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By:Gary Everhart
Dates:1/1/1881 - 12/31/1980
Album Info:This is a consolidation of several separate Missouri Pacific steam albums posted earlier. The photos are mostly original b&w scans, some with adjustments and refinements to bring out details. The photographer, date and location are identified when known. Approximate dates and locations have been given to those without the information.
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MP 0-8-0 #9730 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 0-8-0 #9730 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  The 1926 Lima built 0-8-0 switcher is getting some routine ash cleanout by a crew member in the Omaha yard. The unit was one of 85 members in the SW8-51 class built by various companies from 1924-27. Most of the class was retired in 1955. No photographer was listed for this photo.
Photo Date:  5/1/1926  Upload Date: 7/27/2016 9:43:33 AM
Location:  Omaha, NE
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 9730(0-8-0)
Views:  406   Comments: 0
MP 2-8-0 #118 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-8-0 #118 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  During a 5 year period, Baldwin, Alco-Schenectady and Alco-Brooks built 173 of these 2-8-0 Consolidations for Missouri Pacific. Note the sharp looking marker lights. Does anyone know if that is a spark retention ring hanging in front of the smoke stack? Date is approximate - no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  6/1/1930  Upload Date: 8/24/2014 10:25:41 PM
Location:  unknown, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MP 118(2-8-0)
Views:  610   Comments: 1
MP 2-8-2 #1236 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-8-2 #1236 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  Glistening in the sunlight is the 1911 Alco-Schenectady built Mikado-type locomotive designated as an MK-63 class unit. It had 63" drivers, developed a modest 170 psi boiler pressure, and generated an equally modest tractive effort of 50,162lb. Date is approximate. Warren W. McCleary Jr photo
Photo Date:  6/1/1930  Upload Date: 12/30/2013 6:09:13 AM
Location:  unknown, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 1236(2-8-2)
Views:  876   Comments: 1
MP 0-8-0 #9783 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 0-8-0 #9783 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  Could not find much information about this loco - might be a Lima built unit or a rebuilt 2-8-0. If you have any info about this steamer, please leave a comment. Date and location are approximations. No photographer listed.
Photo Date:  6/1/1938  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 6:34:54 AM
Location:  unknown, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  MP 9783(0-8-0)
Views:  514   Comments: 1
MP 2-8-2 #1236 & MP 4-8-2 #5340 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-8-2 #1236 & MP 4-8-2 #5340 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  Alco-Schenectady, 1911, MK63-1201 class, 63" drivers and produced 170 psi for its 27"x30" cylingers. Tractive effort was 40,102 lb. Second loco is MP 5340, a 1930 Alco built 4-8-2 loco. This is an R.J. Foster photo from the H. J. Stirton collection
Photo Date:  7/15/1938  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 6:35:12 AM
Location:  St Louis, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  MP 1236(2-8-2) MP 5340(4-8-2)
Views:  878   Comments: 0
MP 4-8-2 #5341 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 4-8-2 #5341 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  One of the last Mountain type 4-8-2 Alco built locomotives for the Missouri Pacific standing here at the St Louis Union Station with its passenger consist. The loco lasted in service until being retired in April of 1956 at North Little Rock, AR. Specifics - class, MT-73-1927, 73" drivers, impressive 250 psi boiler pressure, 27x30" cylinders, engine weight of 396,000 lb, tractive effort of 63,663 lb. All ten in this last group from Alco had power reverse gear, BK stokers, Worthington 4 1/4 BL 2 feed water heaters, cast steel locomotive beds, and roller bearings. Unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  11/1/1938  Upload Date: 4/8/2016 6:26:35 PM
Location:  St Louis, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Station,Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  MP 5341(4-8-2)
Views:  648   Comments: 5
MP 2-8-4 #1908 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-8-4 #1908 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  This 1930 Lima built locomotive had 63" drivers and could generate a boiler pressure of 240 psi to deliver to its 28"x30" cylinders. The engine was a hefty 412,000 lb and it could produce a tractive effort of 76,160 lb. It was converted to a 4-8-4 configuration with 75" drivers sometime between 1940-42. Date and location are approximations. No photographer listed.
Photo Date:  6/1/1939  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 6:35:18 AM
Location:  unknown, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  MP 1908(2-8-4)
Views:  833   Comments: 1
MP 4-6-2 #6613 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 4-6-2 #6613 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  This 1924 Alco built Pacific-type loco had 73" drivers and could produce a respectable boiler pressure of 200 psi for its 27"x28" cylinders. The engine weight was 312,810 lb and it could produce a tractive effort of 47,535 lb. The class was retired between 1949-54. Date and location are approximations. No photographer listed.
Photo Date:  6/1/1939  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 6:35:22 AM
Location:  unknown, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  MP 6613(4-6-2)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
MP 2-8-0 #144 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-8-0 #144 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  Over a five year period starting in 1905, Baldwin, Brooks and Schenectady delivered 172 2-8-0 Consolidations to Missouri Pacific. This loco was delivered in July of 1910 from Brooks and served from 1910 to 1949 when it was scrapped. Its boiler however went to MP #41. Original Specs - class C-63, 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 22x30" cylinders, engine weight of 211,500 lb, tractive effort of 39,181 lb. The date and location were not given for this photo. Unknown photographer
Photo Date:  9/1/1939  Upload Date: 7/5/2016 7:15:38 AM
Location:  unknown, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 144(2-8-0)
Views:  576   Comments: 0
MP 4-6-2 #6514 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 4-6-2 #6514 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  This 4-6-2 Pacific (configuration actually named after Missouri Pacific) was built by Alco-Brooks in July 1902 as St Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern #1620 but renumbered in 1905 to #6514 when locos from the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern were merged with the MP. The loco lasted unti October of 1947 when it was retired at Sedalia, MO. Specs - class P-69, 69" drivers, 190 psi boiler pressure, 20x26" cylinders, engine weight of 185,00 lb, tractive effort of 25,623 lb. Eventually superheated in 1916. Some members of the class lasted until the end of steam in 1953. Unknown photographer
Photo Date:  9/1/1939  Upload Date: 7/5/2016 7:15:42 AM
Location:  St Louis, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 6514(4-6-2)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
MP 0-8-0 #9711 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 0-8-0 #9711 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  This solid 0-8-0 switcher on small drivers, MP #9711, was built by Baldwin in 1924 as an SW8-51 class member. All the members of the class were retired by 1955. No date, location or photographer was listed for the photo so "guess-timations" were used.
Photo Date:  6/1/1940  Upload Date: 10/22/2020 11:36:05 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 9711(0-8-0)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
MP 2-8-2 #1565 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-8-2 #1565 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  Built by Alco-Brooks in April of 1925 long before the later EMD GP15 wore the same number came along, this heavyweight 2-8-2 Mikado and its sisters served the Missouri Pacific well into the mid-1950's. MP #1565 mae it all the way to 6/15/1951 before being scrapped at North Little Rock, Arkansas. Specifics - 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 27x32" cylinders, engine weight of 330,840 lb, tractive effort of 62,949 lb. Robert Graham photo
Photo Date:  6/1/1940  Upload Date: 1/26/2015 9:34:01 AM
Location:  Carthage, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 1565(2-8-2)
Views:  755   Comments: 1
MP 2-10-2 #1706 & MP 2-8-4 #1920 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-10-2 #1706 & MP 2-8-4 #1920 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  Double heading a long string of freight cars are MP 1706 & MP 1920 at the 21 Street Yard in St Louis. #1706 was originally built for the St Louis, Iron Moutnain & Southern Rwy by Alco in 1916 but acquired by MP in 1917 during the merger. It was a SF-63 class with 63" drivers and could produce a boiler pressure of 188.5 psi to deliver to its 30"x30" cylinders. It had an engine weight of 370,000 lb and a tractive effort of 68,668 lb. The last of the class was retired by 1955. MP 2-8-4 #1920 was a 1930 Lima built Berkshire but was converted to 4-8-4 75" drivers in 1940-42. Comment on the back reads "#75 running extra at 2pm". R.J. Foster, H. A Stirton collection
Photo Date:  4/1/1941  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 6:35:04 AM
Location:  St Louis, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  MP 1706(2-10-2) MP 1920(2-8-4)
Views:  1126   Comments: 2


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