- 301. [CBQ] Rare Chinese red box car (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 04:02:10 +0000
- Hol Wagner spotted an interesting feature in a photo offered for sale on eBay at BURLINGTON ROUTE CB&Q 5632 Gold 1st time offer Dawn Yd RAILROAD TRAIN Photograph | eBay The photo is taken at the Dawn
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-02/msg00167.html (14,721 bytes)
- 302. Re: [CBQ] Rare Chinese red box car (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 02:47:25 +0000
- Thanks for the responses so far. I hadnt heard of Dawn Yard and could find no reference to it but Ive never been to Kansas City and Im unlikely to ever get there so I accepted what the seller said at
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-02/msg00186.html (15,602 bytes)
- 303. Re: [CBQ] Conductor's badge (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 21:33:58 +0000
- Archie & Hol Thanks for the explanation. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Archie Hayden Sent: Saturday, 2 January 2021 10:06 am To: 'CBQ@groups.io' <CBQ@grou
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00006.html (18,060 bytes)
- 304. Re: [CBQ] Conductor's badge (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 06:21:28 +0000
- Looking on-line, I see that the U.S. Postal Service was only established in July 1971. Would these badges have pre-dated it? Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00009.html (18,111 bytes)
- 305. Re: [CBQ] Conductor's badge (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:32:40 +0000
- Thanks for the explanation. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike Decker Sent: Sunday, 3 January 2021 3:34 am To: CBQ@groups.io Subject: Re: [CBQ] Conductor'
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00021.html (13,802 bytes)
- 306. Re: [CBQ] Commuter Coach (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:34:59 +0000
- Brian They were apparently testing Budd trucks on commuter service cars. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of BRIAN PAUL EHNI Sent: Sunday, 3 January 2021 5:12 a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00022.html (18,055 bytes)
- 307. [CBQ] Leased Mather stock cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 00:52:32 +0000
- During a discussion of Mather stock cars on the Steam Freight Car list, Tim O’Connor posted the attached photo showing Mather stock car MSCX 822. It was apparently leased to the CB&Q, as eviden
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00052.html (13,338 bytes)
- 308. Re: [CBQ] Leased Mather stock cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 02:21:29 +0000
- Hol You could well be right! I’ve attached a photo of another Mather car and the overpainting certainly matches. Now we have to try and establish a correct date for the photo. Rupert Gamlen Auc
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00054.html (16,709 bytes)
- 309. [CBQ] Leased Mather stock cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 07:10:02 +0000
- Last week I posted a photo of CB&Q Mather lease stock car MSCX 822 which bore the Burlington Route herald towards the right hand end. Hol Wagner pointed out that the reporting marks and numbers appea
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00072.html (18,092 bytes)
- 310. Re: [CBQ] Leased Mather stock cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 19:30:59 +0000
- Bill Thanks for posting this sheet and thanks to Steve for creating it. Looking at the November 1962 figures, I note that of the 23 cars (9 x 40’, 14 x 50’), only five were CB&Q and there
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00078.html (20,854 bytes)
- 311. [CBQ] BRHS Publcations Index (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 04:41:31 +0000
- The latest iteration of the BRHS Publications Index is now available for searching or downloading on the public side of the BRHS website. It contains details of all the articles, photos, diagrams, ma
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00105.html (11,998 bytes)
- 312. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q and C&S Railcar Electro-Motive roster 1924-1936 (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:55:22 +0000
- If it is only CB&Q, C&Q, etc. motor cars you are interested in, there is a full roster and a downloadable spreadsheet at Burlington Route Historical Society - Roster Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: C
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00156.html (13,631 bytes)
- 313. Re: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 23:42:38 +0000
- Louis I think this is 209365, the subject of an earlier group discussion. Charlie Vlk noted that it was 45’ long and weighed 60,000 lbs, surviving until scrapped in 1949. He also commented on t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00171.html (17,763 bytes)
- 314. [CBQ] Drovers' cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:47:38 +0000
- Ken 3996 is a combination coach-waycar that was built at Galesburg in 1878 and burned at Greenfield in 1951, as opposed to a drovers’ car. I’ve attached a photo of 3996 and there are othe
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00176.html (12,952 bytes)
- 315. Re: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:16:46 +0000
- Dave I’ve found an account of the shooting in the Omaha Daily Bee of 27 June 1897 Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, June 27, 1897, Part I, Page 8, Image 8 « Chronicling America &
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00179.html (19,325 bytes)
- 316. Re: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:22:52 +0000
- Louis I wondered at first if this was converted from a coach or baggage car but the lack of a clerestory roof makes that unlikely. Conversion from a waycar, including the removal of the cupola, seems
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00180.html (17,936 bytes)
- 317. Re: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:36:44 +0000
- Charlie I wondered if it was converted from a coach, baggage car or RPO but I noticed the lack of a clerestory roof, which was adopted as a fairly standard design some time after 1860. I’ve als
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00182.html (21,526 bytes)
- 318. Re: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 04:35:26 +0000
- Dave I wondered if he was going to Chalco to buy stock, and therefore the interest of the six men in his valise and its contents – potentially money for the stock. If he was just a drover, woul
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00187.html (23,090 bytes)
- 319. Re: [CBQ] Buda Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:43:36 +0000
- Bill Have you tried the Library of Congress Map Division? Map, Available Online | Library of Congress (loc.gov) There is also a collection of railroad maps at About this Collection | Railroad Maps, 1
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00217.html (16,525 bytes)
- 320. [CBQ] BRHS Publications Index (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 23:42:45 +0000
- The latest version of the BRHS Publications Index has been uploaded to the web site. It contains references to all the articles, photos, plans, diagrams, timetables, maps and drawings that have appea
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-04/msg00000.html (12,224 bytes)
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