- 341. Re: [CBQ] CBQ Hopper in 2012 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:53:31 -0700 (PDT)
- Greetings I photographed this CBQ hopper last week in Whitefish,MT: http://mtskidmark.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3147399 Mark in Walla Walla (formerly MP 69 on the K-Line) __._,_.___
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00174.html (12,428 bytes)
- 342. Re: [CBQ] Sesser Concrete (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:09:45 -0700 (PDT)
- I am throwing this question out to Mr Mitchell, but I figure it might be of general interest to everyone. There was (and still is) a small concrete plant on the west side of the tracks, on the south
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00187.html (13,457 bytes)
- 343. Re: [CBQ] Sesser Concrete (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:05:53 -0700 (PDT)
- John, This is very intersting. Can you tell us if the reason from switching from Rail to Truck was because the volume of concrete being sold went down, for example, a large construction project in t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00190.html (15,316 bytes)
- 344. Re: [CBQ] Re: Sesser Concrete (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:09:23 -0700 (PDT)
- This would be something interesting to model. So the concrete plant used the same siding as the grain elevator? That must have been some interesting switching. I know the mines and railroad used san
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00191.html (13,593 bytes)
- 345. Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Zephyr #64 page 9 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:26:03 -0700 (PDT)
- In the mid to late 1950's I remember seeing cream cans tagged for the Galva creamery in the express compartment of the eastbound doodlebug and after it ceased operating, in the express compartment o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00203.html (13,754 bytes)
- 346. [CBQ] Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John" <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:55:01 -0600
- A new landmark for railroad workers The B&O Railroad Museum celebrated the opening of the Luther G. Smith Plaza, named for the founder of the Brotherhood's Relief & Compensation Fund. The Brotherhood
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00241.html (10,838 bytes)
- 347. Re: [CBQ] Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:44:35 -0700 (PDT)
- A new landmark for railroad workers The B&O Railroad Museum celebrated the opening of the Luther G. Smith Plaza, named for the founder of the Brotherhood's Relief & Compensation Fund. The Brotherhoo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00243.html (14,453 bytes)
- 348. Re: [CBQ] Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
- That's how I always heard it referred to ie "Job Insurance" on the CB&Q...Seems like everybody had it. Pete Phil, We just called it job insurance. And yes I used it a few times. Archie On Aug 20, 20
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00254.html (22,525 bytes)
- 349. Re: [CBQ] Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:42:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo et al The complete wording of the "invitation" was..."to develop the facts, discover the cause, and determine your responsibility, if any, in connection with...............". I have sat on all t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00259.html (18,474 bytes)
- 350. Re: [CBQ] Re: Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:44:34 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo and all, I never had to have job insurance as a clerk/crew caller, but I heard about folks taking their job insurance payment and going fishing/hunting/house painting, etc. when given a short va
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00260.html (14,096 bytes)
- 351. Re: [CBQ] Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:43:05 -0700 (PDT)
- Exactly right John...I think you could get by with a couple..maybe more of G's, but there did seem to be a limit on "managerial discretion"...There was one guy on the Wymore Division who had more th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00272.html (23,858 bytes)
- 352. Re: [CBQ] Re: Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
- In the BN days while I was Local Chairman for the UTU-E at Edgemont. Had a case of an engineer who in broad daylight, ran into his train with a single GP40 and displaced the V-16 six inches off the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00278.html (14,981 bytes)
- 353. Re: [CBQ] Fwd: Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:50:09 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo- Could you explain more what happened? I believe you are describing a setout on the IHB interchange track south of the Eastbound main. How did the train handling result in the damage? Charlie Vl
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00283.html (16,234 bytes)
- 354. Re: [CBQ] Fwd: Fire Insurance Efficiency tests (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:01:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Steve et al...re efficiency tests....An efficiency test was, as all tests are, a measure of the knowledge and application of rules which are to be followed under a given set of conditions... The tes
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00296.html (27,418 bytes)
- 355. Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Fwd: Away from home accomodations/was Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Doug it was only us young bucks who complained about the luxurious accomodations at the Radke. All the older guys were only 4-5 years past staying on the waycar tracks and walking to the roundhouse
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00314.html (28,871 bytes)
- 356. Re: [CBQ] Clairification re assigned and pooled W/C's (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:24:11 -0700 (PDT)
- Pete Don't confuse seniority district with pool assignments. For example, on the Beardstown Division there was one seniority list for the whole division, for each craft in train service i.e. one for
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00350.html (14,703 bytes)
- 357. Re: [CBQ] Fwd: Away from home accomodations/was Fire Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
- Well said Dr. S....whoever you are I often think of exactly those things which you reiterated....In my own case, even though I had completed my active duty military service...(6 months in the Transp
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00379.html (19,472 bytes)
- 358. Re: [CBQ] Re: interesting use of HW Pullmans, CB&Q in the 1950s (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
- That's the one I'm talking about, but I didn't remember the guy's name...I the actual event was long enough ago (50 plus years) that I am absolutely certain about it...The program is recent enough t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00473.html (24,365 bytes)
- 359. Re: [CBQ] Fwd: [PCL] Interesting use of HW Pullmans, CB&Q in the 1950s (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:09:45 -0700 (PDT)
- I was assigned to the Rock Island Division of the Rock Island during my final days as a Trainee from August 160-January 31 1961. I remember this train coming down the "Wall Track" at Rock Island in
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00475.html (24,426 bytes)
- 360. Re: [CBQ] Re: Steam Era Fan Trip List (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 13:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
- I have just posted an updated list of the Q steam era fan trips in the Files section of the CB&Q group. It is identified as CB&Q FanTrips.xls. I have updated it with all I the information that I hav
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00062.html (13,074 bytes)
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