- 81. Re: [BRHSlist] Black Hills interurban (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:51:56 -0700
- John -- There was an article in the Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette sometime around 1980 (could be off by a year or two) on the Deadwood Central interurban line. The title was something like "Trol
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-04/msg00045.html (8,298 bytes)
- 82. Re: OT, please don't kill me. (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak <jonathanharris@e...>" <jonathanharris@e...>
- Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:56:06 -0600
- Doesn't anybody remember this pearl? "Along comes the FFV, The fastest on the line, Runnin' o'er the C&O road Just 20 minutes behind, Headin' into Suffolk, (???) Headquarters on the line, Receiving v
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00057.html (9,093 bytes)
- 83. Re: CB&Q poetry & pics of Tyco crane (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak <jonathanharris@e...>" <jonathanharris@e...>
- Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:07:34 -0600
- Willa Cather -- wow! I'll try to find that poem. If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't her only railroad-related one. Sounds like the "Fast Mail March" might be a natural for The Burlington Band. Can you gi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00062.html (7,703 bytes)
- 84. CB&Q Poetry and Music (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:14:12 -0800
- Pete - Thank you for taking the time to search out those quotes. Wonderful stuff! And thank you Gerald and Ray and any/everyone else who's searched through their collections to feed my (our) curiosit
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00104.html (7,222 bytes)
- 85. Re: engines (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@e...>
- Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 16:26:20 -0600
- Scott-- The first 4-8-4s (at least in the US) were delivered to the Northern Pacific in 1926. Whence the name "Northern." The first of that class on the Burlington came in 1930. I don't know about th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00115.html (8,141 bytes)
- 86. Re: engines (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@e...>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:03:19 -0600
- John -- Challenger (CIL) imported some M4As several years back. They sold out pretty quickly, and I haven't seen one on the used brass market since. Expect to pay a bundle for it IF you can find one.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00161.html (9,848 bytes)
- 87. Re: engines (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@e...>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:50:54 -0600
- Scott -- The Burlington assigned quite a number of its M2 and M2A 2-10-2s to the area around Litchfield over the years. According to John Mitchell's "The Q in the Coalfields" (Burlington Bulletin 35)
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00164.html (9,848 bytes)
- 88. Re: C&S REPAINTS (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@e...>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:07:04 -0600
- Newie-kablooie! there ARE no dumb questions. that's why we have this wonderful list. welcome. I'm sure Ken Martin or somebody who really knows this stuff inside out can fill you in on the full histor
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00200.html (8,100 bytes)
- 89. Re: [BRHSlist] Standard Lines West depot drawing? (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:30:59 -0800
- I second Dave's choice. There's nothing that screams "Lines West" like those salt boxes. There's a standard feel to them all, but there also are a variety of sizes, roof profiles, bays, and degrees o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-02/msg00031.html (8,536 bytes)
- 90. Re: [BRHSlist] Milk Cars (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:22:12 -0800
- I imagine 20 milk cars on any rooster would look pretty compacted. I wouldn't care to speculate on the appearance of the rooster.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-02/msg00061.html (6,431 bytes)
- 91. Re: [BRHSlist] Locomotive Headlight Positions (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:29:00 -0800
- Bill -- Top-mounted headlights were not that rare on the Q's steamers. They were very common (dare I say 'standard'?) on moguls, ten-wheelers, the first prairies (R-1s, R-2s) and most classes of six-
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-02/msg00083.html (7,153 bytes)
- 92. Re: How come no E8/9 B's? (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak <jonathanharris@e...>" <jonathanharris@e...>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:33:22 -0600
- Charlie -- What "operational experience" with the E5 B units do you mean? Are you saying the Q had trouble with them? -- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...> wrote: really apply? af
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-02/msg00240.html (8,725 bytes)
- 93. Re: Pictures (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:11:50 -0800
- John-- I don't know what "printed catalog" Norm Metcalf and Hol Wagner mean, but they're right that there are many wonderful Otto Perry photos showing the Q's B1 and B1a engines hauling passenger tra
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-01/msg00152.html (6,578 bytes)
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