- 261. Re: [BRHSlist] Suspicous? (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:12:31 EDT
- Jan I recall reading the account of that "foot sllipped" affair...Think it might have been on the late lamented ICCWebsite... You have to remember that the lower the speed the greater the effect of s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-04/msg00084.html (6,338 bytes)
- 262. ICC Accident reports (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:22:45 EDT
- Jan Kohl....thanks for posting the new address for the ICC Website...I've got it in my favorites again... I do notice, and had noticed previously, that several items which had been on the report list
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-04/msg00085.html (6,441 bytes)
- 263. Re: [BRHSlist] Crew Animosity (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:21:07 EDT
- John Do you have Lathrop's MYSTERY RIDES THE RAILS????It's a fiction story, but is based on the Durango Silverton Line....I've had it since about 1946...I read it so many times I could recite portion
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-04/msg00092.html (6,357 bytes)
- 264. Giles and Sedan (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:57:29 EDT
- As previously mentioned, noted Q Historian and Author Al Holck and I headed out of Lincoln last Thursday morning for the Mendota Meet with scheduled stops at Giles, IA and Sedan, IA. Well be accompli
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-04/msg00101.html (7,534 bytes)
- 265. Re: [BRHSlist] graffiti artists (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:55:21 EDT
- John and list Was it BOZO TEXINO??? Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-04/msg00118.html (5,962 bytes)
- 266. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:17:30 EST
- WEll Listers and John M. To pharaphrase Mark Twain...I continue to be amazed at the amount of information that can be obtained with such a small investment of fact. I've appreciated all of the discus
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00042.html (10,482 bytes)
- 267. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: CB&Q poetry & pics of Tyco crane (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:26:47 EST
- One of Cather's poem's was titled "Going Home"...I used it in a piece for our Lincoln Railfan's Newsletter a few years ago...I think I can find it...You are right there were others with a railroad th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00064.html (6,653 bytes)
- 268. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal and Ice (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:23:16 EST
- Ralph and list I too remember the cardboard signs put in the window...it would have a number on each edge...25...50...75 etc...This would indicate to the ice delivery man how much ice he needed to br
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00080.html (6,697 bytes)
- 269. Re: [BRHSlist] Adventures on the Fox (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:27:56 EST
- Someone once asked....What does a Section Man do???what is his job description. Answer....anything anybody else doesn't want to do. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00081.html (6,495 bytes)
- 270. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: CB&Q poetry (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:35:19 EST
- Jonathan and list I spent some time yesterday going through my old "writings"...and found some RR poetry and Willa Cather pieces as well... I have the stuff lying here by the computer and as soon as
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00082.html (6,376 bytes)
- 271. Railroad Writing and Poetry....lst Section Willa Cather (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:49:29 EST
- "The night express shot, red as a rocket, from out the eastward marsh lands and wound around the river shore under the long lines of shivering poplars that sentinelled the meadows, the escaping steam
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00086.html (8,363 bytes)
- 272. Harry Bedwell's WORD PICTURES First Section (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:13:04 EST
- "Little old battered, telegraph stations under the eternal frown of dark peaks, with Moguls stamping solemnly on the grade. Headlights along the glittering ribbon of steel, crowded closed under the b
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00087.html (9,474 bytes)
- 273. Harry Bedwell's WORD PICTURES...Second Section (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:27:21 EST
- "Conductors and engineers conferred briefly while Number 2 waited, the dead crews delivering their orders and waybills to the rested men. The patch crew dispersed along the endless drag. Number 2 sli
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00089.html (8,440 bytes)
- 274. More RAILROAD WRITING (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:39:09 EST
- Charles D. Dulin was a Telegrapher of the same vintage of Harry Bedwell and was a prolific writer of railroad oriented poems...He published a compilation of a number of his poems in a book titled SAG
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00090.html (7,273 bytes)
- 275. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Coal and Wood (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:00:13 EST
- Leo et all They probably did it in every yard on every railroad in the US, but I specifically remember that when I was Asst. TM at Joliet on the RI that most of the dunnage was removed from flatcars
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00165.html (8,197 bytes)
- 276. Signs of old age (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:56:41 EST
- The Lincoln Railfan's Monthly Newsletter carries a FIFTY YEARS AGO column. Here's a portion of it: "The March 2nd Star (now Lincoln Journal Star..daily paper) reported another shuffling of Burlington
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00180.html (8,877 bytes)
- 277. Re: [BRHSlist] Serena, Il. (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:33:06 EST
- Isn't Serena the home of WILD BILL HICKOK???? When we were living in Joliet in 1961, prior to I 80 being completed we used to drive west on Hwy 52 then north on 51 to get to 92 to go west to Quad Cit
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00208.html (6,587 bytes)
- 278. Re: [BRHSlist] Serena, Il. (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:57:51 EST
- Norm I think you're right...It probably was Troy Grove where I saw the sign....I wasn't looking at a map when I wrote....Just recall seeing the Serena sign and WBH reference at the beginning of those
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00210.html (6,552 bytes)
- 279. More Railroad Poetry (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:22:43 EST
- While I'm at it, here's one or two more of my favorites. LIGHTNING SLINGER.....Charles D. Dulin Back to the early peaceful days On a Western streak of rust I gaze through a wartime turmoil's haze To
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00215.html (7,101 bytes)
- 280. And still more railroad poetry (score: 1)
- Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:36:11 EST
- Here's one f rom RAILROAD....March 1942 NIGHT YARD ENGINE The graveyard goat starts out at twelve To do her nightly grind And clean up work the day crew drops, Ties up and leaves behind. The YM leave
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00216.html (7,758 bytes)
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