Early Mo Pac Steam Roster

I'm heading out to lunch right now.  Once I get back, will get you some info from Joe Colias' book MoPac Power.  Great reference for MoPac fans.

...gregg

Thanks much!

Read "Early" Mopac power... and I immediately thought late 19th century!! (Which era I love.)  To me, the late 1940's is "late" steam.  Handsome engine in the pic above, though!

Colias covers the 2-8-2 Mikados in 22 pages in chapter 4 of MoPac Power.  The Mike was the primary freight mover for MoPac and were received in three separate orders.  The neat thing about this railroad is the they rostered nearly every configuration of motive power throughout its history.

First series Mikes (80) built 1911-1914 and numbered #1201-1280.  1201-1250 came from Alco, remainder from Baldwin.

Second series were straight USRA light Mikes arriving in 1919.  #1301-1325 came from Lima (except for two - one from Alco and one from Baldwin, #1317 and #1316 respectively).  Retirement was intermittent from 1949 thru 1955.

The last series (170) were heavy Mikes in the #1401-#1570 series, all from Alco delivered between Feb 1921 and April 1925.  They were used all over the system, but especially out of Dupo, IL, pulling 100+ car coal trains form the southern Illinois coal fields at 40-50 mph.

 I don't have a MoPac engine roster, but the Missouri Pacific Historical Society is fairly active at mopac.org and they may be able to hook you up.  The archives are stored in St Louis and they are slowly being digitized.  You may want to query the MPHS forum if someone has rostered the engines by year.

...gregg

Gregg, thanks so much for the information.  I really appreciate you taking the time to look this up and send it to me.

Gene