Approach with caution. While Violets & Daisies Pattern was used on CBQ passenger cars, the same pattern was also applied to non-railroad china. Violets and Daisies was the common china used on most
NOTE this is an EMD SW not an Alco RS. The Subject line is incorrect. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: Monday, November 25, 2019
Typical passenger consists for given trains were often show in timetables. Find a circa 1937 timetable showing Train 179 and you may find your answer. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org From: CBQ@gr
Here is the one photo I know of for Costello Tower. It is from the Barriger collection https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/ http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/barriger/index.html For fr
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Thanks for the correction Sam. I knew they made fire hydrants and various valves. I thought they also made a pump, but I must be thinking of the yard hydrant you mentioned. Doug Harding www.iowacentr
Tom attached is a diagram of a MSTL heater car converted from an ex troop sleeper. It shows a height of 14 1. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf
PKD means packed, as in the wheel bearings were repacked on the date and at the location stenciled on the car next to the PKD lettering. In the days before roller bearings, plain wheel bearings were
Opps should proofread first. Repacking of plain or solid bearings was required every 16 months. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of Douglas Har
Tom I suspect that every town on the CBQ had one or more grain elevators. Instead of compiling a list your best bet would be find a Shippers Directory for the CBQ. A shippers directory would have the
To follow up on Leo's comments. In eastern Iowa and Western Illinois, by the late 60s farmers began trucking their grain directly to the Mississippi river to load in barges. By the 80s almost all wer
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Noland, years ago when at the National Archives I found an ICC Valuation report for a grain elevator owned by the Rock Island in Neola IA that was covered with #22 corrugated iron. What caught my eye
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