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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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

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Thanks-that worked.

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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.

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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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https://cowcatchermagazine.com/latest-book-released-by-mopac-society-highlights-the-missouri-illinois-railroad-in-the-lead-belt/

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I’m going to wait until I read a couple reviews.

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Subliminal selling of the ‘M-I’ book 👿

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The individual boards were painted with washes of various grays, browns, etc. Then picked out a few with colored pencil. I haven’t completely given up on the 1950’s.

Intermountain didn’t get enough reservations to do the FTs last time so they dropped the project. I hadn’t heard of any efforts to resurrect these.

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