Passenger service on the Marysville sub

[cnwfan51]

     I bow to the experts and ask what passenger service the Union Pacific had between Kansas City and North plattle on the marysville sub While growing up in Kearney Nebraska in the mid 60s I remember the mail trians and the streamliners but nothing coming up from KC any help would be appricaited    Thanks Larry

[MP173]

My March 65 OGR shows the Topeka - Grand Island line as "freight only", as does my 58 OG.

The 1953 shows a daily 543/544 running between KC and Grand Island which would have travelled on the Marysville sub. 

The trains thru Kearney would have been on the Omaha - North Platte mainline.  It would have been quite a parade of trains.

ed

[cnwfan51]

Hello Ed   Thanks for the information and you are right ot was a parade of trains   Yhe U P was experimating with big power then and I can remember the big turbines the whirybirds alcos big sets and of course the 6900s I saw the 6900 going west with 50 brand new boxcars on her maiden trip this was back when everything was right in the world   Thanks again Larry

[timz]

Gibbons-Hastings lost its passenger service around 1942.