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From: Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:24:00 -0500
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You are correct - I spoke to Mr. garrett on the phone shortly after the book 
came out and encouraged him to do an expanded article for BRHS Zephyr re: his 
experiences with REA serving CB&Q stations in SD & WY.  When I mentioned the 
book title in my 'post', I was @ work so did not have it in front of me.  Great 
guy especially when one considers he's in his 90's and went from being a helper 
with REA to a top corporate job right up to the time REA dissolved.  He has so 
many good stories of his times working with Burlington depot agents, even 
getting Q engineers to spot trains to make it easier to load/unload large REA 
shipments.

 

Not much has ever been written on the role REA had with the RR's (CB&Q being of 
the large group of RR owners).



Gerald 


 



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From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 22:29:46 -0400
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Book info

  




GErald

In the interest of historical accuracy re Paragraph 6 of your recent post...The 
book by Klink Garrett is..TEN TURTLES TO TUCUMCARI.

I have an autographed copy purchased direct from Klink himself.

Pete

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From: Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 12:00 pm
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Book info

Rick Mills has done fine work with his two books and the coverage goes well 
into BN times but if you are going to acquire only one Black Hills book, 
"Railroads of the Black Hills" by Mildred Fielder is the one to have.

This was published by Superior and there is also a Bonanza reprint (go with the 
original - has a dust jacket & better photo reproduction). Mrs. Fielder, a 
historian, won state & national awards for the book. She lived in Lead/Deadwood 
for yrs as her husband was in upper mgt as an Engineer with Homestake Mining - 
for yrs the largest gold mine in the USA and a prime CB&Q customer*. Her 
credentials plus her husband's position, gave her access to a lot of archives 
at the Homestake as well as state holdings.

The book (as do Mills'), covers both CB&Q and C&NW and their predecessors but 
more than half the coverage is Q. Maps are excellent, the history of the area 
is explained well and photos will provide you with everything you need to 
railfan or model the Q's operations.

She also provided excellent coverage of the Q's Spearfish branch (abandoned in 
the 30's). Warren Lamb Lumbering operations and the Rapid City, Black Hills & 
Western which ran from the Q @ Mystic to the Milw in Rapid City til 1948. 
(RCBH&W sked is shown in Q public TT's for many yrs along with the Deadwood 
Central trolley between Lead & Deadwood)

I especially enjoyed her coverage of the gold mining throughout the Hills (I 
used the book as a reference while railfanning the Q and the abandoned mines 
while stationed at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City in "73/74). The Fielder book is 
very accurate.

*Homestake had mining equipment & other materials brought by the Q to Lead and 
shipped gold bullion via REA on Q trains (this latter operation was covered in 
a book published a few yrs ago. 'Six Turtles to Tumancari' by a former REA 
official who worked as the Agt there way back when). The Q in at least 2 issues 
of the "Zephyr" remarked about special shipments to the Homestake - one was a 
pump that was expedited in a one car train as due to failure of the unit it was 
replacing, the mine was closed til the Burlington highballed the replacement to 
Lead. Zephyrs were not the only expedited Burlington trains!

Another Black Hills tidbit - one of the BN Motive Power Annuals by BRHS mbr Hol 
Wagner in the 70's has a cover painting of the Q swtr at the Black Hills Power 
Plant and a feature article on the Black Hills op's. Also the late Bernie 
Corbin, also a BRHS mbr, covered the op's (use of Mallets, etc) to some extent 
in his 1st two Burlington books.

Lastly, CB&Q itself published a unique but scarce brochure for a few years 
circa-1900 titled "Mines & Mining in the Black Hill's. If you plan to attend 
the BRHS meet in Geneva, IL this fall, let me know & I will bring my copy along 
for you to check out. There is also the much more common CB&Q "Black Hills" 
brochures that went thru a half dozen reprintings & reformattings from the 
teens into the 1950. They are common on eBay & I always have a couple different 
ones @ BRHS meets at my swap table. Depending on the era you model, the photo 
content varies so get the right edition. My article on CB&Q-issued postcards in 
the last BRHS Zephyr lists a half dozen or more in at least 2 series that are 
of Black Hills scenes & structures.

Per a news item I saw recently, State &/or Federal money is being used to 
refurbish the old B&MR aka Q roundhouse in Lead/Deadwood as a museum/visitor's 
center. You can also ride the Black Hills Central tourist road from Hill City 
nearly to Keystone (Mt. Rushmore area) on the Q's old Keystone branch. This, 
like the Hot Springs and Spearfish branches, had regular as well as mixed 
service for years. 

Gerald 

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