You might be thinking of the overpass near the crest of Burke Hill, the road that goes over the bridge is "Big Cut Road". I'm wondering if it might also be referring to one of the line relocations on
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I believe that there's a reference in the book to additional volumes. Without digging the book out, I think the Q cars that are covered are the prewar cars. But if you combine the information and dra
Happened to be rereading the Burlington Bulletin (#38) that had the excellent article on the Q's snowplows. It mentions that the wedge plows that the Q converted from flatcars after the 1949 blizzard
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For someone that didn't attend this years meet in St. Paul, how did the meet go? Usually there are all sorts of accolades and reports on the list following one of the meets, either for one of the Spr
After reading the article in the last Zephyr by Dave Beck on building a model of the 14700 bay window transfer waycar from the Accurail boxcar kit and then taking a look at the drawings mentioned in
John, My guess is that the non-window end version is used on either the C&NW or BN versions. But it would have been nice to get both versions with the undecorated ones. I figure I'll end up filling t
Kevin, BRHS Zephyrs #32 and #33 had listings based on photographs showing approximate dates that both the GP and SD road switchers were painted into the Chinese Red scheme or if they stayed in the Bl
Tom, Possibly some of the dome coaches might work for some of the other trains. I didn't dig out my copy of the RPC CB&Q Budd cars book, but I would think the dome coaches would work, there might be
Dale, I don't have the books here at the moment, but I believe that there should be an overhead photo in Dorin's "Everywhere West, The Burlington Route" and Holck's "Burlington Route Color Pictorial
Dale, This time I dug out the books, there is an overhead photo of a group of the Q's SD45's taken at EMD's plant in LaGrange on 1/20/1969 on page 12 of Dorin's "Everywhere West The Burlington Route"
Doing some research for finishing one of the Shoreham Shops 1940 chair cars, and I'm trying to determine which windows in the women's lounge were equipped with prism glass. Most of the photographs cl
I'm doing some research for a modeling project and can't seem to find any lettering diagrams for the Burlington's F units. I've read through the text of Burlington Bulletin #4 that covers these "moto
Russ, Which stripe along the side sill are you referring to? On the Q's F units, the only stripes that I was aware of were the wide red stripe with the black edging and the red stripe on the batten s
Executives that actually worked together for the good of the company, that's a novel concept. Something the "red" team and the "green" team executives did not quite understand over at the Penn Centra
HW sleepers that were assigned to service as "tourist cars" generally did not have the bulkhead between the sections, instead generally the same type of curtain that was used to enclose the aisle sid
I've given two clinics on using Alclad II Lacquer to represent stainless steel, one at Oregon, IL at a meeting of the society whose name we cannot mention on this list, and one a few weeks later for
When Nickel Plate Products did the Pioneer Zephyr years ago, was a fourth car ever offered separately for this train as an add on? A friend of mine recently picked one of the Pioneer Zephyrs up and w
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