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Charlie’s latest book, “Selected Photographs from the Missouri Pacific Historical Society Archives” is now available for purchase. We are offering a pre-publication discount. The book should be printed and in the mail during the second half of February 2022. The cutoff date for the discount has been extended to January 31, 2022.

Member Pricing for the Book (which includes media shipping) is $55 and Non-Member price is $59. After January 31, 2022, Member Pricing (which includes media shipping) is $58 and Non-Member price is $63. An order form was included with the Winter 2022 issue of “The Eagle” magazine which is being delivered, now. The URL for purchase from our website is:

http://www.mopac.org/store/books-books-books/item/631-selected-photographs-from-the-missouri-pacific-historical-society-archives

The 160-page Publication Features over 170 High Quality Photographs from the Collections of Joe Collias, Wayne Leeman, R.S. Plummer, and others.

This is a limited edition item. There will be no reprints. Get your copy before they are all gone.

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In the Digital Image Gallery, In the Search Box at the top, type Ingles, all scanned images from the Ingles Collection will populate. You must be logged in and a member of MPHS to see the images. Jim

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When I was in the MP Management Training Program and worked at Houston in the early 1980’s, I visited a number of customers and locations where pulpwood logs were loaded on bulkhead flats. Cars had metal floors that were slanted downward to the center of the car and all steel bulkheads, they were specifically designed for the log loading. Up and down the mainline from Houston to Palestine were loaders of pulpwood, loaded destinations included paper mills in New Waverly, TX and Pasadena, TX. Locals operating out of Spring and Palestine would distribute the cars based on customers orders, most of the loading occurred on team and house tracks that had good truck access. The business declined in the late 1980’s and was pretty much over during the early 1990’s. SP ran unit trains of wood chips and pulpwood on their main line through East Texas to Pasadena through the 1990’s, the unit train operation enabled them to make a go of it longer than MP, later UP.

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