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Re: [CBQ] Internet Archive IMPORTANT FIND!!!!

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Internet Archive IMPORTANT FIND!!!!
From: "Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:47:22 +1300
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Charlie

I cannot claim to have found this site - merely explored the link from the 
Early Rail Group.  For those of us outside the U.S., some of the books are 
ones from Google that we cannot download direct, such as "Freight Car 
Equipment" at  http://www.archive.org/details/freightcarequip00kruegoog

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Internet Archive IMPORTANT FIND!!!!


> Rupert has stumbled across an important find!!!!
>
> The link he cites has a digital copy of the W.W. Baldwin  Chicago, 
> Burlington And Quincy Documentary History Volume 1 Lines East of the 
> Mississippi River.
>
> So far Vols. 2 Lines West and Vol. 3 C&S & FW&D are not found.   I also 
> could not find the accompanying fold-out maps for each line in Vol.1.
>
> But this is a great and valuable find for the CB&Q Historian.
>
> Thanks Rupert!!
>
> Charlie Vlk
>
> ps-
> Also found:
> Suburban Homes Along the CB&Q
> Report to the Nebraska Board of Railroad Commissioners regarding 
> Burlington Locomotive Engineers Strike
> W.W. Baldwin testimony on Illinois Railroad Taxes
> Mines and Mining in the Black Hills
> The Burlington Strike
>
>
>
>
>  I did a quick search on the on-line Internet Archive at 
> http://www.archive.org/index.php and found several books/texts on the CB&Q 
> including a CB&Q dictionary, "The Mail Pay" (1909 text about RPO's on the 
> Q) and books on the Great Strike. There are also general railroad books, 
> as well as music, radio, podcasts, etc.
>
>  Rupert Gamlen
>  Auckland NZ


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