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August 6, 2021 at 12:17 pm #6510Charles DuckworthParticipant
As many of you are aware the Missouri Pacific Historical Society purchased the Mopac portion of the Joe Collias Collection in September 2018. I’m working on a 144 page book that highlights some of the best images. Horizontal format with full page images. I’m about 90% finished and am finalizing the captions this month. Hope to turn the manuscript over the Donning the end of this month. Chapters include steam, diesel, rail yards and a few surprises. In the collection is Wayne Leemans negatives. He documented a local switching at Sikeston, the coal fields in Southern Illinois, helper service over Kirkwood and more! Book should be available by the end of this year.
August 7, 2021 at 1:59 pm #10225Jerry MichelsParticipantCount me in! Jerry
August 7, 2021 at 9:45 pm #10226anonymousMemberI’ll take one. Any NOT&M going to be in it?
August 8, 2021 at 9:31 pm #10228Charles DuckworthParticipantIt’s based on the Collias Collection so there’s a shot a VO660 at Brownsville and a few in Louisiana but he didn’t get that far south. But you won’t be disappointed in the content.
August 9, 2021 at 8:54 pm #10230Chris MuellerParticipantPlease add me to the list, thanks, Chris Mueller
August 9, 2021 at 10:23 pm #10232Joe PauleyParticipantcount me in as well.
Joe
August 11, 2021 at 1:18 pm #10235Charles DuckworthParticipantSlight correction; I’ve added another 16 pages – the book is 160 pages. There’s that much excellent subject matter in the collection. I’ll post some images
August 11, 2021 at 2:28 pm #10236Charles DuckworthParticipantA few images from the upcoming book. Photos were taken from six different sizes negatives.
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…gregg
August 12, 2021 at 4:33 pm #10239lady1wallaceParticipantCount me in, too!
August 13, 2021 at 2:07 am #10241Charles DuckworthParticipant@glaiben wrote:
Nice to see all the medium and large format negatives – looking forward to the full page images.
…gregg
We had one 8×10 negative labeled on the envelope ‘7th Street Freight House, St Louis, Mo’ I was using for the book Bill Pollard said it looked like the Mopac Memphis freight house and sent back some images that certainly showedwas a match. I was able to enlarge the part of the negative with the trunks of the late 1920 cars and could read ‘TENN’ on the plates to verify it was the Memphis location.
August 13, 2021 at 3:51 am #10242Gregg LaibenParticipant@cduckworth wrote:
We had one 8×10 negative labeled on the envelope ‘7th Street Freight House, St Louis, Mo’ I was using for the book Bill Pollard said it looked like the Mopac Memphis freight house and sent back some images that certainly showedwas a match. I was able to enlarge the part of the negative with the trunks of the late 1920 cars and could read ‘TENN’ on the plates to verify it was the Memphis location.
Great catch!
…gregg
August 13, 2021 at 11:42 am #10243Charles DuckworthParticipantHere’s three diesel shots from the book. Book has 168 images.
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August 13, 2021 at 3:35 pm #10245anonymousMemberI thought Collias hated diesels.
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