- 181. Re: [CBQ] Train handling question (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 23:42:11 +0000
- Yeah, should've thought that. Fuel economy is a critical issue (and one I saw the BN heading toward in 1980). I saw the same thing in the airline ops / air traffic control world. But there is a downs
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00140.html (14,096 bytes)
- 182. Re: [CBQ] Train handling question (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 04:04:28 +0000
- I'll be interested to hear another old Aurora air brake wizard, Karl R, give his 2 cents..... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry --Original Message-- From: "Philip Weibler pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00154.html (15,823 bytes)
- 183. Re: [CBQ] Train handling question (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:46:58 -0500 (CDT)
- Reading all of these (and some from the BN list) and I think back to the 1970's philosophy on power assignments. One day you'd get a ridiculously over-powered you'd over speed. Then you'd get a #185
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00156.html (13,526 bytes)
- 184. Re: [CBQ] Train handling question (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:46:11 -0500 (CDT)
- Mike, yeah, you're probably right about the waycar point. However, I can remember some pretty brutal "slack artists" back in the day when I was back there. Like old "Velvet", eh Leo? Doug I'm an "air
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00160.html (13,091 bytes)
- 185. Re: [CBQ] Re: Special Day in Q History (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 23:17:02 +0000
- I wonder how (as I've heard) a single engineer (Road Foreman Jack Ford) did the entire trip. That always seemed a bit much to me - for one thing just knowing where you were regarding lay-of-the-land.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00170.html (11,836 bytes)
- 186. Re: [CBQ] Double or a Triple ? (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:16:33 +0000
- Hated the branch with a big train (REALLY hated it with taconite trains). And you got that right about feeling off in the Twi-light Zone. Enjoyed it, though, loafing along on the wayfreight. So what
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00186.html (15,361 bytes)
- 187. Re: [CBQ] Double or a Triple ? (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:04:02 +0000
- Reminds me of setting out at Congress Park at night. One dark raining night trying to count cars as I jumped off, unlocked and thew the derail while trying to count them going by, the number of cars
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00190.html (17,435 bytes)
- 188. Re: [CBQ] Close call 1 (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:41:37 +0000
- Leo, great story. The point about an elevation derailment and the horror that could have caused.... Interesting point with the detector - given the "cost/benefit" arguments of reduced crews. Not to h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-04/msg00164.html (13,208 bytes)
- 189. [CBQ] E Currie books (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:32:16 -0500 (CDT)
- I recommend the Earl Currie books "Running A RailRoad Right" and "It Gets In Your Blood" for anyone looking for insight into Q operations in the late 60's/early 70's (especially the East End and Linc
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-04/msg00171.html (10,198 bytes)
- 190. Re: [CBQ] Close Calls 2 (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:19:32 -0500 (CDT)
- I'm still laughing, Leo. (it sounded vaguely familiar). I'm beginning to think you were a black cat :) Looking forward to close call #3. Doug (ps: I should've guessed Shoe was involved when so many l
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-04/msg00175.html (14,539 bytes)
- 191. Re: [CBQ] Q U25C's (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:35:56 +0000
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00035.html (12,925 bytes)
- 192. Re: [CBQ] Q U25C's (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 01:10:03 +0000
- Tom, The 1990 paperback book The "Q" from the North Western Illinois Chapter of the NRHS has a picture from Mike Schafer showing U-28Cs on a train at Stratford in February 1970. Steven Fye -- thomma
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00065.html (15,330 bytes)
- 193. Re: [CBQ] Re: Track oiling (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:14:37 -0600 (CST)
- To echo from a former in the Operating Department - Aurora to Chicago was always the "East End" to us and never the "racetrack". Just a couple of comments, I want to make. I realize most on the list
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-01/msg00083.html (12,403 bytes)
- 194. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 5767 (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:45:34 +0000
- Re: Track oiling [1 Attachment] 1a Re: Track oiling [1 Attachment] 1b Re: Track oiling [2 Attachments] 1c Re: Track oiling [2 Attachments] 1d Re: Track oiling "Douglas Harding" hardingdouglas "John D
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-01/msg00095.html (34,521 bytes)
- 195. Re: [CBQ] Re: Locomotives as Units (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:52:17 +0000
- Re: Digest Number 5767 douglas_p_hartman Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:45 am (PST) . Posted by: Doug, I am pretty certain that the units term came from the manufacturers, but not necessarily in terms of a locom
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-01/msg00113.html (15,667 bytes)
- 196. Re: [CBQ] Courtesy & Toloerence (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:04:03 +0000
- Hi All, I've been thinking about the direction the Track Oiling (speeder vs motor car) thread went, and I, like some others on the list who have emailed me directly, am concerned. I understand the d
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-01/msg00136.html (16,119 bytes)
- 197. Re: [CBQ] Courtesy & Toloerence (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:16:48 +0000
- Hi All, I've been thinking about the direction the Track Oiling (speeder vs motor car) thread went, and I, like some others on the list who have emailed me directly, am concerned. I understand the d
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-01/msg00137.html (15,485 bytes)
- 198. Re: [CBQ] Short Flagging (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:12:37 -0500
- Leo, that brings back a bad memory. Caught Flagman #5 off the x list. Snuffy crew, of course. Out in middle of nowhere in darkness we stopped. Off I get from rear car. Good thing I didn't wander. I h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-09/msg00003.html (17,947 bytes)
- 199. Re: [CBQ] Re: Mr. Murphy's BIG Christmas Present To Galesburg (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:50:18 -0600
- Re: Mr. Murphy's BIG Christmas Present To Galesburg [2 Attachments] lzadnichek Sun Dec 27, 2015 12:50 pm (PST) . Posted by: Anyone know why Aurora didn't get one? If any place should have...... Sent
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-12/msg00169.html (22,841 bytes)
- 200. Re: [CBQ] Re: Mr. Murphy's BIG Christmas Present To Galesburg (score: 1)
- Author: "dhartman@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:08:37 -0600
- mailto:LZadnichek@aol.com?subject=Re: Mr. Murphy's BIG Christmas Present To Galesburg [2 Attachments] lzadnichek Sun Dec 27, 2015 12:50 pm (PST) . Posted by: Thanks. I remember it. Just wondering why
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-12/msg00171.html (24,987 bytes)
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