[Charles Duckworth]

Bill
I had a chance to buy the Eagle in Ray Curls basement from his wife. He had it mounted on wood paneling. I’d passed as the thing was nine foot across and even me as ‘serious’ Mopac collector couldn’t see displaying something so large. A retired MP engineer bought it from her for $300 and took it to the Kane County RR show that summer an turned it for over $1k. It had an odd cut out on one side for I think a door handle.

[Charles Duckworth]

Thomas
You might check out the various MP/TP/CEI covered hopper sets done by Mask Island for renumbering.

[Charles Duckworth]

Thanks

[Charles Duckworth]

Ryan
How many historical photos of the Mopac are included?

[Charles Duckworth]

Pat
The ZTS books would provide the customer names and the track layout (although not to scale). So if the name incorporated the commodity he’d have a clue what was shipped or received. Ryan was looking for 1910-1970 data and the ZTS books weren’t published at the earliest until around 1975 but that still would provide some insight to the MP served customer base.

[Charles Duckworth]

Ryan
Unless someone took one home there shouldn’t be any freight consists available. Dispatcher sheets would record a passenger train consist but not freight. The railroads were to destroy any car movement records after five years and we had station auditors and Supervisors making sure the policy was complied with. One, there generally wasn’t room to store all that paperwork, two rate sharks could only go back five years (these were individuals that would find a cheaper freight rate on a commodity and go back in history for refunds for a shipper and charge a fee or percentage) and three the lawyers didn’t want lawsuits being able to go back anymore than the five year statutes of limitation.

[Charles Duckworth]

Mrs D comment was not that supportive. Something closer to me being a little crazy.

[Charles Duckworth]

Jerry
The image of the IGN car posted has a radial roof. All the post 1926 IGN diagrams of boxcars show radial roofs as well.

[Charles Duckworth]

Bill
Here’s a divided green checkers plate (11 1/2” x 7”) with the backstamp. I guess ham and white beans in the center portion, corn bread to the left, peach cobbler upper right and collard greens in the bottom right corner.

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[Charles Duckworth]

Looks like a fun plan to operate. Can you add the track at Weingarten to the POW camp? That would allow for an interesting passenger consist of foreign line cars. I’m not sure how to incorporate the Frisco but you might consider adding their track crossing the track to the boat by the interlocking tower.

[Charles Duckworth]

Gregg
How did you include the ferry in your new layout? It does add a way to cycle cars on and off the layout.

[Charles Duckworth]

Thanks-that worked.

[Charles Duckworth]

Dusty
I can’t get the url to work; even with removing the url code in brackets.

Charlie

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Jerry
I looked in the Corporate History for 1915 and it doesn’t show as being a MP line.

[Charles Duckworth]

Bill
I agree this variation should be added to our ‘step box’ discussion as one the MP used. Having never seen a yellow top I erroneously thought the ad showing one in service was just the whim of the artist. Having been to numerous RR antique shows the last 40 years all I saw were the silver ones. Rereading this thread Bert Dockall mentions the Pullman step boxes were silver tops with yellow bottoms so perhaps the MP ‘borrowed’ the idea from seeing the Pullman versions and just reversed the color scheme. Looking again at the Timken ad I don’t recall seeing Amtrak passengers dressed like that last time I took the train.

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