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Pat,

I have friends and relative who like to gift me billboard beer reefers. They forget history. A little thing called Prohibition was in effect during my 1929 modeling period.

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Somewhere I have slides I took of brand new arresters sitting on pallets outside the Ewing Ave diesel shop in St Louis, mid-70s. I’m pretty sure there were two separate sections of screen. I do not recall the screen bending over the top of the bar on top. Need to dig out my slides to verify, if I could remember where I put them oh so many years ago…

@cduckworth wrote:

I ordered a set of Shapeways MP spark arresters and am ready to add them to the Atlas MP15DC.
I’ve cut some fine brass wire mesh to drop into the openings on each side but was wondering if the wire was one piece that covered both sides or there were two seperate pieces – one for each side. I’m thinking it was two seperate pieces on the prototype.

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Jeff City would be an easy two hour drive from St Louis Lambert airport. West on I-70 and then south on US54.

Optionally you could take Amtrak from either St Louis or Kirkwood to Jeff City.

@Patrick wrote:

How far away is st. Louis? Might fly and rent a car. Although can’t bring any models that way.

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Pat,
@Patrick wrote:

Any of those have any information about the NI&N ?

The 1969+ system timetables will have this as the New Iberia Subdivision of the De Quincy Division.

Additionally consider the Employee Timetable 1941 and 1955 collection on CD in the company store if you don’t already have these.

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Charlie,

John’s email is: [email protected]

@cduckworth wrote:

The Tru-Color Eagle gray is too dark out of the bottle – do you have John Lee’s email address as Badger? He probably has some suggestions.

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Ed,

Badger’s Model-flex 16-86 MoPac Blue. I have a MoPac Color Drift Control card for Diesel Locomotives and Passenger Train Cars dated April1974. The Badger MoPac blue matches.

Don’t know why Jenk’s blue gets a bad rap. Probably because it replaced the Eagle blue and gray. Having been born around the time of the change I do not recall ever seeing blue and gray equipment. I always liked the simple elegant understated Jenk’s paint scheme.

Agreed as a modeler it is simple to paint. Almost as easy as Penn Central black.

René

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I like the plain rectangular Iron Mountain Route with leaves logo. And of course the red buzzsaw with track.

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Columbia Trust. Used on USRA equipment that was assigned to the railroad and financed through the Columbia Trust. When purchased the C.T. was removed.

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Resin Car Works is offering grain bins similar to the Butler bins that Ron mentions.

http://resincarworks.com/scene.htm

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I purchased the eight attached MoPac pocket calendars at a local train show today. Figured even if they were fakes at $1.00 each not a bad price.

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After comparing my purchase to Bill Pollard’s presentation on fake pocket calendars I am thinking these might be originals. The sizes match, no large white borders. And on the calendar side the buzz-saw and locomotives match Bill’s information.

First column are 1946, 1950, 1953 and 1954. Second column are 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1960.

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@Patrick wrote:

What is that grey thing that flashes by for a milli second at 3:10? Looks like a tender with portholes added.

Looks to be an passenger car, perhaps a diner due to the side door, now in MOW service. May not even be Mop as there were a few clips of Frisco equipment in the film.

I’d like to know the area where this was filmed and date(s). Must have been over several years as there are full F-unit lash-ups (pre-1972?) as well as locomotives in the last Jenks blue scheme (buzzsaw Eagle) and the 1974 re-numbering. Also saw de-turbo’d GP35’s which would be later. And a quick shot of an Amtrak SDP40F.

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@dhuelsing wrote:

Great photo Rene – any more pics of the car?

Dave,

Here is the only side shot I grabbed with my iPhone. Lighting was not good shooting into the sun. The sunlit side of the car was blocked by out of service BNSF units.

Maybe someone else got better photos.

I believe this car was at one time MP business car #9.

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Jim,

Ted and Charlie are correct. I miss read your post as the 1980’s (decade), not 1980 (year). My error. The symbols I gave were the post-merger symbols. KS and KL would be the correct pre-merger symbols.

Sorry for the confusion.

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Jim,

KC to St Louis symbols for manifest trains would have been KCAS, KCASY and KCCH. If memory servers, KCAS and KCCH originated at Fairfax and carried auto part cars. The KCASx trains terminated at the Alton & Southern yard in E St Louis. KCCH terminated Belt Rwy Chicago.

KC to N. Little Rock I’m murky on, however found references to symbol KCNL that originated at 18th Street.

Intermodal symbols were the KCSLT to Sarpy Ave (St Louis) and Lesperance Street, and the KNZ to N. Little Rock and then on to Avondale.

Trains UMS (North Platte – Sheffield) and SMU went via Carthage sub, you could have run through UP and Southern power.

Symbols changed over time, I would use KCASY and KCNL for your two trains.

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