- 161. [CBQ] Re: Heavyweight Q Decals (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:51:04 -0600
- I hadn't considered Ken's point about bronze gold fading into the background. I have just one car lettered with the Champ gold and one passenger engine (w/Microscale I believe). They're in boxes at p
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00081.html (14,879 bytes)
- 162. [CBQ] Re: Oriental O-1a (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:12:38 -0600
- Hol Wagner has an interesting and pertinent discussion of this in The Colorado Road (p. 141). The C&S's five E-4A mikados (equivalent of the Burlington's class O-1) went through a fair number of modi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00125.html (14,377 bytes)
- 163. [CBQ] Re: Oriental O-1a (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:27:53 -0600
- Interesting. Thanks, John, for that bit of historical information. Rechecking Wagner (and Corbin), I see photos of C&S E-4A mikes in service in Red Oak and Kansas City, as well. And if memory serves,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00140.html (16,357 bytes)
- 164. [CBQ] Re: FW: "40's color pics //2010 Slides! (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:41:31 -0600
- What superb photos! The RR ones are nice, but the real treasures (imho) are the farms, buildings and small-town landscapes, for people who want to model that era. And yes, the color is remarkable. Th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00183.html (15,021 bytes)
- 165. [CBQ] OT - bald eagles (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:18:45 -0600
- Bald eagles are impressive ? up to 3.5 feet tall with a 7-foot wingspan. They can weigh 15 lbs. And their nests (as much as 20' diameter x 10' depth) can weigh 2 tons. -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To v
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00285.html (10,534 bytes)
- 166. Fwd: Re: RE: [CBQ] Silver Charger (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:01:57 -0600
- I just uploaded a (not very good) photo of 9908 in the Galesburg roundhouse, taken May 17, 1964. Don't know whether it still was in active service at that point. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/pho
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00074.html (14,432 bytes)
- 167. [CBQ] Re: Car 57 Pullman plan 320 in HO heads to the moldmakers (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:01:52 -0600
- Mike - Thank you so much for doing this kit as well as for your labor of love restoring the real thing. I just reviewed all the photos at your Web site and am deeply impressed with what you've accomp
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00221.html (12,786 bytes)
- 168. [CBQ] Re: Heavyweight Q Decals (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:01:32 -0600
- Scott - The sets you mention are fine for Pullmans or for hand lettering cars, but Champ is (was) the only company to produce decals for "Burlington" in Railroad Roman extended lettering, so their sh
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00297.html (13,629 bytes)
- 169. [CBQ] Re: Depot interior question (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:57:48 -0600
- Pete - The Classics professor was indeed complimenting you - and you deserved it. And you deserve it even more today. There are precious few people who have your knowledge and on-the-ground experienc
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00109.html (18,541 bytes)
- 170. [CBQ] Who's in the cab? (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:27:19 -0600
- Here are a couple photos of engineers (?) on fantrips. The color shot of 5632's cab was taken at Flag Center 6-23-62; the black and white of 4960 was at Rockford (on the turntable) sometime in (I bel
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00008.html (10,813 bytes)
- 171. [CBQ] Re: Who's in the cab? (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:06:22 -0600
- I apologize for my late-night brain-addled obscurity. The photos were (and are) posted in a new album entitled "Who's in the Cab" in our Photos section. Jonathan -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit y
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00017.html (12,551 bytes)
- 172. [CBQ] Re: RR watches (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:11:29 -0600
- Were Walthams used by railroaders? It isn't among the makers' names I'd heard. I have a couple of my grandparents' old Walthams. They weren't railroaders, but watches are beautiful (just 15 jewel). J
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00103.html (10,424 bytes)
- 173. [CBQ] Re: Who's in the cab? Half-answer (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:15:38 -0600
- Thank you very much, Bob! -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change se
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00104.html (14,986 bytes)
- 174. [CBQ] Re: CBQ 01A #5090 (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:08:54 -0600
- Quite a few engines - in many classes - were fitted with the B&L extended smokebox. The 1935 list of assignments in Corbin and Kerka, 'Steam Locomotives of the Burlington Route.' has a complete list
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00170.html (10,215 bytes)
- 175. [CBQ] Re: C&S Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:44:02 -0600
- This raises a question I've had in the back of my head for awhile. Were they called "waycars" on the C&S, which had its own traditions and a fair amount of UP influence? Same on the FW&DC? Jonathan -
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00199.html (10,990 bytes)
- 176. [CBQ] Re: Grier restaurants (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:16:59 -0600
- Yes, that would have been a challenge. As I may have posted once, the only English word I can think of that rhymes with "Zephyr" is "heifer," and trying to construct any kind of flattering verse comb
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00237.html (10,492 bytes)
- 177. [CBQ] Re: Car 57 lit up for the plaza concerts (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:49:53 -0600
- Wow! That is beautiful, Michael!! -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To c
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00267.html (10,723 bytes)
- 178. [CBQ] Re: Who's in the cab? (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:13:48 -0600
- Thank you so much, Karl. And wow. That was my first fan trip (age 14), and you fired. Any memories of that excursion you can share? Was it you or engineer Caldwell who went dashing up into the cab at
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00280.html (10,192 bytes)
- 179. [CBQ] Re: Speeder Shed Photos (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 12:14:35 -0600
- The late John Maxwell sold plans for a number of standard Colorado and Southern structures, including a small sloped-roof coal shed. It even included a bill of materials to build yourself the real th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00041.html (14,343 bytes)
- 180. [CBQ] Re: Book info (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:13:00 -0600
- Joseph Hardy's Burlington Route West (South Platte Press, 2000), p. 19, has a photo taken from the waycar behind the second of 2 articulateds moving 8 (that is *eight*) boxcars loaded with feldspar u
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00167.html (12,416 bytes)
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