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81. Re: [CBQ] BNSF (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:47:50 -0600
Actually, it is no longer Burlington Northern Santa Fe. If I recall correctly, in 2007 they changed the name to BNSF Railway. So the "Burlington" part officially disappeared a couple of years ago. R.
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00032.html (10,711 bytes)

82. Re: [CBQ] Some Burlington Survivors in 2009 (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 06:22:39 -0500
I've always said the locomotive is a testament to American craftsmanship. At the railroad we call our locomotives in the yard "junk". However, when you stop and think about it, most of the locomotive
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-10/msg00004.html (10,644 bytes)

83. [CBQ] CBQ Railroad Police (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:52:48 -0500
As I was looking at the Officer Down Memorial Page website, I discovered this intersting piece of CB&Q history: http://www.odmp.org/agency/4597-chicago,-burlington-and-quincy-railroad-police-departme
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-09/msg00055.html (10,099 bytes)

84. [CBQ] Yates City Line (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 06:19:24 -0500
I talked to a guy I know in maintenance of way over the weekend. I guess he's been working on the line that runs south of Yates City towards Lewistown. Word is BNSF is going to run coal trains to Peo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-07/msg00018.html (10,121 bytes)

85. Re: [CBQ] No good deed goes unpunished (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:45:36 -0500
I haven't read this article, but I assume the question about the "building" was referring to the former railroad building that housed the Burlington truck line. If so, the South Pearl Street building
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00053.html (12,222 bytes)

86. Re: [CBQ] Double Heading Steam (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:43:45 -0500
Reading about the use of the air brakes as a signal reminded me of something an old head engineer told me. Back before the crews had packsets, they would go south of Galesburg to the coal fields. I w
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00126.html (12,607 bytes)

87. Re: [CBQ] Rerailing (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:57:39 -0500
A major incident was prevented because there was a crew in the waycar watching ahead. Today, with no one on the rear end of the train, this train would have kept going until the air line was broke. N
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00133.html (12,782 bytes)

88. [CBQ] Old Galesburg Photographs (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:06:45 -0500
The Galesburg Register-Mail published the following story on their website: http://www.galesburg.com/homepage/x737342399/College-digitizes-railroad-photos-documents There are many photographs of the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00205.html (9,926 bytes)

89. [CBQ] Zephyr Bell (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 19:49:42 -0500
To All: A friend of mine has been working with a sound file for a sound decoder in a HO scale Concor Pioneet Zephyr. The sound file he found has a unique bell. He describes the bell as one similar to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00038.html (9,941 bytes)

90. Re: [CBQ] Instructions for Walthers CB&Q Waycars? (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:23:53 -0500
I used Badger CB&Q Chinese Red for my Walthers chinese red waycars. Seemed to work well. Nice thing about the wood waycars is there was a variety of markings on them. Even though they may have been t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00143.html (11,565 bytes)

91. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Heritage Unit Video (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:04:26 -0500
I feel so shafted. BNSF would kill us if rode the end of a freight car like they did in the video. They also would hang us for get on/off moving equipment. I wish I could've railroaded in the good ol
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00198.html (10,706 bytes)

92. Re: [CBQ] Re: Location of Zephyrs in Saudi Arabia (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:23:05 -0500
Something to take note of too, is the imagery date for Ad Dammam on Google Earth is September 21, 2005. Even these images are over three years old. R.W. Brown, Jr. Galesburg, IL [Non-text portions of
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00225.html (11,835 bytes)

93. [CBQ] Peoria & Oquawka RR (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:28:44 -0500
Before its combination with the Chicago & Aurora, Central Military Tract, and Northern Cross railroads to form the Chicago Burlington and Quincy, I believe the P&O changed its name to the Peoria and
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00034.html (13,356 bytes)

94. [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:43:23 -0500
I was reading one of my Burlington Bulletins and read a caption referring to the "team" tracks at Denver. What does "team" track mean? While working for the railroad out of Galesburg, I've been somew
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00098.html (10,918 bytes)

95. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:31:09 -0500
So would I be correct in assuming that the Business Stub at Galesburg was named for this reason? I was under the impression the Business Stub got its name from the fact that they park the business ca
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00112.html (12,617 bytes)

96. Re: [CBQ] More Rock Falls Stuff. (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:04:20 -0500
My mother's side of the family is from Rock Falls. I remeber on one of our vists my grandfather, father, and I ventured out into a field not far from the highway just outside Rock Falls on the west s
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00156.html (13,330 bytes)

97. Re: [CBQ] C&I Reroute (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:53:25 -0500
R.W. Brown, Jr. Galesburg, IL Very few trains indeed, some nights I think I could move my bed on the tracks and not have to worry - except for the cold. For a few weeks things were picking up but now
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00179.html (13,265 bytes)

98. [CBQ] Re: 1958 C&S Wreck (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:33:22 -0600
Hello all. . .I was reading Burlington Bulletin No. 6 - Graybacks and 6100's the other evening. On page 15 at the top is a photograph of the Broomfield crash. The photo appears to have been taken fro
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00084.html (11,704 bytes)

99. [CBQ] NE-12 Model (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:27:37 -0600
To All: I recently purchased a Bachmann waycar that appears to be right on the money for a NE-12. It's a rough cheap model. My friends and I would refer to it as "toy train garbage". I picked one up
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00090.html (10,072 bytes)

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