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One thing I will agree with Pat, brass is typically horrible unless perhaps from the late 1980s, Overland in particular was excellent. The rest were pretty horrible. I have completely rebuilt and had rebuilt a number of brass steamers, and they now perform quite well. Jerry Michels
Bud MossParticipantI never feel guilty about my modeling, I have seldom run into the prototype police :^)
Bud MossParticipantThe railroad often changed tenders depending on the area the locomotives worked. If you are modeling the Missouri/Arkansas portion of the MoPac, you would have seen both oil and coal burning locomotives on the Missouri Division. I think it is your choice. I’d leave it as a coal burner. If you convert to oil, you also have to remove the ashpans under the firebox since oil burners didn’t produce ash and clinkers. Jerry Michels
Bud MossParticipantIt sure seems the collection at the DPL needs to be searched, and not just for pictures. Lots of paper information it seems. It might have some very interesting information on the ART in the Rio Grande Valley, and MoPac freight traffic.
Jerry Michels
Bud MossParticipantDavid, I will volunteer, depending on the dates. I can firm it up when I find these out. jerry
Bud MossParticipantYes, people do collect this sort of stuff, even wrecks like this. For many years the Amarillo Railroad Museum used to take all our great custom cars to the Oklahoma City Train Show in December and made almost no profit. We were lucky to pay our booth charges. Then, last year, we hit on the idea of selling donated material that we had no use for. Lots of this stuff is very old, parts missing, inaccurate paint schemes, etc. We sell most of it for from $1-10 depending on condition. Guess what, where we used to take home maybe a couple hundred dollars net, we netted over $4,000, yes four thousand, last year! The “junk” sells. I bet we could easily get $5 for that old beat up MoPac car.
Jerry
Bud MossParticipantOh my! Even if you collect old offbeat MoPac stuff, this is pretty bad. Should be on sale for a buck or two at the most. Jerry
Bud MossParticipantI have only seen black bridges, but I would not rule out silver in some locations.
Jerry Michels
Bud MossParticipantInteresting site. I hope he is open to custom runs for specific (MoPac) details. Jerry Michels
Bud MossParticipantWould make a nice casting.
Bud MossParticipantCharlie, I am sure that is a vibrator to loosen up the lime. Pretty interesting piece of equipment. Jerry
Bud MossParticipantLate 1980s or early 1990s. As late as 1981 they were still building short bay window cabooses, building the main bodies at DeSoto and finishing them out at Sedalia. Jerry Michels
Bud MossParticipantThis is interesting David. Hopefully you have plenty of System Employee Timetable 23! Jerry 😮
Bud MossParticipantHi Charlie, please reserve 4064 and 4125 for me. Bush yard is pretty full, but there is a lack of M-I equipment. Jerry
Bud MossParticipantThis looks like a really nice model. Question. By the 1950s would these have had ladders rather than individual grab irons? I wonder if these could be put in MOW service. Jerry Michels
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