Books were delivered to buyers yesterday in Omaha so hopefully others will be seeing their’s soon.

My copy of the “Selected Photographs” book arrived between Wednesday and Saturday (we were out of town). I was impressed from page one onward. I have seen some of these photos before, but most are stunningly new to me. It is a great effort, and I can’t recommend it strongly enough. The ‘length-wise’ layout makes even photos I have seen before a new experience. Jerry Michels

My copy arrived today 02 15 2022 to Wood burn, Oregon

I concur with you as well on your description of the book
contents . People do not hesitate by the book, I will not be reprinted Many hats off to Charlie..

Bill Basden

@glaiben wrote:

Mine arrived today (Kansas City area). Paged thru it before dinner and clearly it deserves careful perusing. The images are all black and white and many are from larger format negatives which show great detail in the landscape format. For those of us who model the MoPac lines during the transition period, it’s a treasure of period images with lots of surrounding structures and right of way included.

Well done and thank you Charlie!

…gregg

Well now Charlie do you have anything else in the work
to publish you want to give away?? just count me in for future projects.

Bill Basden

@cduckworth wrote:

Bill, Gregg and Jerry
Glad you enjoyed the book; I took on the project exactly how I always thought a railroad ‘picture’ book should look. Big photos with lots of details and captions that are informative. My favorites are the scenes of the transfer run from St. Louis to Dupo and the Kirkwood Hill helper service. As noted in the introduction Bill Pollard provided me with details on the passenger trains and others helped fill in details such as the switching of the mill at Sikeston and helping to identify the individuals in some of the images. Two retired MP guys, Norbert Shacklette and Jerry Laseter both started at Sikeston in 1960 and helped with the details on the Sikeston photos. Dennis Faircloth was able to identify the guys in the M-I images. Tom Stamey lended his expertise on the T&P images. I tried to use as much of book’s pages as possible for photos including the front and back end pages with the shot of Texarkana and Glendale and the table of contents with the transfer drag.

Charlie

Well now, then, it’s a perfect time to ask about something I’ve wondered about for years.

Before my flood experience I had a lot of railroadiana including an old Official Guide. In the T&P passenger schedules, there was (as I remember) a repetitive graphic of a waiter with a coffee cup and the statement “where you get that famous T&P coffee.”

In the past, before Seattle became a coffee center, New Orleans was well known as a point of import entry for coffee. Several large roasting operations were there, still are, when the wind is right you can smell it all over town. I went into some of the plants in the course of my employment before I retired.

Was New Orleans the source of the TP coffee? Which company? This might be worth a paragraph in the book.

Ok. Not a big deal. I just remember that coffee image from years and years ago. I had an uncle that worked for Humble Oil in Houston and that old 1960 Official Guide he gave me was the best present I ever had. I’d love to have it back.

I’m working my way slowly through this book. Just finished the steam sections yesterday.

One thing I was amazed to see is the random freight cars, like the gons in the engine facilities waiting to be loaded with cinders.

Some of those cars, I had never seen a photo of. The only knowledge I had ever had of their existence was through diagrams. For that alone, I’m glad to see this book. But I’m especially pleased to see the diversity of locations.

RG7