Missouri-Illinois Book is now available for purchase

[peggyrothschild]

For those who have not reserved the new Missouri-Illinois Railroad book through [email protected] you can purchase one now. This book has been several years in the making with interviews, help from former employees, hundreds of hours typing, research, scanning images and trips to Missouri. The result is a 374 page hardbound book with over 700 photos and images. Working with our editor and the art director we were able to reduce the page count by 8 pages which brought our cost down allowing us to reduce the price of the book.

Paying for the book:
To eliminate double shipping of your book; payments made from August 1st through August 25th will have the price of the book is discounted at $66 (plus $12 shipping) for Missouri Pacific Historical Society members and $72 for nonmembers (plus $12 shipping). After August 25th; the price increases to $69 for members (plus $12 shipping) and $76 for nonmember (plus $12 shipping). After receiving this notification, you have 25 days to make payment (if not received after 25 days the reservation is canceled). This time period allows us to prepare an address list for the publisher on where to ship the books. For those ordering more than one book the listing on the company store will allow for ordering 2 or 3 additional books with the shipping costs. For ordering more than 3 books please contact [email protected] for the additional shipping costs.

Using the MPHS Company Store for payment:
This link to our company store http://www.mopac.org/store/books-books-books/item/584-the-missouri-illinois-railroad-early is our preferred method for payment. It’s paperless, you have a receipt, it generates your mailing information and helps to maintain inventory of sold books. We accept PayPal, credit cards through PayPal, personal checks and money orders. If paying with a check or money order these are to be sent to the address below in Omaha.

Bypassing the Company Store for payment
If you prefer to send a check or money order send the payment to the address shown below. Also send an email to [email protected] so we can indicate payment has been mailed with your address where you want the book mailed to so we can update our mailing list. If you have a Paypal account you can send payment to [email protected] through Paypal but indicate in the comments section the payment is for the M-I book with your full shipping address.

Address for checks or money orders (do not send cash)
Missouri Pacific Historical Society
17330 W. Center Road, Suite 110
Omaha, NE. 68130

Timelines
While we collect your payments through August a list will be prepared by our treasurer and sent to the publisher towards the end of the month. The books are to be printed September 2nd and throughout September they will be shipped direct from the publisher’s plant in Marceline, Missouri. The books are being shipped media mail which will take 7 to 10 days to arrive at your address.

Questions

Any questions you have on payment or book information, please email [email protected] or send a letter to the Omaha address above.

[peggyrothschild]

With the current issues at the Post Office don’t be too slow in mailing in a check or money order if that’s how you want to pay for the book. Donning is only going to do one single mailing on September 2nd and then the books will go into storage until we pick them up or have then shipped to KC.

[peggyrothschild]

View of the Ste. Genevieve taken from the idler car.

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Oil fields at Selmaville, Illinois

From the book; “There was no town or store here; rail facilities in 1930 consisted of a short spur and a station sign. By November 1937 the Adams Oil and Gas Company had discovered oil northwest of Centralia and by June 1938 the Texas Oil Company discovered another oil field between Centralia and Salem. In 1939, ninety-three million barrels of oil were pumped from Marion County’s farmland. At the time producers were selling oil for fifty cents a barrel. During the oil boom switch engines were assigned to both Centralia and Salem to switch the oil fields including five refineries. Major operators in the Salem fields were Texas Oil, Magnolia, Ohio, Phillips Petroleum, and Sinclair.”

[John Pieroni]

@cduckworth wrote:

View of the Ste. Genevieve taken from the idler car.

3.23B Ferry007LeemantakenfromIdlercar.tif

2.8 USEStation CentraliaMIRR#105-CB&Q-SOUcrossing-1950.tif

2.6 CustomerSelmaville-OilRacks001 2.tif
Oil fields at Selmaville, Illinois

From the book; “There was no town or store here; rail facilities in 1930 consisted of a short spur and a station sign. By November 1937 the Adams Oil and Gas Company had discovered oil northwest of Centralia and by June 1938 the Texas Oil Company discovered another oil field between Centralia and Salem. In 1939, ninety-three million barrels of oil were pumped from Marion County’s farmland. At the time producers were selling oil for fifty cents a barrel. During the oil boom switch engines were assigned to both Centralia and Salem to switch the oil fields including five refineries. Major operators in the Salem fields were Texas Oil, Magnolia, Ohio, Phillips Petroleum, and Sinclair.”

Charlie,
Thanks for the pictures! I’ve gotten notice my check arrived and everything is in place for delivery of my copy. I guess the Post Office business between Berkeley, MO and Omaha, NE isn’t affected too much . Look forward to reading the book soon!

James Hovis.

[bargetanika]

That’s a serious kink in the track between the cradle and the vessel. No derailment problems there?

[peggyrothschild]

While researching the ferry chapter there was only one incident recorded where a couple gons were pushed off the back of the boat and one time a Conductor mis-stepped and landed in the river. He was fished out but not sure about the gons.

[amosluettgen1665]

@Patrick wrote:

That’s a serious kink in the track between the cradle and the vessel. No derailment problems there?

I’m guessing they were lining up. Interesting to note that those ops used an idler car – must not have been due to avoiding an engine on the ferry, because RS3 #72 is on the middle track!

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