- 1. [CBQ] Old Bridges (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:34:30 -0600
- I created a photo album entitled "Old Bridges" and posted a pic of the old C.B. & Q. turn bridge over the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers at Prescott, Wisconsin. At Prescott, the two rivers run alon
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00225.html (9,663 bytes)
- 2. [CBQ] New Photo Uploaded (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:32:57 -0600
- I just got a digital copy of a neat old photo taken at Galesburg, Illinois in 1931. It's a posed photo of the B. and B. No. 1 crew standing in front of their Q.B. & Q. Pile Driver No. 204614. My gran
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-06/msg00039.html (10,058 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] Re: New Photo Uploaded (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:18:14 -0600
- -- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Scott A. Stephenson" <rrscott135@...> wrote: the photo was taken? No I don't, Scott. Sorry. When I took the original to be digitalized, I discovered another 8 x 10 photo o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-06/msg00043.html (10,723 bytes)
- 4. [CBQ] Q Derrick Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 12:18:51 -0600
- My name is Bob Nelson and I have posted here once or twice and communicated with several of you offline regarding my grandfather, Oscar Falkenstein, who worked for the Q from about 1911 to 1950. From
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00081.html (11,884 bytes)
- 5. [CBQ] Re: Q Derrick Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:39:48 -0600
- Thanks all. That ties in with what I know that Grandpa's primary duty was setting pilings for bridge construction, not clearing wrecks. One the bridges he worked on was the Columbia Street Bridge in
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00085.html (11,592 bytes)
- 6. [CBQ] Question on Railroad Watches (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:32:13 -0600
- I have been told that Grandpa (Oscar Falkenstein) went to work for the Q in 1911. His railroad watch, however, is a 1915 Hamilton, Serial No. 1433451. Question -- would ALL railroad employees in the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00087.html (10,203 bytes)
- 7. [CBQ] Re: Q Derrick Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:55:28 -0600
- the wreck show a "wrecking derrick" not 204614. The Q did have "bridge derricks" in the same 2046xx number series as pile drivers. So you are saying that the derrick in the photos of the M.&S.L. wrec
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00091.html (12,130 bytes)
- 8. [CBQ] Re: Q Derrick Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:02:17 -0600
- the wreck show a "wrecking derrick" not 204614. Then why does the letter from the superintendent of the M.&S.L. state, "You were in charge of the CB&Q derrick 204614 and assisted in reconstruction of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00092.html (12,147 bytes)
- 9. [CBQ] Re: Q Derrick Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:05:57 -0600
- Re: Q Derrick Photos -- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com </group/CBQ/post?postID=z1p-LoHpP0noeHgNX60xlKqbmPmTBiFttk7SmQEunE2pxyUi\ NU9CruWieVHim63j9S8IhITG2hS20js> , "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...> wrote
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00093.html (12,308 bytes)
- 10. [CBQ] Re: Q Derrick Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:06:53 -0600
- And I know that because Grandpa always called it a pile driver. Regards, Bob -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00094.html (11,097 bytes)
- 11. [CBQ] Final Answer [Was Re: Q Derrick Photos] (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:54:54 -0600
- I blew up the Berwick wreck pictures 800% with Publisher and compared the wrecker shown with another one of No. 204614 taken at Galesburg in 1931. Its an 8x10 and shows much more detail of the boom.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00100.html (11,750 bytes)
- 12. [CBQ] Re: Locomotive crane rosters (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:15:25 -0600
- crane. If so, the only numbers I've found are for such which were Browning's) covered in BB 18, is there a list I would like to add No. 204614, which was operated by my grandfather. I have several ph
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-03/msg00112.html (11,474 bytes)
- 13. [CBQ] Looking for Help (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:17:54 -0600
- Does anyone know where I can locate early 20th century personnel records for the C.B.&Q? My grandfather began working for the Q about 1910. From about 1914 until 1932, he was an engineer. He operated
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-03/msg00113.html (11,461 bytes)
- 14. [CBQ] Re:Looking for Help (score: 1)
- Author: "bobnelson61" <bobnelson@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:34:35 -0600
- Railway Dear Doug, Yes, I know exactly which wreck it was because I have a letter of commendation to him from the President of the M. & St. L. R.R. The letter is dated May 31, 1922 from Oskaloosa, Io
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-03/msg00130.html (12,380 bytes)
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