Nostalgia & History > MOP Business cars

1 and 2)Missouri Pacific #8 at Houston, August 1983.

3)Missouri Pacific Eagle at St. Louis, July 1985.

Three More Pictures Posted Below...................

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All three pictures taken at St. Louis in July of 1985. I guess that once the cars were repainted yellow, they traded their numbers for names?

4)Missouri Pacific #10

5)Missouri Pacific St. Louis

6)Missouri Pacific #3

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MP 8 Sold to Kasten Railcar Services and later sold to the ,IC&E, MP 11 sold to Mexico in 1986 and still there. MP 10 is/was at the Sacramento Rail Museum, MP 1 sold to a person in in the Tulsa area, but I am not sure of this, MP 3 was the WP's Feather River and is now the UP's Selma.

A friend of mine, now long deceased, worked for the MoP and his boss asked him to ride a business car from St. Louis to KC and make sure all was well. He would be by himself and was really excited to be playing Rail Baron.
The train left and at the Grand Ave plant, about a mile from Union Station it derailed. The train cut away and he was left there with the car waiting for the car toads. What a bummer!

I always thought the stainless steel bands above and below the windows on the MoPac cars were extra classy. Made the yellow a little more palatable.

mopacrr Wrote:
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> MP 8 Sold to Kasten Railcar Services and later
> sold to the ,IC&E, MP 11 sold to Mexico in 1986
> and still there. MP 10 is/was at the Sacramento
> Rail Museum, MP 1 sold to a person in in the Tulsa
> area, but I am not sure of this, MP 3 was the WP's
> Feather River and is now the UP's Selma.


Actually, it was sold to the Dakota Minnesota and
Eastern. It was lettered for them and named the
"Pioneer". It was used by them to entertain
guests, politicians and influential citizens during
the quest for approval and funding of the "coal
project". It was relettered to the ICE after that
purchase, when ICE became the golden child of the
Schieffer administration.

Very classy photos. Never got to see enough of the solid blue cars myself. Thanks for showing these both before and after shots.
Brian Stevens

Interesting shot, sharp looking business cars.

Thanks for sharing,
~Ryan

What did UPRR do with the "Eagle", the former Budd 10-6 sleeper? Mexico?