Missouri Pacific Eagle

[Sokramiketes]

Back at it. Got the paint on the baggage and RPO today.
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[Sokramiketes]

Taped the doors in the get a look at the new Mopac style doors. It may not be perfectly prototypical, but it screams Mopac with the windows properly located in the stripes and the doors widened.

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[mopacaustin]

Now that's hot

[squirrelhunter]

Mike, swapping to doors is a big improvement. Your paint job on these looms really good as well. Are you planning to use PA's as power?

[Sokramiketes]

I’ve only been able to locate one PA and one E8 from BLI so far. Seems like Mopac did mix Alco and EMD but I’m no expert.

[Cajonpassfan]

Stumbled on this great pic today on Don Strack's fabulous Utah Rails site. Not a place I'd expect to see the Eagle, and a ton of other cool stuff. Looks like E7's but with funky portholes, at least in '48...
Otto

[Sokramiketes]

E7's with portholes are definitely signature MoPac. 

Also like that you've found the prototype for flex track on cork with a bumpy edge.  @Ed Kapuscinski 's Law

[Cajonpassfan]

Ha! A prototype for everything, even a shiny nose...
O.

[ncbqguy]

Mike-
Looks like you I'll be needing rework for the MP / TP cars.   
Does anyone have the stencil drawings for their extended and regular Railroad Roman characters?   Did they just use regular Pullman Company fonts?
Charlie Vlk

[DRGW5349]

See the Pullman Digital Collection
https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_pullman
https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_pullman/id/3224/rec/1
https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_pullman/id/3772/rec/1

[Sokramiketes]

See the Pullman Digital Collection
https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_pullman
https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_pullman/id/3224/rec/1
https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_pullman/id/3772/rec/1

You're a rockstar.

[Sokramiketes]

Mike-
Looks like you I'll be needing rework for the MP / TP cars.   
Does anyone have the stencil drawings for their extended and regular Railroad Roman characters?   Did they just use regular Pullman Company fonts?
Charlie Vlk

In the words of our now deceased, mutual friend and font meister... "Waiting on you, woman!"

[Sokramiketes]

Here's the Pullman font drawing.  MoPac looks extended, and certainly has a flatter bottom to the U in PULLMAN. 

https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_pullman/id/4774/rec/14

Coifman's SP Extended Roma Font 3 looks like it might be a starting point.

http://www.railfonts.com/cgi-bin/font_shop/fontshop.cgi?ACTION=enter&thispage=page8.html

[ncbqguy]

I will have to post a query on the Passenger Car List.  I haven't found enough clear broadsides to get especially the car names.  A MP or T&P stencil drawing would be the ticket.
Charlie Vlk

[squirrelhunter]

The MPHS has car lettering diagrams for some heavyweight cars (they sent me a couple on request) and I'd assume for some lightweights as well.

Early on MP used to wax or clear coat their passenger diesels, but I'm not sure when that stopped.

MP had 4 E8's and 36 various PA's, early on they ran in like sets, with the PA's using E7B's as a booster if more power was needed.  On mainline trains (Texas-St. Louis) aound the mid 50's they seem to have mixed E's and PA's indiscriminately and by 1960 or so started adding torpedo tube GP7's.

Secondary trains used F units, FPA-2's and torpedo tube GP7's from dieselization.