- 121. Re: [CBQ] Q Operations Question (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:02:27 -0700 (PDT)
- If there was a tariff for "transit privileges" for that industry at that point, then the steel could be processed with one waybill, one rate, one car, and on one billing. If not then there would be t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00081.html (12,229 bytes)
- 122. Re: [CBQ] Steam & Diesel Consist (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
- Keeping the speed the same was not a problem. They were coupled together. The laws of physic required that they move at the same speed, i.e. have a zero relative velocity between them, or would move
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00092.html (13,807 bytes)
- 123. Re: [CBQ] Re: Q Operations Question (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:40:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Wrong, you would want to get the foreign car off of your railroasd as quickly as possible, so you would not have to pay per diem. And it is better to send them back under load than back haul them emp
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00120.html (18,124 bytes)
- 124. Re: [CBQ] Re: Q Operations Question (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:18:53 -0700 (PDT)
- First, let's us define a couple of things. Per Diem is the fee one railroad pay another for the use of the second railroad's car. Demurage is what a shipper and/or receiver pays the serving railroad
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00143.html (20,531 bytes)
- 125. [CBQ] 1945 Telegram (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:48:12 -0700 (PDT)
- 1945 Telegram Are there any old telegram men around?Could you explain the first line. It looks like Wisconsin but there is not a Fort Madison in Wisconsin. John D. Mitchell, Jr TELEGRAM:::: Z196 9 TO
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-07/msg00079.html (9,598 bytes)
- 126. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q, FW&D, C&S steam locomotive roster...done! (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
- There is a notable omission. There are no listings for Class O-1A's. Otherwise, very good work! -- -- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-07/msg00164.html (14,207 bytes)
- 127. Re: [CBQ] Just an Observation (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:50:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Did you know the big round chalk was called "railroad crayons", in the trade? John D. Mitchell, Jr _________________________________________________________________ http://search.msn.click-url.com/go
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-06/msg00079.html (11,782 bytes)
- 128. Re: [CBQ] Silver Quail (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:16:56 -0700 (PDT)
- I rode Silver Quill behind 1522, N. St. Louis to W. Quincy and return on one of the last trips. It was a great ride! John D. Mitchell, Jr ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! S
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-06/msg00107.html (10,706 bytes)
- 129. Re: [CBQ] Re: Subject: Colors Of Forms (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:57:01 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-05/msg00078.html (10,252 bytes)
- 130. Re: [CBQ] 4978 move (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:59:34 -0800 (PST)
- The stokers were added right before WWII. The "program" lasted a couple of years. The ICC had been discussing a stoker law and the Q decided to beat them to the punch. The installation required the f
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-04/msg00008.html (10,047 bytes)
- 131. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2344 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:59:10 -0800 (PST)
- Don't forget the shops at Plattsmouth, Neb.. A lot of cars and locomotives were built and repaired there. Of course, in later days, it was a shop for BREX (and National Car), so it built and repaired
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-03/msg00153.html (15,283 bytes)
- 132. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2344 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:04:55 -0800 (PST)
- I'll give a short answer (a complete answer is very long and is different for various periods of time). Class repairs ranged from class 1 to class 5. Class 1's were complete rebuiltings, while class
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-03/msg00167.html (12,142 bytes)
- 133. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2344 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:29:45 -0800 (PST)
- Tenders or "tanks" as some shopmen called them, came in two basic way's. Most were built in the same shop as the new engine (as the new engine was built) but sometimes, tenders were reused from an ol
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-03/msg00170.html (11,125 bytes)
- 134. Re: [CBQ] 9844 question (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:29:48 -0800 (PST)
- After WWII, 9844 was assigned to the Beardstown to Herrin run as trains #11&12. The discription sounds a lot like Litchfield. Single track extended from Concord to Shuttac and from Zeigler Junction t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-03/msg00213.html (10,058 bytes)
- 135. Re: [CBQ] Missouri & Illinois Bridge & Belt (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:59:43 -0800 (PST)
- The bridge and most, if not all, the track of the M&IB&BRR are gone. But I know one piece that survives. I have the anvil out of the M&IB&BRR roundhouse. Talk about a bear to get up on the motor! A t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-03/msg00267.html (13,708 bytes)
- 136. Re: [CBQ] maps (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:05:54 -0800 (PST)
- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Netwo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-03/msg00278.html (10,064 bytes)
- 137. Re: [CBQ] Re: Cicero diesel facility (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:35:13 -0800 (PST)
- Down in this neck of the woods, F units were always called "covered wagons" and yes, the railroaders called the red units "red birds" from the very start. As far as "black bird", I never haerd the te
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-02/msg00167.html (12,638 bytes)
- 138. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2320 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:27:06 -0800 (PST)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-02/msg00256.html (13,057 bytes)
- 139. Re: [CBQ] Shattered, Illinois? (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:49:06 -0800 (PST)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-01/msg00269.html (10,188 bytes)
- 140. Re: [CBQ] Re: Rail length (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 18:13:22 -0800 (PST)
- Before about 1920, rail of all sizes was rolled to a standard 33 ft. long to fit on the then typical 35 ft. flat cars. After that, when 40 ft. flat cars (and gondolas) became common, rail was rolled
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00045.html (12,734 bytes)
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