Born and raised in Missouri and living for years just feet from a Missouri Pacific branch line I often asked myself why I never Modeled the MoPac. My Grandpa and Great Uncle worked in the car shops in DeSoto Mo in the late 1940s and 50s. My Great Uncle retired from there in the early 1970s. I’m about to start a O scale Missouri Pacific project soon but would like to see what kinda Missouri Pacific stuff you have. You can post anything Missouri Pacific Memorabilia, Engines, Rolling Stock, Cabooses, Trucks, Trailers, Piggybacks (real and model), Buildings, Tracks, Trestles, Warehouses anything that has to do with the MoPac. So let’s see them. I’ll kick us off with a Weaver Boxcar I got several years ago.
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How about Missouri Pacific Passenger Cars ? Williams Set..
@lee drennen posted:Born and raised in Missouri and living for years just feet from a Missouri Pacific branch line
Hey, me too!
@trainnerd posted:How about Missouri Pacific Passenger Cars ? Williams Set..
Not Williams but Lionel passenger cars...
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@trainnerd posted:How about Missouri Pacific Passenger Cars ? Williams Set..
Most definitely
Nice pics Mike! Thanks for sharing. What part of Missouri are you from?
Bad joke on my part. On a serious note, I do have MOPAC cylindrical hoppers by Atlas in 2 rail. I just don't have photos of them yet.
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i have the Williams Madison Style Passenger Set...Brand New..for sale.
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@GG1 4877 posted:
Hey it counts reporting marks are still Missouri Pacific glad you posted it.
USRA Mike #1310 leads a through freight around the curve out of Notch Junction and around the curve heading toward the deck girder bridges over North Indian Creek:
IGN Berkshire #1125 (modified MPC-era Mike) in the same place:
M.P. Caboose #922 (Modified K-Line) fresh from the paintshop passing the farm heading into Notch Junction:
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@palallin posted:USRA Mike #1310 leads a through freight around the curve out of Notch Junction and around the curve heading toward the deck girder bridges over North Indian Creek:
IGN Berkshire #1125 (modified MPC-era Mike) in the same place:
M.P. Caboose #922 (Modified K-Line) fresh from the paintshop passing the farm heading into Notch Junction:
Nice custom caboose. Thanks for posting. Is that Indian Creek outside of Potosi, Mo. I use to haul ore out of the mines near Indian Creek on hwy 185.
Thank you!
No, the North Indian Creek here is one of tributaries of the White River, now partly underneath the waters of Table Rock Lake. There is an extensive backstory to my layout founded in my own personal and family history in addition to my serious interest in the Ozarks and their history.
I do have an interest in the old Lead Belt area, too, actually, and a previous layout of mine was meant to represent the Iron Mountain. I am in the midst of a project kitbashing an ex-Iron Mountain 4-8-0--well, it has lain fallow for over a year now for various reasons, but I *will* finish it someday.
@palallin posted:Thank you!
No, the North Indian Creek here is one of tributaries of the White River, now partly underneath the waters of Table Rock Lake. There is an extensive backstory to my layout founded in my own personal and family history in addition to my serious interest in the Ozarks and their history.
I do have an interest in the old Lead Belt area, too, actually, and a previous layout of mine was meant to represent the Iron Mountain. I am in the midst of a project kitbashing an ex-Iron Mountain 4-8-0--well, it has lain fallow for over a year now for various reasons, but I *will* finish it someday.
Your welcome hope to see you get going on the Iron Mountain RR I’ve lived in the Lead Belt area all my life. I also have fished in the Indian Creek outside of Branson beautiful country
Am a fan of the MoPac, due to its striking early covered wagons (E units) and tremendous variety of cabooses, especially side doors, drovers, etc. Have run around in Mo. photoing its water mills, including a beautiful site visited, Falling Spring.
Recent Lionel Legacy AA acquisition with some older passengers cars converted to Kadees and LED lighting.......
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@lewrail posted:
Lew thanks for posting very nice pics of the real thing and your layout. The first pic is that along Hwy 40 near downtown looks familiar. I work in St Louis driving a tractor trailer pulling rail containers and I love working in the city.
Surprisingly, the Ozark Midland & Southern Railway headquartered in Springfield, Missouri only has two Missouri Pacific locomotives a Lionel Alco FA-FB-FA Set and this:
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Some of my Missouri Pacific power with some MKT mixed in.
Atlas GP15 and GP35
Atlas GP35, GP15, GP35
Atlas MP Canary SD40's and MTH SD40-2
Atlas GP35, U23, MP15
Atlas U23, Weaver GP40, MTH GP38-2
Atlas SD40 Canaries, MTH SD40-2's
Atlas U23, Weaver GP40
Atlas Canary SD40, MTH SD40-2's, MTH U30C, MTH SD50, Atlas Caboose
Atlas Canary SD40's, MTH SD40-2's
Atlas U23, Weaver GP40, MTH GP38-2, MTH 2 Bay ACF Hoppers
MTH SD40-2
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Texas Eagle 77 Nice roster of MOPAC power. Very cool indeed!
Bill B.
Only one MoPac item l have, yet, was model of gas electric #651 built, in three rail, from an American Standard Car Co. Kit . Will find photos or reshoot and post . Would love to have some models of the wild variety of MoPac cabooses, and some smaller steam power. Front view of #651 , MoPac gas electric (far left) was found. Other include steam coach, in middle, and bashed K-Line MU, far right .
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Thanks for your comment Lee. The photo I took of the Baldwin Baby Face is pretty rare. I think the MoPac had only 2 3 unit sets of those brutes. Anyone interested in my other MP photos can find them in lewrail.rrpicturearchives.net. Let me double check and see if the link works. Lew
Lee - always willing to help but I don't have much in the way of MP rolling stock or loco's. Here are some pictures... I apologize after all these beautiful "scale" pictures, but Marx makes up a lot of my collection and so that is what I can share.
Here is a local switch job, caboose hop.
Here is an actual Marx set (except that the Marx truck is my add, the original had two tractors) and it was called..."The Eagle"
I do have a MoPac Cattle car that is reasonably realistic, but I don't have a picture at the moment. I will make one and post it later.
Best Wishes
Don
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@Don McErlean posted:Lee - always willing to help but I don't have much in the way of MP rolling stock or loco's. Here are some pictures... I apologize after all these beautiful "scale" pictures, but Marx makes up a lot of my collection and so that is what I can share.
Here is a local switch job, caboose hop.
Here is an actual Marx set (except that the Marx truck is my add, the original had two tractors) and it was called..."The Eagle"
I do have a MoPac Cattle car that is reasonably realistic, but I don't have a picture at the moment. I will make one and post it later.
Best Wishes
Don
Don don’t apologize your rolling stock and power looks great I’m glad you posted it. Thanks for stopping by.
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That’s a cool looking boxcar. Thanks for posting
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@lewrail posted:
Lew thanks for posting very nice pics of the real thing and your layout. The first pic is that along Hwy 40 near downtown looks familiar. I work in St Louis driving a tractor trailer pulling rail containers and I love working in the city.
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As a fellow St. Louis area guy, I was trying to place those first pictures posed by lewrail. The one I include above looks to be just south of the St. Louis Union Station. You can see the "Y" track structure that leads into the train shed in the top right quadrant of the picture.
Below I took a screen shot of a Google streetview on S. 18th street. You can see the red brick building that was in the center of the "Y" is still there. You can also see a hint of the top of the train shed, and the clock tower of the majestic Union Station in the background.
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@lewrail posted:Thanks for your comment Lee. The photo I took of the Baldwin Baby Face is pretty rare. I think the MoPac had only 2 3 unit sets of those brutes. Anyone interested in my other MP photos can find them in lewrail.rrpicturearchives.net. Let me double check and see if the link works. Lew
Lewis, you have a wonderful collection of photos on your site you list above. I just starting looking through them, thanks for sharing!