- 381. Re: [CBQ] Waycar Brake Whistles (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
- This discussion raises a question about whistles on the rear of passenger trains. I'm sure most of you know that the passenger depot at Hannibal was not on the mainline. Northbound passenger trains
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00131.html (15,394 bytes)
- 382. Re: [CBQ] Waycar Brake Whistles (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:00:21 -0700 (PDT)
- On the RI at LaSalle St. station it was not uncommon for a backup to "hit the post"..when it happened the vibration literally shook the whole building...It was said that when that happened it knocke
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00141.html (18,768 bytes)
- 383. Re: [CBQ] GP-7/SD-7 Mars Light Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:54:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Both the GP-7 and SD-7 have a Mars light with white over red lenses. Having never seen these locomotives operate, I dont know if both or only one of the lights oscillated. If only one, which one? Im
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00171.html (14,654 bytes)
- 384. Re: [CBQ] Mars Light Operation (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:03:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Thank you to those who provided information about the operation of headlights and Mars lights on GP-7 and SD-7 motors. Heres a summary of what I learned, for those needing to program DCC decoders. P
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00181.html (19,165 bytes)
- 385. Re: [CBQ] Newberry Archives (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
- The original purpose of the " flimsy" was to enable the order to be read by the light of a lantern (oil burning) or lamp in a dark jouncing cab of a steam locomtive. or waycar The order could be hel
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00218.html (23,590 bytes)
- 386. Re: [CBQ] Newberry Archives Train orders (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
- Thanks for mentioning that John...Just to add a bit more...The carbon paper used was double faced therefore the ink was transferred to both the front and back of all of the "intermediate copies of t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00227.html (29,435 bytes)
- 387. Re: [CBQ] Newberry Archives Train orders (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
- John I was not familiar with the NS designation, but it certainly is correct....At those stations the timetable would have a statement "like unto this"....No train order signal at St. Joseph Union S
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00229.html (32,941 bytes)
- 388. Re: [CBQ] Newberry Archives Train orders (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:59:53 -0700 (PDT)
- Thanks John...I forgot about the "when operator on duty"....Of course that caveat was probably only used when there was less than continuous train order service. I was at Herrin Jct once in late Dec
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00231.html (36,651 bytes)
- 389. Re: [CBQ] Newberry Archives (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:24:06 -0700 (PDT)
- Back in the 1890s and early 1900s "flimsies" were not so flimsy. I have a number of C&S and predecessor company train orders (both 31s and 19s) that are on a heavier paper with a carbon paper backin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00238.html (28,148 bytes)
- 390. [CBQ] Fw: (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 16:07:47 -0700 (PDT)
- Click Here! Click Here! Reply With Quote Reply With Quote Reply With Quote Reply With Quote Click Here! Click Here! __._,_.___ Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via ema
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00026.html (15,562 bytes)
- 391. Re: [CBQ] Fw: (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 16:09:11 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00027.html (17,065 bytes)
- 392. Re: [CBQ] BURLINGTON BRIDGE (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 20:27:30 -0700 (PDT)
- Bill, Ballasting a bridge means that the track is just part of the right of way and not fixed to the actual bridge itself. You can maintain a much better alignment through the bridge and in theory m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00049.html (13,314 bytes)
- 393. Re: [CBQ] H&StJ at Hannibal (was re. M.E.Hagen) (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 15:12:31 -0700 (PDT)
- Lindsey: If you are around Hannibal, you can still walk some of the old H&StJ main. At the west end of Collier Street, west of where the track would have crossed Lindell Avenue (about where present
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00052.html (23,305 bytes)
- 394. Re: [CBQ] Color of the front marker lights on the doodlebugs (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 18:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Hi All: I am am modeling a Doodlebug following CB&Q practice for my railroad HO (Mississippi River and Western) in the Ia & Ill area and was questioning what color was the front markers of the doodl
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00096.html (13,087 bytes)
- 395. Re: [CBQ] Orient Coal, Franklin Co. Illinois. (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 09:06:42 -0700 (PDT)
- I was poking around Trainboard, where a member posts pictures of very old signs, when I ran across one for Stevenson Coal Co. of Central City, Nebraska. The sign had a picture of a 1930ish dump truc
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00138.html (13,294 bytes)
- 396. Re: [CBQ] Camp Grant, Rockford (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 06:17:56 -0700 (PDT)
- If anyone has an interest in Camp Grant at Rockford and the construction of its trackwork 1917, there is an article in Railway Maintenance Engineer at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00183.html (12,550 bytes)
- 397. Re: [CBQ] Aerial photos, Illinois 1939-41 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:24:27 -0700 (PDT)
- I stumbled across these photos. They have been a great help placing buildings and track. They are not the clearest of pictures but you can still pick up some details. I also compare the pictures wit
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00199.html (13,362 bytes)
- 398. Re: [CBQ] Browning Illinois depot 2012 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
- I just put some pictures in the photo section under Browning Illinois Depot. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/photos/album/505171375/pic/list I just took these on an outing with my wife in May 2012
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00205.html (12,944 bytes)
- 399. Re: [CBQ] Re: Aerial photos, Illinois 1939-41 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
- I whittled it down a bit, if you go here http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/ilhap/county/j_franklin.html and hit number 22, and the numbers around it, you should be in Sesser. I see the ball
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00206.html (16,678 bytes)
- 400. Re: [CBQ] Re: Aerial photos, Illinois 1939-41 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
- Thanks Mr Mitchell. Did you you get the pictures to open? For whatever reason, I cannot for the life of me visualize the grain elevator in Sesser. But then I kind of, sort of remember seeing it from
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-05/msg00208.html (17,834 bytes)
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