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Posted 22 September 2022 - 08:27 PM

An image found at The Historical Society of Missouri.

Love those portholes!

Attached File  MoPac E6.jpg (1.48MB)
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A couple of inside shots of "The Eagle"

Attached File  Missouri Pacific 'Eagle' Dining Car.jpg (1.23MB)
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Attached File  Missouri Pacific 'Eagle' Observation Car.jpg (1.33MB)
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Posted 23 September 2022 - 06:04 AM

Hello Tim,

a nice picture of a great locomotive.

On my PC the E6 is still in work:

https://up.picr.de/40482229ke.png

Cheers
Arnold

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Posted 23 September 2022 - 01:36 PM

Nice, Arnold!

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Posted 23 September 2022 - 06:38 PM

Thanks for all the recent pictures of EMD E's --- love em!!! They were works of art, exterior and interiors.


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Posted 24 September 2022 - 06:13 AM

View PostR H Steele, on 23 September 2022 - 06:38 PM, said:

Thanks for all the recent pictures of EMD E's --- love em!!! They were works of art, exterior and interiors.

You are most welcome, it's a pleasure to share these finds with others who appreciate them as much as myself.

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Posted 24 September 2022 - 07:58 AM

Just to nitpick....

In naval circles Portholes are rectangular, the round ones are Scuttles.

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Posted 24 September 2022 - 09:42 AM

View Postkeystoneaholic, on 24 September 2022 - 07:58 AM, said:

Just to nitpick....

In naval circles Portholes are rectangular, the round ones are Scuttles.

:oldstry:

That's interesting, wanting more I looked at word derivations and found the following:

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scuttle (v.2)"cut a hole in the bottom or sides of a ship," especially to sink it, 1640s, from skottell (n.) "small, square hatchway or opening in a ship's deck" (late 15c.), from French escoutille (Modern French écoutille) or directly from Spanish escotilla "hatchway," diminutive of escota "opening in a garment," from escotar "cut (clothes to fit), cut out." This is perhaps from e- "out" (see ex-) + a word borrowed from a Germanic language (ultimately from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut"). Figurative sense of "deliberately sink or destroy one's own effort or project" is by 1888. Related: Scuttled; scuttling.

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scuttlebutt (.n)
also scuttle-butt, 1805, "cask of drinking water kept on a ship's deck, having a hole (scuttle) cut in it for a cup or dipper," from scuttle "opening in a ship's deck" (see scuttle (v.2)) + butt (n.2) "barrel." Earlier scuttle cask (1777). The slang meaning "rumor, gossip" is recorded by 1901, traditionally said to be from the sailors' custom of gathering around the scuttlebutt to gossip while at sea. Compare water-cooler, figurative for "workplace gossip" in mid-20c.


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Posted 24 September 2022 - 09:10 PM

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Posted 25 September 2022 - 08:17 AM

Wow. That sculpture blows my mind. Incredible.

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Posted 25 September 2022 - 08:42 AM

Is that what they mean by "scuttle"?
Looks like a bad time.

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