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Ha!
I should have known — this publication still exists. It’s published quarterly, which was probably true in the 1920s also. Was and is published by the same company who produced the ORER and the Official Guide, which of course also still exist.
I also did a quick search on eBay, and there are a lot of recent ones from the 1960s to 1990s, (which are still labeled as ‘vintage’ by some of the sellers), but not any earlier than 1936 or 1937. If he had a long career, he might actually be in one of those.
RG7
The title ‘chief engineer’ pretty much always means someone in engineering, not someone in engine service. It’s not used much any more, being more commonly replaced with titles like ‘engineering manager’ or similar. At that time, the different branches of engineering were not so differentiated, so he could have been responsible for all kinds of different engineering work. For that matter, about being stuck in Nebraska, he could have just been there or routine business when that blizzard shut things down.
I would also note that there were and are so many people of German ancestry in St. Louis and downstate Missouri along the river that a guy named Ehrlich would be quite plausible. There was a publication called ‘Pocket List of Railroad Officials’ which listed all the significant officers and contacts for every North American railroad, and if he was a chief engineer, he’d probably be in it if could come up with one for the right timeframe.
RG7
Two years ago, I sent Bill a photo of the Piqua depot and he said, that’s MoPac style A standard depot plan, or words to that effect.
This depot still exists, it was on the Ft. Scott – Wichita line.
RG7
On a somewhat related note, I have been seeing the MPHS donation option appearing recently on my PayPal transactions.
RG7
Note that this photo shows container G105 being loaded. It has a fairly simple paint scheme with one panel on the side carrying a buzzsaw. Note also that there’s an additional view, perhaps MoPac publicity, that appears to be the same photo, still with the number G105 on the front, with a quite different paint scheme that appears to be retouched.
I’m wondering if the paint scheme with the larger lettering panel and the ‘Truck-Rail Service’ slogan was designed after the first few containers were built and the PR department wanted to include that in the materials they published.
Ron Merrick
Gene:
I have more data that might fit with what you have. I’ll send some offline but I might have some photos I can post here.
RG7
That was really especially interesting to me, since my company owned St. Joe Lead for a few years. Massey Coal was involved somehow also. The intent was to have a steady producer of cash to balance out the, um, cyclical nature of engineering and construction. It soon became pretty obvious that this investment was going to cost more than it was worth, so we got out of it and turned it over to somebody more familiar with the risks of that business. All in all, I’d say that we got out while the getting was good.
Back to railroading, now I know why those M-I boxcars didn’t get out much, if they were shuttling back and forth carrying pig lead.
RG7
March 11, 2019 at 1:46 am in reply to: Sunshine Special state flowers plate with Texas at 12 o’clock #9323Mine has no date code, and with Missouri at the top. Found it at an antique store somewhere around Johnson City, Texas, probably twenty years ago.
Incidentally, there seems to have been a rash of these on eBay recently, for not-outrageous prices.
RG7
I had to figure out why this didn’t add up.
Now I think I got it, Tangent added nine new schemes to the recent releases which hadn’t completely sold out yet, with CEI among the previous releases and still available. It’s only of academic interest to me, since these cars were first built after the change to low brakewheel / no roofwalk on house cars, which marks the end of my era.
Still, I’m hoping for more low-side 4427s or more early Center-Flow, which included at least one lot built with TP reporting marks. At least there is an announced Athearn Center-Flow in UP paint, from back when UP was an honorary Kansas railroad.
RG7
Pat:
I hope you have some eight rung ladders. I don’t think there were every any of this size car with six rung ladders.
The eight rung ladders are each on a little sprue by themselves, one for the end ladders and one for the side ladders. You can tell them apart because the end ladders are narrower. Those are the ones you want.
RG7
Wow, that’s great. I was just thinking about these the other day when I ran across some photos somewhere.
You don’t happen to know what truck that is, with the three outside springs? I know of a Kadee 70-ton one with friction bearings, but I need one like this for a project I’m working on. Have to see if it works, first.
RG7
Answering my own question:
There’ a British railway enthusiast site http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/cranes/steamcranes02.htm
that seems to have status on many, if not all, surviving steam cranes in North America.Here’s what it has to say about this MoPac crane.
North Freedom
Mid-Continent Railway Historical SocietyIndustrial Works C/N 2927 120 tons Wrecker Steam 1914
St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern #Z-8
Missouri Pacific RR #X-105 1928
M-CRHS 1967
http://www.midcontinent.org/collectn/service/mpx105.html
(Sold for scrap 2nd May 2015)There was another 18 ton crane also sold for scrap, same day. There is a surviving Soo Line 60 ton crane here.
So I suppose I missed my chance.
RG7
Really wild guess: Hardtner.
RG7
There are four pages on this class (1801-1819) in Collias’ Mopac Power. For others who might be curious, they were built as hill power for the Tip Top grade in 1901-03 but ended up in various other places where there were grades but not that much need for speed. Atchison and the grade up out of the Missouri River valley is one.
There exists a set of MoPac steam locomotive diagrams somewhere, but I don’t know if it has ever been widely published.
RG7
In theory, you could combine a Sunshine MP gon with somebody’s plastic gondola drop ends. Tangent comes to mind, if you don’t mind cutting up a one-piece body. Spare body castings and drop ends are actually available on the Tangent website under the ACF welded gon page.
I would note that the Sunshine kit is a ‘one-piece’ where sides and ends are cast together, so in effect you’d have to turn it back into a flat kit.
So, in short, I’m not crazy enough, or maybe to be polite one could say I don’t have that much modeling time, for me to take on one of these.
RG7
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