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1. Re: [CBQ] Irish Mail (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:37:15 -0500
Leo, I remember my brother, a Q brakeman, saying that the first Irish Mail crew back to Eola changed engines and did the Alley Job. Early on they would trade an SW for a G engine or vice versa. I rem
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00106.html (12,451 bytes)

2. Re: [CBQ] 4960. (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:15:50 -0500
I hope someone or some group can get the 4960 and bring her back to Q country. She would look great running on the old Fox River branch. Ken [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Y
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00156.html (10,353 bytes)

3. [CBQ] Re: F3 � F7 Lash-ups (score: 1)
Author: "w3klf" <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:15:06 -0600
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-10/msg00042.html (11,485 bytes)

4. [CBQ] Re: Dinky Service. (score: 1)
Author: "w3klf" <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:57:19 -0600
I enjoy reading the Dinky and seniority list comments. I grew up in Aurora in a railroad family. My father hired out on the Q in 1914 and retired in 1958 (minus a short tour in France in 1918). As a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-10/msg00099.html (10,638 bytes)

5. [CBQ] Re: Pick-up / Drop-off in Oregon (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:01:22 -0500
The Oregon Turn was my favorite thing to do on Saturday. I'd buy a round trip ticket from Aurora to Oregon. I would board at Aurora and spend the entire day riding. The Q had a shorty combine, 3003,
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00234.html (9,914 bytes)

6. [CBQ] CB&Q Silver Tower (score: 1)
Author: "w3klf" <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:06:44 -0600
Ozark Mountain Railcar has Silver Tower for sale. There is a Virtual Tour of the car. http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/silver_tower.htm They recently sold Silver Sword. There are also a couple of
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00246.html (10,416 bytes)

7. Re: [CBQ] Photo needed-special train between Aurora and Chicago (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:32:41 -0500
Leo, Up to the fifties, I believe #33 & 34 ran to Aurora with regular train, including baggage car(s), plus commuter cars. They cut-off the rear cars at Aurora and then the train continued as a local
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00204.html (12,204 bytes)

8. [CBQ] CBQ 01A #5090 (score: 1)
Author: "w3klf" <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:35:24 -0600
I was looking at a photo of 01A #5090 and noticed she had a smoke box extension. Was she on the Lines West and fitted to burn "Wyoming Coal"? Were there other 01A's with extended smoke boxes? Or othe
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00169.html (9,550 bytes)

9. Re: [CBQ] Q Derrick Photos (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:08:52 -0400
I always heard the B&B Gang called the Bridge & Building Gang. They lived on a work train and moved all over. I was offered a B&B job in 1958 and turned it down. I opted for a switchman's job 1960 an
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00089.html (13,817 bytes)

10. Re: [CBQ] Re: Naperville crash (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:05:29 -0400
My father (a C.B.&Q. Trainman) and I were there shortly after the accident. I was 5 1/2 and still have a couple of "scenes" burned in to my memory. One was the E Unit inside a coach with a body trapp
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-04/msg00101.html (13,523 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] Doodlebugs on the Burlington (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:19:58 -0400
Not Doodlebugs, we called them Puddle-Jumpers. My father was a Conductor on them in the early 1920's. Ken [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit you
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-04/msg00199.html (11,313 bytes)

12. Re: [CBQ] SD's and GP's in passenger service? (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:00:39 -0400
Geeps with steam generators were the first replacements for steam on the "Dinkeys" out of Chicago. My memory seems to recall them as being used there first then to freight service when the E-units to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-04/msg00207.html (11,559 bytes)

13. Re: [CBQ] re: Dutch Drop (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:09:11 -0500
If one looks at photos of older engine, there was a re-railer hung under one side of the tender and on the other side was a "push-pole". It was round with a thicker center and steel bands on the ends
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-02/msg00168.html (11,337 bytes)

14. [CBQ] Naperville Accident - April 25, 1946 (score: 1)
Author: "w3klf" <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:58:54 -0600
I have a pdf copy of the I.C.C.'s investigation of the Naperville Accident. The Investigation number is 2988. I have no way to attach the file, but there is a CD out on the internet of C.B.& Q. Accid
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-01/msg00128.html (9,768 bytes)

15. [CBQ] Re: caboose questions (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:12:51 -0500
My father hired out in 1914 on the Q.  In those days you could be called for a work extra and be gone as long as 30 days. He worked a lot of ditcher trains and plow trains.  Train crew lived in the w
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-12/msg00180.html (15,852 bytes)

16. Re: [CBQ] Re: CBQ Train 21 (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 07:48:08 -0400
In the late fifties, I rode behind the 5632 at 96 mph up the old IC "Bomb Way". I was standing next to the Foreman of Engines, who had given the go to open her up. We were headed to LaCrosse. Ken [No
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-08/msg00003.html (12,773 bytes)

17. Re: [CBQ] Shipping human remains by rail (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 16:53:16 -0400
No photos,but an eyewitness description. During the fifties, my father was the baggageman on the Chicago-Mendota local. I would ride with him a few Saturdays a year. During the Korean War we had two
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-06/msg00018.html (13,667 bytes)

18. Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Oregon Question (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:59:55 -0800
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00272.html (9,611 bytes)

19. Re: [CBQ] Canadian Sand Trains of the 1960s (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:08:11 -0400
I had relatives living in Wedron back during 1940's and I remember the sand pit well.  Back in the days of R Engines and Puddle Jumpers.  We used to ride down on the morning Puddle Jumper to the stat
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-09/msg00034.html (11,629 bytes)

20. Re: [CBQ] Re: Suburban service west (score: 1)
Author: Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:30:28 -0400
As an aside, in the Fall of 1956 some of us would be waiting for a bus to high school, by the North side of the Aurora National Bank.  An SW/NW would come racing up the West Main headed for the incli
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-09/msg00067.html (14,714 bytes)


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