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321. Re: [CBQ] Waycar underframes (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:45:35 -0500
I don't know when it happened but sometime after 1906 the waycars started to get built new with steel underframes. There were actually two different steel underframes... one for the cars as built new
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00134.html (11,273 bytes)

322. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Dynamometer Car (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:26:42 -0500
Years ago I spoke with the son-in-law of the original owner of Northeastern (who manufactured the Ambroid kits before Gloor Craft made some for them) about the CB&Q Dynanometer car kit. He thought th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00139.html (10,456 bytes)

323. Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Dynamometer Car (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:53:33 -0500
JohnYes, the Ambroid kit is of the as-built car. I don't know this for certain but I am guessing the car was built new using a modification of the standard 30' waycar body and details. As built it ha
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00140.html (11,656 bytes)

324. Re: [CBQ] Assigned Waycars (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:40:17 -0500
LeoI understand the riding qualities regarding slack action and the advantage of cushioned underframes.... but did the NE12 and NE13 have much in the way of cushioned draft gear??? However, the No.7
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00151.html (11,814 bytes)

325. Re: [CBQ] Waycars in Interchange (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:44:18 -0500
LeoSome of the UP waycars were actually specially painted in Silver for pooled runthrough service. These are different than the ones that received MOW Silver paint. Notice that the Q didn't reciproca
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00154.html (9,602 bytes)

326. Re: [CBQ] 1976 American Freedom Train on the CB&Q (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:15:17 -0500
The AFT came through Chicago at least twice IIRC. I worked at the Illinois Bell Headquarters Building on Randolph Street in downtown Chicago (a quick duck through the complex, across Washington Stree
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00155.html (11,627 bytes)

327. Re: [CBQ] Implement/tractor plant waybill info. (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:56:33 -0500
My Wednesday night train group was over tonight and somebody mentioned the Dynamic Augment Film that was taken on the CB&Q during the early steam-diesel transition era. Does somebody have a copy of t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00181.html (11,525 bytes)

328. Re: [CBQ] Assigned Waycars (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:02:15 -0500
LeoThanks for your slant on Waycars!!! I love the mechanical and architectural aspects of Q equipment and it really adds to my enjoyment to hear how the equipment was used by the crews!!! Charlie Vlk
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00182.html (10,081 bytes)

329. Re: [CBQ] Assigned Waycars (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:12:46 -0500
RussThe No.7 truck was the 5'-0" wheelbase wood beam passenger style truck used under all cupola wood waycars (except the one that had allied full cushion trucks applied as an experiment, nitpickers!
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-09/msg00210.html (13,345 bytes)

330. Re: [CBQ] Proto 2000 Q F Units (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:40:35 -0500
You would be surprised at the errors that can sneak into production..... You might be surprised at some of the errors that are on products that no one has ever noticed!!!! Sometimes you can't see the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-08/msg00005.html (11,054 bytes)

331. Re: [CBQ] Re: Proto 2000 Q F Units (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:21:16 -0500
I wasn't downplaying the seriousness of the design and manufacturering of Heart Valves.... (Model Railroad equipment has tolerances that are only exceeded by the Medical and Aerospace Industries, by
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-08/msg00007.html (11,779 bytes)

332. Re: [CBQ] Re: Proto 2000 Q F Units (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:37:04 -0500
No, you didn't hit a nerve.... I've worked in the Model Railroad Industry too long to have any nerves (or brains) left. Charlie Vlk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-08/msg00013.html (9,964 bytes)

333. Re: [CBQ] Re:Oiling the Rails (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:10:47 -0500
TedI would have thought that the slipstream induced by the movement of the cars would not have deposited said material in a recognizable form directly on axis of the delivery system.....except when t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-08/msg00041.html (10,469 bytes)

334. Re: [CBQ] Re:Oiling the Rails (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:18:56 -0500
The Q refered to the assembly as a "Dry Hopper", at least on waycars. I think most mainline passenger stock had a flapper and water flushing to block the view of rushing rails and provide some insula
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-08/msg00049.html (11,306 bytes)

335. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Toilets (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:33:52 -0500
ScottI don't recall using the toilets in the 7100 or 7200 series commuter coaches.... they might have had dry hoppers but even on the mainline equipment you could see straight through to the ties whe
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-08/msg00052.html (11,511 bytes)

336. [CBQ] Omaha Depot Track Diagrams needed (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:40:52 -0500
Kirk Reddie from N Scale Railroading Magazine is working on a N Scale version of the Omaha Depot and needs track diagrams for the station and approach trackage circa 1960 or thereabouts. If anyone ha
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-08/msg00087.html (9,356 bytes)

337. Re: [SPAM] [CBQ] Green City, MO (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:22:17 -0500
HankAs much as I would like to see the waycar preserved I would be against the BRHS purchasing it or funding its movement. There are plenty of preserved Q waycars (it isn't like the car is unique...l
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-07/msg00011.html (11,350 bytes)

338. Re: [CBQ] Commercial post - New Q Book (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:35:12 -0500
I purchased the book but it is weakest in CB&Q. Most of the photos have been previously published or are similar to ones that we've seen before. (no action shots of Suburban Tank Engines, the engine
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-07/msg00012.html (11,416 bytes)

339. Re: [CBQ] Re: [Fwd: [EarlyRail] Capitol City Brick and Pipe Company (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:25:35 -0500
The "Gondolas" are flat cars with stake sides.... the sides had to be removed before the angle plow could slough the material off the deck over the edge of the car. Wouldn't work quite as well (!!!!)
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-07/msg00018.html (11,950 bytes)

340. Re: [CBQ] Commercial post - New Q Book (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:12:26 -0500
TomThe "partial" compliment is only due to its posting on the CB&Q list, where interests are somewhat focused. As a Chicago History fan, the book is more than great! Like the A.W. Johnson photos, I o
/archives/BRHSLIST/2007-07/msg00020.html (13,153 bytes)

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