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Missouri Pacific Interchanged Cars
Revised 3/1/01
Baggage-express cars
Santa Fe All the Way Vol. 1, p.73, 1963 view at Kansas City of #7 Fast Mail with MP Baggage express 337.
HWT MP 2050, from The Warbonnet, 2/97, O. H. Borsum, Joe Shine collection.
Consist lists for the California Special in 1957 include heavyweight baggage cars 2557, 4270 and 4169.
50-foot double door steel express boxes similar to Fe-24s but with a fishbelly underframe. They were covered in an article in the MP Historical Society magazine, The Eagle, some years ago, and Sperandeo modeled one with an Athearn 50-foot auto box and decals offered by the MP society. Life-Like's auto-box models can be kitbashed to represent them. Originally Pullman Green, by '53 these were painted in "Eagle" colors. Oddball Decals #529 are correct for these cars.
6-6-4 Sleeper: MP 6-6-4s were similar to "Valleys" but had porthole lounge windows and moldings above and below the windows. In 1953 they wore conventional MP Eagle colors: blue and gray with silver and yellow stripes. Brass Car Sides 173-9 pre-war P-S 6-6-4 "American" and "Eagle" Plan 4099 sides match MP. Eastern Car Works also has a plastic version.
Santa Fe Trackside, p. 45, #12, the Chicagoan, in Topeka, KS, 1964.
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