- 1. Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Lettering (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via Groups.Io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:16:02 +0000 (UTC)
- The Colorado RR Museum has in their files The Roman style alphabet that the Burlington System used on rolling stock up until 1958. At that time, the Compressed Block Gothic alphabet style was introdu
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-04/msg00118.html (11,982 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CBQ] Casper Wyoming Icing Facility (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via Groups.Io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 13:45:26 +0000 (UTC)
- In regards to Ice House colors, Hol of course is correct concerning where you are in the company time-line. This thread reminded me of the Irv Fierstein photo gallery in BB# 54. The shots from the Co
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-03/msg00223.html (10,947 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CBQ] Previously Unknown Structure at Savanna Engine Facility (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via Groups.Io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 21:34:46 +0000 (UTC)
- Tom: Without seeing the whole arrangement of the sanding facility this is mostly speculation, but here goes. My Guess is that it is an air tank for supplying dry air to the sand delivery system. See
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-02/msg00016.html (10,730 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Es in freight service (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via groups.io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 23:40:48 +0000 (UTC)
- There was one scheduled train that regularly moved freight and express behind E units. Train #14 from Omaha to Clyde carried express, empty mail cars and Packing House Products (processed meat and ot
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-10/msg00013.html (12,051 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Rare Chinese red box car (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via groups.io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:11:53 +0000 (UTC)
- Here is the same picture with the color saturation toned down to what I perceive to be the proper rendition for the two Geeps and the red nose wings on the F-unit. A good many scans suffer from the s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-02/msg00188.html (11,736 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] 400 to 411 Series SD7's in Denver (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via groups.io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 22:23:59 +0000 (UTC)
- The shot of the 334 on the back cover of #48 was taken from the 23rd Street Viaduct a couple weeks after the March 3 1970 merger date. This was a transfer run up to D&RGW's North Yard. The trailing u
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-01/msg00026.html (11,656 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] FW&D 8522 (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via groups.io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:31:19 +0000 (UTC)
- The square shaft and its two brackets are a slack adjuster for keeping proper tension on the brake levers and the connecting rods. Over time and repeated use, and the wearing of the brake shoes thems
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-03/msg00048.html (10,799 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] Books covering the Q in Wyoming and Montana 1950's to 1970. (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via groups.io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:38:27 +0000 (UTC)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-07/msg00071.html (13,748 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via groups.io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:22:44 +0000 (UTC)
- The concept of a "work train" is as varied as the work needed to be done. A short list would include distribution of ties for, oddly enough, a tie gang which was a summer-time extra-gang project. A s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-01/msg00049.html (14,261 bytes)
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