01-29-2010, 09:55 PM
The MP had the "Bald knob shuffle". It varied over the years but the basic idea was the MP ran a train out of Houston, Ft Worth and San Antonio towards St Louis, Salem, IL, and Chicago then another one from N Little Rock to Memphis. All the trains operated through Bald Knob. They would all drop blocks for teh various destinatins and pick up blocks for where they were going.