[RITSlist] Fwd: Rock Island pearl train art

[Dick Tinder]

List Ones,

Please reply to Tom Mather at:  Ibmorgus at aol.com

Tom,

I've forwarded your message to the email list of the Rock Island  
Technical Society.  I believe you can get some answers to your  
questions from list members.

Regards,

DT

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ibmorgus at aol.com
> Date: May 7, 2008 12:48:33 PM CDT
> To: tinder at storm.simpson.edu
> Subject: Rock Island pearl train art
>
> Dick:
>        I have acquired a print of a "Great Rock Island Route" pearl  
> train and I am looking for more information about these original  
> works of art.  Your website has a nice two page write-up, but I  
> have a few additional questions that perhaps you or someone you  
> know could answer.  Any help would be appreciated.  I plan to make  
> a short presentation at our Gulf Coast Chapter of the NRHS this month.
>        I assume that some of these were given to corporate  
> customers and maybe Railroad corporate officers.  I know that some  
> were in corporate offices in Kansas City and Houston.  One was sold  
> in Houston at bankruptcy for $11,000.
>        If 15 originals were made, was each one of a different  
> locomotive and car set?
> My picture is of a 4-4-2 with tender #1302 and six cars, while that  
> described in your write-up is of "Engine and tender #1101" and five  
> cars.
>        Were each these paintings of a famous named passenger train  
> of the Rock Island?  Were the locomotives always facing in the same  
> direction?  The picture on your website and the one that I have are  
> pulling the train from right to left, as though they are heading west.
>        What was the length, height, thickness, and weight of these  
> originals?
>        If you can provide any help or suggest someone who might it  
> would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for any help that you can  
> provide.  Tom Mather, Houston, Texas
>