- 1. RE: [CBQ] New Athearn 40 ft box cars (score: 1)
- Author: John Van Ness <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:13:49 -0600
- Hi Gerald. Remember me? I am still on the trail of the Villisca axe murderer, but we moved this fall and I am teaching online, so my focus has been diverted. My wife, though, as a railroad question.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00148.html (12,771 bytes)
- 2. [CBQ] Could CBQ trains have been ridden by the 1912 Villisca axe murderer? (score: 1)
- Author: "johnwvn" <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 17:51:12 -0600
- In June, 1912, eight people--six of them children--were bludgeoned to death in their home. The murderer has never been found. Among the suspects was Andy Sawyer, a pile driver who spoke to and even s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00001.html (11,133 bytes)
- 3. RE: [CBQ] Food service on 1&10/11&12 late 60's (score: 1)
- Author: John Van Ness <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 08:07:24 -0500
- A RR friend of mind posed these two questions for me to share with the group: In the late 1960's the "Q" removed the Chuck Wagon cars (Silver Cup & Silver Kettle) from #1 and #10. They moved up the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00058.html (12,936 bytes)
- 4. RE: [CBQ] CB&Q/H&StJ & the Civil War (score: 1)
- Author: John Van Ness <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:03:20 -0500
- Hi Gerald. How's this for an article? On June 10, 1912, the same year as the Titanic went down, a smaller tragedy happened in a town that had been founded by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00084.html (19,779 bytes)
- 5. RE: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q/H&StJ & the Civil War (score: 1)
- Author: John Van Ness <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:57:41 -0500
- The law officials and private detectives the state hired to investigate interviewed just enough people to establish that Sawyer had indeed been on Osceola around 9 on the night before the murders. Th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00104.html (23,651 bytes)
- 6. RE: [CBQ] faulty email sent from my email address (score: 1)
- Author: John Van Ness <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:18:11 -0500
- Gerald, with all the Internet craziness you have going on, would you be willing to entertain some Iowa railroad questions pertinent to my Villisca project? In exchange I would be only too happy to wr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-06/msg00082.html (11,626 bytes)
- 7. RE: [CBQ] Short history (score: 1)
- Author: John Van Ness <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:04:15 -0500
- Hi Gerald. By the way, before I say anything else, thanks for keeping me on the mailing list. While I do not always get everything read, I greatly enjoy the plethora of topics and the vitality of int
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-05/msg00060.html (14,018 bytes)
- 8. RE: [CBQ] Short history (score: 1)
- Author: John Van Ness <johnwvn@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:17:52 -0500
- I will abridge a report for that periodical. How long? Great news about the TT--try November 1912. Thanks--JVN [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-05/msg00066.html (16,340 bytes)
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