- 241. Re: [CBQ] Re: Freight Car Rosters (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:37:42 -0400
- Welcome to you both! I would also suggest checking the www.burlingtonroute.com site. Some rosters are available there thanks to the work of several folks. Duncan Cameron I am also new to this group a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-09/msg00160.html (12,169 bytes)
- 242. Re: [CBQ] waycars (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:56:01 -0400
- Yes, there were at least a few. I believe there was a kit for one available through Q connection. Duncan Cameron Did the Burlington ever own any side door waycars? Thanks Gloria [Non-text portions of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-09/msg00215.html (10,387 bytes)
- 243. [CBQ] ICC files (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:03:38 -0400
- Doug, I just had a look at the ICC drawings you posted and noticed there are drawings for the Keokuk engine house. Unfortunately, at that resolution, most of the detail is unreadable. Could I beg a r
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00184.html (9,747 bytes)
- 244. Re: [CBQ] Re: ICC files (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:54:25 -0400
- That would be much appreciated! Duncan, I see I scanned the originals at 96dpi. I will dig them out and rescan at a higher rez, sometime. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org [Non-text portions of this
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00200.html (10,912 bytes)
- 245. Re: [CBQ] Re: ICC files (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:19:46 -0400
- Jack, Any other memories of Keokuk? I'm always looking for first hand recollections to help me piece together the town and operations in the late fifties and early sixties. Duncan I too, would be hap
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00202.html (11,041 bytes)
- 246. Re: [CBQ] Re: ICC files (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:45:44 -0400
- Doug, thanks for taking the time to do this! It will be a great help. Duncan Duncan, I dug out my ICC files and scanned everything I had on Keokuk, engine house at 300 dpi and other items at 200 dpi.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00204.html (11,275 bytes)
- 247. Re: [CBQ] Bob Brown's Books (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:17:41 -0400
- I know I've looked at the website several times thinking there were a few titles I'd like to have. Duncan Cameron Speaking of Bob Brown's books, are they still available? Saw Gerald Edgar Saturday at
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00094.html (11,038 bytes)
- 248. Re: [CBQ] Lines East Train Name and Number Question (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00:10 -0400
- Nelson, the Zephyr Rocket is trains #8 and 15 on the Hannibal Division. Duncan Cameron I bought a 1953 Employee Timetable for the Ottumwa and Creston Divisions in Batavia, and I'm having trouble batc
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00101.html (12,338 bytes)
- 249. Re: [CBQ] Lines East Train Name and Number Question (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:03:08 -0400
- Pete, Can I ask what made OS Creston so appealing to you? I know I bought it for the sake of the detailed operations info. Duncan Cameron Nelson...an afterthought......Try to get ahold of BB with cov
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00102.html (14,407 bytes)
- 250. Re: [CBQ] Train Number Question Followup (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:53:33 -0400
- Actually, the Zephyr Rocket carried a different set of numbers altogether when on Rock Island track. Initially it was numbered 561 & 562 in and out of the twin cities and 62-61 on the Des Moines divi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00111.html (11,435 bytes)
- 251. Re: [CBQ] Galena Jct. Depot Photos (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:47:46 -0400
- Paul, remind me where Galena Jct. is/was? Duncan Cameron Can anyone please steer me to photos of the old Galena Jct. depot? The only photo I have found is in Spoor Vol. 2 page 79. That photo provides
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00120.html (12,091 bytes)
- 252. Re: [CBQ] Re: Peoria Interchange Question (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:32:47 -0500
- I'm assuming that most of this meat traffic would have come through Galesburg, either up from St.Louis/Kansas City or through Burlington from further west? I've had some suggestion that the Rock Isla
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00003.html (12,127 bytes)
- 253. [CBQ] Semiphore signals (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:35:37 -0500
- I saw Dave's commercial post about the Q connection semaphores and the recent discussion about the one in Montgomery. Pictures of the Keokuk Union Depot show that at one time there was a semaphore th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00085.html (11,105 bytes)
- 254. Re: [CBQ] Semiphore signals (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:37:02 -0500
- Steve, thanks for the info. I believe that trains on the K-line in the sixties had to get clearance at Keokuk. That would explain it. I'll have to check the photos/timetables to pin down when the cha
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00095.html (12,387 bytes)
- 255. Re: [CBQ] proto-2000 Walthers CB & Q GP7 (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:22:40 -0400
- I've got three, two of which have only been test-run. I've got the boxes though the units haven't been in the boxes for a while. I agree that the gray is much darker than it appears in photos and I o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00131.html (11,465 bytes)
- 256. [CBQ] rail bridge over the Des Moines River at Keokuk (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:22:02 -0400
- Sorry for the cross posting but I'm throwing the net as widely as I can. I'm working on my notes on Keokuk's railway history and came up against a gap I can't fill. Who built and owned the first rail
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00249.html (11,950 bytes)
- 257. Re: [CBQ] rail bridge over the Des Moines River at Keokuk (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:38:03 -0400
- Archie, Bernie's book has been on my list to get for a while. I keep watching e-bay and Amazon for someone who will ship one to Canada. But thanks for the lead. In terms of the corporate history that
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00252.html (14,216 bytes)
- 258. Re: [CBQ] rail bridge over the Des Moines River at Keokuk (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:33:44 -0400
- Bill, you're right. The bridge had to be built by one of the Q's ancestors. Thanks for pointing that out. Duncan I have always heard the K&D be refuther to as the Keokuk and Des Moimes of the rock is
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00255.html (13,803 bytes)
- 259. Re: [CBQ] rail bridge over the Des Moines River at Keokuk (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:37:09 -0400
- Dave, that's what was making the most sense to me. It's just that I hadn't been able to find any mention anywhere of the bridge's construction and I didn't want to state as fact something that was su
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00256.html (15,533 bytes)
- 260. [CBQ] corporate history (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:45:31 -0400
- Okay, here I go again. I've got Baldwin's corporate history in one hand and Overton in the other. Overton, on page 174, mentions the purchase of the St.Louis, Keokuk and Western Railway by the Q in 1
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00262.html (10,865 bytes)
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