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Colorado Eagle

Missouri Pacific E7A 26 with Train 11, The Colorado Eagle, waiting to depart St. Louis' Union Station on April 17, 1963

Overview

Service type

Inter-city rail

Status

Discontinued

Locale

Western United States/Midwestern United States

Predecessor

Scenic Limited

First service

1942

Last service

1964

Former operator(s)

Missouri Pacific / Denver and Rio Grande Western

Route

Termini

St. Louis, Missouri
Denver, Colorado

Distance travelled

1,021.1 miles (1,643.3 km) (1957)

Average journey time

Westbound: 18 hrs 50 min
Eastbound: 19 hrs 15 min (1957)^[1]

Service frequency

Daily

Train number(s)

Westbound: 11-4
Eastbound: 3-12

On-board services

Seating arrangements

Reclining seat coaches

Sleeping arrangements

Open sections in early years; Roomettes and Double Bedrooms

Catering facilities

Diner-Bar-Lounge

Observation facilities

Planetarium coach; Vista Dome Chair Car

Technical

Track gauge

4 ft 81⁄2 in (1,435 mm)

Route map

Tower Grove

Jefferson City

Missouri

Kansas

Paola

Osawatomie

Ottawa

Osage City

Council Grove

Herington

Lindsborg

Geneseo

Hoisington

La Crosse

Utics

Scotts City

Leoti

Horace

Kansas

Colorado

Eads

Sugar City

Ordway

Pueblo

DRGW

Colorado Springs

Denver

The Colorado Eagle was an American streamlined passenger train operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP) in the mid 20th century. It operated between St. Louis, Missouri and Denver, Colorado, using MP trackage from St. Louis to Pueblo, Colorado and traveling on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad from there to Denver.^[2] The train began service on June 21, 1942 and replaced those railroads' Scenic Limited.^[3]

The Colorado Special operated until March 1964, when the name as well as on-board amenities (save for a diner-parlor coach for the initial St. Louis - Kansas City segment of the trip) were dropped as the MP reduced passenger service across its system.^[2]^[4] On April 2, 1966, the MP canceled the remaining unnamed trains serving Denver, ending passenger service along the Colorado Eagle's route west of Kansas City.^[2]

References

^ "The Colorado Eagle timetable July 1957". Streamliner Schedules. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Schafer, Mike (2000). More Classic American Railroads. St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing Company. pp. 87. ISBN 0-7603-0758-X.
^ Maiken, Peter. Night Trains, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, p. 232. ISBN 9780801845031.
^ MP train being unnamed, with minimal amenities "Missouri Pacific Lines, Table 7". Official Guide of the Railways. 97 (7). National Railway Publication Company. December 1964.

External links

Colorado Eagle, July, 1957 timetable and consist at Streamliner Schedules

v t e Named trains of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
California Zephyr Colorado Eagle Denver Zephyr Exposition Flyer Prospector Rio Grande Zephyr Royal Gorge San Juan Express Shavano The Silverton

v t e Named trains of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Colorado Eagle Houstonian Louisiana Sunshine Special Orleanean Pioneer Rainbow Special Southerner Sunflower Sunshine Special Texan Texas Eagle Valley Eagle

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