- 1. Re: [BRHSlist] The Guarantee (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 23:02:15 -0800
- Leo and others Train Dispatchers also had guarantee jobs. When I walked into the office in Cicero in 1974 there were two guarantee jobs but no one to fill them so I was forced on to one. This resulte
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00037.html (8,136 bytes)
- 2. Re: [BRHSlist] Locals (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 23:40:03 -0800
- The mainline crews would crawl down into the nose and turn on the cab signals on up units on arriving at the west end of Aurora. That was until the mid '80s when BN decided they could not use them. A
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00091.html (11,792 bytes)
- 3. Re: [BRHSlist] Locals (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:26:46 -0800
- Gary It depended which end of the run Hot Rod Harding was at. SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00106.html (7,650 bytes)
- 4. Re: [BRHSlist] Switch heaters (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:42:16 -0800
- Leo Modern Technology has not helped a bit SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00148.html (8,185 bytes)
- 5. Re: [BRHSlist] GM Demonstrator Colors (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 23:25:52 -0800
- Allan The colors for the GM Demo was the Blue and White. Same as the GP-20 Demo Set Those Amtrak Cars are Roadrailers. Amtk 3 picks them up on the way out of Union Station and Amtk 4 cuts them off on
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00267.html (8,119 bytes)
- 6. Re: [BRHSlist] GM Demonstrator Colors (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:23:53 -0800
- Ken Glad someone else thinks of it as the Southwest Zephyr besides me. After all you can not run a Chief on the Way of the Zephyrs SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00276.html (8,341 bytes)
- 7. Re: [BRHSlist] Propane Tank (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:16:52 -0800
- Rich When we lived on the farm we used LP gas. It is a liquid and was pumped from the little Truck to the storage tank in our drive. The truck used a Power Take Off driven pump and as long as the gas
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00299.html (8,092 bytes)
- 8. Re: [BRHSlist] RE: fulton county illinois 9/19/00 (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:08:55 +0000
- To the list The coal fields of Illinois under most of the state. Coal Mining started along the rivers where transportation was availible. On the CB&Q coal was mined starting in the north part of the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00013.html (10,648 bytes)
- 9. Re: [BRHSlist] Purington Bricks (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:40:29 +0000
- John and Nolen I have 6 different examples of Purington Pavers. If you look the M&St L used Oskaloosa Brick, IT used Danville Block, CNW used Boone Brick and Tile The platform at Pacific Jct., Iowa w
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00014.html (8,610 bytes)
- 10. Re: [BRHSlist] CZ Sleepers (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 22:43:37 +0000
- Loren Try RMC July 1975 Page 39 "CZ's Sleepers" in the series Cars of the California Zephyr Plans from Julian Cavalier He notes minor exterior changes in the 1952 cars. States all cars built to plan
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00034.html (6,570 bytes)
- 11. Re: [BRHSlist] U-boat switcher (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 23:48:29 +0000
- Gary and Bob Sounds good to me. There is talk Amtrak will install ATS on the Mainline so 3 and 4 can do 90 to Galesburg(thru the yard???) Bob do you have a youngen running now?? SJH -- -- Click here
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00031.html (7,482 bytes)
- 12. Re: [BRHSlist] Fog (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 15:27:24 +0000
- List I will say amen to Leo. I once rode 348 from Galesburg to Aurora as we were moving to Galesburg in Dec. of '83 and the fog was so thick you could not see the signals until you were going under t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00038.html (8,454 bytes)
- 13. Re: [BRHSlist] New list member! (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:49:27 +0000
- Rich Those are the cars not painted Green or Silver which were shoved into the Freight House on the right hand side just after you came into the light of day from under the shed. See what too much va
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00072.html (8,200 bytes)
- 14. Re: [BRHSlist] Steward Jct, IL (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:56:10 +0000
- Ed is right the Milw crossed US 30 just south of Scarsboro and the last time I was by there you could see it north of the road but farmers have plowed out south. There use to be two wayfreights(I thi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00082.html (9,405 bytes)
- 15. Re: [BRHSlist] Nice bulletin. (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:55:43 +0000
- Bulletin No. 37 arrived on the afternoon stage in Ft. Worth SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00161.html (6,735 bytes)
- 16. Re: [BRHSlist] Spontaneous Combustion (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:56:22 +0000
- Leo Curm and Harwood did it. I think Harwood was up to 3 or 4 different books. Sometimes the facts of Railroading are stranger than fiction SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00184.html (7,992 bytes)
- 17. Re: [BRHSlist] Where have the Hobo's Gone?? (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:29:14 +0000
- To the list While working at Aurora Tower you rolled by( inspected) all trains.(gives a lonely tower operator something to do besides cut train order string, tie it and file the finished orders.) I h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00206.html (8,010 bytes)
- 18. Re: [BRHSlist] Bulletin 37 (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:40:33 +0000
- Hey guys The mailman has to have something to read on his lunch break. SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00226.html (9,464 bytes)
- 19. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Silver Isle, Slope, ect (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:47:09 +0000
- Loren The article in Railway Mechanical Engineer May1949 shows a diagram of the cars with the same window arrangement on both sides. If that helps any SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00280.html (7,844 bytes)
- 20. Re: [BRHSlist] Coal in boxcars (score: 1)
- Author: hold-on@s...
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:54:01 +0000
- Bill, Ted and others There use to be a company in Ottumwa with the name Ottumwa Box Car Loader Co. They built special elevators which loaded the ends of the cars both box and yes in a pinch stock car
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-09/msg00007.html (8,046 bytes)
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