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 Missouri Pacific Caboose 13543 - Pleasant Hill, Mo. Posted by:  iconions
N 38° 47.115 W 094° 16.424
15S E 389370 N 4293716
This extended vision caboose is located at the southeast end of the former Pleasant Hill Depot - 100 W Wyoming in Pleasant Hill, Mo.
Waymark Code: WMNXJ8
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/19/2015
Views: 2
This extended vision caboose is located at the southeast end of the former Pleasant Hill Depot. The caboose appears to have been restored, but needs a paint touch-up. The caboose itself appears just to be on display - the interior is not open to the public. The caboose is numbered 13543.
Missouri Pacific Railroad merged with Union Pacific and Western Pacific Railway on 22 December 1982. At the time of the merger, MoPac had 651 cabooses, including 407 bay window cabooses, 208 cupola cabooses, and 36 transfer cabooses. Based on the cars' characteristics, UP assigned caboose classes CA-19 through CA-35 to these 651 cars.
By May 1995, there were still 77 former MoPac cabooses in active service. Included were five extended vision cupola cabooses, MP 13523-13647, and 72 compact body bay window cabooses, MP 13000-13098, 13697-13964.
(See below for a complete number-by-number listing of the 651 remaining MP cabooses at the time of the MP-UP merger, including all known retirements and dispositions, including donations.)
No MP cabooses are known to have been renumbered to UP, or repainted to UP's yellow paint scheme, except MP 13563 and MP 13737, which were painted yellow, with a UP shield, possibly as early as 1997. Both worked out of Addis, Louisiana.
MP 13543 Date Vacated - 1 Nov 1988 Removed from service on 11 July 1986 at Sedalia, Mo. Donated to City of Pleasant Hill, Mo.
- Utarails.net
The Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP), also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers, including the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS), Texas and Pacific Railway (TP), Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI), St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway (SLBM), Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), Midland Valley Railroad (MV), San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad (SAU&G), Gulf Coast Lines (GC), International-Great Northern Railroad (IGN), New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway (NOTM), Missouri-Illinois Railroad (MI), as well as the small Central Branch Railway (an early predecessor of MP in Kansas and south central Nebraska), and joint ventures such as the Alton and Southern Railroad (AS).
In 1967, the railroad operated 9,041 miles of road and 13,318 miles of track, not including DK&S, NO&LC, T&P and its subsidiaries, C&EI and Missouri-Illinois.
On January 8, 1980, the Union Pacific Railroad agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed approval of the merger until September 13, 1982. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. However, due to outstanding bonds of the Missouri Pacific, the merger with Union Pacific become official only on January 1, 1997.
- Missouri Pacific Railroad from Wikipedia
Current Use:
The caboose is part of a display at the former depot.
Type Of Caboose: Extended Vision
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