[Charles Duckworth]

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[Charles Duckworth]

Joe Collias has these cast in brass 30 years ago and looking at one they aren’t all that great. Would be nice if someone could make these and the locomotive lights that went behind the smoke stack in 3D.

[Charles Duckworth]

Gregg
After all the news about the overtime being cut and sort machines taken out of service I’m amazed that media mail is being delivered the next day. Hopefully my statement doesn’t jinx the others.

Happy to read your comments. After proofreading it a half a dozen times I’ve still found two errors in the captions. I wish some of the images could have been larger but it would have pushed the cost of the book higher and we wanted to keep it affordable.

My geography of Illinois has certainly increased since writing it too…

[Charles Duckworth]

The M-I books were shipped yesterday at 2:55 pm from Marceline, Missouri and my brother in Jefferson City just let me know the book arrived this morning – media mail. So individuals in central Missouri may start seeing their books this week.

[Charles Duckworth]

Here’s a couple photos from Art Johnson at the Wichita station; the Pullman ‘Gunnison River’ is a 6-6-4 built in 1941 and the heavyweight is a RPO-Baggage car that’s been ‘Eagleized’ with a round roof and skirting around the ends and between the trucks. Note both cars are coupled to heavyweight coaches.
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Dennis
Welcome to the Missouri Pacific Historical Society. Look over the bulletin board there’s lots of topics you maybe interested in. Looking forward to meeting you at a future annual meet.

Charlie

[Charles Duckworth]

Few shots of the Mask Island decals in the F&C 45’ gondolas and Chad Boas 50’ Mopac flatcar. [attachment=3:1ubkc487]F3589FB5-556D-4399-B855-339B55C7A41F.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487][attachment=2:1ubkc487]2A9A5CC7-F9DA-45F4-9D88-8077F72E982C.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487][attachment=1:1ubkc487]3CD3D6DB-3468-456A-AA5A-0AB6521EFE0B.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487][attachment=0:1ubkc487]44AEDA43-F9B7-4A4E-9269-6604A79235D0.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487]

[Charles Duckworth]

Here’s a color image of the MFA shield (I have my wife’s grandfather’s MFA member sign in the garage). The white stripes on the tank car appear to wider than the red ones and on this shield they are equal. At least you have something to work with. [attachment=0:3j01sgeq]2C4D699F-64D8-4DD0-BAB9-66EF482DC657.jpeg[/attachment:3j01sgeq]

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Jerry
Missouri Farmers Association; had feed mills and general stores all over rural Missouri. Also sold motor oil and had gas pumps with the stores. I’d not see a tankcar with their logo before. Back in the 1950’s and earlier farmers could take eggs to the MFA Exchange and trade for items in the stores. Obviously the destinations for these would have only been Missouri towns would be interesting to know where the oil and gas originated from.

[Charles Duckworth]

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[Charles Duckworth]

I had the side panel decals redone and want to mail out replacements. Please email me at [email protected] and let me know how many containers you bought and provide your address. The rest of the decal sheet is good just the panel was too wide. The correct width should be 2′ 9″ not 4′ as I was originally told. 🙄

[Charles Duckworth]

While researching the ferry chapter there was only one incident recorded where a couple gons were pushed off the back of the boat and one time a Conductor mis-stepped and landed in the river. He was fished out but not sure about the gons.

[Charles Duckworth]

View of the Ste. Genevieve taken from the idler car.

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Oil fields at Selmaville, Illinois

From the book; “There was no town or store here; rail facilities in 1930 consisted of a short spur and a station sign. By November 1937 the Adams Oil and Gas Company had discovered oil northwest of Centralia and by June 1938 the Texas Oil Company discovered another oil field between Centralia and Salem. In 1939, ninety-three million barrels of oil were pumped from Marion County’s farmland. At the time producers were selling oil for fifty cents a barrel. During the oil boom switch engines were assigned to both Centralia and Salem to switch the oil fields including five refineries. Major operators in the Salem fields were Texas Oil, Magnolia, Ohio, Phillips Petroleum, and Sinclair.”

[Charles Duckworth]

There’s more posted. The buzz saw version, T&P diamond and C&EI. Eagle logo coming next.

[Charles Duckworth]

18 more just listed.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174399662147

T&P diamond and C&EI buzz saw too.

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