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21. [CBQ] Re: Lettering on E & F Units (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:41:04 -0600
Charlie, Builder's plates were among the last thing applied before shipping a unit from EMD. The builder's photo was often a "shot of opportunity" for our company photographers. Many builder's photo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00064.html (11,436 bytes)

22. Re: [SPAM][CBQ] Human Side-Forced (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:39:10 -0600
Pete, At least during WWII, senority and a job were held for war veterans at most if not all companies. My dad's senority at Electro-Motive (he started there in Sept., 1941), included the two years h
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00135.html (10,537 bytes)

23. [CBQ] Re: A modern F7 in Q passenger paint! (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:38:36 -0600
John, The box on the roof behind the cab is the dynamic brake as applied to the MBTA locomotives. As someone else said, this looks like a badly painted model. For starters, to be Q, the entire underc
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00172.html (10,102 bytes)

24. [CBQ] Re: Cameron Junction to Kansas City (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:57:40 -0600
Pete, It was, indeed, opened to traffic in 1949, 100 years after the beginning of the Q. . Train #77 was the premier service and Red Grange, #77, the "galloping Ghost" of University of Illinois footb
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00215.html (10,416 bytes)

25. [CBQ] Re: Kansas City shop capabilities (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:35:54 -0600
Mark, The only Kansas City shop area that I am familiar with was and is located in Murray Yard in North Kansas City, MO., not Kansas. In BN days, the facility was rather limited until EMD rebuilt the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00007.html (11,096 bytes)

26. [CBQ] Re: Ex-C&S SD9 839 Repainted BN Cascade Green Retaining BN 6234 Numb (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:29:48 -0600
Karl, The repainted unit is an SD9, not an SD-24. The Q SD-24s on the BN were number up from 6240. My impression from Bob Campbell and others was that the SD9s were great locomotives. Bill Barber [No
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00146.html (10,300 bytes)

27. [CBQ] Re:O5 (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:40:14 -0600
Duncan, I assume that i is an HO scale model (Sunset has produced several O scale versions over the years.). First, you need to determine what time frame you want to model. Prior to the early 1950's,
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00198.html (12,141 bytes)

28. [CBQ] Re: Mark Twain Zephyr on the move (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:41:43 -0600
Listers, Is the engine and generator still in the power unit of the Mark Twain Zephyr? If not, when and where was it removed? Years ago, when I saw it at Mt. Pleasant, IA., the engine and generator w
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00291.html (13,152 bytes)

29. [CBQ] Re: F unit number boards (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:46:39 -0600
Kenneth, Headlight control is trainlined within a locomotive consist meaning that the rear headlight can be turned on and off from the lead cab (assuming that control switches in each unit have been
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00004.html (12,698 bytes)

30. [CBQ] Re: Help with photo information (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:03:44 -0600
This was a fairly common move in the '50s and '60s. The car is bound for Western Avenue shop were the E fleet was maintained. I am sure it originated at West Burlington Shop where the trucks and moto
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00031.html (12,858 bytes)

31. [CBQ] Re: Help with photo information (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:09:45 -0600
Cy, I somewhat agree, but not always. I have a photo of a Q freight with a stripped Union Pacific F A&B coupled together enroute to La Grange I presume. Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO [Non-text portio
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00043.html (10,642 bytes)

32. [CBQ] Re:Q Passenger Units (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:48:23 -0600
John, Burlington Route Historical Society Burlington Bulletin #10 is devoted entirely to Q's "E" units. Includes almost everything you might want to know the fleet. On page 34, there is a list which,
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00073.html (14,595 bytes)

33. [CBQ] Re: DD Cab Cars (was Cutting out brakes?) (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:41:56 -0600
Steve, I wonder if FRA and the folks currently running Metra realize that those cab cars were built for a million pound buff load as compared to the 800,000 pounds spec. to which later cars are being
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00033.html (11,097 bytes)

34. [CBQ] Re: Transfer Rules (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:38:48 -0600
Bob, In those days, a train was under the control of the conductor. I doubt he would leave his office behind. Any move outside yard limits required a way car. Many transfer runs came back "way car li
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00059.html (11,371 bytes)

35. [CBQ] Re: Transfer Rules (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:38:15 -0600
Russ, Having lived in Downers Grove a block from the yard in the western end of town during the '40s, '50s and '60s, the way car usually came with the switch move to DG. I don't know about Congress P
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00137.html (11,270 bytes)

36. [CBQ] Re: New North Star trains (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:51:54 -0600
Robert, Q commuter service in Chicago started in 1864 (the centennial train was operated in 1964 pulled by 4-8-4 #5632 painted gold.). I don't know when the very first commuter service started in the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00147.html (11,787 bytes)

37. [CBQ] Re: Genealogy Question (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:36 -0600
Bob, The photo of the Q engineer on the morning Zephyr was published by Trains Magazine in 1955, about mid year, I think. They devoted two issues to coverage of the Q from one end to the other. Bill
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00148.html (12,492 bytes)

38. [CBQ] Re:Bell Regulations (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:25:07 -0500
Steve, In general, bells have been manufactured in four different styles. Early steam locomotives and some later ones, had manually operated bells. The bells were mounted on a vertical or angle mount
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-10/msg00060.html (12,900 bytes)

39. [CBQ] Re: CB&Q SW1000 (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:01:49 -0500
John and Charlie, The SW1000s were delivered from EMD in 1966 with the early simplified blackbird paint scheme which had "Burlington" in block letters along the side of the hood in stead of "Everywhe
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-09/msg00030.html (11,339 bytes)

40. [CBQ] Re: Abandoned railroad trestles (score: 1)
Author: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:38:42 -0500
Not all trestles were torn down on abandon RRs. I am not aware of any of the trestles on the Rio Grande Southern that were torn down. They have all just slowly decayed over time. There is a Milwaukee
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00051.html (13,583 bytes)

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