The locomotive was one of the Missouri Pacific Railroad’s last 11 steam engines, all used to haul coal from Southern Illinois mines. On April 7, 1955, it led them coupled together to the ...

Members of the Legislature from Southwestern Missouri, in caucus at Jefferson ... of what is known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad, recently forfeited by Gen.

Crowl retired in 2009. “It made the town," he said about railroad's impact. What was a five-mile drive to work, soon became 60 miles. In 1982, Missouri Pacific merged with Union Pacific.

To Kansas City belongs the honor of building the pioneer bridge over the Missouri. On the south or west side of the river the Pacific Railroad (of Missouri) extends irom St. Louis to the State ...