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Re: The High Price of Precision Scheduled Railroading
Author: Son of a david!
Date: 10-16-2023 - 20:34
Former SP Wrote:
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> When The MoePac under Dickhead Davidson took over
> the SP and they switched the SPs Windows 95 system
> to The MoePacs MS-DOS, Everything ground to a
> crawl
> What took a few hours now took a full day or
> longer
> Many a time I went on duty at West Colton and died
> before I got past Pepper Ave
> No crew vans available so we walked back to the
> crew office after our relief walked from the crew
> office
> Walked many a time over to Bakers and brought back
> lunch and dinner
" December 22, 1982, the Missouri Pacific was purchased by the Union Pacific Corporation and combined with the Western Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad to form one large railroad system. The new entity was called Pacific Rail Systems; though part of the Union Pacific Corporation, all three railroads maintained their own corporate and commercial identity. On December 1, 1989, the Missouri Kansas Texas and the Galveston, Houston & Henderson were merged into the Missouri Pacific after having been acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation in 1988.
By 1994, all motive power of the Missouri Pacific was repainted and on January 1, 1997, the Missouri Pacific was officially merged into the Union Pacific Railroad by the Union Pacific Corporation. UP continued to use the MoPac headquarters building at 210 N. 13th St. in downtown St. Louis for its customer service center until February 15, 2005.
The former MoPac building has undergone rehab as apartments and is now known as Park Pacific
"In 1976, he was moved to the headquarters in St. Louis and became vice president of operations. In 1982, when Union Pacific Railroad merged with Missouri Pacific, he was promoted to vice president of operations for the combined company. He was promoted to President and CEO in 1991 and Chairman and CEO in 1997.[1]
"...His tenure as CEO begun in the midst of a crisis due to system incompatibilities as Union Pacific absorbed Southern Pacific Railroad. The company's stock dropped throughout the remainder of the 1990s, and would not recover until 2002" - ikiw source
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> When The MoePac under Dickhead Davidson took over
> the SP and they switched the SPs Windows 95 system
> to The MoePacs MS-DOS, Everything ground to a
> crawl
> What took a few hours now took a full day or
> longer
> Many a time I went on duty at West Colton and died
> before I got past Pepper Ave
> No crew vans available so we walked back to the
> crew office after our relief walked from the crew
> office
> Walked many a time over to Bakers and brought back
> lunch and dinner
" December 22, 1982, the Missouri Pacific was purchased by the Union Pacific Corporation and combined with the Western Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad to form one large railroad system. The new entity was called Pacific Rail Systems; though part of the Union Pacific Corporation, all three railroads maintained their own corporate and commercial identity. On December 1, 1989, the Missouri Kansas Texas and the Galveston, Houston & Henderson were merged into the Missouri Pacific after having been acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation in 1988.
By 1994, all motive power of the Missouri Pacific was repainted and on January 1, 1997, the Missouri Pacific was officially merged into the Union Pacific Railroad by the Union Pacific Corporation. UP continued to use the MoPac headquarters building at 210 N. 13th St. in downtown St. Louis for its customer service center until February 15, 2005.
The former MoPac building has undergone rehab as apartments and is now known as Park Pacific
"In 1976, he was moved to the headquarters in St. Louis and became vice president of operations. In 1982, when Union Pacific Railroad merged with Missouri Pacific, he was promoted to vice president of operations for the combined company. He was promoted to President and CEO in 1991 and Chairman and CEO in 1997.[1]
"...His tenure as CEO begun in the midst of a crisis due to system incompatibilities as Union Pacific absorbed Southern Pacific Railroad. The company's stock dropped throughout the remainder of the 1990s, and would not recover until 2002" - ikiw source
