Missouri Pacific Steam Roster (Built Since 1900)

Published: November 7, 2026

George H. Drury’s table of Missouri Pacific steam locomotives built since 1900 is the list on this page. Two Sedalia rebuilds are written down in both forms, so the frames, counted once, are 1,407. The company story is the Missouri Pacific page. Texas & Pacific steam is a separate chapter and a separate roster.

Missouri Pacific 4-8-4 2113 at Kirkwood, Missouri, on a fall afternoon in October 1950

Missouri Pacific 4-8-4 2113 at Kirkwood, Missouri, just southwest of St. Louis, on a fall afternoon in October 1950. Shop forces rebuilt 2113 from a 2-8-4 in 1940. It is one of 2101–2125. Joe Collias photo.

On this page: At a glance · The 1905 numbers · Switchers · Freight power · Passenger power · Mountains and Northerns · Roster

At a glance

Item	Detail
Railroad	Missouri Pacific, including the International-Great Northern, the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico, and the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico. Company Missouri Pacific
Scope	Built since 1900. Drury’s table, 76 rows
Quantity column	1,439
Frames, counted once	1,407. The 25 Berkshires 1901–1925 and the 7 USRA Mountains 5301–5307 are listed again after the Sedalia rebuilds
Last road steam	April 7, 1955. Consolidations 40 and 104, Bush to Dupo, Illinois
Last steam in service	0-6-0 No. 9301, until November 1955
Diesels	2,404 locomotives

The 1905 numbers

In 1905 the railroad sorted the numbers by the work. Freight power took everything below 5000. Passenger power took 5000 through 8999. Switchers took 9000 through 9999. The class mark put letters on the wheel arrangement and a figure on the driver diameter. P was a Pacific, MK a Mikado, MT a Mountain. A locomotive whose drivers measured 63 inches over the tire carried 63 in the class. One Ten-Wheeler class is TN-56½.

The table below follows Drury row for row, including locomotives that came with the International-Great Northern, the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico, the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico, and the smaller Texas roads named in the notes. Where a number was used twice because the shops rebuilt the engine, both lines stay in the quantity column and the frame is counted once in the 1,407.

Switchers

The 0-6-0s in the table come to 149. No. 9301, class SW-51, was the last steam locomotive on the railroad, still at work in November 1955. It had 51-inch drivers, 21-by-28-inch cylinders, piston valves, Walschaerts gear, and a weight of 160,500 pounds, with a tractive effort of 39,100 pounds. The five rows of 0-8-0s come to 85, the figure Drury gives for the eight-wheel switchers. They followed the United States Railroad Administration design as the Missouri Pacific modified it, heavier by 12,000 to 18,000 pounds and with 7,750 pounds more tractive effort. Later engines had cast frames and a front-end throttle ahead of the stack.

Freight power

Consolidations 1–172, class C-63, were the first locomotives after the 1905 renumbering. They had 22-by-30-inch cylinders, 63-inch drivers, and slide valves. The first 76 used Stephenson gear. The rest used Walschaerts. Many were later rebuilt with piston valves, Baker gear, stokers or oil, and new cast frames. In 1942 the North Little Rock shops assembled No. 173 from remnants of that class, spare parts, and a new tender. It is in the quantity column. The C-55s numbered 401–487 are carried as 84 locomotives.

The big Mikado purchases were 1201–1280, then the United States Railroad Administration light 2-8-2s 1301–1325, then 1401–1570. Schenectady built 1201–1250 in 1911, fifty engines, and Baldwin built 1251–1280 in 1913 and 1914. They had 63-inch drivers, 27-by-30-inch cylinders, 170 pounds of boiler pressure, and a tractive effort of 50,160 pounds. The 1401–1570 series followed the Administration heavy Mikado, with a larger boiler, a cast trailing truck, and mechanical stokers. They were the first Missouri Pacific locomotives with a head brakeman’s shelter on the tender deck. Engines 1536–1570 had extra space between the second and third drivers because they were built while the three-cylinder 1699 was on test.

No. 1699, built by Schenectady in 1925, was tested at Altoona before delivery. In 1937 the shops converted it to two cylinders and renumbered it 1571. That number sits outside 1401–1570. It is the same frame, listed once. The smokebox door, set a little above center, was the visible difference from the 170 copies of the Administration engine.

Berkshires 1121–1125 were the International-Great Northern’s first 2-8-4s, close in design to the Chicago & North Western J-4. Lima’s 1901–1925 of 1930 used the same cylinder and driver dimensions and weighed 412,200 pounds. They worked St. Louis–Kansas City. In 1940 and 1942 Sedalia lengthened the boilers, rolled new cast underframes with 75-inch drivers, and turned the same 25 frames into 4-8-4s 2101–2125. The cylinders stayed 28 by 30. Boiler pressure went to 250 pounds. Both numbers are in the table. The frames are in the 1,407 once.

The only articulated locomotive was 2-8-8-2 No. 4000, Baldwin, 1912, class ML-55, assigned to the hump at Dupo, Illinois. In the 1920s the 0-8-0s took the hump and the Mallet was stored. It came back in 1927 with a 12-wheel tender and Bethlehem auxiliary engines on both trucks, worked the Dupo hump until 1947, and then, with the boosters removed, handled transfer trains across the Mississippi River bridge and an occasional helper turn on Kirkwood Hill.

Eight Russian Decapods, 941–948, were the secondhand 2-10-0s, bought from the Southern Railway, the St. Louis & Hannibal, and the Marion & Eastern, converted to oil, and sent to the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico. The Santa Fe type 2-10-2s were 1701–1729. Numbers 1701–1714 had been Iron Mountain 1501–1514. Numbers 1715–1719 came from the Wabash in 1942 and went to helper service on Kirkwood Hill. Numbers 1720–1729 were rebuilt late in the Second World War with roller bearings, lightweight rods, trailing-truck boosters, and large tenders.

Passenger power

Brooks built the Atlantics 5501–5540 with 79-inch drivers, the highest on the railroad. Fifteen arrived in 1904, two years after the first 4-6-2s, and twenty-five more, through 5540, arrived in 1907. After 1941 many received cast trailing trucks. In 1942, Nos. 5513 and 5538 were given 73-inch drivers and assigned to light, fast freight on level track.

The Missouri Pacific and the Iron Mountain took their last new Ten-Wheelers in 1900–1902, 101 engines, renumbered 2301–2401 in 1905, with 61-inch drivers. Two engines of that weight, 158,500 pounds, were still on the Gurdon–Norman, Arkansas, run in the summer of 1955 because the bridges would not carry a heavier diesel. Diesels took the job by September 1955, after the bridges were replaced or strengthened. The smaller Ten-Wheelers in the table came with the Gulf and Texas roads. Numbers 371–378 were rebuilt in the railroad’s own shops.

Missouri Pacific 4-6-2 1159, class P-73, with the Sunshine Special at San Marcos, Texas, in August 1945

Missouri Pacific 4-6-2 1159, class P-73, with train 1, the Sunshine Special, southbound at San Marcos, Texas, in August 1945. No. 1159 is one of 1156–1161, built for the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico. Emery Gulash photo.

Drury calls 6501–6521 the first Pacifics built for service in North America. Nine, then numbered 1115–1123, went to the Missouri Pacific, and twelve, 1616–1627, went to the Iron Mountain. In 1905 the class was rebuilt as P-69 with superheaters, outside piston valves, and Baker valve gear, one engine excepted, which received Walschaerts. The class is listed once. Pacific 6000, the three-cylinder experiment of 1925, left that identity in the rebuilding of 1942, when it became the two-cylinder, oil-burning 6001, with roller bearings and an Elesco exhaust-steam injector. The table’s retired cell, “by 1935,” marks the end of the three-cylinder locomotive. No. 6001 is the same frame.

Pacifics 6601–6629 include 6445–6454, renumbered 6601–6610. The class joined the boiler and cylinders of the Administration heavy Pacific to the 73-inch drivers of the light Pacific. Engines 6614–6619 were oil burners with 12-wheel tenders for the Sunshine Special. The St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Pacifics 1156–1161, including 1159 at San Marcos, carried Worthington BL heaters, air pumps on the pilot, and extra-large tenders.

Mountains and Northerns

The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern was the second railroad to buy 4-8-2s. Schenectady delivered 5201–5207 in 1913, light engines at 296,000 pounds, with the main rods connected to the third pair of 63-inch drivers. The seven United States Railroad Administration light Mountains, 5301–5307, were rebuilt at Sedalia in 1939 as 5321–5327, class MT-75, with 75-inch disk drivers. Both numbers are in the table. The later Mountains 5335–5344, five from Brooks in 1927 and five from Schenectady in 1930, had 73-inch drivers, 27-by-30-inch cylinders, 250 pounds of pressure, and a weight of 386,700 pounds.

Northerns 2101–2125 are the Berkshires described above. No. 2113, in the Kirkwood photograph, is one of them. The retired years in the table run from 1949 through 1953. Baldwin’s 2201–2215 of 1943 were a War Production Board engine. Railroads had to pool orders and use a design already in production, and the Missouri Pacific chose the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s 1800-class Northern of 1938. Baldwin built the Missouri Pacific engines at the same time as a Northern Pacific 4-8-4 order. The Missouri Pacific locomotives had 73-inch drivers, 26-by-30-inch cylinders, 285 pounds of boiler pressure, and about 16,000 pounds more weight than the Rio Grande engines. They lasted until 1956.

The last road trip was on April 7, 1955. Consolidations 40 and 104 pulled a train of nine dead 2-8-0s and a 2-8-2 from Bush to Dupo, Illinois, for scrapping. Switcher 9301 worked on until November.

Roster

The quantity column is Drury’s. A leading hyphen in a retired cell, printed here as “by,” means the engines were gone by that year. A trailing hyphen means retirements began in that year and continued. Builder names are spelled out from Drury’s abbreviations. “Schen” in the book is Schenectady. “IGN” in a builder cell is the railroad’s own shops.

Type	Class	Numbers	Qty	Builder	Built	Retired	Notes
0-6-0	SW-51	9301–9320	20	Alco	1920–1921	by 1955
0-6-0	SW-51	9401–9475	75	Brooks, Richmond, Baldwin	1902–1910	1949–1950
0-6-0	SW-51	9501–9543	43	Cooke, Manchester, Schenectady	1903–1904	1932–1948
0-6-0	SW-52	9580, 9581	2	Baldwin	1905
0-6-0	SW-53	9583	1	Baldwin	1910
0-6-0	SW-52	9584–9587	4	Baldwin	1906
0-6-0	SW-52	9588–9591	4	Baldwin	1921
0-8-0	SW8-51	9601–9605	5	Alco	1927	by 1955
0-8-0	SW8-51	9606–9610	5	Alco	1927	by 1955
0-8-0	SW8-51	9701–9720	20	Baldwin	1924–1925	by 1955
0-8-0	SW8-51	9721–9750	30	Lima	1926, 1929	by 1955
0-8-0	SW8-51	9761–9785	25	Alco	1927	by 1956
2-8-0	C-63	1–172	172	Baldwin, Brooks, Schenectady	1905–1910	1937–
2-8-0	C-63	173	1	MP	1942	1956	Assembled at North Little Rock
2-8-0	C-55	401–487	84	Brooks	1903–1904	1949–1955
2-8-0	C-55	501–545	45	Brooks, Baldwin	1901–1903	1925–1945
2-8-0	C-54	1001–1003	3	Alco	1913–1914	by 1935	SAU&G
2-8-0	C-50	1004, 1005	2	Baldwin	1907	by 1935	SAU&G
2-8-0	C-55	1006–1008	3	Brooks	1906	1935–1948	SAU&G
2-8-0	C-51	1009	1	Baldwin	1920	1948	SAS
2-8-0	C-57	1011–1030	20	Baldwin	1914	by 1949	StLB&M
2-8-0	C-55	1031–1040	10	Baldwin	1907		NOT&M
2-8-0	C-57	1051–1073	23	Baldwin, Schenectady	1912, 1913		I-GN
2-8-2	MK-63	1201–1280	80	Alco, Baldwin	1911–1914	by 1954
2-8-2	MK-63	1301–1325	25	Lima, Baldwin, Alco	1919	1949–1955	USRA
2-8-2	MK-63	1401–1570	170	Alco	1921–1925	1949–1955
2-8-2	MK-	1699	1	Schenectady	1925	1953	Three cylinders. Renumbered 1571 in 1937
2-8-2	MK-63	1101–1110	10	Baldwin	1921, 1924	1949–1955	I-GN
2-8-2	MK-63	1111–1120	10	Brooks	1926	1949–1955	StLB&M
2-8-4	BK-63	1121–1125	5	Alco	1928	1953–1954
2-8-4	BK-63	1901–1925	25	Lima	1930		Rebuilt to 4-8-4
2-10-0	D-52	941–948	8	Alco	1918		Russian Decapod
2-10-2	SF-63	1701–1714	14	Brooks	1916	1953
2-10-2		1715–1719	5	Brooks	1917	1953	Ex-Wabash
2-10-2	SF-63	1720–1729	10	Baldwin	1926	1955
2-8-8-2	ML-55	4000	1	Baldwin	1912	1946
4-4-0	E-63	914	1	Baldwin	1905		StLB&M
4-4-0	E-67	927	1	Baldwin	1904		StLB&M
4-4-0	E-63	953	1	Baldwin	1905		SB&RGV
4-4-2	A-79	5501–5540	40	Brooks	1904, 1907	1937–1948
4-6-0	TN-56½	236	1	Baldwin	1920		Sugar Land
4-6-0	TN-57	212	1	Baldwin	1910		Rio Grande City
4-6-0	TN-57	213, 214	2	Baldwin	1916		Sugar Land
4-6-0	TN-57	233	1	Cooke	1905		NOT&M
4-6-0	TN-57	235	1	Baldwin	1912		SAU&G
4-6-0	TN-57	285	1	Cooke	1901		I-GN
4-6-0	TN-57	299	1	Alco	1913		SAU&G
4-6-0	TN-60	310	1	Alco	1907		H&BV
4-6-0	TN-61	2301–2401	101	Brooks	1900–1902
4-6-0	TN-61	2402, 2403	2	Baldwin	1901
4-6-0	TN-63	252–261	10	Baldwin	1905
4-6-0	TN-63	291	1	Rhode Island	1902		StLB&M
4-6-0	TN-63	297	1	Alco	1913		I-GN
4-6-0	TN-63	301–306	6	Dickson	1903		SAU&G
4-6-0	TN-63	315–360	46	Cooke, Baldwin, Brooks	1901–1908		NOT&M
4-6-0	TN-67	320, 333, 339	3	Cooke	1901–1903		I-GN
4-6-0	TN-67	361, 362	2	Baldwin	1903		I-GN
4-6-0	TN-67	371–378	8	IGN shops	1921–1925		NOT&M
4-6-0	TN-67	379–384	6	Baldwin	1911		I-GN
4-6-0	TN-69	385–389	5	Alco	1921		I-GN
4-6-0	TN-69	7501–7529	29	Brooks	1901–1902		NOT&M
4-6-2	P-73	6000	1	Schenectady	1925	by 1935	Three cylinders. Rebuilt as 6001 in 1942
4-6-2	P-73	6401–6439	39	Schenectady, Brooks	1910, 1912	1952
4-6-2	P-73	6440–6444	5	Schenectady	1921
4-6-2	P-69	6501–6521	21	Brooks	1902–1903	by 1953
4-6-2	P-73	6601–6629	29	Schenectady	1924, 1925	1949–1954	Includes 6445–6454, renumbered 6601–6610
4-6-2	P-73	1151–1155	5	Alco	1926	1954	I-GN
4-6-2	P-73	1156–1161	6	Alco	1927	1954	StLB&M
4-8-0	TW-55	1801–1819	19	Brooks	1901, 1903
4-8-2	MT-63	5201–5207	7	Schenectady	1913	1948
4-8-2	MT-69	5301–5307	7	Richmond	1919	To 5321–5327	USRA
4-8-2	MT-73	5308–5316	9	Schenectady	1921, 1923	by 1955
4-8-2	MT-73	5335–5344	10	Brooks, Schenectady	1927, 1930	by 1956
4-8-2	MT-75	5321–5327	7	MP	1939	1954	Ex-5301–5307
4-8-4		2101–2125	25	MP	1940–1942	1949–1953
4-8-4		2201–2215	15	Baldwin	1943	1956

Notes in the last column use Drury’s abbreviations. H&BV is the Houston & Brazos Valley. I-GN is the International-Great Northern. NOT&M is the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico. SAS is the San Antonio Southern. SAU&G is the San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf. SB&RGV is the San Benito & Rio Grande Valley. StLB&M is the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico. USRA is the United States Railroad Administration. The class cell for 2101–2125 is blank in the table. Those 25 locomotives are Berkshires 1901–1925 after the Sedalia rebuild, and the retired years are 1949–1953.

Sources

George H. Drury, Guide to North American Steam Locomotives, revised edition, Missouri Pacific chapter, pages 218–223. The table, the class notes, and the closing dates.
Joe G. Collias, Mopac Power (Howell-North Books, 1980).
Lloyd E. Stagner, “Those Sedalia 4-8-4s,” Trains, May 1984, pages 20–28.
Missouri Pacific Historical Society, mopac.org.

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Nov 04, 26 11:39 AM
Denver & Rio Grande Western diesel locomotives, each frame once. 554 units, from the 1941 NW2 through the 1990 GP60s. FT, F3, F7, and F9 sets are not counted again under their 1950 numbers.
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Rio Grande Railroad: Map, Logo, History, Rosters
Nov 04, 26 11:34 AM
Denver & Rio Grande Western history, from William Jackson Palmer and the October 27, 1870 charter through the Royal Gorge, the Moffat route, the California Zephyr, and Union Pacific common control…
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Lindblom Gift Expands the Fort Wayne Restoration Shop
Nov 04, 26 11:14 AM
Art Lindblom gave the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society more than $1.4 million, its largest single gift, to expand the New Haven shop. The addition is planned for late 2026 and early 2027. A sepa…
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Design Contract Awarded for the Forest Park Branch
Nov 04, 26 11:09 AM
The Chicago Transit Board approved a design contract for about 13 miles of Blue Line track from the Illinois Medical District to the I-290 Bridge. The release summary calls it a $17 million contract…
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Kanawha River Railroad: The Norfolk Southern Lease Is Renewed
Nov 04, 26 10:51 AM
Kanawha River Railroad filed to keep leasing 309.45 miles from Norfolk Southern in West Virginia and Ohio. The second amendment is dated August 17, 2026. The Board has not set the date the exemption t…
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Short Line Center Awarded a $5.625 Million Grant
Nov 04, 26 10:35 AM
The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association received a $5.625 million CRISI grant on October 20, 2026, for the Short Line Training Center. A 25 percent match brings the project to $7.5 m…
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Palestine and Rusk Track Rebuild Finishes Its First Phase
Nov 04, 26 09:13 AM
The Texas & Eastern Railroad has finished the first phase of a roughly $30 million track project between Palestine and Rusk. Phase I used a $13.4 million CRISI grant. Phase II, at $8.54 million, adds…
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Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx Get Subway Power Design
Nov 04, 26 09:12 AM
STV said on November 2, 2026, that MTA Construction and Development selected the firm to manage design of 10 subway substations and 12 circuit breaker houses in four New York boroughs. No contract pri…
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Chicago's Regional Transit Budget Goes Out for Comment
Nov 04, 26 09:07 AM
The Northern Illinois Transit Authority opened its first regional budget for comment through December 4, 2026. The proposal is $5.04 billion for 2027 operations and $9.73 billion in capital work throu…
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VIA Rail Finishes the Toronto Maintenance Centre
Nov 04, 26 09:05 AM
VIA Rail completed a four-year modernization of its Toronto Maintenance Centre on November 2, 2026. The Government of Canada invested $310 million. The shop supports 32 Corridor trainsets and will sus…
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Brightline Suspends Orlando Service for High Water
Nov 04, 26 09:02 AM
Brightline suspended trains between Orlando and West Palm Beach on November 2, 2026, because of high water in Brevard County. A later post the same day kept the suspension until 2:00 p.m. on November…
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