It was very interesting to see a couple of Western Union linemen at work (timestamp 41seconds).
When I worked for Uncle Wes (1972-1974 in Chicago), their microwave system had replaced the open wire carrier system.
When I was working the W&R (wire & repeater), I was given the cabinets where the BN (former Q) teletype circuits were.
I spent many a day just monitoring the circuits. I thought that the BN must burn out a lot of teletype machines very quickly,
What a shock it was to me when I stopped at the Barstow station and saw that they had an IBM printer system, cranking away!
Ron Peterson
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 8:03 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Videos
Huh? Burlington bought 20 E7s in 1945, 11 in '47 and 13 more in '49.
http://www.trainweb.org/emdloco/e7.htm
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EMD E7A, E7B Order Numbers - TrainWeb.org
Order # Date Serial Numbers Model Road Numbers Qty. Weight Remarks; E657B: 03.45 to 04.45: 3190-3193: E7B: ACL: 755-758: 4.. E635B: 06.45, 08.45: 2830-2835: E7B: ACL ...
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:12 PM, 'Nelson Moyer'
ku0a@mchsi.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Consider that the CZ was inaugurated in 1949, and E7s were available around 1950. Advanced planning could
be the reason the F3s were chosen, since they were already available before 1949, while the E7s were unavailable and unproven at that time.
Nelson Moyer
Also interesting to see the original power on the trains - the Q's ABA F3s and the Rio Grande's Alcos. What was the rationale behind Burlington buying the ABA F3 sets instead of a few more E7s?
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:08 PM, William Glick
Qglick@hotmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
To bad they don’t have those Dome cars any more.
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Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:54 PM
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