Resources

Freight Schedules

MP Circular 37 3-7-1943 – covers the IGN and GCL lines
MP Circular 61 4-20-1943 – missing pages 20.2 and 70.1 and includes many outdated sheets
MP Freight Service Between Wichita and Texas 6-19-1948
MP Eagle Merchandise Service 4-1952
MP Special Perishable Schedule Circular 15 11-26-1952
MP Red Ball Freight Schedules 3-16-1953
MP Condensed Freight Schedule 4-21-1955
MP Circular 61 10-15-1955
MP Circular 61 11-1-1960 – the original is missing the Missouri – Illinois 63 schedule
MP Circular 61 12-17-1965 – the original is missing the “A” schedule
MP Circular 61 11-22-1972 – the original is missing the “SAK” schedule

Also see the Superintendents’ Association of Kansas City Joint Freight Time Card 67 for outbound trains at Kansas City in 1942.

Timetables

KCS Gulf Coast Lines Joint 50 7-23-1939
KCS Gulf Coast Lines Joint 90 3-20-1960
MP Dequincy 50 8-29-1943
MP Goose Creek Supplement to Dequincy 36 11-12-1939
MP Kingsville 47 8-28-1949
MP Kingsville Special Instructions 7 5-1-1950
MP Louisiana and Little Rock 7-31-1932
MP Louisiana and Little Rock 5-15-1938
MP Palestine 46 5-15-1938
MP Palestine Division Special Instructions 4 3-26-1944
MP Palestine 6 9-24-1961
MP San Antonio 57 6-2-1946

Train Order Books

MP Joplin White River Train Order Book 9-27 to 9-30-1958
MP Joplin White River Train Order Book 1-22 to 1-25-1959
MP Joplin White River Train Order Book 7-1 to 7-3-1959
MP Joplin White River Train Order Book 5-3 to 5-5-1960
MP Sedalia White River Division Train Order Book 1-12 to 1-15-1962

Dispatcher Sheets

IGN Gulf Division 6-24-1904
IGN Gulf Division 6-25-1904
GCL Louisiana Division 7-21-1926 Dequincy – Houston and branches
GCL Louisiana Division 7-16-1927 Anchorage – Dequincy
GCL Louisiana Division 7-18-1927 Anchorage – Dequincy
MP Dequincy Division 3-8-1934
KCS MP Beaumont to Dequincy 9-12-1962
MP Texarkana Mineola 3-27-1981
MP Texarkana Mineola 6-6-1981
MP Oklahoma and Midland Valley 9-19-1986
MP Oklahoma and Midland Valley 9-21-1986

See the Fred Frailey Collection: MP for many more dispatcher sheets.

Customers

Waggoner Gates Mill, Independence Missouri 1944 Freight Bills – a flour mill’s inbound wheat shipments in 1944

Round Rock Texas, 1916 – an agent’s notebook showing a daily summary of freight cars at Round Rock, TX for two months in 1916

L654 and L655 misc consists and waybills Oct Nov 1979

Miscellaneous

MP Red Ball Freight System 4-15-1926
GCL Conductors Agreement 10-1-1924
I&GN Conductor and Trainmen Agreement 11-1-1924
Fort Worth Rules Governing Interchange 10-1-1928
MP List of Stations 7-1-1964

Other Resources

The Missouri Pacific Historical Society archives has a nice collection of dispatcher train sheets, some timetables, and a 1945 Freight Train Classifications book.

Wx4.org has a 1974 Circular 61 (Freight Schedule) and timetables here.

Thundertrain.org has an archived Arkansas Railroad Club newsletter with an article about MP operations in Arkansas in the January 1983 newsletter.