- 301. [CBQ] Happy Halloween, Indeed! (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:15:25 -0500
- Please excuse the cross post if this has already been brought to your attention, but the following link has a pretty cool pumpkin that you may like... Charlie Vlk e [Non-text portions of this message
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00000.html (9,181 bytes)
- 302. Re: [CBQ] Happy Halloween, Indeed! (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:37:24 -0500
- StephenNo, it was obviously the Silver Hollow (een). Charlie Vlk I like. Is that the pumpkin, that, after midnight, turns into the Silver Bit (you know, pumpkin turning into coach)? sjl . [Non-text p
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00002.html (9,564 bytes)
- 303. Re: [CBQ] Halloween (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:03:49 -0500
- I'll say the rest before anyone else does..... ......Brown! Charlie Vlk Great pumpkin Charlie. . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00004.html (9,172 bytes)
- 304. Re: [CBQ] Re: u23c paint info sought (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:38:48 -0600
- Lyle and I have been discussing this point for some time now. I agree that it is likely that the stripe did continue across the flat surface of the running boards... the "Corporate Identification Pro
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00015.html (10,987 bytes)
- 305. Re: [CBQ] Re: Power units for the California Zephyr? (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:50:22 -0600
- Follow the scheme for E-units rather than F units. The CZ F units had the passenger style grabs rather than the freight. The BB on E Units had the placement diagram. Charlie Vlk Hello everyone, I hav
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00023.html (11,062 bytes)
- 306. Re: [CBQ] Re: Montgomery Stock yard operations (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:02:11 -0600
- As long as we're on the subject of stockcars, the NMRA book edited by Ted Culotta has a picture of a (I think, I'm going from memory and don't have the book) a SLSX (Swift???) stock car that is a CB&
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00052.html (11,045 bytes)
- 307. Re: [CBQ] New to Modeling (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:29:00 -0600
- Carl I got into N Scale to AVOID modeling the CB&Q!!! I was driving myself crazy in the mid-sixties trying to model the Q in HO....I had a LMB O1a which had been rebuilt by friend Pat Egan into the 4
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00094.html (11,697 bytes)
- 308. Re: [CBQ] Exposition Flyer in N scale (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:30:11 -0600
- To the list of cars already mentioned available in N for the Q..... CZ full train (Oriental, brass) CZ full train (JnJ, resin copy of above) Con-Cor (mostly CZ prototype, compromised with skirt truck
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00101.html (9,953 bytes)
- 309. Re: [CBQ] Re: Exposition Flyer in N scale - CB&Q cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:41:55 -0600
- Ahoj Michael!! I think you are getting beyond the Exposition Flyer with some of your questions.... The use of TCZ domes on the Expo would be highly doubtful.... and certainly not typical. They would
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-11/msg00105.html (11,484 bytes)
- 310. Re: [CBQ] Assigned Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:20:04 -0500
- RussI understand.... The BRHS (like all Fallen Flag RR Historical Societies) was about 1/3 retirees, 1/3 Railfans, and 1/3 Model Railroaders/Modelers. The technical information was not much interest
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-10/msg00003.html (10,053 bytes)
- 311. Re: [CBQ] E Unit Nose Grabs (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:05:39 -0500
- RichCould you share the spreadsheet with the group??? Thanks, Charlie vlk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://g
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-10/msg00031.html (10,206 bytes)
- 312. Re: [CBQ] E Unit Nose Grabs (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:54:20 -0500
- RichThe drawing covering the passenger units (E5-E9 and the CZ F3s) was C.B.&Q. R.R. 14409 and has an Issue A date of 08/03/49, so your analysis of the first applications is right on target. Charlie
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-10/msg00032.html (10,322 bytes)
- 313. Re: [CBQ] Howdy - I'm new here... (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:18:44 -0500
- At DesPlaines Hobbies we've done several installs on HO Con-Cor and S Raisin River Pioneer Zephyrs using the LokSound unit. There are proper wave files available for the Winton prime mover, Buck Roge
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-10/msg00071.html (10,069 bytes)
- 314. Re: [CBQ] u23c paint info sought (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:19:15 -0500
- LyleThe picture in the Dorin book is on page 13. It looks to me that the walkways are Green and the White Stripe does extend out over the walkway. I would imagine the U23C follow the same pattern. Ch
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-10/msg00077.html (10,409 bytes)
- 315. Re: [CBQ] Re: Illinois Coal Mines (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:50:57 -0500
- Don't forget the excellent Burlington Bulletin on the Southern Illinois Coal Fields.... I know the thread is about the mines further north, but the subjects are somewhat related..... Charlie Vlk [Non
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-10/msg00121.html (9,974 bytes)
- 316. Re: [CBQ] Q F2 (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:44:05 -0500
- According to the EMD Locomotive Reference Data book the answer is yes, the CB&Q F2 locomotives purchased to allow the creation of F2/FT ABA sets did have dynamics. Charlie Vlk [Non-text portions of t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00052.html (9,390 bytes)
- 317. Re: [CBQ] D&RGW PAs on the Zephyr (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:25:01 -0500
- I would guess that the only PAs to make it onto CB&Q Chicagoland rails might have been EL transfer units (or maybe even pool power but I doubt it) and Santa Fe detour units. I don't know if the origi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00074.html (10,958 bytes)
- 318. Re: [CBQ] F3s on the CZ (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:09:47 -0500
- BobI don't know how long the PAs lasted on the CZ but I think there is a common misperception that the F3s were pulled off of the CZ earlier than they actually were. I haven't done any documentation
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00083.html (10,059 bytes)
- 319. [CBQ] 1976 American Freedom Train on the CB&Q (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:19:13 -0500
- On the return leg eastbound the GS4 with the freedom train ran into Chicago on the racetrack. I was commuting from Belmont at the time and decided to take a later train than normal to catch the train
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00093.html (12,109 bytes)
- 320. Re: [CBQ] Change of Subject (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:04:02 -0500
- RussI don't know if EMD generated their own power. The IHB/B&OCT "corridor" had Commonwealth Edison lines down it IIRC and Reynolds Aluminun (or was it Alcoa??) had a plant north and east of EMD in L
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00098.html (11,841 bytes)
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