Western Railroad Discussion > Missouri Pacific

These scenes were shot after the 1982 absorption of the Missouri Pacific by U.P., but in the mid to late eighties it was not unheard of to catch a straight set of blue units.

This was shot on the far eastern end of the system; mostly on the former Chicago & Eastern Illinois lines in southern Illinois. The first scene was filmed at St. Louis, and the coal train was at Marion, Illinois, on the Joppa Branch. The remainder was shot around Salem and Mount Vernon on the Chicago Subdivision.


Mary McPherson
www.DivergingClearProductions.com

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Awesome!

Excellent !!

Great sounding OC Nathan P5 horn in very last segment.

Regards, Jim Evans

I thoroughly enjoyed this! Vote video of the day!

What a treat! Thanks Mary.

Chris

Nice video, not to mention the audio. Thanks for sharing.

Kent in CArmel Valley

Great videos of the era gone, thanks for sharing!

A retired Illinois Division manager thanks you vey much!

One more thank you from the Land of the Eagles. How great is was to see those MoPac SD40's once again. Never thought I would miss them as much as I do.

MC
Columbia, Missouri

Nice video - only wish the scenes didn't cut away so quickly once the freight cars start coming into view - I can "almost" see some cool freight cars and *poof*. But that's how train videos were shot back then. *sigh*

Cheers, Jim Fitch

well done. thanks for posting

Former Rock Island GP38-2.



FiveChime Wrote:
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> Great sounding OC Nathan P5 horn in very last
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> Regards, Jim Evans

We need more of this!

Great stuff!! ..............more please!

THAT-L-DO

Rathole Wrote:
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> Former Rock Island GP38-2.
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> FiveChime Wrote:
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> > Great sounding OC Nathan P5 horn in very last
> > segment.
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> > Regards, Jim Evans

Actually, diverted in EMD production as the CRI&P went belly up, and the MP simply swapped the order over to them. Made for a heck of a lot of nice-sounding brand new GP38-2s at a time of tragedy otherwise... Yes, the Nathan OC P5 was the best-sounding horn there was alongside the Nathan "Amtrak" K5LA also delivered originally to Chessie, then to other RRs besides Amtrak through the years. I have one of each in wonderful condition in the attic (the OC P5 still with the CRI&P Maroon in good shape off a GP40 that was about two units away from the scrapper's torch). Still trying to figure out where to sell them to or whatever before I "shed this mortal coil."

> Still trying to figure out where to sell them to
> or whatever before I "shed this mortal coil."

The son of a late friend of mine (who was a trainmaster for CN) just recently graduated high school and hired on with BNSF in the Chicago area. He and his dad collected air horns, and his track has a an air compressor and tank in the bed. Many a night I would be either rolling into town or waiting for my train to arrive when I would hear him passing through with a locomotive bell ringing and occasionally giving a toot or two on whatever horn happened to be mounted on the truck at the time.

I got a kick out of it, though I think the police wouldn't find it so cute. Neither did Andrew, and as such he tended to just stick with the bell in town.

Mary