- 41. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Are these guys legal? AKA "Let's go to beans" No. 2 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:21:50 -0700 (PDT)
- Pete This tread reminded me of an old coal fields story. For a long time, the "sun chaser" turn crew, into West Frankfort Yard, would call for a cab, just as soon as they set out the MT's. Into town,
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- 42. Re: [BRHSlist] Torpedo tubes. (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:13:51 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00211.html (8,827 bytes)
- 43. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:18:02 -0700 (PDT)
- Pete Even more interesting, was to watch the machine that UNLOADED a grain boxcar. That thing picked up the each end of the car and turned it side to side. Covered hoppers really simplified everythin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00221.html (10,866 bytes)
- 44. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Torpedo Tubes (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:24:15 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00235.html (9,469 bytes)
- 45. [BRHSlist] The Greatest Show on Earth (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:07:57 -0700 (PDT)
- I just got done watching "The Greatest Show on Earth" for about the fifteenth time. No, I did NOT get up at 4:30 AM. I set the VCR and taped it. It was as good as I remembered it. I had forgotten the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00245.html (9,120 bytes)
- 46. Re: [BRHSlist] How many driven axles on a SD-7/9? (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:00:23 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00276.html (8,406 bytes)
- 47. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Don't stop now. (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:04:46 -0800 (PST)
- What you describe is called "plugging", an electric motor. It is very destructive as, in theory, the plugging current, (measured in amps) is TWICE the running current. Some electrical motor control c
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00318.html (14,349 bytes)
- 48. Re: [BRHSlist] Movies of the past with strange trains for the location (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:17:48 -0800 (PST)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00353.html (10,556 bytes)
- 49. Re: [BRHSlist] Car seals...bananas and other trivia (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:46:06 -0700 (PDT)
- Pete I remember the old charcoal (and wood alcohol) banana heaters. They would fill the car with carbon monoxide and KILL yard clerks. Just another way that death danced in the train yard. One of the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00007.html (13,475 bytes)
- 50. [BRHSlist] Leo Phillip (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:08:28 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00103.html (8,851 bytes)
- 51. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:19:11 -0700 (PDT)
- Good job Russ. But I do take exception to one small part. While the cupola may have been forward much of the time, there was no "normal" position for it. The waycar could be run either way and was. M
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00167.html (15,367 bytes)
- 52. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:43:09 -0700 (PDT)
- I just got a copy of BB # 35 out (becuase I had it handy). On page 68 is a picture of a waycar in 1917 with the long end forward. On page 85 there is picture of the southbound "third turn", that show
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00174.html (12,047 bytes)
- 53. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00176.html (11,661 bytes)
- 54. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:48:14 -0700 (PDT)
- At Centralia, there was the "Beardstown" waycar track and the "Centralia" waycar track for the two road freight trainmen/conductor pools. I never could figure why the Beardstown track was closer to t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00180.html (13,761 bytes)
- 55. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:05:35 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00195.html (16,416 bytes)
- 56. Re: [BRHSlist] Fluting again (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:58:30 -0700 (PDT)
- They had a "filet". By design, the fluting was made to make the stainless steel sheets stronger (more ridgid). Square corners cause "stress concentrations", a very bad thing. Welcome to Mechanical De
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00258.html (11,054 bytes)
- 57. Re: [BRHSlist] re: 1898 barrel & furniture cars (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:17:10 -0700 (PDT)
- In fact almost everything that today moves in "bulk", once moved in packaged form either in barrels, crates or sacks, with exception of coal and even then "smithing" coal was shipped in sacks. Even a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00279.html (12,599 bytes)
- 58. Re: [BRHSlist] re: shipping in barrels/sacks (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00287.html (11,843 bytes)
- 59. Re: [BRHSlist] re: shipping in barrels/sacks (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:18:46 -0700 (PDT)
- I always remember the advice an old engine foreman,(Harry Allen) gave me. He said, "When you're down between cars, coupling air and you hear a noise down the train, don't think to yourself, 'Wonder,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00296.html (10,965 bytes)
- 60. Re: [BRHSlist] More about steel water tanks and water cranes (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00297.html (12,826 bytes)
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