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General Monon Discussions and Questions => Question and Answers (Q&A) => Topic started by: George Lortz on March 12, 2013, 12:03:57 pm
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Since there has been some interest in the Fogg postcards, I will send some enhanced versions of the 21 cards I have accumulated.
I can only attach four in one Board message, so here is Set #1.
George L.
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Beautiful enchancements, George. Greatly appreciated!
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Here is Fogg Set #2.
George L.
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How many prints was he commissioned to do?
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Ryan,
I don't have an exact number, but I have 21 different ones. He did one set which was released as a set of postcards. Others he seemed to do almost on a random basis. There may be more than 21 total.
Here is Fogg Set #3.
George L.
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Thank you George, I was going through trying to get a count.
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Here is Fogg Set #4.
George L.
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Here is Fogg Set #5.
George L.
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Some comments on the chronology of the Fogg prints. Obviously the 1947 centennial prints were done some years earlier than the C628 print. Also, the Hoosier Belle print predated the dedication of the actual Hoosier Belle train, because I've seen a photo of John Barriger at the dedication, and he's holding Howard Fogg's Hoosier Belle painting in front of the actual locomotive. / Ron
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Okay, folks. I hope you can take advantage of my posting the enhanced versions of the Fogg prints. Here's the 21st and last Fogg print that I have found.
George L.
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Thanks so much, George. Beautiful!
Years ago I saw one of the full-size prints of the Limedale scene. The RS2 in it did NOT have a red MONON on its nose. Somebody added in the red for the postcard version. Presumably all those red MONON's in the other scenes were likewise added in for the postcards versions.
The "Mononette" scene depicts South Hammond, according to the late Cookie Eberhard. That certainly does look like the SH yard office on the left. I believe Cookie also said that the other one you've labeled "McDoel" is also South Hammond.
Does anybody know of any evidence that would confirm names like "Mononette", "Ben Hur", or "Lew Wallace"? Or were they simply figments in the imaginations of somebody in MONON's advertising/publicity offices? We already know that the name "Hoosier Belle" actually was briefly applied to RS2 #21 (though not in the manner depicted by Fogg). And that the moniker "Lost River Viaduct" they applied to the Paoli Trestle scene was incorrect.
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Years ago, in the Hoosier Line, there was an article about Howard Fogg. He painted the Limedale picture and JWB wanted to give some other "originals" away for public relations. Howard Fogg painted duplicates, so there were differences between pictures and that was probably one of the diffenences.
The Monon had some of the 70 class freights named Lew Wallace, Ben Hur, etc. I don't remember which name went to which train.
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I have seen a, booklet dated October, 1949 at WHQ that has names of freight trains on several if not all railroads.
Exerpts heve been postd in a the Freight Trains section under the title Freight Train Nicknames c1949
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George, I have on my home computer a scan of another Fogg MONON painting, one depicting an F3 A-B set hauling a freight up over the Knobs. If nobody else can post that one, I will post it when I return home in several weeks time.
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I spoke too soon. I just now found that Knobs scan on a flash drive in my laptop case! Here it is.
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Tim
Can you make a HIGH resolution scan of that and email it to me please.
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Great find, Tim. That makes 22. I've never seen that one before. Does anyone know of any other Fogg prints of the Monon?
George L.
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That is a new one on me too Tim. Thanks for posting it. Might have to adapt that one into a decktop background like I have done a couple of the other ones, like pictured.
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I have the good fortune to have a 15x20 inch print of 'The Thoroughbred' hanging on the wall of my family room, thanks to a friend of my in-laws who gave it to me when he moved into a retirement home.
Mark J