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Missouri Pacific Diesel Power by Kevin EuDaly w/ dust jacket
Missouri Pacific Diesel Power by Kevin EuDaly
Hard Cover with dust jacket (shows some wear), bumped corner
Copyright 1994
192 pages
MISSOURI PACIFIC DIESEL POWER by Kevin EuDaly
This is a chronicle of the history of the diesel on the Missouri Pacific, its predecessors, and subsidiaries. From the tiniest switcher purchased at the dawn of dieseldom, to the latter-day behemoths employed to move massive tonnage, the Missouri Pacific had a fascinating fleet of diesel power. Sleek E-units and unique baby-faced Baldwins whisked passengers across the MoPac's system. F's and Beeps spelled the end of steam, and EMD standardization in turn replaced the early diesel fleet. The T&P and C&EI added interest to the roster as well, adding a number of models to the MoPac fold. The Alton and Southern added a splash of yellow.
In the latter days of the MoPac fleet, large numbers of SD40-2's and GP38-2's powered nearly everything on MoPac rails. B-Boats and GP5O's completed the fleet in blue. After being merged into the UP, the MoPac had two final locomotive purchases, SD50's and C36-7's, which arrived from the builders in UP's yellow and gray. In time the MoPac name died, and lives now only as a part of history.
The MoPac roster was a complex one, with numerous renumberings and strange locomotive transactions throughout this Midwestern road's lifetime. This book presents every diesel locomotive owned by the Missouri Pacific, T&P, C&EI, and other subsidiaries. Only a few tattered remnants still carry MoPac blue, a scheme now destined to be seen only in the halls of memory, and in the photographs now in existence. The MoPac flag has fallen.
White River
Front dust jacket and page 1 top: A cool spring day in April, 1962 finds GP9 4345 leading four 4800-series GP18's at Van Buren, Arkansas. Louis Marre
Front dust jacket and page 1 bottom: MoPac's flying eagle buzz-saw graces a sign at Neff Yard in Kansas City, Missouri on September 15, 1984. Kevin EuDaly
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction
1 The Early Days - The Pre-War Switchers14
2 Pre-War Passenger Power24
3 The War Units28
4 Switchers After the War32
5 The Glamour Girls - Postwar Passenger Power36
6 Replacing Steam - Covered Wagons44
7 Beasts of Toil -First Generation Switchers60
8 Steam's End - Diesel's Success: The Roadswitcher70
9 Into the Second Generation - Screaming Eagles90
10 In Comes the C&EI -The Switcher Fleet94
11 C&EI's Carbodies and the BL's98
12 C&EI's First Generation Roadswitchers106
13 C&EI's Second Generation110
14 C&EI's Fleet - Divided Among New Owners 114
15 Competition - EMD vs. GE & the U-Boats 118
16 The 15's - Second Generation Switchers 126
17 The Alton & Southern130
18 A Decade of B-B Road Power134
19 C-C Road Power - The SD40-2150
20 The Last of the Blues - B-Boats & GP50's164
21 In Yellow & Gray - The Merger172
22 Transition Into Oblivion182
Index190
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