- 21. [CBQ] +Re: SD 45 (score: 1)
- Author: "ANDREW KOETZ" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:55:21 -0500
- Then why didn't EMD then use wirefeed welding / mig? This process does not produce the "slag" that "stick welding" does. Although the weld penetration would be about 1/2 to what stick welding would b
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00124.html (10,389 bytes)
- 22. [CBQ] +Re: Preserved Freight Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "ANDREW KOETZ" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:51:22 -0500
- I took some photos/ slides of some ex- CB&Q coal hoppers back in the mid 1990s up in the Twin Ports area of Duluth, MN. and Superior, Wis. still being used by the BNSF. [Non-text portions of this mes
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00136.html (9,789 bytes)
- 23. [CBQ] +Re: SD 45 (score: 1)
- Author: "ANDREW KOETZ" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:08:39 -0500
- To bad "robo-welders" were not available at that time period. With wirefeed or stick welding several passes need to be made in order to properly join the two pieces of metal. It sounds to me that the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00141.html (10,097 bytes)
- 24. [CBQ] +Re: SD45's (score: 1)
- Author: "ANDREW KOETZ" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:35:26 -0500
- Look at how many SD45s are still in service on other railroads and in leasing fleets. There are quite a few last time I saw. Well - - despite all the "bad press" these locomotives have garnered over
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00173.html (9,743 bytes)
- 25. [CBQ] +Re: +Re: Preserved Freight Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "ANDREW KOETZ" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:37:48 -0500
- That would be the MTM = Minnesota Transportation Museum in the ex-GN roundhouse at Jackson st. there is also a double door 40' box car Chinese red[like new] at the Transportation Museum in St Paul Mi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00174.html (9,723 bytes)
- 26. [CBQ] +Re:Rerailing (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:13:25 -0500
- In the video tape done by Pentrex or Video Rails titled BATTLE OVER DONNER PASS the SP was using flangers to clear the snow when the lead locomotive "rolled the rail" over. To get the truck back onto
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00119.html (10,057 bytes)
- 27. [CBQ] +Re:Double Heading Steam (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:05:07 -0500
- I have always read that the engineers either double-header or one on point and one pushing "talked" back and forth via their steam whistles before taking certain actions. I.E. slowing down, increasin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00122.html (9,765 bytes)
- 28. [CBQ] +Re:Double Heading (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:09:33 -0500
- Wasn't it a better practice to drop the waycar behind the helpers, and put it behind the helpers vs in front? I am thinking older waycars with wood frames. Although after steel was brought into the p
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00123.html (9,783 bytes)
- 29. [CBQ] +Re:Watch Fob (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:05:04 -0500
- Nice piece of history. My grandfather worked the DAYTONS BLUFF Q yard in St. Paul until his passing in 1966 before I was even born. He had a BALL brand pocket watch. I know some pocket watches had th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00167.html (9,922 bytes)
- 30. [CBQ] +Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:17:25 -0500
- Or how about writing up a railroad "terminology DICTIONARY". Not flaming, it's to humorous to think about. I bet it would seel and fly off shelves at any book seller. [Non-text portions of this messa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00022.html (9,745 bytes)
- 31. [CBQ] +Re: +Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:12:19 -0500
- This may sound crazy. But how about a road by road dictionary. I.E. "Encyclopedia Britanica" of dictionaries of railroad terms. Only save paper and put it onto a CD-ROM. [Non-text portions of this me
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00032.html (9,794 bytes)
- 32. [CBQ] +Re: +Re: +Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 21:25:15 -0500
- That would work also. It could also be passed from site to site "RR GROUP LISTS". [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00041.html (9,565 bytes)
- 33. [CBQ] +Re: Q Redbird Scheme Lives Again (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:33:08 -0500
- According to one of Bob Del Grossos BN/BNSF locomotive books the 6330 had a HP rating of 4200 HP. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00166.html (9,971 bytes)
- 34. [CBQ] +Re: Cinders (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:41:26 -0500
- A park that is 1 block away from my folks house in St. Paul was used by the city for cinder storage from the local railroads for use on city streets during winter here in St. Paul. And after the cind
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00167.html (9,862 bytes)
- 35. [CBQ] +Re: Cinders (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:07:12 -0500
- Where I live is right above the SPUD WYE, also known as RR DIVISION ST. The GN had their passenger locomotive engine house in the middle of this wye years ago. The NP also had facilities in the area.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00183.html (10,024 bytes)
- 36. [CBQ] Emailing: IMG_0075 (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:17:33 -0500
- The BN had 10 GP20s done at BABBIT, MN. by GENERATION 2 LOCOMOTIVE. These units are now plying their keep on the TC&W. One was wrecked not long after the BN recieved them on an EB down near Hastings,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00184.html (10,627 bytes)
- 37. [CBQ] ZEPHYR set (score: 1)
- Author: "andrewkoetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:03:05 -0600
- Isn't tere a full ZEPHYR set over in Saudi Arabia somewhere??? -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00185.html (10,301 bytes)
- 38. [CBQ] +Re: ZEPHYR set (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:10:15 -0500
- Stupid question. Are they out in the open or "under wraps". Looks like a GOOGLE EARTH trip soon [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00203.html (9,953 bytes)
- 39. [CBQ] +Re: CB&Q Heritage Unit Video (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:02:16 -0500
- Dad used to tell me that aslo "back in the day" they also "tipped a few back" while working. Scary if you ask me. A hogger "boozing it up on the job". [Non-text portions of this message have been rem
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00216.html (9,755 bytes)
- 40. [CBQ] +Re: East Winona, WI depots (score: 1)
- Author: "andrew koetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:22:30 -0500
- Not trying to pour gasoline onto a fire here. But it seems that someone is checking the inside of their colon. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00014.html (9,646 bytes)
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