- 41. Re: [BRHSlist] Express Reefers (Another Head End Question) (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 10:49:29 -0900
- Thanks, Rich. As usual, you provide both good historical information and practical suggestions. I'll write Sunshine about their kit. My impression is they build in small batches and probably don't ha
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-05/msg00026.html (8,247 bytes)
- 42. HO Passenger Car Decals (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:09:48 -0900
- Now that Champ is going out of business, is anyone making the old Roman-style gold lettering for Burlington passenger cars in HO scale? Jonathan
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-05/msg00129.html (6,214 bytes)
- 43. Variant Depot Colors (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:09:50 -0900
- The title page of Carryl Hadcock's BURLINGTON ROUTE DEPOT LIFE has a photo showing the Q's facilities at East Bridger, Montana in 1941. The depot and another small building are both painted in a ligh
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-05/msg00130.html (7,044 bytes)
- 44. Re: Burlington Bands (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:27:07 -0900
- What a nice surprise to find such interest in this topic. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many industries (e.g., mines and mills) sponsored their own bands -- both here in the US and abroad. Th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-05/msg00167.html (9,092 bytes)
- 45. Re: Burlington Bands (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:30:16 -0900
- If you guys really do this (form a band and perform at a meet), PLEASE take a photo for publication in the "Zephyr." Jonathan
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-05/msg00179.html (6,846 bytes)
- 46. Re: [BRHSlist] Steam engine questions (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:28:56 -0900
- Thanks, John, for clarifying the relative merits of Elesco vs. Worthington BL feedwater heaters. Can you or anyone extend this thread and tell us a little about the Coffin units? I'm curious because,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-03/msg00075.html (7,493 bytes)
- 47. "There's a Prototype for Everything" month (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:36:58 -0900
- Bless the CB&Q for providing us lazy modelers prototype justifications for just about Everything West. This month's BRHS calendar pic, for instance, must warm the hearts of all those who operate thei
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-03/msg00078.html (6,559 bytes)
- 48. Re: [BRHSlist] Steam engine questions (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 01:23:17 -0900
- Thank you, Mike! Your explanation of injectors is very clear and helpful. Makes me wonder why any railroad would have chosen the "lifting" type. Maybe it had to do with how different roads ran their
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-03/msg00080.html (9,411 bytes)
- 49. Use of Feedwater Heaters on the Burlington (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:24:56 -0900
- John and Scott, Many thanks for your postings. It sounds like you both know a lot more about steam engines than I do. I apologize for taking so long to respond and even more for the monstrous length
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-03/msg00111.html (21,210 bytes)
- 50. RE: [BRHSlist] Use of Feedwater Heaters on the Burlington (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:59:07 -0900
- Thanks to Charlie, Russ and John for your intresting and apt comments. I agree with John that much of what we are talking about is a matter of emphasis. And your point about exhaust steam injectors o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-03/msg00128.html (8,492 bytes)
- 51. Re: [BRHSlist] Feedwater heaters (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:50:08 -0900
- Terry and Russ, Thanks for your comments, and double thanks to Russ for sharing info on the various Burlington system grades. Terry, I'm glad you have enjoyed this thread. I've certainly learned a lo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-03/msg00167.html (13,063 bytes)
- 52. Red-winged Blackbirds (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:20:17 -0900
- Over the weekend my girlfriend showed me the current issue of "Birds and Blooms," a magazine devoted mostly to gardening (also backyard bird feeders, etc. -- hence the title). On pp. 14-15 is an arti
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00028.html (8,164 bytes)
- 53. Re: question (revised) (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 19:53:10 -0900
- Does anyone know the origin of the term "pinger," applied to CB&Q transfer runs? Jonathan
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00033.html (6,675 bytes)
- 54. Re: Red-winged Blackbirds (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 08:07:34 -0900
- If Russ, Loren and Ed all say the term "blackbird" was not used on the railroad, that's good enough for me. I suppose there's a small chance it was a geographically-restricted local term, but I'm at
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00042.html (8,430 bytes)
- 55. Re: question (revised) (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:55:09 -0900
- Thanks, Mike! If you mean it "pings" like a ping-pong ball bouncing back and forth over a short distance, that etymology makes perfect sense. --jonathan -- Hi Jonathan: They call the light power that
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00052.html (7,221 bytes)
- 56. Re: [BRHSlist] Query for All (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:19:08 -0900
- Ken -- A quick perusal of Holck's Color Pictorial (V.1) and Burlington in Transition shows Gas Electric No. 9839 as the only 6-window passenger-baggage-RPO unit converted to a trailer before your May
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00127.html (7,208 bytes)
- 57. Re: [BRHSlist] Query for All (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:01:17 -0900
- Pete may be right about the later date. What makes me suspicious is that if it WAS 1942, that combine would have been just recently rebuilt (and one would think freshly repainted at that time). It lo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00129.html (8,014 bytes)
- 58. Book Question (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:19:01 -0900
- Does anyone know whether there are plans to issue a companion volume to Ed Fucomer's Colorado and Southern - Southern Division - Color Pictorial? I seem to recall seeing reference to a book about the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00160.html (6,293 bytes)
- 59. Bulletin Question (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:20:10 -0900
- A question for BRHS brass: Does the Society have any long-range plans to reprint the older Bulletins, as you did the first three? I don't know about even the physical feasibility of such a project, m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00161.html (6,858 bytes)
- 60. Baggage Car Identification? (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:22:35 -0900
- I know this list can be faster than a speeding zephyr in identifying equipment in old photos, so here's one that has me stumped. Maybe you can help. The upper photo on page 47 of The Burlington in Tr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00169.html (7,337 bytes)
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