Missouri Pacific Railroad Historical Society

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Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

Missouri Pacific Railroad Historical Society

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  • MPHS

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      Dates of existence

      1974 - present

      History

      The Missouri Pacific Historical Society, Inc. (MPHS) was organized as a not-for-profit corporation in 1980. It is chartered in the state of Missouri for the purpose of obtaining, preserving, and sharing information and material relating to the Missouri Pacific Railroad and its subsidiaries. The current MPHS is an outgrowth of a prior group which was formed in 1974. The society's area of interest includes not only the Missouri Pacific Railroad, past to present, but its predecessor railroads. These include but are not limited to Texas & Pacific; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico; International Great Northern; Gulf Coast Lines; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; New Orleans, Texas and Mexico; Missouri-Illinois.

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      Status

      Final

      Level of detail

      Full

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Description created 02-14-2024.

      Language(s)

      • English

      Script(s)

      • Latin

      Sources

      Missouri Pacific Historical Society web page, https://www.mopac.org/

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