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anonymousMember
Have you tried bridgehunter.com? I am pretty sure the site is still up though the owner was killed late last year.
anonymousMemberCharlie, wouldn’t the track profiles be useful in creating an accurate model railroad? Online customers, siding locations and capacities, water tank and depot locations, and on. My Gulf Coast Lines profile book is a gold mine. The poster could get an idea of what on line traffic was generated where, what other roads interchanged where that would deliver or receive freight, etc etc.
Access by the poster to such information is another question since few books probably survive.
anonymousMemberI don’t know anything about the bridge at all but a good strategy might be similar to what is called good police work. First, find out what railroad this actually was, it might not be the MP and could be a predecessor road to whoever it was at the end. Then, try to locate construction data and contracts to find out who physically built that section of road, bearing in mind that the bridge that’s there today may be a replacement of an original as often happened. If the road abandonment was recent enough, an ex employee or someone may still be alive who remembers information, although the possibility recedes every day. To wit:
At this late date I wonder all the time about how MP passenger service was handled in my home town before it was discontinued in 1935. The (now removed) track layout and (still standing) freight depot location don’t support any theory very easily. No separate passenger station shows on historic maps. And the freight house is at the end of what was a quite long dead end industrial spur line. When I was a kid in the early 60’s I could have asked anyone about it, including my father who moved there in 1933. But I didn’t realize the value of an interview. Today it is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in more mystery.
Pat Flory
anonymousMemberProtection power for the Coast Daylight. Picture those drivers doing 80.
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anonymousMemberThat engine appears to be a 6-2-0 😮 😆
Note the birdcage and the bowling pin on the pilot. 😆 😆 : 😆
anonymousMemberI had a look at my Pat Coughlin collection of T&P images.
Lots of flat car pics, most in non-revenue service (I.I., coupled to a crane)
Numbers 5200 and 5012 in 1961 are in one photo.
There are about 400 images on the CD.Christine has the copyright, and sells at the north texas train shows.
Pat has a LOT of images in his slide collection. My son and I helped him about a decade ago digitize his collections and load on CD.
Thomas
DeSoto, TXBTW He has several photos of T&P 1123 GP in Jenks Blue and Diamond shield. Shot in 1962.
anonymousMemberHi guys,
Member number 1970 here so relatively new. Looking for list of available back issues on mopac.org site. Any help? Am looking to purchase for articles in:
v2 4, 6;
v7 1,2,4;
v9 2;
v10 4,
v11 1
v14 1, 3
v16 2
v18 1
v19 3, 4
and more…
Thank you,
OwenanonymousMember0ddballs #187-285
For 70 ton offset hopper, like Accurail 75xx kits. Or Stewart hopper kits.
Out of print for several years. Oddballs decals sometimes still show up on e-bay or the resell web groups.The diagram for lettering looks just like an MP hopper with small buzzsaw, but the “M P” is “M I” and the number is 5926.
Thomas
DeSoto, TXanonymousMemberNovember 25, 2020 at 8:00 pm in reply to: Missouri-Illinois Book information and reservations #10016anonymousMemberThe corporate history of the predecessor lines was really good. All railroads started like that.
The more I read the more I love the M-I. I’m into the stations now, slowly going west toward the river, reading everything, and realize what a great prototype to model this road is. No really huge yards or terminals, small engine shops, mostly small carloading on line customers largely Ag branch and small town type stuff, small steam engines, country interchanges. All are things that fit well on a layout. I’m captivated and finding a thousand ideas for my layout. With more to come.I really like the super-enlarged photos. You can lose yourself into being in them.
anonymousMemberIt took a couple of viewings to see the lighted switchstand lanterns , market lights, and drumhead. That’s some serious modeling.
anonymousMemberMan. Those are huge. I had no idea.
anonymousMemberPlease post a typical photo. I am unfamiliar with this.
anonymousMemberI remember them being in banks and barbershops in the early 1950s and being truly nasty.
anonymousMemberPopped right up for me.
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