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Missouri
Pacific & Subsidiaries Chronological History
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Date
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Action
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06-04-1851
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Groundbreaking
for Pacific Railroad of Missouri (direct predecessor to the Missouri
Pacific).
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12-09-1852
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First
passenger train on Pacific Railroad
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1871
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The
Texas & Pacific Railway incorporate to build a line from Marshall,
Texas on through El Paso to San Diego, CA.
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1873
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Baring
Cross railroad and wagon bridge completed across the Arkansas River
joining Little Rock and Argenta.
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1873
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The
railroad debt crisis occurs.
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1874
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Cairo
& Fulton; Cairo, Arkansas & Texas; and St. Louis & Iron Mountain
railroads consolidate into the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
Railroad.
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1876
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The
Missouri Pacific Railway is created by the investors who purchased
the Pacific Railroad.
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1879
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Jay
Gould acquires controlling interest in Missouri Pacific.
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1880
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Jay
Gould creates "Southwest system," with control of Missouri Pacific,
Iron Mountain, Memphis & Little Rock, Little Rock & Ft. Smith, Texas
& Pacific railroads.
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1881
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St.
Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS) aquired by Missouri Pacific
Railway
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1915
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MP
and SLIM&S declare bankruptcy and are placed into receivership.
Jay Gould loses control of the railroad.
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1916
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NOTM
(New Orleans, Texas & Mexico) gains control of NI&N (New Iberia
& Northern).
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1917
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Argenta
becomes North Little Rock.
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1917
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St.
Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS) and Missouri Pacific
Railway reorganize and merge which in turn creats the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Co.
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02-01-1924
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NOTM
(New Orleans, Texas & Mexico) gains control of H&BV (Houston & Brazos
Valley).
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06-21-1924
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NOTM
gains control of I-GN (International-Great Northern).
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12-08-1924
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MP
gains control of NOTM (New Orleans, Texas & Mexico) and
its subsidiaries.
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12-01-1925
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NOTM
gains control of SAUG (San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf) and AB (Asphalt
Belt).
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02-02-1926
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NOTM
gains control of SL (Sugarland), A&G (Asherton & Gulf), and RGC
(Rio Grande City).
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11-1926
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MP
gains control of NOLC (New Orleans & Lower Coast).
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12-31-1926
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NOTM
gains control of SAS (San Antonio Southern).
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01-01-1927
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T&P
gains control of A&S (Abilene & Southern).
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08-01-1927
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CHTT
(Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer) sold to C&EI.
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01-01-1928
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MP
gains control of T&P (Texas & Pacific).
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04-20-1929
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MRBT
(Mississippi River & Bonne Terre) leased by M-I.
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04-20-1929
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MP
gains control of M-I (Missouri-Illinois).
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1930s
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Missouri
Pacific (MP) expands operations and facilities in central U.S.,
but hard times arrive with the Great Depression.
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12-1931
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MP
gains control of DK&S (Doniphan, Kensett & Searcy).
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06-20-1932
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T&P
gains control of FWB (Fort Worth Belt).
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1933
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MP
declares bankruptcy and is placed in trusteeship.
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1939
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Diesel-electric
locomotives are introduced on the Missouri Pacific.
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1955
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Missouri
Pacific retires its last steam locomotive and becomes 100 percent
dieselized.
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1956
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A
23-year trusteeship, the longest in U.S. rail history, ends as MP
is reorganized.
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03-1956
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GCL
(Gulf Coast Lines - NOTM, BSL&W, O&NW, NI&N, ISM&E, SLB&M, IGN,
SAS, SAUG, AB, SB&RGV, SL, H&BV, HNS) are absorbed into MP.
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1961
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MP's
North Little Rock Yard opens.
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09-25-1964
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T&P gains control of KO&G (Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf), and
Midland Valley Railways. The KO&G-MV partner, OC-A-A
(Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka
Railway),
is sold to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
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05-12-1967
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MP
gains control of C&EI
(Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad).
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08-01-1968
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MP
& C&NW gain joint control of A&S (Alton & Southern).
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06-06-1969
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MP
sells the Evansville line (eastern side) of C&EI to Louisville
& Nashville, and the Chicago to Woodland junction passes into
joint MP-L&N ownership.
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04-01-1970
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KO&G
(Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf) absorbed into T&P [MP].
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1976
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The
parent corporation, Mississippi River Corp., is renamed the Missouri
Pacific Corp.
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10-15-1976
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The
Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Texas & Pacific subsidiaries
are absorbed into MP.
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01-01-1978
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TPMPT
(TP-MP Terminal RR of New Orleans) absorbed into MP.
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11-01-1978
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A&S
(Abilene & Southern), T-NM (Texas-New Mexico), NO&LC (New Orleans
& Lower Coast), FWB (Ft.Worth Belt), M-I (Missouri-Illinois), SJB
(St.Joseph Belt) & UT (Union Terminal) absorbed into MP.
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1980
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The
Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads file
merger applications with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific ceases operations. In the following years,
many of its lines are sold to other railroads, including MP, SSW
and MKT.
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12-22-1982
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The
UP-MP-WP merger is approved by ICC.
UP gains control of MP & WP after being granted control of Missouri
Pacific on December 22, 1982. The merger application was filed on
September 15, 1980, and the application was approved by the ICC
on October 20, 1982. The approval was contested in court and was
cleared by the courts on December 22, 1982.
As conditions of the merger, SP gains trackage
rights from Kansas City to St. Louis via MP.
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03-27-1987
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SEKR
(Southeast Kansas) created by MP line sale.
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04-09-1987
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GSW
(Great Southwest) absorbed into MP.
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05-18-1987
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JSW
(Jefferson Southwestern) absorbed into MP.
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11-19-1987
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GCRC
(Golden Cat) created by MP line sale.
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12-31-1987
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WMW&NW
(Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern) absorbed into MP.
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08-12-1988
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UP
gains control of MKT (Missouri-Kansas-Texas - 'Katy').
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12-01-1989
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MKT
leased/merged with MP.
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12-01-1989
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GH&H
(Galveston, Houston & Henderson) merged into MP.
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01-01-1997
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On
January 1, the Missouri Pacific Railroad legally merges into Union
Pacific Railroad, with UPRR remaining as the surviving corporation.
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