... had black and white heralds. I don't believe there was intermixing of slogan versus heralds on any of the series, they all had either the slogan or herald....
Don, Were cars 4922 and 4975 all wood cars? Did they have steel roofs and ends or just steel roofs? Tom [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Thomas Baker
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Jul 1, 2007 12:25 pm
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I don't know if there would be any correspondence in the AFEs as to what the railroad wanted on the car side. I'm sure they were given the opportunity to...
... The question I posed in ... had "The Peoria ... same time period ... color herald on them. I ... than the obvious one - ... I'm afraid I do not have an...
There are no AFEs relating to leased equipment. What a pity! AFEs relate ONLY to capital expenditures, either plus or minus. Leases don't change the overall...
ICC Valuation Reports U. S. Congress in 1913 passed the Valuation Act to find out just how much the railroads had actually invested in their physical plants....
Tom- "M. Price" would be Merrill "Sonny" Price. He was a very good friend of Jim Sands. Although Jim passed away last year, his photos are still uploaded. I...
Tom, I have those photos on my computer. Ken is correct, Merrill is still around, not as active on the list at this time. I believe a lot of Merrill's photos...
Doug, Does this mean these maps are better than the Sanborn maps? Would the interurbans and trollys been required too file ICC valuations too? John Bandstra ...
Doug and I have discussed the Valuation Reports a couple of times and we agree that they are of immense value. I should add that the railroads were required to...
This was posted on the Rock Island yahoo chat site. I advised them of the former M&STL 546 at the Museum of Transport, if still there. I think we should, (in...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mstl group. File : /ICC Valuation/ICC...
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Jul 2, 2007 12:44 pm
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John, short answer Yes, as the maps were sometimes actual RR maps. Now for a longer answer. For example the last time I was there, I found original Iowa...
"Minneapolis & St. Louis - 40ft Gondola Series #30001-30499 (Odd Only), Built 1947, GATC" Rev Harding mentioned these Greg Komar dry transfers in response to ...
Tom I have put 5 gon photos, including the ones you wanted, in MJPrice's MSTL photo album. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org No virus found in this outgoing...
Having just now been able to get to a computer, I would like to echo Doug's sentiments about Saturday's trip in NW, Iowa. Although most of what we saw was in...
Yahoo is giving me fits trying to load the gon images this morning. I will try later. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org No virus found in this outgoing...
... "move 546 back t the state of Iowa where she belongs in proper M&STL colors" Ahem...... Lest we forget (again), M&StL is also rumored to have had a...
Doug and John, I should add that the C&NWHS does have some M&StL Valuation maps. We have some odd ones that were apparently saved by the C&NW when they were...
Doug, I went to Sweetland with the late Vaughn Ward quite a few years ago now. Apparently, what was at Sweetland is now at College Park, right? Vaughn looked...
Thomas Baker
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Jul 2, 2007 5:00 pm
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... <snip>> ... Louis - 40ft ... Lettering Of ... but may ... decals for N ... taking on ... I did the art work for Greg's dry transfers and Greg re-sized...
Tom, yes all the ICC Valuation materials were moved to College Park from Suitland when the new NARA building was built. The research room is far better...
Tom and others, I finally loaded the photos I have of M&StL gons. Yahoo did not like the jpg's I had, nor did Photoshop. Had to use a Microsoft program and...
Yep, those are exactly the ones I had in mind. I especially like the photo of 30271 with the doors open. When I get a chance, it should be interesting to...
What does the Estherville MSTL engine house look like? How many stalls, etc.? Ya didn't find the old RI by accident, did ya? (grins) John ... M&StL "walk" day....
Well, I went back to Abingdon today, with a little more time to wander around. I found the old M&STL ROW coming in from the east (now a tree line leading from...
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