There is a notable omission. There are no listings for
Class O-1A's. Otherwise, very good work!
--- Jan Kohl <kohlj@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Ok, everyone...we finally finished our
> project...taking the information
> from Bernard Corbin's book and putting it all into
> excel spreadsheet
> format. Now you can not only easily see the
> information that was in
> tables at the back of the book, but you can sort and
> view on any type of
> information you want...how many locomotives were
> built by Burlington
> shops? Which locomotives were in Hannibal in 1953?
> How may A-1s were
> built?
>
> Go to http://www.burlingtonroute.com > rosters and
> you'll find it. Enjoy!
>
> The readme follows:
>
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> Information
> -----------
> This zip contains Excel spreadsheets of Chicago,
> Burlington & Quincy
> steam locomotives, including FW&D and C&S. We
> wanted to have the
> ability to sort and find information on Q steam
> locomotives, but most of
> the information was encapsuled in older books. We
> wanted a resource
> that was easily accessible by everyone, as well as
> sort-able and easy to
> read.
>
> Most of the information comes from Bernard Corbin's
> book, Steam
> Locomotives of the Burlington Route. This is a very
> good resource, and
> has detailed information about most of the Q
> locomotives. We've
> combined several tables in that book into several
> comprehensive lists.
>
> The CBQ_locomotive_long list is a complete listing
> of all classes in one
> huge list. This will help someone who may not know
> the details of a
> specific locomotive, so they can sort the entire
> list and maybe find
> what they are looking for.
>
> The CBQ_locomotive_paged list is for those who know
> what class or wheel
> arrangement the locomotive they are looking up has,
> and is broken out by
> class/wheel arrangment.
>
> Date of this release
> --------------------
> July 25, 2005
>
> Credits
> -------
> Bernard Corbin & his long work at bringing railroad
> photography and
> information to thousands of people, years after he
> has moved on past
> that Final Stop.
>
> Special thanks to these people who worked hard to
> make this list a reality:
> Greg Koon, Ray Bedard, Tom Koch, Dan Hollis, Rob
> Adams, Richard
> Morgan-Fine, Rodney Masten, Glen Haug and Jan Kohl.
> Very special thanks to Rupert Gamlen who did some
> major work in
> compiling the lists and error checking.
>
>
>
> Notes & Disclaimers
> -------------------
> Please note that this list is for NON-COMMERCIAL USE
> ONLY! That means
> you cannot sell this list or use it to sell
> something. If you wish to
> distribute this release further, you may do so, but
> you must distribute
> it exactly as you got it: inside this zip file with
> the readme included.
>
> If anyone has further updates or corrections, please
> post them on the
> CB&Q Yahoo
> Group...http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cbq/. Please
> note that
> there is a blank list included for other groups who
> would like to create
> a similar list of their railroad's locomotives.
>
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>
> Cheers!
>
> Jan
>
>
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