Nostalgia & History > A look back at the MoPac at Concordia, KS, in '81

Attached are copies of some color slides that I snapped at Missouri Pacific Railroad facilities in Concordia, KS, in April of 1981. I have no details relating to the various scenes. But it is still enoyable to look back at the MoPac.

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Three more shots from Concordia...

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I'll close with a couple of building scenes from Concordia in '81.

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Unusual paint on the former T&P caboose with the numbers 537-538 stenciled on it. Was that the number of the local train?

I made a big mistake by not capturing more MoPac in Kansas. Thanks for posting these.

mmmmmmmmmm
Does anyone know why the top edge off the unit folds down so much.
I would think it maybe better to make it more upright so the snow
goes left or right instead off fold over on to the track.
yours snoopy
Many thanks for your reply

snoopy51 Wrote:

> I would think it maybe better to make it more
> upright so the snow goes left or right instead off fold over on to
> the track.

The curl is supposed to keep the snow that didn't get enough of a sideways shove the first time from "ski-jumping" over the top of the plow and landing on the locomotives. The snow that folds over back onto the tracks will just be hit by the plow again and given another shove to the side until it finally makes it off the track.