Corporate Sites

• Amtrak
  
  
• Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
  
  

• Operation Lifesaver

• Norfolk Southern

• Rio Grande Pacific Corporation - Parent company of the Nebraska Central Railroad
  

• Union Pacific R.R.
  
  
• B.M.W.E. Union, Lodge # 0455/Missouri Pacific System Federation

Fallen Flags

• DRGW.net - Very thorough site packed with info, trace locos still in DRGW paint on UP system, Highly Recommended!
  
  
• The Diesel Shop - Home to first generation diesels; and 175 class 1 and shortline rosters
  
  
• Don Strack's UP Page - very thourough, includes complete rosters
  
  
• Fallen Flag Photos by George Elwood - the all-time best, categorized by road
  
  
• Frisco 1522 Official Web Site - a fully restored 4-8-2 Mountain steam engine
  
  
• Jerry's Railroad PhotoAlbum
  
  
• NorthWest RailPics
  
  
• QStation - Large BNSF, BN and ATSFresource
  
  
• RailARC: The Ultimate Railroad Photo Archive - contents searchable, beautiful photography of many roads, Highly Recommended!
  
  
• Railblazer - alot of D&RGW
  
  
• Redekers Railroad Photos - Over 600 rail pics by Terry & Kent Redeker

Rail Photography / Subjects

• Allen's photo page - rail photography around Grand Island, NE
  
  
• BNSF Railroads
  
  
• Grumpy's World - excellent photography (Grumpy's has apparently closed)
  - Grumpy's World - Lincoln
  
  
• Northwestrails.com in Nebraska - featuring the UP and BNSF
  
  

• Our sister site - Main Gallery - Santa Fe - BNSF - BN - CB&Q 710 - C&NW - KCS - MKT - Rock Island - Rio Grande - Frisco 1522 - Milw. Rd. 261 - Norfolk Southern - Southern Pacific - TexMex - UP - Steam - Cabooses

Rail Organizations

• Burlington Route Historical Society Home Page
  
  
• Camas Prairie Railnet - Motorcars, Speeders and Railcars
  
  

• The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society

• D&RGW Historical Society

• Heart of the Heartlands -Scammon, KS w/restored MP Carona depot, excursions and motorcar rides
  
  

• KCS Historical Society Links Page
  

• Missouri Pacific Historical Society - THE main source for MoPac information, become a member!
  
  
• MOPAC RS3 Restoration Project
  
  
• Museum of Transportation - Home of the MPHS Archives
  
  
• NARCOA - North American Railcar Operators Association
  
  
• NorthEast Kansas Railroad Museum - with MP caboose / equipment
  
  
• ProRail Nebraska - advocacy group for passenger rail
  
  
• Railroad Station Historical Society
  
  
• Rock Island Technical Society
  
  
• St. Louis Terminal Railroad Association Historical & Technical Society
  
  
• http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org - page from the San Antonio Transportation Museum's web site about the I & GN / Missouri Pacific in San Antonio, Texas.
  
  
• Western Heritage Museum - Renovated Union Pacific railway station in Omaha Nebraska
  
  
• Wichita Falls Railroad Museum - owns a restored MP passenger car an MP Cab #13561

Rails to Trails

• The Cowboy Recreation And Nature Trail - The Chicago North Western's abandoned Cowboy Line in northeast Nebraska has been converted to a nature/bicycle trail.

• Great Plains Trails Network - The Great Plains Trails Network (GPTN) promotes the purchase and development of trails in Lincoln, Lancaster County and the entire state of Nebraska.
  

• Rails-to-Trails

Maps

• MapQuest
  
  
• The Map Store's FREE MAP page
  
  
• Railroad Maps Collection - new addition, huge resource
  
  
• RR Maps
  
  
• TopoZone - The Web's Topographic Map - like MapQuest, but offers more details/options for mapping railroads
  
  
• USGS Maps

Tracking Locos and Equipment

• BNSF Custom Equipment Trace - Track BNSF railroad equipment by car/engine number
  
  
• UPRR-Public Equipment Trace - Track UP railroad equipment by car/engine number (no longer accesible to gen. public)

Rail Modeling

• Accurail
  
  
• AMB
  
  

• Athearn

• Atlas

• Bachmann

• Champ Decals
  

• Delta Models - Custom Model Train Services and Related Specialty Products
  - Delta Models - Grnvl Chip Car (Mopac)
  - Delta Models - MPL Express Car---#135-184
  
  
• Intermountain Railway Company
  
  
• JCT's PROTOTYPEmodeler Webpage - New!
  
  
• Kadee
  
  
• Kato
  
  
• Lee Freeman's MoPac West - Lee Freeman's MoPac West HO-scale layout
  
  

• Lifelike

• Microscale Decals

• Model Die Cast / Roundhouse
  

• Oddballs Decals.org - specializes in MoPac decals. I use them, and so should you. Tom Stolte created MP 50' combination-door boxcar decals assisted by photos of MP #367999.
  
  
• Rail Yard Models.com - producer of a soon to be released MOPAC Short Bay Window caboose kit in HO - Available early 2003. Creator Gene Fusco has taken great pains to assure this is an accurate and enjoyable kit. Gene himself submitted some of his own photos to the site.
  
  
• Red-Caboose.com -(N, HO, O scales) manufacturers of N-scale MoPac Evans Coil Cars in several numbers. Their research for this series included Screaming Eagles' coil car photos.
  
  
• The Train Cellar - Model railroad dealer of all scales in Lincoln, NE. Stop by and tell them Screamin' E sent you.
  
  
• Wheat Kings & Pacific Layout - New
  

• Woodland Scenic

Purchase Rail Equipment

• Rail Merchants International - purchase a real piece of railway equipment
  
  
• UPRR Seeking Offers for Cabooses & Locomotives: UP Cabooses

Free Web Services

• TrainWeb.us - free rail webspace provider and email
  
  
• http://www.bcentral.com/fastcounter/ - free webpage counter
  
  
• RailsUSA.com
  

Rail Web-Art

• Central California Rails
  
  
• Train Gifs Station
  
  
• http://mtldrm38.topcities.com/mindovermetal-MP.html - MP/C&EI train gifs New!

Forums & Newsgroups

MoPacHS Group

Click to subscribe

MPRR Employees Service Forum - Devoted to sharing information of former MoPac employees. Feel free to post names or information of those who worked on the railroad -- former MP Employees are Welcome!

• MOPAC-subscribe@egroups.com - subscribe for email newsletter
  - groups.yahoo.com/group/MOPAC - by webpage
  
  
• MoPacHS-subscribe@egroups.com - subscribe for email newsletter
  - groups.yahoo.com/group/MoPacHS - by webpage
  
  
• Missouri Pacific Models Group
  
  
• Route of the Eagles Forum
  
  
• KO&G Mailing List Messages
  
  
• MOPAC-TCS @yahoogroups - History of the first TCS computers pioneered on the MoPac
  
  
• MPRR Employee Service Forum
  
  

• RRcaboose-subscribe@egroups.com - subscribe for email newsletter
  - RRcaboose@yahoogroups.com - by webpage

• Yahoo! Groups : CrabOrchardandEgyptianRailroad

• Rails West Forum - focuses on past and present railroads that operate in Texas

• Trainorders.com Railroad Hobby Center - must pay a sign-up charge

• TrainNet Forum
  

• Railfan.net UseNet ABPR Rail Pictures Archive - by web page
  - alt.binaries.pictures.rail - by newsgroup (not all service providers are able to view)
  - alt.binaries.railroad.twofoot
  - alt.models.railroad.ho
  - alt.railroad
  - alt.railroad.steam
  - alt.railroad.twofoot
  - bit.listserv.railroad
  

• C Meador - Railroad Pictures Archives.net - Craig Meador
• Gary C M - Railroad Pictures Archives.net - Gary Morris
  
• N D Holmes - Railroad Pictures Archives.net - Nathan Holmes
• Oddballs Decals - Railroad Pictures Archives.net - Tom Stolte
• Rail Images - Railroad Pictures Archives.net - Ronald Estes
• Screaming Eagles - Railroad Pictures Archives.net (shameless plug)
• Silver Eagle - Railroad Pictures Archives.net - Jay Glenewinkel

Books & Publications
Elvin Klepzig, Jerry Michels, Charlie Duckworth and myself have compiled a huge list of books dealing with the MoPac & subsidiaries on the MPHS site, go to: MPHS -MoPac Library.

Some of these publications can be purchased through the Missouri Pacific Historical Society Store, others may be found at Amazon.com.

Also check out the South Platte Press web site: http://www.southplattepress.com/ and http://www.historicrail.com/ for some other harder to find books.

These Five publications can be found for sale at the MPHS Store

Out-of-Print copies can sometimes be found at Ebay.com.

Here are some of the more popular titles to come out in recent years:

• Missouri Pacific and Prairie Rails - the Missouri Pacific in Nebraska
  by Michael M. Bartels
  
  
• Missouri Pacific Diesel Power
  by Kevin EuDaly
  
  
• MoPac Power (out of print)
  by Joe Collias
  
  
• The Missouri Pacific Lines in Color (out of print)
  by Joe Collias
  
  
• The Texas & Pacific Railway: Super-power to Streamliners - 1925-75 (out of print)
  by Joe Collias
  
  
• Missouri Pacific Annual 1975-76 (out of print)
  by John Eagan
  
  
• Cabooses of the Missouri Pacific Lines
  by G.J. Michels, Jr.
  
  
• Route of the Eagles - Missouri Pacific in the Streamlined Era
  Greg Stout
  
  
• The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific 1956-1983 (out of print)
  by H. Craig Miner
  
  
• The Eagle Magazine
  Missouri Pacific Historical Society (visit MPHS - the EAGLE)
  
  
• The Hub of Burlington Lines West
  by Holck
  
  
• Missouri Pacific Lines Freight Train Services and Equipment
  by Patrick C. Dorin
  
  
• Missouri Pacific's Steam to Diesel Era: 1945-1955
  by Lloyd E. Stagner
  
  
• Railroad Stations in Nebraska
  by Michael Bartels and James Reisdorff
  
  
• Ghost Railroads in Nebraska
  by Michael Bartels and James Reisdorff
  
  
• Historic Railroads of Nebraska
  by Michael Bartels and James Reisdorff (contact www.southplattepress.com)
  
  
• Missouri Pacific Railroad - The First 125 Years (out of print)
  MPRR
  

Videos & DVDs

• American Railroad Collection Volume 1 (VHS video) - also as part of a DVD set (2002)
  Pentrex
  
  
• Vignettes of the Missouri Pacific (out of production)
  Clear Block Productions