Identity area
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
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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/