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Kevin talked to Dave at Tangent and MP is to be in a later run.

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Farmington paper 10/7/1904
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Bill
Thanks for posting; interesting article. I’d not seen the DE tail signs before.

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Ryan
I have a RR Circular that outlines the standards for the uniforms and there’s a couple articles in the Missouri Pacific employee magazine from the 1920’s on the ‘new’ uniforms adapted by the railroad. I’ll look for the files tonight and scan them for you.

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Ryan
The Missouri Pacific passenger conductors basically wore the same style uniform from 1926 until the end of service in 1971. I have a uniform and cap from the 1940-50 era and will post some photos this weekend when the weather is better.

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For those who reserved the M-I books prior to August 26 they were mailed by the printer from Marceline, Missouri on September 1st. Most indications I’ve received is individuals have received their books but if you haven’t – I do have the USPS tracking numbers. You can contact me through [email protected] and I’ll provide the number.

For those who didn’t reserve a book they can still be bought through the company store. http://www.mopac.org/store/books-books-books/item/595-the-missouri-illinois-railroad

Or off eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174430365296

If you live in the Kansas City area Doc’s Caboose has our inventory of books and other merchandise and you can buy it there as well..

10 books were mailed to several magazines and state Historical societies with the September mailing so hoping we see a bump in sales through these reviews.

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Donning Publishing is located in Brookfield, Missouri on Highway 36 while I was working on the Iron Mountain book I stopped at their facility 2-3 times and met the editor and art director to discuss layout on our trips to St. Louis. Due to the coronavirus the editor was working from home and the facility understandably was closed to visitors so everything with the M-I book was by email, Dropbox or phone. I’d emailed the chapters (written in Word) to her with the file names for the photos added in with the captions. I’d initially was pasting in the images and captions but Word after a certain number of photos started to lock up and I’d lose what I’d been typing. The editor suggested I removed all the photos, which reduced the file size, and just enter the file name which took care of the computer problems.

She’d review a chapter and send back her corrections or questions in red (just like school). She had to learn quite a few RR terms the normal retired English teacher wouldn’t know (‘doubling the hill’ comes to mind). This back and forth exchange took 4-5 months going through the chapters in Word. You have to realize to I had several guys that were M-I historians feeding me information or me asking questions to them while this was going on.

I was almost finished with the book when the Missouri Pacific Historical Society bought the Collias Collection. David Huelsing had Joe Collias and Wayne Leeman’s M-I negatives scanned first and I spend another month and a half changing out photos due to the wonderful images these two gentlemen had. I made a trip to St. Louis and David and I spend an afternoon pulling negatives so I could document the dates and locations. After all and changes going to Donning I was send a printed hard copy of the book – much to my dismay the art director had cropped off most of the locomotive pilots, tenders, smoke stacks, wheels on freight cars, etc. I then pulled up each original images on my computer to see what I’d sent him and had him redo all of them. I also eliminated about 20-25 images that were poor or redundant shots to make others larger. I then got a second printed hard copy and the images had all been redone as I’d indicated. Even with this second version I had more images moved and enlarged. The third proof was a Dropbox file I could review on my computer it was fine and the page numbers were finally set in stone. This of course meant I had to reread the text and captions again and highlight words in order to build the index. Being from Missouri and coming off the Mopac I’d worked at Bismarck, Ste. Genevieve and Herculaneum while I was in the Stations Department but I’d never been on the east side of the M-I running from Kellogg to Salem so that was fun to research the new territory.

After the Iron Mountain and M-I book I think I’ve converted the plant manager into a railfan….

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Pat
I received tracking information on the review copies that were mailed out on 9/1 and it looks like several will be delivered today so they are taking the normal media mail time to get to the buyers. I know from a FB post David Huelsing sent me that a buyer in Festus got his and Jim Rose received his box of four he’d ordered. Several of us in Omaha received ours today so I’m thinking many will be delivered this week.

Media tracking doesn’t get the same details as priority mail but here’s your tracking number if you want to see what the post office has posted 9114902307224875845135.

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Mike
I told Hubert Mask not to produce the MP steam decals since Jerry already had a set available.

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Farmington Times and Herald, St. Francois Co. Missouri, June 4, 1903
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June 25 1903
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July 1903
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August 20, 1903
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Oct 1903 Farmington Newspaper
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