MOPAC Diesel Power

Absolutely!  I have always wondered why there are so few  MOPAC / T&P / KO&G  locomotives and rolling stock made by the major manufacturers.  Well, with the exception of the Eagle Merchandise Service Boxcars and ART reefers... there are a ton of those out there.

 

Nice find with the MTH PA/PB set.  I have looked for one of these for a long time.

 

I keep hoping that MTH will get back around to showing some love for us MOPAC guys.  I would love to see some T&P stuff in Eagle colors.

 

Outside of the Lionel Archive set, I didn't know of anything else done for the KO&G.  I was surprised to see the hoppers in your photos.  May I ask who made these?

I have a Williams F7 AA MoPac set.  It was made back when they used the shiny paint wich I prefer. Williams used to have many more paint jobs available then they do today.    Here is hoping they start cycling though them again.

Todd,

the hoppers are ones I repainted. Back when Odd Balls made decals, they were very good and a lot on the Missouri Pacific Lines, MP, T&P, KO&G.

Like others, I have a small order with him that has languished and I wrote off.

 

Anyway, like you said, there are not a lot of MP specific lettered cars, so I made my own. The KO&G coal car was a Intermountain kit lettered MP that I removed, (I got a maybe 10 kits, and built 7 or so).

The Atlas air slide started out as a B&O I picked up off the Forum, again removed the lettering before repaint and decals. MTH and Atlas rounded covered hoppers, for a 60's MP scheme, an old undecorated All Nation box car for the KO&G. Weaver AC-2 covered hopper was N&W now MP.

Weaver has made a number of MP and T&P boxcars in basic brown schemes that I have still boxed up.

 

One of my future projects is to take an MTH GP7 shell and paint it for the KO&G.  

 

Dan 

 

Dan

Sorry about the double photos, that short rounded covered hopper is a Lionel repaint, not MTH.

 

As can be seen in the background is a MP coal train, mostly Intermountain kit cars, but also an MTH Eagle coal hopper that they also came out with in 6 packs I believe two different times.  I have a six pack of the Eagle coal hoppers made by Weaver box up, as well as a pair of Weaver outside braced coal hoppers.  

 

Dan

Dan, NICE!  Very nice!  You did a fantastic job on all of these!

 

A lack or scarcity of decals has prevented me from doing any repaints.  It seems to me that most of the MOPAC decals that can be found for O-Gauge/Scale  are for the Merchandise Service boxcars or for the later Jenks era diesels.  The lack of Buzzsaw 50's to 60's era sets is disappointing.

 

Heck, where are the MP flat cars and gondola's???  I'm currently working on preparing some scale drawings from photos for the MP demountable containers.  My plan is to scratch build about a half dozen of these.  What I need for these containers is flats and gondolas.  Outside of a Peterson Supply custom run Crown gondola... I have not been able to find any.  Half way reasonable flats are non-existent.

 

I agree with you Boomer... it is HIGH time that MTH re-runs their earlier premier offerings.  Most of these have not been available for 5 to 10 years.

Good Day,

 

I'd like to see the MP GP50 produced, very striking engine.

 

Regards,

Swafford

 

 Photographer Dan Tracy / Dolton, Illinois / July 1981

One of my favorite MoPac units:

 

Rusty

Good Day Rusty,

 

The Missouri Pacific GP15 would be a fantastic candidate to be produced in S Scale!  

 

Is your MP GP15 an Atlas O engine? Looks great!

 

Regards,

Frank

One of the most striking GP-20's made by Lionel of any era is this MoPac

from 1975.

Love y'alls MoPac pics! I grew up seeing the MoPac and MKT here in Austin around the time of the merger with UP. So MP in 80's is what I model. I have the MTH SD40-2's, U30C's, and the canary SD50's. I also have the Atlas GP35's, a GP15, a U23 and their canary SD40's. Atlas did a custom run of the wide vision MP caboose and I have both road numbers as well as their long bay window caboose. I have a Overland Brass shorty bay window as well. I paid way too much for the MTH steel Mopac caboose. I also have a nice size fleet of 80's era freight cars from various manufacturers.

 

Missouri Pacific with a twist:

 

 

Bob

Diesel dan, where did you find the jeep 9's are they mth? I looked at them back in the day and wished I would have gotten them when they came out. They are very hard to find. I luckily was able to get the mopac lionel mikado and I just love it. I too wish mth would reissue thier mopac offering again especially the geeps and sd 40's.I would jump on them in a heart beat. Even faster if lionel would make the with legacy!!