[Charles Duckworth]

Eric Davies
I’m just wondering if you’ve read these responses and if they have been on any help with your initial question. Several of us have taken time to provide links to images and other information on the ferry operations you asked about.

[Charles Duckworth]

Gregg
Can you post the images here as well?

[Charles Duckworth]

Railfan magazine had an article titled ‘Mopac’s Navy’ in November 1982. There were lots of photos and information. Quick search on eBay shows several available for sale.

Here’s a few images with captions.
http://rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=46538

Unfortunately the captions on the service going to the ICG are incorrect. When the MP filed for abandonment cars were given to Midsouth at Alexandria, Louisiana and they took the cars to Natchez where they were given back to the MP. The MP retained a switch engine and crew to switch International Paper and a couple other industries. The Ste Genevieve barge was in bad shape and needed costly repairs (I recall that the hull was thin in places). The west side incline was abandoned first and a few days later the east incline was abandoned effectively ending the last Mopac ferry operations. Once the Midsouth arrangement was inplace the ferry was scrapped.

Midsouth was purposely not shown on the waybills or in the route as they’d been party to the road haul rates but they received a fix amount for each load and empty moved in both directions.

[Charles Duckworth]

With the current issues at the Post Office don’t be too slow in mailing in a check or money order if that’s how you want to pay for the book. Donning is only going to do one single mailing on September 2nd and then the books will go into storage until we pick them up or have then shipped to KC.

[Charles Duckworth]

What’s disappointing is the decision was made by a City ‘Historical Committee’ knowing that the colors were incorrect. Both Jerry and I sent them (and the mayor) information on what the correct MP colors were and the response back was basically ‘we just like the gray and blue’ better. I suggested they rename the Historical Committee to something else since they were ignoring what was correct but (not surprising) didn’t get a response.

[Charles Duckworth]

For those that have bought the containers the gray stripe is incorrect at 4’. I’ll have the decals redone and send out a replacement set once we determine the right width. Looks to me the gray band is 3’ 6” and not 4’. Stay tuned

[Charles Duckworth]

Larry
Depending on your era you could ballast them mainline with rock and the industry spurs with a mix of cinder and dirt.

[Charles Duckworth]

Shot of the cover. Book is going to production August 6 and we are still on for printing September 2nd. [attachment=0:18y2zzzo]BF456BB1-16B2-461B-8926-7C6EC3132B43.jpeg[/attachment:18y2zzzo]

[Charles Duckworth]

Ron
Thanks for the interesting posting. Would be interesting to see how the wood chips were loaded and unloaded. Assume the doors were coopered somewhat like a grain car but I’m only speculating.

[Charles Duckworth]

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[Charles Duckworth]

I found 16 unbuilt ART reefers in St. Louis which let us put together another batch of unbuilt kits, 3D printed roof, ends and doors plus the decals. No limit this time on the number you can order.

http://mopac.org/store/models-and-decals/item/586-custom-missouri-pacific-40-flour-boxcar-kit-ho

Charlie

[Charles Duckworth]

Mike
Very impressed with your layout and the work you did on modifying the USRA light mike to a MP version.

[Charles Duckworth]

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[Charles Duckworth]

Luke
Here’s a link to TruColors paint chips https://trucolorpaint.com/color-charts/
I don’t recall what I used on the T&P modern caboose but as you can see TruColor has lots of red-orange colors to choose from.

[Charles Duckworth]

Jerry
I talked to Hubert Mask yesterday and they will start working on the new decals shortly. He hasn’t done steam locomotive decals before and was concerned about demand. I told Hubert I was getting at least two requests a month for MP steam decals. I also sent him the 1929 M-I lettering diagram so the new set will include the Missouri-Illinois which has never been done. With the M-I book pending release I can see a demand for M-I decals.

The original California Locomotive Works decals for the MP used a light gray to replicate the aluminum used by the MP.

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