Nostalgia & History > Heading for St Louis. Vacation 1987-Pt 4

July 16, 1987

After spending a very interesting night in North Little Rock, we are on our way to St Louis, well actually Collinsville IL, our new base of operations for a couple of days. Some of the locations may be a little off as I forgot to mark the slides when I got them back, and after almost 25 years I kinda forget where some of them are. Sorry.


#1 The first train we were actually able to catch was the UP 228 southbound near Tuckerman AR.

#2 SBD 8210 was next near Swifton AR.

#3 They called it a local, but if I remember right it had about 150 cars. Here is MP1555 near Calvin AR.

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#4 No sooner had we gotten back on the Hwy we saw the headlight of the the next train, the MP 3311 south.

#5 After shooting the 3311, it was back on the Hwy for maybe a half a mile when we saw the next headlight. This one belonged to the MP 3317.

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#6 Near Scott City MO we caught the MP 4811 with a auto train.

#7 Following the 4811 was another auto train lead by the MP 9056.

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You can't leave me hanging like this! Your almost up to Dupo and my neck of the woods!
Any shots from Gale, Ware, Wolf Lake, Big Muddy River, Gorham, Prairie Du Rocher, Chester, Fults, Valmeyer, Columbia or DUPO???
LOL Good photo essay going!

I remember those days. It seemed like all of a sudden all we were seeing south out of Dupo was the C36 locomotives. Sure loved the MoPac blue.

Thanks for posting the photos John - they are great and bring back lots of memories.

Good thing you didn't let the Mop's C36-7's get by you.The last new engs the Mop purchased, and most were off the roster by 2000. Seems like they were rebuilt, and then the UP sold them . Good Work.