A Missouri Pacific fan from childhood.  My siblings and I traveled from Poplar Bluff, Missouri to Little Rock, Arkansas to visit relatives many times in my youth. 

in 1959 mother and I traveled from Poplar Bluff to California to visit two aunts, their husbands and families.  We left Poplar Bluff on the Missouri Pacific Eagle, transferred to the Texas & Pacific Eagle then traveled Southern Pacific on to California.  I suspect we arrived in Los Angeles but can't recall as I was only five at the time.