Head Rest Covers

[luisflierl26]

MPHS had custom made reproduction headrest covers made for the Missouri Pacific observation car at The National Museum of Transportation.

We may do another small run of these and offer them through the company store if anyone is interested.

Also, this car will be open to those at our convention next week during the museum tour. It will only be open to those on the tour, not the general public.

[benjamintickell53]

The headrests look great! I’m glad that MPHS was able to participate in the restoration of this unique piece of equipment. Please advise if another small run of headrest covers is produced for sale.

On the timetable rack, those 1965 public timetables do need to be replaced with the 1960 or earlier colorful Eagle timetables to be historically accurate – these cars were long out of service before those 1965 timetables were issued.

Bill Pollard

[luisflierl26]

According to my assistant, the pennies on the table were not dated correctly and the Coke bottle was too new as well.

[benjamintickell53]

Your assistant is quite astute, and I concur on all points. It appears that some of the pennies are indeed post-1960. As for the coke bottle, I am not sure that Coke was even sold in bottles in this car or the adjacent diner-lounge, but if they were, it would almost certainly have been the smaller size bottle with the raised lettering. At least the cards are of proper vintage rather than having something like the screaming Eagle logo on the back.

I wasn’t going to mention it, but that cup probably should be Eagle china too.

Bill Pollard

[alexortiz25]

I turned the Coke bottle so that the UPC label was not visible. :ugeek:

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