Out on the M-I “mainline”, MP GP16 #68, converted from an RS11, leads a westbound freight out of the Mississippi River valley in July 1974, bound for Bismarck. The M-I operated a 123-mile line from Salem, Illinois to Bismarck via the aforementioned carferry operation at Ste. Genevieve.  The carferry operation was discontinued in 1961, and the M-I was formally merged into the Missouri Pacific in 1978. (Terry Norton, photo; Chris Guss collection)

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