AUTHENTIC 1924 MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY BOWL *NICE SIZE

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Original 1924 Silverplate Bowl from the Missouri Pacific Railway 87 Years Old * For Immediate Display or Use - Table Ready! What a fabulous, vintage railroad bowl from the Missouri Pacific Railway! This bowl will display well, especially with its classically curving shape and floral band of tulips (or is it bluebells). Or perhaps it will spark a fascinating conversation as you serve bon bons or sauce in this 87-year-old shapely piece. It is a nice size, measuring about 6-1/2" in diameter and 1-3/4" high. The bowl has an excellent structure and sits flat on the table with no dents or bends. The silvering is quite nice, gleaming inside and out, with typical nicks and scratches, some blemishes, and a smattering of little pits on the inside bottom. Please see the pictures so you can assess the condition for yourself, and eBay message me with any questions. A Gleaming Addition For Your Missouri Pacific, Bowl, or Hotel Silver Collection! The underside is marked : MISSOURI PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO SILVER SOLDERED 0 5 0 0 9 '24' in a square = 1924 'heart' shaped symbol MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY (1851 - 1997) (Above: The Sunshine Special in St. Louis, MO in 1940; Sunshine Special Drumhead Logo; MoPac Station in Little Rock, Arkansas) The Missouri Pacific Railway, also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River . MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers, beginning in 1851 with the Pacific Railroad, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS), Texas and Pacific Railway (TP), Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI), St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway (SLBM), Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), Midland Valley Railroad (MV), Gulf Coast Lines (GC), International-Great Northern Railroad (IGN), New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway (NOTM), Missouri-Illinois Railroad (MI), as well as the small Central Branch Railway (an early predecessor of MP in Kansas and south central Nebraska), and joint ventures such as the Alton and Southern Railroad (AS). The company came under control of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1982 and was legally merged away on January 1, 1997. Passenger Train Service In the early years of the 20th century, most Missouri Pacific and St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern passenger trains were designated by number only, with little emphasis on premier name trains . This changed in May, 1915, with the inauguration of the Scenic Limited between St. Louis, Kansas City, and Pueblo, Colorado . A second premier train, the Sunshine Special began operating on December 5, 1915, between St. Louis, Little Rock , Austin and San Antonio . Another named train, the Rainbow Special was placed in service in July 1921 between Kansas City and Little Rock. The Sunshine Special soon eclipsed the other trains in travel volume, becoming the signature train of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. An advertising slogan in 1933 proclaimed: " It's 70-degrees in the Sunshine when it's 100-degrees in the shade ," referring to the fact that the Sunshine Special was one of the first air-conditioned trains in the southwest. When new streamlined trains were delivered, the Scenic Limited and Rainbow Special names faded, but the Sunshine Special had sufficient name recognition to co-exist along with the new streamliners into the late 1950s. In the streamliner era, the Missouri Pacific's premier passenger trains were collectively known as the Eagles . A variety of Eagle trains were operated, with the first such train inaugurated in 1940. Eagle routes included the Missouri River Eagle (St. Louis to Kansas City and Omaha), the Delta Eagle ( Memphis, Tennessee to Tallulah, Louisiana ), the Colorado Eagle (St. Louis to Pueblo and Denver , the Texas Eagle (St. Louis to Texas ), and the Valley Eagle ( Houston to Corpus Christi and Brownsville, Texas ). Other notable trains the MoPac operated included: The Houstoni... read more

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