- 161. [CBQ] Re: Pendulum Cars (score: 1)
- Author: William Barber <clipperw@EarthLink.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:31:03 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
- Stephen, The third car, I believe, was owned by the Great Northern. I just happened to come across a photo of it in an Empire Builder consist in the January, 1951 issue of 'Trains Magazine' on page 3
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-12/msg00093.html (9,514 bytes)
- 162. [CBQ] Re: Chicago Railroad Fair (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:10:43 -0600
- Cy, According to the current issue (December) of Railfan & Railroad magazine, one "open coach" from the Railroad Fair was acquired by the Hesston Steam Museum in La Porte, IN. However, it was destroy
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00013.html (9,977 bytes)
- 163. [CBQ] Re:Chicago Union Station (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:36:20 -0600
- John, I hope you have a lot of space or are modeling in "Z" scale! Even fore shortened, it would be a long way from Union Station to Clyde Yard. I can answer a couple of your questions. Passenger tra
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00091.html (11,945 bytes)
- 164. [CBQ] Re: Chicago Union Station (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:58:51 -0600
- John, Here is some more information concerning Union Station, and comments in the many e-mails of this obviously interesting thread. Prior to 1950, the commuter cars of the Q were almost exclusively
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00138.html (19,984 bytes)
- 165. [CBQ] Re: Chicago Union Station (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:18:18 -0600
- John, Unless you are a lot older than I am (63), you probably don't really remember a roundhouse at Downers. It was gone before I was born in 1943. My late dad remembered the roundhouse and talked ab
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00150.html (14,070 bytes)
- 166. [CBQ] Re: Bill Glick's Passenger Car Refernce Books (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:08:48 -0600
- Are the Q passenger car reference books by Bill Glick still available? In so, does anyone have an ordering address? Bill Barber Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://g
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00153.html (9,279 bytes)
- 167. [CBQ] Re: Chicago Union Station (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:08:18 -0600
- Charlie, Thanks for the clarification and the additional information. Bill Barber [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00158.html (13,026 bytes)
- 168. [CBQ] Re: Chicago Union Station (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:27:17 -0600
- John, One of the things you said you were looking for in one of the earlier posts in this thread was a drawing of Clyde (Cicero, Hawthorne) yard. I knew I had seen one and just came across it. If you
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00160.html (12,336 bytes)
- 169. [CBQ] early morning commuter train (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:02:55 -0600
- I know that the DG house track was used regularly for commuter trains originating from the DG commuter yard, but that ended in 1952 when steam was eliminated and the yard was shut down. I am not fami
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00169.html (11,174 bytes)
- 170. [CBQ] Re: texas zephyr (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:39:34 -0600
- Bob, Of course, the Saudi government has enough of "OUR" money to rehabilitate the train, ship it to the U.S., provide space for it (maybe a couple of hundred acres?) and provide an endowment to main
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00180.html (13,416 bytes)
- 171. [CBQ] Re: texas zephyr (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:09:04 -0600
- Bob, My comment was only in jest. I had no intention of starting an international incident. My only point was that the Saudi government could afford to return the train for historical purposes. I am
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00198.html (13,953 bytes)
- 172. [CBQ] Q "Suburbanaire" Service (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:09:16 -0600
- Charlie, I suspect that the modifications on the power cars looked like gaselectric modifications because they were probably done by the same design engineers and craftsmen that had done modification
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00199.html (10,701 bytes)
- 173. [CBQ] Re: Q "Suburbanaire" Service (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:29:19 -0600
- Charlie, Knowing Q practices, you may be quite correct. I don't know whether the power cars were rebuilt at West B. or Aurora, or both. I believe that the Gas Electrics were both maintained and modif
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00216.html (11,801 bytes)
- 174. [CBQ] RE: Trackage Arrangements (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:00:37 -0600
- As some of you know, I grew up in Downers Grove and was fairly familiar with the Q's operation in that area. However, time has dulled my specific memory of the track arrangement in the area for indus
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00257.html (9,312 bytes)
- 175. [CBQ] Re: rfd-tv (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:26:26 -0500
- John, If you have Dish Network satellite TV service, you can find RFD-TV on channel 9409. TRAINS AND LOCOMOTIVES airs several times a week including Saturday mornings at 8:00 am CT. Bill Barber Yahoo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-10/msg00095.html (9,032 bytes)
- 176. [CBQ] Re: Chicago Railroad Fair (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:55:20 -0600
- Bob, As additional information to your data, following the RR Fair, No. 9 was stored at Eola, IL roundhouse for a number of years. It was on a flat car outside when I photographed it in the late '50s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-10/msg00131.html (9,578 bytes)
- 177. [CBQ] Re: Keokuk, IA (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:25:38 -0500
- I was traveling through Keokuk, IA, today, on US61. Just north of town and slightly north of the turn off for Business 61, I briefly noted a railroad under construction along the highway on the west
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-09/msg00076.html (9,593 bytes)
- 178. [CBQ] Re: O Scale Pullman Cars (score: 1)
- Author: William Barber <clipperw@EarthLink.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:30:47 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
- Just a note for Q O scalers, check out Suset 3rd Rail's plastic line called Golden Gate Depot. They have just announced a 12-1 Pullman car with six road names that were assigned to the Q. They also h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-09/msg00097.html (9,432 bytes)
- 179. [CBQ] Re: Hudson #3003 (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:57:51 -0500
- Does anyone know what the current status of hudson #3003 is at Burlington. I had heard, some time ago, that a group was working on it or was planning to work on it with the thought of possible future
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-08/msg00015.html (8,725 bytes)
- 180. [CBQ] Re: Status/Access to CB&Q K-2 #637 at IRM (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 09:55:05 -0500
- Rob, The last time I saw it (about two years ago), it was stored inside, but little if anything has been done to it since it arrived from it's former location in an Aurora, IL park. When it left the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-08/msg00024.html (12,688 bytes)
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