Nostalgia & History > MOP Monday: 1970s Miscellany

Here’s a random medley of Missouri Pacific scenes from Tony Fey’s collection. The captions tell a few interesting stories:

1. MP 600 north at Dodson, MO. Tony was the young rear brakeman on the caboose shown here in the siding. When he heard it was the Class unit they meeting he grabbed his camera and walked back about 10 cars for a shot. Then, when he heard the slack being taken up in his train he had to double-time it back to the caboose. His conductor pulled the air to make sure he got on, and proceeded to tell him in NO un-certain terms never to pull a stunt like that again. Was this shot worth Tony getting his butt chewed out? He says: “You be the judge…”
Photo date: March 27, 1974.

2. MP 606 has center stage in a 3-way meet, also at Dodson, MO. Tony is shooting from train PSC (Pueblo ~ St Louis ~ Chicago). The 606 points train KSA (Kansas City ~ San Antonio), while SLSF 575 & its local crew members patiently wait their turn to exercise trackage rights between here & Leeds, MO.
Photo date: July 17, 1974.

3. Recently painted (and still clean) engine-slug set 1541/1408 looks sharp sitting at the Neff Yard Diesel Shop in Kansas City, MO.
Photo date: January 24, 1981.



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4. MP 3192 sits at the Neff Yard Diesel Shop in paint so fresh you can smell it.
Photo date: January 24, 1981.

5. MP 3151, lettered for C&EI points train CSP (Chicago ~ St Louis ~ Pueblo) at the crew change terminal of Osawatomie, KS. That dark “Jenks Dip” blue was not a favorite for many people, but it did look pretty good when it was clean & fresh.
Photo date: June 22, 1974.

6. Speaking of clean & fresh, here’s spiffy looking MP 2157 on a southbound 5-car business special at Sycamore, KS.
Photo date: December 3. 1979. (ALL photos by Tony Fey)

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Tony Fey (mopacrr)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/16/22 03:13 by santafe199.

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Definately worth it! Great bunch!
JB

I, for one, am glad Tony decided KSTC wasn't his cup of tea (except for taking art classes with night photography of Santa Fe trains at Newton) and went braking for the MOP.
Dave in Msla 

Great set of photos!

Rich

Great photos.  The MoP sure looked good and is missed a bunch.  Sycamore shot isn't there anymore----mostly tree tunnel now.
Brian Stevens

WOW 

Great photos! Thanks for posting.

Just completely awesome.  Those photos at Dodson make my day, especially the 3-way meet.  Dodson had lap sidings, the KSA (southbound) is coming off the east siding, almost to the switch to the main track.  The PSC is just coming over the switch from the west siding onto the main track.  The Frisco's KC-Clinton line used to cross here until the mid 60's when Frisco abandoned their line between Dodson and Leeds, electing to use the Mop instead.  (Mop was raising their grade due to flooding in the Blue River Valley, and Frisco could not justify raising their parallel line for as little traffic that it supported.)

BRAVO!!!

Jenks blue looks pretty good in retrospect !

Gosh, I went to Newton High School and graduated in 1967 and worked for the Santa Fe for 4 years in the summer wheat rush while attending Kansas University.  I don't remember Tony Fey from High School but read the history of Tony Fey on the Missouri Pacific employees site.  Very interesting and appreciated all his pictures.  I did know a couple of the MOP guys who worked for the Union out of Wichita, and they worked the local from Wichita to McPherson and I'm sure they worked with Tony, through Newton KS.