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281. Re: [CBQ] What is this track crew doing? (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:35:37 -0800 (PST)
Gerald It is a pressure grouting gang raising the track.   Check vintage photos of ebay lot #140497771332 Pic is CB&Q with big 'stock watering troughs' along the track and a neat old CB&Q truck. What
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00118.html (11,254 bytes)

282. RE: [CBQ] What is this track crew doing? (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:05:14 -0800 (PST)
Gerald I didn't see the picture but I know what a grouting gang looks like. The line from West Vienna to Metropolis is built on a fill. The problem is that the fill materiel came from burrow pits bes
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00120.html (13,318 bytes)

283. [CBQ] Empire Builder (score: 1)
Author: "cbqrr47" <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:01:19 -0600
What were the names and numbers of the Q owned diners on the 1956 Empire Builder. -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email s
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00180.html (9,722 bytes)

284. [CBQ] Paint Question (score: 1)
Author: "cbqrr47" <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:04:54 -0600
I'm just the right age. I'm old enouth to remember steam in regular service and young enouth not to be an old man in his dotage! There is no "right" color for Q steam engine roofs, fireboxes and smok
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00190.html (11,814 bytes)

285. Re: [CBQ] Paint Question (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:51:46 -0800 (PST)
Well Pete,  the inpection car Model T with flanged wheels assigned to the ass't superintendent at Centralia was painted from time to time at the round house and of course it was like Mr. Ford said "a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00207.html (15,250 bytes)

286. RE: [CBQ] Employee Moves (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:13:01 -0800 (PST)
Here on the Beardstown Division, there were several locations that the company provided houses for the section foremen. Most if not all of them had a company telephone so that the foreman could be re
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00297.html (13,551 bytes)

287. Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Trip February 19, 1966 - St. Louis to Hannibal Behind 4960 (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:06:19 -0800 (PST)
Ditto machines used wood alcohol. I'm one of the old coots that used them!   I believe what you mean is methanal (=formaldehyde). I vividly recall the sickly sweet smell from school (elementary schoo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00310.html (15,507 bytes)

288. Re: [CBQ] CBQ 160750 (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:04:14 -0800 (PST)
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00008.html (11,616 bytes)

289. Re: [CBQ] Re: Downers Grove yard photo (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 17:09:26 -0800 (PST)
Those are telephone and telegraph lines for the railroad. Electric power distribution and transmission lines don't (and didn't) look like these lines. -- On Wed, 12/5/12, dieselpop1 <dieselpop1@msn.c
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00025.html (14,247 bytes)

290. Re: [CBQ] (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:56:24 -0800 (PST)
You guys get way too hung up on color matching. Weather the things. No two engines colors match any others after they weather a little bit and it doesn't take long. Colors fade, get dirty (with all c
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00077.html (14,883 bytes)

291. Re: [CBQ] Silica followup (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:10:36 -0800 (PST)
So true Leo. Down here in the coalfields, many a conductor/engine forman, yard clerk and agent made "a few extra bucks" seeing that certain mines had enough empties! John -- On Thu, 12/13/12, qutlx1@
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00094.html (12,498 bytes)

292. Re: [CBQ] Re: Palace stock cars (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:21:57 -0800 (PST)
It may be as simple as when the 28 hour law went into effect, the feed and water troughs were removed and the cars were no longer "Palace" cars anymore. With the troughs gone, more head of stock coul
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00100.html (23,104 bytes)

293. Re: [CBQ] Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:34:42 -0800 (PST)
Pete To all cocerned: As a boy, I learned that old railroad language, hanging around the depot. I still use it today and every once in awhile, I'll have someone say, "Why did say it THAT way?". I gue
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00102.html (15,360 bytes)

294. Re: [CBQ] Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:30:34 -0800 (PST)
On the MOP, all engines from 1 to 99 were called spot engines. Indeed, the class was called the "spot class" (actually the class went up to 127). They were classy looking, little consolidations and w
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00109.html (19,047 bytes)

295. Re: [CBQ] Re: Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:21:02 -0800 (PST)
__._,_.___ Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use Unsubscr
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00112.html (14,269 bytes)

296. Re: [CBQ] Re: Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:51:25 -0800 (PST)
The thing about it, it sometimes was truthful. On a hand fired engine, firing was almost a full time task. Besides shoveling coal, you had to watch the water glass. I know the hogger was susposed to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00122.html (17,324 bytes)

297. Re: [CBQ] Re: Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:32:04 -0800 (PST)
They don't THINK I'm weird. They KNOW I'm weird and proud of it. Any way, I know what I mean when I say "I sent it 'by wire' and 'when practicable' ". I get upset when some young person says "at the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00126.html (18,832 bytes)

298. Re: [CBQ] Re: Palace Stock cars....old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:47:02 -0800 (PST)
Another one was the abbrevation "Messers." for plural of "Mr." That hung around for way to long. -- On Sun, 12/16/12, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> wrote: From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jp
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00129.html (21,660 bytes)

299. [CBQ] Old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:45:17 -0800 (PST)
To: P. Hedgpeth RE: Yours Int. the 17th My position has been "abolished" and I would chose to "exercise my seniority rights", but there is no one to "displace" and an "extra list has not been establi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00140.html (14,937 bytes)

300. Re: [CBQ] Old railroad terminology (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:02:25 -0800 (PST)
Yes, because it is a matter of managerial discretion. -- On Mon, 12/17/12, archie hayden <klinerarch@charter.net> wrote: From: archie hayden <klinerarch@charter.net> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Old railroad t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00147.html (15,610 bytes)

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