All right you guys...Bob and Karl...You've got this "airbrake" thread started. Let's have some discussion and explanation about graduated release, direct release, power braking as it would relate to
Thanks Karl.......that's a good start. Now tell us about the graduated release versus direct release...Seems like there is a, for lack of a better word, "cap" on the triple valve under a passenger ca
Sorry Karl and listers....I wrote my statements beginning with the "that's a good start"..before I read Karl's most lucid explanation of the graduated release feature as well as the cap adjustment...
Karl While you're on a roll tell us about the "electric air" used on the Zephyrs.... Is it still used on passenger trains??? Seems like it would have been easier to use than the automatic air, but is
If the location west of Brookfield is the one I'm thinking of...it's all gone now...There was a highway relocation near there which may have been involved with the final removal. We'll be going by th
There were a number of concrete fence posts in use on the Rock Port Langdon and Northern. I'm now assuming that these were of Q origination. I salvaged a bunch of these in the early 1950's before the
You guys are too young to have experienced the ultimate in train watching locations. ie THE ELMS HOTEL at Villisca Iowa....Sadly it burned in about 1955 or 56. The place was probably built circa 1890
It was an eastbound mail train...No. 8 or 14???hit a cement truck I think... It doesn't get a mention on the ICC Wreck Investigations website, but several of the Q "picture books"..have photos.. All
Was the F.C.N. and G. Related to or a subsidiary of the Fiddletown and Copperopolis Railroad A prize of little or no value to those who know what the F& C was and where to located information on that
Very Good Charlie..........you get the no value prize. There is indeed a book featuring all the old RAILROAD MAGAZINE illustrations...I don't have it, but do have lots of old RR with the F&C Prominen
I too, would "buy" Glenn's theory..The dress of the workmen, and the MOW equipment all mark all of Rob's photographs, including the others on his K&W Website as 1930's. Also I agree that the backgrou
I hope you can make the enhancement work..It does appear on the shots showing the depot that the negative itself is out of focus...which would seemingly make enhancement difficult, if not impossible
The Rock Island, being on the "cutting edge" of all things new and different did the open top hopper thing We also participated in the boarded up stock car grain transortation as did some other "gran
Kistler and Hardy's book ALLIANCE AND EVERYWHERE WEST South Platte Press, now out of print has several pictures of what you are looking for. Maybe you can find someone close to you and take a look. P
It was green in all the depots I ever saw. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/
Somebody more detail oriented than me can fill in the particulars, but there were several sets of F units bought specially for the CZ...they were in the number series 9960 something..ABCD. I remember
You guys that want all the details on the Naperville wreck need to contact Jim Christen 626 Morningside Drive Naperville, IL 60563 630 357 1861 Jim has and knows everything anyone would ever want to
Bob and listers Bob has outlined the probable sequence of events just before the collision from an engineer's viewpoint. This is probably as good a re creation of what happened as we're ever going to
You can also search...Bookfinder.com They have just about everything and quite a variety of dealers. Pete Hedgpeth [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To vis
Charlie Some of us have just hung around too long. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/gr