[Charles Duckworth]

Gene
Thanks for posting. Notice the truss rod across the ends.

[Charles Duckworth]

You should include the titles and condition of the books. Since this is your first post can you provide your name and address?

[Charles Duckworth]

Ron
I agree that the steel rebuilds would have received AB brakes so they could be interchanged during their shoppings. I scanned the 1958 MP freight car assignments and 15 of the 120000 wood boxcars were in service to/from Mexico hauling an ore. Here’s the url to the document. http://mopac.org/archives/freight-operations/29-mopac-july-1-1958-freight-car-roster-and-assignments
The MP certainly got a lot of use out of the 120000 series cars, LCL cabooses, caboose underframes, MoW tool cars and the Eagle Merchandise cars. Would make for an interesting article for the Eagle.

[Charles Duckworth]

Jeff
Here’s several doghouse images that I copied from the MISSouri Pacific Historical Society Collias and Leeman collection. These provide the roof angle and interior details. Looking forward to seeing how the 3D part comes out. If you click on each image they’ll be sharper. Obviously the roof angle in the 3D drawing needs to be adjusted to more of a curve. I learned years ago there was a doghouse sitting on the ground in the 12th St Louis yards. Unfortunately no one seemed to take photos or measurements.

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[Charles Duckworth]

Jeff
There’s dimensions in this thread and if you search on doghouse on this site there’s a prototype photo from 5/21/2018 I posted.

[Charles Duckworth]

Bill
The white cover TT was the review copy before they went to press. I had the instructions added to the timetable on how conductors were to fill out their work orders or had added rules that made them responsible for completing their work orders and was provided a TT with a white cover for review of the final proof. Charlie Baldwin was our Rules and Safety Superintendent who’s name is on the cover

Charlie

[Charles Duckworth]

Who would have thought we’d see KO&G GP7’s coming. Here’s a link for suggestions to Athearn https://www.athearn.com/About/Contact.aspx

Ask them to also consider doing a KO&G International caboose based on their new caboose model.

[Charles Duckworth]

The images at Sikeston were taken by Wayne Leeman, a Post-Dispatch reporter/photographer. I used several of Wayne’s images in the book besides the Sikeston series. He rode a transfer run across MacArthur Bridge, shot helper service from 23rd Street yard to Valley Park in the 1940’s, documented the coal fields and local on the Mount Vernon Branch plus other great scenes. After Wayne retired he gave his railroad negatives to Joe.

[Charles Duckworth]

I probably took this is 1978. I seem to recall the factory being a billard table manufacturer. Hence the 8 ball.

[Charles Duckworth]

I probably took this is 1978. I seem to recall the factory being a billard table manufacturer. Hence the 8 ball.

[Charles Duckworth]

Not yet since the book won’t be available until early 2022.

[Charles Duckworth]

@[email protected] wrote:

Thank you for the warm welcome Charlie and Jerry!

Pat, I think you might be right. I’ve got a little space that may be right for something like what you have. We’ll see what I can come up with. Thanks for the inspiration!

Jeff
You might look at the ‘free-mo’ concept. You can built a section at a time and add to the layout as you get room. One of the most time consuming parts (switching) on my layout is Russellville where there’s only an industry siding with a Kent feed mill and grain elevator and a spur into a lumber yard. http://www.free-mo.org/standard/

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[Charles Duckworth]

Yes, the hopper with the bracing was built in 1943 with wood sides. Martin Lofton did an article in RMC were he converted a C&O brass hopper to a MP version. While the two bay war emergency hoppers were done by Proto 2000 the three bays weren’t.

[Charles Duckworth]

The book is at the publisher and the editor asked last week about the cover, paper, etc. It will have the same type of hardbound cover as the M-I book and a semi-gloss finish to the pages to better pull out the details in the images. This book will be landscape to better display the photos. Initially we’d hope the book would be ready by Christmas but COVID has affected the paper supply as it’s done with other products and it looks like a January or February printing. As with the M-I book the pre-payments will be shipped directly from the publisher. Here’s three images from the book. [attachment=2:208y3vb4]2D45EE3C-BD15-44C1-8204-52585B40B039.jpeg[/attachment:208y3vb4][attachment=1:208y3vb4]2A29A497-6432-41DD-9905-34B92FBA3D69.jpeg[/attachment:208y3vb4][attachment=0:208y3vb4]72DD4864-22C8-4D21-823F-90148564B94D.jpeg[/attachment:208y3vb4]

[Charles Duckworth]

Jeff
Welcome to the board. There’s lots of ‘great’ HO Mopac models around. The Missouri Pacific Historical Society company store is a resource for accurate models. If you have any questions just ask.

Great reading about your chemo treatments working so well.

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