Missouri Pacific Railroad

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Missouri Pacific—better known as MoPac—grew out of Missouri’s Pacific Railroad, whose first five-mile passenger run left St. Louis in 1852. Following a debt-crisis reorganization, it emerged as the Missouri Pacific Railway in 1872: a Midwestern railroad with a very large map and no interest in staying small.

Jay Gould gained control in 1879 and used MoPac as a foundation for a broad Southwest system. The railroad entered bankruptcy in 1915, merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, and was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Corporate turbulence: the original form of intermodal logistics.

From its 1928 headquarters at 210 North 13th Street in St. Louis, MoPac grew through acquisitions, modernization, freight traffic, and memorable passenger trains including the Eagles. In 1976 it folded the Texas and Pacific Railway and Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad into a unified Missouri Pacific system.

Union Pacific acquired Missouri Pacific on December 22, 1982, though the railroad retained its corporate identity for years afterward. On January 1, 1997, it was formally merged into Union Pacific Railroad. Our Missouri Pacific Railroad collection celebrates the blue-and-gray Eagles, the buzz-saw emblem, and a railroad that made the center of the country feel like the center of everything.