After five years of the magazine-style timetable format, Missouri Pacific was becoming a bit repetitious. The inside front cover advertised generic Eagles trains. The first full-color article (the page before the centerfold map) was on Nebraska, with a note saying this was “No. 8 in a series of color pages featuring the states served by Missouri pacific Lines.” But Nebraska had also been covered in an article in the May 1948 edition.
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The page after the centerfold map described a Diesel shop that MP had built in Kansas City. While this was new territory for the four-color pages, it also would have a limited audience among rail passengers. Continue reading