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41. [CBQ] Re: [HOsteam] Test shot of the MDC American] (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:08:13 -0800; I suspect that the brass wheels were simply a model-prototype application. However, model 4-4-0s notoriously have almost no traction (all the weight has to be over the drivers, the space of which is; /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-03/msg00174.html (9,970 bytes)
42. [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Yard @ Riverside, Illinois (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:48:49 -0800; For what little it may be worth, I lived in Riverside 1937-1952 (did not sell home until 1985), and as long as I can recall, the old yard property was a coal company (the owner's son was a classmate); /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-03/msg00214.html (9,571 bytes)
43. [CBQ] Re: Expo Flyer - Pullman Solarium (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:24:16 -0700; During the 1940's, c. 1941-48, I observed the Flyer almost every weekday (it came through Riverside just when I crossed the tracks when walking back to school from having lunch at home). I only recal; /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-05/msg00115.html (9,693 bytes)
44. [CBQ] Re: Precision Craft F-3 Sale (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:56:13 -0700; I am also interested in what issues there are (if any) with the PC F-3. I have heard rumors of sound (ESU LokSound) deficiencies, but no hard evidence to back that up. Regrettably, I hear the very sa; /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-03/msg00183.html (9,275 bytes)
45. [CBQ] Ballast Choices (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:52:20 -0800; Some years ago Gerald Edgar reported that the ballast on the CBQ mainline between Chicago and Aurora c. 1943 forward into the fifties was slag . I presume that this was steel or iron slag, and if so; /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-02/msg00046.html (9,369 bytes)
46. [CBQ] "Slag" ballast, (cont'd) (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:42:03 -0800; Friends, many of you were kind enough to respond to my inquiries as to ballasts on the Milwaukee and CB&Q railroads, in addition to my more specific request for information on the color and texture o; /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-02/msg00157.html (13,431 bytes)
47. [CBQ] FOR SALE: Car Builders Dictionary 1906 (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:15:29 -0800; I have the following duplicate for sale: THE CAR BUILDER'S DICTIONARY, The Railroad Gazette, Chicago 1906; republished Newton K. Gregg, Kentfield CA. 1971. Large format hardbound. No wraps. 568 pp. M; /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-02/msg00194.html (9,502 bytes)
48. [CBQ] Re: "Slag" ballast, (cont'd) (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:55:04 -0800; Charlie comments: and Paul replies: The AR&M products are simply first rate.They lay down extremely well and the grains stay in place and very level during the wetting and cementing process. I have u; /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-02/msg00213.html (10,211 bytes)
49. [CBQ] Re:South Dakota State Railroad Museum (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:27:48 -0800; Very interesting news raising both expectations, and many questions What is the nature of your capital funding, and your operating budget? I would presume by your choice of name that you are state su; /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-11/msg00082.html (10,001 bytes)
50. [CBQ] CB&Q in THE STING (score: 1): Author: "docdenny34" <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:04:29 -0600; Although I remember well the director's artful fiction of depicting IC electric MU cars on the Chicago Wabash Street L in the great Paul Newman movie THE STING (1973), I was surprised to also notice; /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-10/msg00006.html (9,339 bytes)
51. [CBQ] Re:Ballast color (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:55:52 -0800; Slag ballast was gray only when fresh, but in use it rapidly accumulated a coating of stains, dirt, etc. that covered each piece with a uniform medium rusty brown color. I recently examined and compa; /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00169.html (10,217 bytes)
52. [CBQ] Re: Ballast color (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:04:39 -0800; No iron has shown up with a magnet, which tends to reinforce hazy information dragged out of my memory that slag in fact actually contains no iron. Denny -- Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento Yahoo! Gro; /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00176.html (9,274 bytes)
53. [CBQ] Re:Slag Ballast Color (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:14:57 -0800; Slag was light weight, all right, and as has been noted, it was freely available from the Chicago area steel industry. Although economic factors may have been a factor in its demise as ballast (not t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00230.html (10,186 bytes)
54. [CBQ] Re: Abandoned railroad trestles (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:42:42 -0500; Whether or not trestles were kept in place or dismantled after abandonment historically was largely a decision made by the contract salvager- who was there to make money, not to make things safe for; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00037.html (12,140 bytes)
55. [CBQ] Re: CZ Diners (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:57:32 -0500; A distinct feature of the CZ diners was their minimal pantry storage capacity, so designed because they made use of dedicated pantry space in the accompanying coffee shop dome, i.e. the two cars bein; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00071.html (11,027 bytes)
56. [CBQ] Re: CZ Diners (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 08:08:12 -0500; The end "booths" on these diners could be made into lower sleeping sections, presumably for the night time use of crew when no other dormitory space was available. I have no idea whether they were ev; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00079.html (10,524 bytes)
57. [CBQ] Re: CZ Diners (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:55:14 -0500; The "false floor" under the SP domes was because the dome was single level, i.e. the floor space below was not of sufficient height for standing room for a second level. I have no idea where access t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00086.html (12,144 bytes)
58. [CBQ] Re:LMB 2-10-4 Model (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:03:42 -0700; Driving wheels slipping on axles: All drivers will need to be re-quartered, those slipping as well as those not. When the drivers were originally "quartered" the only requirement was that they all be; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00029.html (11,095 bytes)
59. [CBQ] Pioneer Zephyr winton sound (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 19:34:36 -0700; To now, I have not been considering sound in my rebuilt NPP PIONEER ZEPHYR, but I recently heard that "someone" may be producing a decoder with the Winton sound, and with the proper single trumpet ho; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00084.html (10,351 bytes)
60. [CBQ] Sterling Hayden's former Burlington Office Car (score: 1): Author: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>; Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:52:23 -0700; The following post and inquiry was on today's RLHS list. With little comment over the years from those who generally would do so, Hayden's former CBQ office car sat hunkered down in the weeds on a si; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00119.html (11,088 bytes)

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