New book “Selected Photographs from the Missouri Pacific Historical Society Archives

[Charles Duckworth]

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.

[Jerry Michels]

Count me in! Jerry

[anonymous]

I’ll take one. Any NOT&M going to be in it?

[Charles Duckworth]

It’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.

[Chris Mueller]

Please add me to the list, thanks, Chris Mueller

[Joe Pauley]

count me in as well.

Joe

[Charles Duckworth]

Slight 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

[Charles Duckworth]

A few images from the upcoming book. Photos were taken from six different sizes negatives.

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[Gregg Laiben]

Nice to see all the medium and large format negatives – looking forward to the full page images.

…gregg

[lady1wallace]

Count me in, too!

[Charles Duckworth]

@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.

[Gregg Laiben]

@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

[Charles Duckworth]

Here’s three diesel shots from the book. Book has 168 images.
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[Joseph Braddock]

Count me in, too. Maybe you can add a pre-order item to the store.

[anonymous]

I thought Collias hated diesels.

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