Name Passenger Trains of Missouri Pacific
and Subsidiaries

Compiled 2012 by Bill Pollard

This list of name passenger trains is not a complete list. Additions and corrections are requested.
  • Aztec Eagle (San Antonio-Laredo-Mexico City) 1948-1969
  • City of Mexico (St. Louis-Mexico City) 1937-1940
  • Colorado Eagle (St. Louis-Denver) 1942-1966
  • Delta Eagle (Memphis-Tallulah) 1941-1954
  • Easterner (Kansas City-St Louis)
  • Houstonian (New Orleans-Houston)
  • Hot Springs Limited (St Louis-Hot Springs) ??-1948
  • Kansas City Hot Springs Express (Kansas City-Hot Springs)
  • Kay-See Flyer (St. Louis-Kansas City)
  • Louisiana Limited (New Orleans-El Paso)(T&P)
  • Louisiana Sunshine Special (Little Rock-Lake Charles)
  • Marathon (Kansas City-Omaha)
  • Missouri River Eagle (St Louis-Omaha) 1940-1971
  • Missourian (St Louis-Kansas City)
  • Orleanean (New Orleans-Houston)
  • Ozarker (St Louis-Fort Worth)
  • Pioneer (Houston-Brownsville)
  • Rainbow Special (Little Rock-Kansas City) 1921-1954
  • Royal Gorge (Kansas City-Oakland)
  • Scenic Limited (St Louis-Pueblo) 1915-1942
  • Southern Scenic (Memphis-Kansas City) 1931-1952
  • Southerner (Kansas City-New Orleans) 1925-?? (also St. Louis-Texas)
  • Star (Fort Worth-Galveston) 1926-1936
  • Sunflower (St Louis-Wichita) 1924-1954
  • Sunshine Eagle (St. Louis-Mexico City) proposed name which was never used
  • Sunshine Special (St Louis-San Antonio) 1915-1948 and 1948-1962
  • Tennessean (St Louis-Memphis) 1927-1948
  • Texan (St Louis-Ft Worth/Houston)
  • Texas Eagle (St Louis-Galveston, St Louis-San Antonio, St Louis-El Paso) 1948-1970
  • Valley Eagle (Brownsville-Corpus Christi-Houston)
  • Westerner (St Louis-Kansas City)

Name Passenger Trains of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois

  • Cardinal (Chicago-St Louis)
  • Chicago Express (Chicago-Evansville)
  • Curfew (Chicago-St Louis) circa 1930
  • Dixiana (Chicago-Miami) circa 1942
  • Dixie Express (Chicago-New Orleans)
  • Dixie Flagler (Chicago-Miami) 1940-1954
  • Egyptian Zipper (Danville-Cypress) 1937
  • Humming Bird (Chicago-St Louis-New Orleans) 1946-1969
  • Meadowlark (Chicago-Cypress)
  • Whippoorwill (Chicago-Evansville) 1946-??

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