[Charles Duckworth]

Mark
I looked at the caption in the book and it was corrected at some point to read southbound to Poplar Bluff so we’re good.

[Charles Duckworth]

Here’s an aerial very from the MISSouri Pacific Historical Society archives that may help get you started. [attachment=0:3ap0tgvh]42B57A02-AF47-438B-AF94-FE00B89E59F1.jpeg[/attachment:3ap0tgvh]

[Charles Duckworth]

Can someone post a review of this book? How does it compare to the previous color books by Morning Sun? There’s Missouri Pacific in Color Volumes 1 and 2 by Jim Boyd and Joe Collias’s Mopac in Color.

[Charles Duckworth]

There was one on eBay a month or so back and I missed it.
I tried doing a search on sold auctions and it’s not coming up. One would have to think there would be lots of these around like the Sunny Mead dairy 1/2 pint we see.

There’s a set of two on eBay now but the buzz saw logo is black – I only recall a red buzz saw being used.

[Charles Duckworth]

Bill
I’d not seen any of these show up before your posting and have to think they are fakes. I recall as a youngster of 9 or 10 I remember mom ordered coffee in a coach and the little glass creamer had a red buzz saw. This would have been in the late 1950’s.

[Charles Duckworth]

Kevin Love will contact you on how to order the magazine. Horace would be an interesting ‘town’ to model. In 1978 there was the depot, a YMCA to house the crews laying over, a railroad cafe, the large grain elevator and a few houses.

[Charles Duckworth]

There was a local between Hoisington and Horace that switched the local industries. Also the KP (Kansas City – Pueblo) and its counterpart the PK that were called the ‘long-barrel’ locals.

[Charles Duckworth]

John
I believe The Eagle magazine from Fall 2007 has an article I wrote on riding the Hoisington to Horace local. I included 1978 ZTS maps that showed the various customers in each town which may help with your layout design.

[Charles Duckworth]

Pat
Hopefully this may help. As to roofs in later years I’d suggest gray shingles.
http://www.mopac.org/archives/bridges-and-buildings/20-mopac-building-paint-standards-1910-1982

[Charles Duckworth]

Pat
What I read is the Dupo city fathers decided they didn’t have room for the entire locomotive and tender to display so they asked the railroad for the front area. I wish the Mopac would have shopped around for a town that would have kept the display intact as you’d think Sedalia or North Little Rock would have been happy to have a reminder of the steam days.

[Charles Duckworth]

If you have the Condensed Profile for this area or an employee timetable it will show where the water tanks were placed and you can determine the mileage between each. The ‘unknown’ factor is how much water was remaining in the tender when additional water was added. There are several period steam locomotive manuals that provide detailed statics on water usage; do a Google search on the ‘book’ area and you’ll see several examples.

[Charles Duckworth]

While I don’t model passenger trains this has been on the MP/TP modelers ‘want list’ for 30+ years. At one time there was a resin porthole insert option offered where the modeler took a Model Power E-7 and carved out the side panels and inserted the porthole insert. Difficult to do without having to use putty and not lose rivets on the model. Were you thinking of an entire new carbody?

[Charles Duckworth]

No idea but it came from a Mopac employee

[Charles Duckworth]

Ron
I was part of the MP-UP merger team in Kansas. Under the agreement where there were both railroads in a town or city the agreement specifically laid out what road would remain and take over the customer base. At Salina the MP agency was taken over by the UP. The Salina agency or CSC was open until 1985-86 until we’d contacted all the former MP customers that they now would call the UP in Salina for conducting business. So no, the MP never moved into the UP facility.

[Charles Duckworth]

Jim
What’s the earliest way to find these that you need help with? Is there a particular search one can use?

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