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Bill
I have a little more to add to the story but this involves the Texas Lines china. One of my first bosses on the Mopac had been the Superintendent Stations and Claims Prevention in Houston in the 1960s. One of his duties was to go to the major derailments and try and oversee what was salvageable during the cleanup operations. When he learned I was interested in collecting old MP china to told me he was a few pieces that came off the diners assigned to the wreckers. He bought some cheap China and traded the cook for the old railroad China. He had a few pieces of I&GN that was the Bismarck pattern and some pieces of Gulf Coast Lines. He didn’t have either of the service plates so I traded him the steam and diesel plates for the IGN and GCL pieces.
My Mission saucer came off the wrecker out of San Antonio. I later found a cup on eBay to match it.
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