I've been gone for a few days and am just catching up...With all of the conversation re cupola direction...are you guys saying that waycars were turned to keep one particular end forward...As the kid
I should have added a bit of a disclaimer...although we never did it on any branch line local I ever worked, I can see that, under certain circumstances at the end of a branch line, it would be easy
Tom I sure want to get copies of your CD's of dispatcher phone talk....This is a must for the younger guys to hear. I too used to listen in on the DS phone at Langdon Missouri when I was quite ;young
John Most of the orders I heard being transmitted involved passenger trains which were then exclusively "hauled" by E units in the 9900 series...I would either be listening on the DS phone or sitting
John As one old guy to another....I remember the old all cap typewriters...I think that I or my dad actually had one...don't have it any more...Seems they were called "billers"...all the items the ag
John Thanks for the little tidbit re Plumbago....I'm sure that you added it as a parenthetical expression...didn't think I knew about those did you??? I remember reading in one of the old Railroad Ma
John et al We have all become nihilarians...look it up. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson
I've seen pictures of GP7/9's in use on 29-30...Denver Alliance Trains....They were used on KC Omaha Trains 27-26 and probably 22-23...in the 60's...In my time seeing these trains almost daily...pre
SD 7's 400-411 were made especially for branch line service and were "lightweight"...smaller fuel tanks and no steam generators....They were dual controls though. I worked Fairmont (NE) - Hildreth lo
Just out of curiosity and to stir up a little more activity....What kind of steam generator (boiler) was used in SILVER TREASURE. You probably all know, but JIC (just in case) someone doesn't that wa
All you guys...I lost count on how many were on that thread...need to contact Jim Reisdorff at South Platte Press for the most recent edition of WYMORE STORY. He has a website, but I can't locate the
All you guys need to contact Jim REisdorff at South Platte Publishing re WYMORE STORY...his e mail is railroads@alltel.net. Pete Hedgpeth [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yaho
A note received just a few minutes ago from Jim Reisdorff...He and Dick Kistler visited Wymore last SAturday...They say that Wymore is "clean"...There has been a "last trip" It looks like its all ove
Nowhere near Milan...Milan hosted the Q and the QO&KC...(Quincy Omaha and Kansas City. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or
Couple of off the top thoughts re seals. CRL...could it be CRI (Chicago River and Indiana)...one of the roads that served the Chicago Stock Yards. I'd be 97.3% sure that No. 62 was Train 62....Only p
To: The "Unforgiveable Sarcastic Marshall Thayer" Your reference to Du Pont should read: "BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY".... The Unforgiveable Nit Picky Pete [Non-text portions of
Anybody remember the big Republican River flood of summer 1935????probably not.... Anyhow this event, and a history of repeated flooding over the years resulted in a massive flood control project in
Only John Mitchell and I are old enough to remember the days before deregulation when the ICC ruled supreme in all matters railroad.... I can remember my dad saying regarding the ICC reports that he
Marshall and list You are absolutely right...it was Yak FAT...I chronicled this matter several months...maybe a year or more ago right here on this list....Just like Rush...we're on the cutting edge.
A big prize goes to the first guy who knows the origin of the station name CLARKE...while we're at it how about SADDLER. Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Sp