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Here’s a couple photos from Art Johnson at the Wichita station; the Pullman ‘Gunnison River’ is a 6-6-4 built in 1941 and the heavyweight is a RPO-Baggage car that’s been ‘Eagleized’ with a round roof and skirting around the ends and between the trucks. Note both cars are coupled to heavyweight coaches.
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Dennis
Welcome to the Missouri Pacific Historical Society. Look over the bulletin board there’s lots of topics you maybe interested in. Looking forward to meeting you at a future annual meet.

Charlie

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Few shots of the Mask Island decals in the F&C 45’ gondolas and Chad Boas 50’ Mopac flatcar. [attachment=3:1ubkc487]F3589FB5-556D-4399-B855-339B55C7A41F.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487][attachment=2:1ubkc487]2A9A5CC7-F9DA-45F4-9D88-8077F72E982C.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487][attachment=1:1ubkc487]3CD3D6DB-3468-456A-AA5A-0AB6521EFE0B.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487][attachment=0:1ubkc487]44AEDA43-F9B7-4A4E-9269-6604A79235D0.jpeg[/attachment:1ubkc487]

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Here’s a color image of the MFA shield (I have my wife’s grandfather’s MFA member sign in the garage). The white stripes on the tank car appear to wider than the red ones and on this shield they are equal. At least you have something to work with. [attachment=0:3j01sgeq]2C4D699F-64D8-4DD0-BAB9-66EF482DC657.jpeg[/attachment:3j01sgeq]

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Jerry
Missouri Farmers Association; had feed mills and general stores all over rural Missouri. Also sold motor oil and had gas pumps with the stores. I’d not see a tankcar with their logo before. Back in the 1950’s and earlier farmers could take eggs to the MFA Exchange and trade for items in the stores. Obviously the destinations for these would have only been Missouri towns would be interesting to know where the oil and gas originated from.

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I had the side panel decals redone and want to mail out replacements. Please email me at [email protected] and let me know how many containers you bought and provide your address. The rest of the decal sheet is good just the panel was too wide. The correct width should be 2′ 9″ not 4′ as I was originally told. 🙄

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While researching the ferry chapter there was only one incident recorded where a couple gons were pushed off the back of the boat and one time a Conductor mis-stepped and landed in the river. He was fished out but not sure about the gons.

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View of the Ste. Genevieve taken from the idler car.

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Oil fields at Selmaville, Illinois

From the book; “There was no town or store here; rail facilities in 1930 consisted of a short spur and a station sign. By November 1937 the Adams Oil and Gas Company had discovered oil northwest of Centralia and by June 1938 the Texas Oil Company discovered another oil field between Centralia and Salem. In 1939, ninety-three million barrels of oil were pumped from Marion County’s farmland. At the time producers were selling oil for fifty cents a barrel. During the oil boom switch engines were assigned to both Centralia and Salem to switch the oil fields including five refineries. Major operators in the Salem fields were Texas Oil, Magnolia, Ohio, Phillips Petroleum, and Sinclair.”

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There’s more posted. The buzz saw version, T&P diamond and C&EI. Eagle logo coming next.

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18 more just listed.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174399662147

T&P diamond and C&EI buzz saw too.

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Eric Davies
I’m just wondering if you’ve read these responses and if they have been on any help with your initial question. Several of us have taken time to provide links to images and other information on the ferry operations you asked about.

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Gregg
Can you post the images here as well?

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Railfan magazine had an article titled ‘Mopac’s Navy’ in November 1982. There were lots of photos and information. Quick search on eBay shows several available for sale.

Here’s a few images with captions.
http://rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=46538

Unfortunately the captions on the service going to the ICG are incorrect. When the MP filed for abandonment cars were given to Midsouth at Alexandria, Louisiana and they took the cars to Natchez where they were given back to the MP. The MP retained a switch engine and crew to switch International Paper and a couple other industries. The Ste Genevieve barge was in bad shape and needed costly repairs (I recall that the hull was thin in places). The west side incline was abandoned first and a few days later the east incline was abandoned effectively ending the last Mopac ferry operations. Once the Midsouth arrangement was inplace the ferry was scrapped.

Midsouth was purposely not shown on the waybills or in the route as they’d been party to the road haul rates but they received a fix amount for each load and empty moved in both directions.

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With the current issues at the Post Office don’t be too slow in mailing in a check or money order if that’s how you want to pay for the book. Donning is only going to do one single mailing on September 2nd and then the books will go into storage until we pick them up or have then shipped to KC.

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