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Missouri Pacific Railroad, Num 11
The Colorado Eagle
(Westbound)

Streamliner

St Louis MO to Pueblo CO

902 miles.   16 hrs 10 min.

Through Service
to: Denver via DRGW No 4

Amenities ...

 Sleeper Cars available.  Dining Car.

First service June 21, 1942. Streamlined in 1946. MoPac's second streamliner, replacing the Scenic Limited, a heavy-weight passenger train, along the same route. This train was the first MoPac train to use dome cars. This was a very profitable route, earning it's initial cost of $1.4 million in just 290 days of operation. Primarily a night train, but the final two hours (between Pueblo and Denver) offered spectacular mountain scenery along the Rio Grande Western lines.


Arrives Connecting Cities Departs
- - - Union Station
Saint Louis MO
4:00 PM C 
4:07 PM C  Tower Grove MO 4:07 PM C 
4:20 PM C  Kirkwood MO 4:20 PM C 
4:38 PM C  Pacific MO 4:38 PM C 
6:00 PM C  Jefferson City MO 6:05 PM C 
7:10 PM C  Sedalia MO 7:10 PM C 
7:37 PM C  Warrensburg MO 7:37 PM C 
8:27 PM C  Independence MO 8:27 PM C 
9:00 PM C  Kansas City MO 9:10 PM C 
10:18 PM C  Osawatomie KS 10:18 PM C 
10:38 PM C  Ottawa KS 10:38 PM C 
11:14 PM C  Osage City KS 11:14 PM C 
11:56 PM C  Council Grove KS 11:56 PM C 
12:20 AM C  Herington KS 12:20 AM C 
1:02 AM C  Lindsborg KS 1:02 AM C 
1:31 AM C  Geneseo KS 1:31 AM C 
2:12 AM C  Hoisington KS 2:28 AM C 
2:55 AM C  LaCrosse KS 2:55 AM C 
3:40 AM C  Utica KS 3:40 AM C 
4:16 AM C  Scott City KS 4:16 AM C 
3:46 AM M  Leoti KS 3:46 AM M 
4:11 AM M  Horace KS 4:16 AM M 
5:05 AM M  Eads CO 5:05 AM M 
5:57 AM M  Ordway CO 5:57 AM M 
7:10 AM M  Pueblo CO