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I’d not seen any of these show up before your posting and have to think they are fakes. I recall as a youngster of 9 or 10 I remember mom ordered coffee in a coach and the little glass creamer had a red buzz saw. This would have been in the late 1950’s.peggyrothschildParticipantKevin Love will contact you on how to order the magazine. Horace would be an interesting ‘town’ to model. In 1978 there was the depot, a YMCA to house the crews laying over, a railroad cafe, the large grain elevator and a few houses.
peggyrothschildParticipantThere was a local between Hoisington and Horace that switched the local industries. Also the KP (Kansas City – Pueblo) and its counterpart the PK that were called the ‘long-barrel’ locals.
peggyrothschildParticipantJohn
I believe The Eagle magazine from Fall 2007 has an article I wrote on riding the Hoisington to Horace local. I included 1978 ZTS maps that showed the various customers in each town which may help with your layout design.peggyrothschildParticipantPat
Hopefully this may help. As to roofs in later years I’d suggest gray shingles.
http://www.mopac.org/archives/bridges-and-buildings/20-mopac-building-paint-standards-1910-1982peggyrothschildParticipantPat
What I read is the Dupo city fathers decided they didn’t have room for the entire locomotive and tender to display so they asked the railroad for the front area. I wish the Mopac would have shopped around for a town that would have kept the display intact as you’d think Sedalia or North Little Rock would have been happy to have a reminder of the steam days.peggyrothschildParticipantIf you have the Condensed Profile for this area or an employee timetable it will show where the water tanks were placed and you can determine the mileage between each. The ‘unknown’ factor is how much water was remaining in the tender when additional water was added. There are several period steam locomotive manuals that provide detailed statics on water usage; do a Google search on the ‘book’ area and you’ll see several examples.
peggyrothschildParticipantWhile I don’t model passenger trains this has been on the MP/TP modelers ‘want list’ for 30+ years. At one time there was a resin porthole insert option offered where the modeler took a Model Power E-7 and carved out the side panels and inserted the porthole insert. Difficult to do without having to use putty and not lose rivets on the model. Were you thinking of an entire new carbody?
peggyrothschildParticipantNo idea but it came from a Mopac employee
peggyrothschildParticipantRon
I was part of the MP-UP merger team in Kansas. Under the agreement where there were both railroads in a town or city the agreement specifically laid out what road would remain and take over the customer base. At Salina the MP agency was taken over by the UP. The Salina agency or CSC was open until 1985-86 until we’d contacted all the former MP customers that they now would call the UP in Salina for conducting business. So no, the MP never moved into the UP facility.peggyrothschildParticipantJim
What’s the earliest way to find these that you need help with? Is there a particular search one can use?peggyrothschildParticipantGene
Thanks for posting. Notice the truss rod across the ends.peggyrothschildParticipantYou should include the titles and condition of the books. Since this is your first post can you provide your name and address?
peggyrothschildParticipantRon
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.peggyrothschildParticipantJeff
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.[attachment=6:agr7scyn]821A66F9-6AD2-4BD8-A327-1F8BB0343058.jpeg[/attachment:agr7scyn][attachment=5:agr7scyn]C121856C-13B6-42EB-8419-AFF51FB67A91.jpeg[/attachment:agr7scyn][attachment=4:agr7scyn]DB92F239-E8A0-4826-A734-EA1AC4BBF60C.jpeg[/attachment:agr7scyn][attachment=3:agr7scyn]4F445B47-3DEA-46C0-878C-2AD2635448AF.jpeg[/attachment:agr7scyn][attachment=2:agr7scyn]91A759B3-DC73-48BB-AB46-651558602793.jpeg[/attachment:agr7scyn][attachment=1:agr7scyn]9990D335-EE74-4DAB-AF6C-7C074149634F.jpeg[/attachment:agr7scyn][attachment=0:agr7scyn]9B30B68A-5E92-43E2-9D84-FAA348089E7D.jpeg[/attachment:agr7scyn]
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