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Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars
From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:11:30 -0400
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I think that hot or medium or whatever was measured by how long you could put your hand in the over or over the fire.  Totally subjective similar to  a "pinch"...I heard my late wife once ask her grandmother for the recipe for something...Answer..There is no recipe you just know how to use 'a little of this and a little of that"..That Czechosolvakian  gramma was one of the best cooks ever.

Pete


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From: georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Aug 30, 2016 11:01 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars

 
My Aunt Lucy had a cob burning cook stove out on the farm in Nebraska. Somehow her pies, cakes, cookies and roasts always tasted better than the ones done in a gas or electric stove. I have her recipe book and she always wrote to put a apple pie in a medium hot stove.  What a medium hot stove was I have no idea. 
Noel


From: "'John D. Mitchell, Jr.' cbqrr47@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 10:49:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB& Q XA-16 Boxcars

 

Nowadays, with combines, the cobs end up on the ground, in the field, but when I was growing up on the farm, we hauled cob corn to the elevator, where they shelled it. Nearly every elevator had a "cob burner" and talk about a hot fire. The cobs burned with a blue flame! We burned them in our home heating stove, too. One time, my dad had a "bright idea" to throw in the whole unshelled ears a nd almost burned the house down.



From: "qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars

 


I have three bedrooms in my home carpeted with corn based carpet. It's 5 years old and looks and feels great.

On the other hand corn based ethanol is far more expensive than oil based gasoline.

Leo

On Aug 30, 2016, at 6:06 PM, georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Corn cobs were used in the manuf acturing of early plastics. Maybe we should go  back to them instead of oil.  Dr. GW Carver found a hundred or more uses for the peanut. We could find all kind of uses for corn cobs, soy, etc and reduce our dependence on oil.
Noel


From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:18:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars

 
Those cars with  auto racks were known as "Evans Device Cars"...They were "Hi Cube" cars and could be used for loading of low density commodities...ie cobs...like from corn for you city boys...

We used to pick up 3-4 of these at Ong Nebraska loaded with cobs from shelled corn..Corn w as, in those days picked on the ear..Set aside for  a few months to dry and then shelled.  The cobs went to an alcohol plant located along the river in Omaha...Along with other "less than environmentally friendly" products. &nbs p;ie lead.

Pete


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From: 'fhc925@frontier.com' fhc925@frontier.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Aug 30, 2016 4:24 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars

 

Yes the Q was still hauling autos in box cars in 1957.  When I moved to Detroit in the spring of 1964, one of the first things I had to do was get a destination (shop location) from the mechanical Dept. for the release of the last two CBQ box cars being used for "setup" autos.  BTW they were assigned to Cadillac on the NYC in Detroit. 
Fred Crissey


On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 4:07 PM, "'John D. Mitchell, Jr.' cbqrr47@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

It is interesting that in 1957, the Q was still overhauling automobile cars with racks!



From: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> < br clear="none"> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars [2 Attachments]

 
[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner included below]

Tom:

Here are before and after views, one of them in color.

Hol



From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of thommack@yahoo.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 8:03 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q XA-16 Boxcars
 
 
No sooner did I post this then I thought to check the CB&Q Group archives and found the info I needed. There is a great article with photos of the XA-16's in  the Railway Prototype Cyclopedia 13. If anyone has links to additional photos on the web, though, I would like to see some color photos.

Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH


---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <thommack@...> wrote :

I am looking for information and photos of the CB&Q XA-16 double-door 40 ft boxcars. The notes I have show that there were 500 of these 40' 6" double door automobile boxcars built in 1946 at Havelock in series 39000-39499. Between 1954 and 1962 the were converted to "regular boxcars" and renumbered into the 90 00-9499 series. 19 of these cars remained in service as of the merger. My BN diagrams show these cars were renumbered BN 197880-197899 and still had a 15' door opening, which indicates they still had double doors.

Details and photos/links of these cars would be appreciated.

Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH                                                                                                                                                           ;                                                                                 &nbs p;                    





















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