Fogg Prints - Set 1

[George Lortz]

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.

[Tim T Swan]

Beautiful enchancements, George.  Greatly appreciated!

[George Lortz]

Here is Fogg Set #2.

George L.

[Ryan Rybarczyk]

How many prints was he commissioned to do?

[George Lortz]

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.

[Ryan Rybarczyk]

Thank you George, I was going through trying to get a count.

[George Lortz]

Here is Fogg Set #4.

George L.

[George Lortz]

Here is Fogg Set #5.

George L.

[Ron Marquardt]

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

[George Lortz]

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.

[Tim T Swan]

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.

[Mike Albert]

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.

[Robert Wheeler]

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

[Tim T Swan]

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.

[Tim T Swan]

I spoke too soon.  I just now found that Knobs scan on a flash drive in my laptop case!  Here it is.