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41. [CBQ] Re: Shipping human remains by rail (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 07:53:25 -0500; Paster means a sticker or labled "pasted" on to something, ie the coffin or shipping box in this situation. No doubt the term comes from days before adhesives and self-stick labels. The clerk would h; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-06/msg00058.html (11,429 bytes)
42. [CBQ] Re: Shipping human remains by rail (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 06:47:03 -0500; Regulations vary from state to state. To transport human remains, esp across state lines or internationally, requires paperwork, including a death certificate. Which may be why most deal with a certi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-06/msg00065.html (11,542 bytes)
43. [CBQ] Re: freight car diagram books (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:16:03 -0500; Dale, a number of railroad equipment diagram books have been made available by Allen Stanley raildata@yahoo.com through his Railroad Data Exchange. He has collected and digitized a large number of ra; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-05/msg00047.html (12,597 bytes)
44. [CBQ] Re: Short history (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:00:08 -0500; John to travel from Chariton to Marshalltown in 1912, the most direct route would be to take the CB&Q east to Albia. At Albia switch to the Minneapolis & St Louis, this would require a walk or depot; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-05/msg00067.html (10,744 bytes)
45. [CBQ] Bob Brown's Books (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:58:18 -0500; Speaking of Bob Brown's books, are they still available? Saw Gerald Edgar Saturday at the meet in Des Moines and he reported that Bob's son has a stash of the books, but hasn't done anything to sell; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00093.html (10,404 bytes)
46. [CBQ] CB&Q 3003 to Receive Makeover (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:02:58 -0500; Burlington Hawk Eye reports a forthcoming makeover of the CB&Q 3003, the displayed steam engine in Burlington. http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/train-041611 Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org [Non-tex; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00123.html (10,275 bytes)
47. [CBQ] Re: Peoria Interchange Question (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:27:20 -0600; I have a few maps of Peoria, as the M&StL had a yard and interchange at Peoria. I have created a photo album "Peoria" and uploaded a few maps that might help understand the interchanges. Doug Harding; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00015.html (11,064 bytes)
48. [CBQ] Re: SM-19 Stock Car (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:20:58 -0500; Rich, Interestingly the following message was posted on the MSTL list at the same time you are looking for information on modeling a SM-19 stockcar. The "Athearn" stock car is a U.P. 1950s car. Yes t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00198.html (11,618 bytes)
49. [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Lakes (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:10:36 -0500; I learned last night the old swimming hole on the west edge of Milton Iowa, was built by the Q to supply their steam engines with water. I know the lake on the west edge of Creston Iowa was built by; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00213.html (9,984 bytes)
50. [CBQ] Re: corporate history (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:23:03 -0500; Might also want to check out https://www.labellemodels.com/manuals/Chicago,%20Burlington%20and%20Quincy.p df?osCsid=pe4515im3vhjlhns5uhbjrmfm6 A corporate genealogy compiled from ICC Valuation record; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-03/msg00273.html (10,194 bytes)
51. [CBQ] Re: LCL (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:33:55 -0600; Ted I have been told (not confirmed) that meat was handled in LCL reefers. I believe this was early before roads improved, esp along branchlines. I have a photo of a 40' wood Soo Line reefer marked a; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00048.html (13,144 bytes)
52. [CBQ] Re: LCL (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 06:42:38 -0600; John thanks so much, that confirms some things I could only speculate about, and fills in some details. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yah; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00050.html (10,281 bytes)
53. [CBQ] Re: LCL (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 07:22:45 -0600; Steve, would the LCL cars have contained halves and quarters? I agree no "boxed meat" as known today. But it may have been meat that had been further cut and processed at the branchhouse or a full pr; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00059.html (10,806 bytes)
54. [CBQ] hog drenchers (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:18:26 -0600; I have been doing some research on railroad hog drenchers. These were large trackside pipes with nozzles used to spray water through stockcar sides to wet hogs down to keep them cool. I am looking fo; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00148.html (11,054 bytes)
55. [CBQ] Re: hog drenchers (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:04:26 -0600; Thanks Archie. The two swivel nozzles on one pipe were the norm for a hog drencher. Though the UP had some with three nozzles for their triple deck hog cars. What I want to know is: were there two ho; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00150.html (10,625 bytes)
56. [CBQ] Re: Hog Drenchers (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:58:07 -0600; Lenny thank you for that routing information. I found a document from 1906 that indicated drenchers were located about every 15-40 miles on some roads. The NYC&HRRR reported drenchers at about every; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00155.html (10,603 bytes)
57. [CBQ] Re: hog drenchers (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:03:58 -0600; Archie thank you for confirming drenchers on both sides of the track. Who had the task of operating the drenchers? And do you know of other locations on the Q? Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org [Non; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00156.html (10,466 bytes)
58. [CBQ] Re: Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:35:10 -0600; Let me offer some information. Rich Rapido is indeed offering the GATC wood meat reefer. Should be available this summer. I saw and held an early test sample of the car about 10 days. Rapido just upd; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00197.html (12,074 bytes)
59. [CBQ] Re: Rochelle Meat packing Plant (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:06:45 -0600; Thanks for the clarification on Hormel's involvement Mike. The plant in Osceola started as a Jimmy Dean Sausage plant, built I believe in the 80's. They were known for buying old sows, etc because af; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00210.html (10,715 bytes)
60. [CBQ] Re: Rochelle Meat Packing Plant (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>; Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:08:04 -0600; Leo great story. Leaving the doors open would be very unusual if they were finished loading. Packing plants shipped a lot of by-products, some were edible, many were not. By the 70's most PHP (packin; /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-01/msg00211.html (10,659 bytes)

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