- 21. Re: [BRHSlist] RPO (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:54:29 -0600
- What scale is the car and how decent a model is it? Charlie -- Original Message -- From: "cy svobodny" <ctsvobodny@y...> To: "burlington route group" <brhslist@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "tom johnson" <tee
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00165.html (8,663 bytes)
- 22. Re: [BRHSlist] RE: copying maps (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:48:28 -0600
- Many Kinkos have Oce Engineering Copy Machines which will take a 36" wide original and reduce it or enlarge it to any size not wider than 36". There is a setting on the machine which will make the co
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00179.html (8,496 bytes)
- 23. Re: [BRHSlist] Book question (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:31:09 -0600
- The book you want is A Guide to Chicago's Train Stations by Ira J. Bach and Susan Wolfson. ISBN 0-8040-0869-8. The copy I have has a printing date of 1986 and was published by the Ohio University Pre
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00308.html (10,398 bytes)
- 24. Re: [BRHSlist] what yr was switch from black to red? (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:39:11 -0600
- Do you speak of the E Unit Paint Scheme? If so, it is not the Chinese Red scheme, but rather the application of the red used in the Herald, frame and upper stripe to the nose grilles and horizontal n
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00393.html (8,368 bytes)
- 25. Re: [BRHSlist] Enlightment please (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:27:43 -0600
- In the late sixties I went over to the stock pens at Clyde Yard (Cicero) to measure and photograph the SM-16 stockcars. Yes, the aroma was rather pungent, even cars that had been "cleaned". I don't k
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00126.html (8,625 bytes)
- 26. Re: [BRHSlist] Silver Dreams on the Silver Quail (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:38:09 -0600
- Every once in a while, when the doomsayers and daily evidence ("reality"TV programs, Jackass the Movie, etc.) begin to convince one of doom enveloping our hobby and society, you get a reminder there
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00143.html (12,419 bytes)
- 27. Re: [BRHSlist] Chicago, Burlington and Northern (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:47:38 -0600
- I am still stumped as to why the CB&N, at the late date it was formed and built, had independent designs for its equipment and structures. The much earlier B&MR and other subsidiaries were Aurora and
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00154.html (10,377 bytes)
- 28. Re: [BRHSlist] Chicago, Burlington and Northern (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:56:16 -0600
- RussellMy face is red. I have the Overton book, of course, but haven't looked at it for years. I will bring it upstairs and start reading it again. Thanks for the information. I didn't recall that Ov
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00166.html (11,766 bytes)
- 29. Re: [BRHSlist] Mt Morris (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:09:27 -0600
- As I have a Mt.Morris branch on my mythical Galesburg & Savanna Rwy. (it approaches Mt. Morris from Savanna) I would be interested in seeing material on Mt. Morris and Kable Printing. I am hoping tha
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00216.html (7,359 bytes)
- 30. Re:RPI Award Gold XM-32s (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:04:30 -0600
- Per the Burlington Bulletin on XM-32 boxcars, the following cars of the eight completed in Gold in December 1966 to commemorate the Q winning the Railroad Progress Institute's Golden Freight Car Awar
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00220.html (6,963 bytes)
- 31. Re: [BRHSlist] modelers (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:09:48 -0600
- DonGreat idea..... in N Scale, MicroTrains has done this in their BN "Fallen Flags" series three or four times. I would suggest going to InterMountain as they have carbody types that would be accurat
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00248.html (9,966 bytes)
- 32. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Kato Business Car (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:13:15 -0600
- JimDon't hold your breath for Kato to do any more cars in HO..... from what I understand, even with rather modest production figures, they are not flying out of Schaumburg. Kato is not set up to do l
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00329.html (10,595 bytes)
- 33. Re: [BRHSlist] NP Routing (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:09:21 -0500
- NP did NOT route its Chicago passenger trains via the Q. Off top of my head I forget the years but believe it's in Overton's "Burlington Route".< The Q / NP relationship is an interesting one. I rem
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00004.html (6,650 bytes)
- 34. Re: [BRHSlist] #4960 pilgramage in Arizona (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:29:02 -0500
- Talk about mixed emotions....happy she has been rebuilt and is in operation....but the USRA front end and six wheel tender.....really!!!......not an O1a without the archbar trucked tender withthe sid
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00012.html (7,909 bytes)
- 35. Re: [BRHSlist] Baggage Car Dynamos (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:52:20 -0500
- The Bulletin on the Cole Creek (???) disaster on the C&S had some discussion and photos of the dynamo room. That is probably what you are thinking of. Charlie -- Original Message -- From: "Marshall T
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00069.html (8,358 bytes)
- 36. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Last post..Motorcar on Keokuk Streets... (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:15:55 -0500
- The latest followup on the dam railroad showed an intriquing shot of the ends of some old equipment, including what looks like a four wheel box car or caboose body....anybody know the heritage of thi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00116.html (8,566 bytes)
- 37. Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [PT] Beautiful 4-4-0 Pics (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:11:41 -0500
- Hank's stuff is not as good as it looks in the pictures..... The real CB&Q never built stuff that perfect. Seriously, his (and his son's) work is breathtaking!!! Little details, like the correct patt
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00196.html (7,063 bytes)
- 38. Re: [BRHSlist] SHOVEL NOSE DIESELS (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:24:26 -0500
- The "Zephyr Boosters" seemed to be regularly assigned to the Empire Builder... sandwiched between a pair of E's... Anybody know why the 9906/7 boosters were not used, or where they were used??? They
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00258.html (9,825 bytes)
- 39. Re: [BRHSlist] JL Innovative Bagwell Junction Kit (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:33:09 -0500
- TomIt certainly looks like a standard CB&Q tower (much like the one at Red Oak, IA, which I believe was a Burlington standard design). Charlie -- Original Message -- From: "TOM KOCH" <tom.koch@a...>
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00028.html (8,102 bytes)
- 40. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:35:34 -0500
- And, according to a conversation I had with Al Hoffman, the first in Chicago to experiment with push-pull operation..... they MU'd gas electrics on each end of a string of commuter coaches.....in the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00029.html (8,041 bytes)
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