle shops in Phillipsburg, KS for rebuild and was retired. It was donated to Willow Springs (historical group) of Beloit, KS. After five years there on a siding, it was donated to Downs Historical Society with the agreement it would be promptly restored for permanent display. Being the only GP-7 with original high nose on the short end available, it now stands in original Eagle Blue and Gray Missouri Pacific livery near the Downs historic depot which serves as a meeting site for special events and houses the Downs Historical Society archives. Prior to restoration, the depot was chosen as one of five finalists from the nearly forty depots remaining in Kansas . . . this one is especially fitting because it resides on its original location with an operating switchyard and east-west main (UP ownership, leased to Rail America, parent of Kyle at this time.) The engine number #4124 was chosen because research shows that #4123 and #4124 were the first two GP-7's delivered to MP rails in mid-1950, thus the earliest on this end of MP's Northern Kansas Division. High lime content forced this branch to convert quickly from steam to diesel as soon as the units arrived on this 400 mile branch line originating from Atchison, KS and reaching into western Kansas and Southern Nebraska.
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Railroad Town
(Downs, Kansas)
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http://www.downsnews.com/railroadtown/
- Kingman - MoPac Depot,
Kingman County Historical Society Museum
- Leavenworth - brick
2 story station, now a senior citizens rec. center. (Located near the
river)
- Osawatomie
- Horizontally wood-sheathed caboose MP 13279
- Scammon
- Heart of the Heartlands,
restored MP Carona depot, excursions and motorcar rides
- Scott City - depot
and Eagle merchandise boxcar
- Wichita
- ex-C&EI in MP-paint Standard steel caboose at Great Plains Transportation
Museum, 700 East Douglas, Upper Level (the museum is located ABOVE street
level, beside the mainline. Look for where the track overpass crosses
over the main street -- the station is located up there. You will need
to travel parallel to the tracks a few blocks to enter the level), Union
Station Complex
- Confirmed 2001
Louisiana:
Missouri:
- Aurora - MoPac Depot
- Belton
- MP coach 582 and caboose,
502 S Walnut Street, Hwy 71 to Y to Commercial, Smokey Hill RR Museum
- Bonne Terre - The old Missouri-Illinois depot should still be standing.
When I last saw it 10 years ago, it had been converted into a restaurant.
It had been repainted some garish Victorian colors, but the structure
itself was intact. As MP depots go, it's a one-of-a-kind. It was built
around 1900 by the St. Joe Lead Co. for its Mississippi River &
Bonne Terre Railroad, later taken over by Mike & Ike. Curved glass
windows in the turret. The ground floor was for the local agent. Second
floor was the dispatcher's office for the M-I. (B. Edmonson)
- Confirmed 2001
- Charleston - unique depot, but in poor condition and not likely to be restored
- Dexter
- depot (brick?) in excellent condition
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Fredericktown - restored
depot (the project is still looking for a caboose to add beside the
building).
Our non profit organization, The Foundation for Historic Preservation, was formed in 1998 to save an 1837 home, but we soon got involved with the restoration of the second railroad depot in Fredericktown.
A. Paul Vance, owner of the depot, spent a great deal to restore the depot's interior and exterior to its original splendor.
We then worked with two students from Southeast Missouri State University who prepared the nomination of the 1918 depot for the National Register.
On February 10, 2000 the Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot, located on the Corner of Collier and Murta Streets, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December 2003, an oval commemorative brass plaque was dedicated, noting this national status.
The interior of the depot remains nearly the same as it was when originally built, but it now houses the Vance Aviation and Transportation Museum. Large models of some of the earliest airplanes hang from the ceiling. Space has been reserved for the addition of a Wright Brothers replica and Lindbergh's, Spirit of St. Louis. The depot is also the home of the Missouri Aviation Hall of Fame.
Visitors will be able to see the complete history of aviation through the present space missions.
Railroading history has its own distinct area in the depot. Lead mining was the leading industry in the Madison County area from the early 1700s to 1900. The railroads played a key role in moving the ore and was key in the development of this area. The last trains stopped in Fredericktown in the 1970s.
Visitors will also be able to see a display on the "Trail of Tears" wagon train in 1988. This commemorated the forced removal of over 13,000 Cherokee Indians by foot and wagon from North Carolina to Telequah, Oklahoma. Paul Vance provided the official Missouri wagon, pulled by his mules, Kate and Allie. These mules walked every step of the 1,084 miles.
Fredericktown is fortunate to have not one, but two railroad depots. The first railroad depot was built in the late 1850s on Allen Street in Fredericktown, one block to the north, and it still stands although somewhat worse for wear. Another Southeast Missouri State University student, with the assistance of The Foundation for Historic Preservation, is preparing the nomination of this first depot for consideration by the National Register of Historic Sites. It is hoped to have this nomination completed by late summer of 2004.
Visitors to the area may contact Paul Vance at 573-783-5885 to make an appointment to visit the depot and museum.
Carole Magnus, Secy/Treas
The Foundation for Historic Preservation
- Jefferson
City - brick station (1900's)
- Kirkwood - rock station
(late 1890's)
- Lees
Summit - brick station (1910?), a stone's throw from the MP caboose
located at Howard Station Park. Amtrak
(ex-Missouri Pacific) Depot, US50 to 3rd St E at S Main.
- Lohmann - wood frame
station (1910?)
- Olean - wood frame
station - restored back to yellow/brown (1880's)
- Oran - depot
- Pleasant
Hill - Missouri
Pacific Depot and caboose, 7th Street
- Poplar Bluff - MoPac
Depot, Poplar Bluff Railroad Museum.
A
70' Express car has been "stationed" here. There are
also two cabooses in that area plus a caboose in nearby Corning AR.
- Sedalia
- brick (modernized in the 1950's)
- Sikeston
- depot
- Speed - wood frame
station (1870's?)
- St. Louis - former
Iron Mountain loco (SLIM&S
2707 IM635 Steam engine),
and the M.P. Historical Society Archives both reside at the StLIM
National Museum of Transport,
314-965-7998, I270 exit 8 follow signs, 3015
Barrett Station Rd 63122
Other equipment at the NMOT include:
MP X-136 Wrecker
ART 52461 Reefer American Refrigerator Transit
SLIM&S 9779 Buggy car
MP 750 Parlor-Observation
CEI 405 Commuter coach
HNS 604 Passenger car
MP 6210 commuter coach
Also, the St. L. National Railroad Historical Society's MOPAC
RS3 Restoration Project
is in the area.
- Warrensburg - stone
station (late 1880's?)
- Washington - depot
is probably the only wooden depot standing between St. Louis and Kansas
City, with bay window.
Also, MP
630 Passenger ex-Milwaukee CMSTP&P next to depot in UP Yellow to
be put in EAGLE colors
Nebraska:
- Crete - Wood MP depot
from Weeping Water, NE relocated to a private farm here.
- Falls City - nice
(but forgotten) brick one story MP Station with MP "Route of the
Eagles" boxcar and MP 40' flatcar (located west of the bridge,
where UP & BNSF tracks cross), w/ UP caboose. The depot is likely the
last MP structure of it's kind still in place in Nebraska. Station is
used for storage. On a good day there are many old MP freight cars are
in the yard.
Also, according to one source, the old roundhouse is still standing,
but I have doubts this info is up-to-date.
- Lincoln
- small wood MPdepot relocated from Walton at Folsom Children's Zoo
(I believe this is now gone). Also
+20 miles of MoPac right-of-way from Lincoln to Elmwood is preserved
as public trail.
- Nebraska City - A
number of old MP buildings/depots are supposed to have been re- located
around here. John Brown's Cave, 20th St.
& 4th Corso. Open April 1 - Nov. 30, Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm & Sun:
Noon-5pm. Refurbished MoPac Depot now called the "Otoe RR Station"
and serves as a gift shop. The depot was built in 1905 in the town of
Berlin, later Otoe. It was donated to the museum and moved here.
www.johnbrownscave.com.
- Recently Confirmed
- Omaha - Union Pacific
museum and archives, and HQ for the company. Call ahead before visiting
to inquire about MP related material from the archives. Also, just across
the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa are the UP yard and shop
facilities, good location to see some old MP equipment. In Omaha some
of the old MoPac right-of-way is preserved as public path.
- Weeping Water - old
wood tool shed still stands.
Oklahoma:
- Wagoner - MP MofW
Pullman. A few miles north of Wagoner behind a restaurant on the east
side of Highway 69. Also includes the ex Wagoner Katy Depot, a caboose,
and an ex-MP MofW Pullman (Rio series sleeper). It is part of the dining
area.
- Recently Confirmed
Tennessee:
Texas:
- Atlanta
- MP 15152 MWT Passenger, hwy 43 into town to Main turn E cross tracks
R on East St 2 blocks
- Anderson - beautifully
restored 1901 Missouri Pacific Railroad depot houses a museum, w/ MP
caboose 12133. Open Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. - 5 p,m.; Sat, 9 a.m. - I p.m.
514 N. High St. Admission.
- Austin - Hill Country
Flyer stream tourist operation w/ MP passenger car Eagle Cliff #640
- Bay
City - depot and caboose, Avenue
G & 2nd Street, 2600 block hwy 35 to Ave G, south to depot
- Dallas
- MP 1143 xT&P 1506/1560/1677 Coach or chair car, Fair Park Washington
Ave entrance by RR tracks.
Also, MP 1038 xT&P 64/916Baggage/RPO, Fair Park Washington Ave entrance
by RR tracks, 214-428-0101
- Denton
- Depot. Caboose #13622 is about 2 blocks north of the old depot (the
depot is being moved if it doesn't fall in on its self).
- Edgewood
- MP 786628, US 80 N on N Houston at E Oak w/UP cab 25644, Depot, Murchison,
TX
- Georgetown
- MP 615 & 640 passenger, on Georgetown RR
- Henderson
- beautifully restored 1901 Missouri Pacific
Railroad depot houses a museum, w/ MP caboose 12133. Open Mon. - Fri.
9 a.m. - 5 p,m.; Sat, 9 a.m. - I p.m. 514 N. High St. Admission. Link
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Marshall - T&P Depot, Marshall Depot (Museum). In addition
to the depot, T&P #400, a 2-8-2 streamer, was in the city park,
although not in public view. When the boiler started shedding asbestos
lagging, the city fathers responded by building a metal shed around
it. The locomotive is actually a Fort Worth & Denver model that
the T&P bought second-hand. It's reputed to be the last steam locomotive
to operate on the MP, during floods along the Red River in the late
1950s. (B. Edmonson) Note: this is a
sighting made 10-years ago and may be currently out-dated.
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Minneola - T&P / MP Depot and caboose, Railroad Museum, US
69 & US 80
- New
Braunfels - I&GN
(MP) Depot RR Museum and caboose on San Antonio
- Palestine - TP 610,
a fully restored and runnable steam engine once leased out for rail
excursions by a Texas agency.
- Pecos
- TPX 4486 MOW box, 300 First St US 80 to Ash St, north to 1st
- San Antonio - The
former International & Great Northern depot went through an award-winning
restoration about 12 years ago. It's now the main office of the city
employees' credit union. Most of the IGN architectural features were
retained, including stained glass windows and weathervane figure on
top of the cupola.I hope these help. (B. Edmonson)
- Confirmed 2001
- Sherman
- (dowtown,
along the tracks behind several warehouses), has about five to eight
MoPac boxcars still in good shape (not sure if these are old boxcars
are modern and in service).
- Temple
- MP 615/233 passenger, 119 N 19th St at West Barton behind a building
not there 5/96
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Wills Point - T&P Depot, Wills Point Historical Museum
Also see
Preserved MoPac Cabooses List
at MPHS member Elvin Klepzig's Doniphan Branch site
for Caboose locations across the country
Also
NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & Railroad Attractions sorted by name
Original Sightseeing List provided by
Screaming Eagles
additional material provided by Elvin Klepzig and Charlie Duckworth
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