Griff Murphey posted:Yes that's the Collias book, it's pretty much the bible. There is one other which is less useful and I have it .... Has "Oxcarts" in the titlle, I think it's "Oxcarts to Eagles". Edward DeGolyer of Dallas endowed the DeGolyer library in Dallas at SMU. They are a source for reference but it's been many years since I have contacted them. In the snail mail days of the 70's I received some plans from them of cars, at that time I was stationed on Okinawa and built an HO 5 car passenger train from those beautiful LaBelle kits... I was also "planning" a lot of HO loco conversions. It was a small road - 70 2-10-4s SOUND impressive but NYC ordered locos by the hundreds. Most Texans took it for granted and not enough photos were taken. Bobbye Hall made several types in HO which are very nice.
The DeGolyer family was quite wealthy, Edward was a great rail fan and I used to run into him often at Hall's Hobby Shop when I was at Baylor Dental '71-'74. Fine man.
Do you mean Everett Lee DeGolyer, Jr.? His son is a member of the Austin Tinplate Trackers.
