- 21. [CBQ] 1941 tours (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:26:54 EDT
- Greetings listees: I'm helping my father gather data to go with his reminiscences of working for Burlington Escorted Tours in the summer of 1941. I have the appropriate brochure listing all the tours
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-07/msg00009.html (9,994 bytes)
- 22. [CBQ] 1960 CB&Q excursion (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:04:44 EDT
- Greetings list: I'm trying to date and further identify a photo presumed to show a deadhead move of the 5632 and a passenger consist from Chicago to the Twin Cities. The process date on the original
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-04/msg00046.html (8,904 bytes)
- 23. [CBQ] 5632 July 1960 (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:48:55 EDT
- Greetings list: Given the way my family went through 12-exposure rolls of film, and given that the print has a process day of July 1960, I'm inclined to think the photo shows the July 2-4 excursion.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-04/msg00146.html (9,248 bytes)
- 24. [CBQ] Railway Express book (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:40:57 EST
- Greetings list: I'd like to pass along a plug for a book by an ex-colleague: "Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency," Clink Garrett with Toby Smith, University of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00041.html (9,346 bytes)
- 25. Re: [CBQ] troop sleepers in mail service? (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:27:29 EST
- List: I would add to the previous posts, and has been mentioned on this list before, that the ex-troop kitchens appeared regularly and prolifically on the Oregon-Mount Morris (Illinois) branch servin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00068.html (8,581 bytes)
- 26. Re: [CBQ] Re: troop sleepers in mail service? (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:39:38 EST
- I think the answer to your second question is yes, but I'll need to root around my photo files a bit to say for sure. I have quickly located one shot from 1970 showing one of the cars freshly painted
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00103.html (8,413 bytes)
- 27. Re: [CBQ] RE: Looking for an Answer (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:27:56 EST
- Greetings: The employe timetable dated Oct. 27, 1963, states re the Mount Morris Spur: "Mixed trains will carry passengers." The next ETT dated April 26, 1964 does not include that statement. My last
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00110.html (8,637 bytes)
- 28. Re: [CBQ] CBQ interchange with ATSF (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:57:36 EST
- Don't forget Trinidad, Colorado, where the C&S had a convoluted horseshoe route into and out of the Purgatoire River valley later replaced with a flyover bypassing the town. The steep, slithering C&S
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00209.html (9,670 bytes)
- 29. Re: [CBQ] CBQ interchange with ATSF (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:52:19 EST
- Can't say I know much about C&S-ATSF interchange at Trinidad in the old days either. Perhaps one of our C&S devotees can enlighten us as to operations and the history of the C&S equipment in the down
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00248.html (10,220 bytes)
- 30. Re: [CBQ] Thanks and Whoops (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:11:40 EST
- I'll steer clear of the politics of the 1960s, especially since many of those unhealed wounds are at issue this year and no less contentious. But speaking of railroads: Even though the CB&Q still ran
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00289.html (8,264 bytes)
- 31. Re: [CBQ] References to company books,pamphlets,articles on passenger etiquette to 1915 (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:32:59 EST
- tlin: "A Treasury of Railroad Folklore, " B. A. Botkin and Alvin F. Harlow, eds., Bonanza Books, New York, 1989 (originally published 1953), has a chapter "The Passenger is Always Right" pp. 416-433.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00171.html (9,278 bytes)
- 32. Re: [CBQ] One More Symbol (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:41:48 EST
- Greetings list: I get the following definition from "A Dictionary of Railroad Terms," W. E. (Bill) Wood, 1990, no publisher listed, possibly self-published in the ATSF terminal town of Belen, New Mex
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00199.html (9,384 bytes)
- 33. Re: [CBQ] Oregon Water Tower (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:34:47 EST
- Tom: Long gone by then. Probably dismantled in the early 1950s, certainly by 1957 or so. Regards, Bill Diven [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> In l
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-03/msg00028.html (8,709 bytes)
- 34. Re: [CBQ] Mt. Morris and Kable Printing (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:09:32 EST
- Tom: That would be a trailing point switch entered from the west from the stub of what was the original C&I line to Forreston. The stub was pretty short, maybe 200 meters. Been many years since I was
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-02/msg00384.html (9,670 bytes)
- 35. [CBQ] MOW ex-troop cars (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:58:03 EST
- Greetings all: re the discussion six weeks ago about whether any of the ex-troop kitchen cars converted to express service ever became MOW cars: As mentioned previously, I have a low-res photo scan o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-03/msg00160.html (9,017 bytes)
- 36. Re: [CBQ] Last Date of Oregon (Illinois) Mixed Train (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:08:54 EST
- Greetings Ed: Reference to the mixed train from Oregon to Mt. Morris on the Mt. Morris Spur disappears with Chicago and Aurora Divisions timetable No. 8 effective 12:01 a.m. Sunday, April 26, 1964. I
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-01/msg00105.html (9,095 bytes)
- 37. [CBQ] Oregon photos, corrections, Alton IL query (score: 1)
- Author: "wmdiven" <Q5632west@aol.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 19:59:22 -0600
- Greetings all: I've added more photos to my Oregon IL album on the Yahoo site. These include additional shots of eastbound and westbound combined Empire Builder-North Coast Limited to go with two ima
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00019.html (11,227 bytes)
- 38. Re: [CBQ] Re: Oregon photos (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 03:15:28 -0400
- Dave: Your questions more or less answered below. Bill Bill Diven Placitas, N.M. back some great memories of my riding on those trains to and from college in that exact era. In fact now I am in the m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00021.html (14,170 bytes)
- 39. [CBQ] Commentary on Oregon photos (score: 1)
- Author: Q5632west@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:21:08 -0400
- Greetings all: Asleep at the switch here, or at least slow on the reply button.? Also had to generate the fortitude to sign up with Yahoo again after bailing several years ago account increased junk
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00093.html (19,606 bytes)
- 40. [CBQ] Re: Commentary on Oregon photos (score: 1)
- Author: "mortiemix" <Q5632west@aol.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:17:22 -0600
- Just for the record, all those question marks some or all of you are seeing in the note I just posted were inserted by whatever Yahoo does to process this list. I think the only ones that are mine ar
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00094.html (23,153 bytes)
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