This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1340 Message Board Post: I was trying to get info on my G-Uncle who worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad in St. Louis, Missouri and also found out that Missouri Pacific Railroad is now the Union Pacific. I called the Union Pacific office and they say unless I have the S.S. number they cannot help me in any way. :( My Uncle died in 1962 and in that year the workers only had Railroad worker numbers and in 1963 they all had the S.S. numbers. Anyway, I found this info below and thought .... Ghee all this info is just sitting there. :( Wondering if anyone knew this and or if maybe in the works someone might do something with the records. Such a waste for them to just sit there. ( see below ) the info I found. The Missouri Pacific Historical Society We have no records, no employment forms, no paycheck records. All such records are today owned by the Union Pacific R.R. and are in storage at the Hutchinson, Kansas salt mines -- off limits to all but the lawyers. The Union Pacific declines to help with former MP employee genealogy requests.