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Ray, Check out the seller's other 4 or 5 old calendars. Isn't it odd that he just happened to find old calendars at estate sales that each started the first day of the year on a Saturday? He is selli
List, While looking at Burlington items last night, I came across another seller on Ebay that is selling the same type of calendar and she also is a private feedback seller. Look at item 6576205366 a
Duncan, Have you seen the great photo of the Rock Island freight house in Keokuk? Go to Rob Adams web site of the K&WRR and look under the K&W pictures. There was a stub track on each side of the bui
As a side note on Bob's great information on the 49 RR Fair, I found an actual souvineer Timetable bearing out all of this info along with a wealth of diagrams depicting the "Montezuma" both in HO an
Not all of us can get to Chicago, Will this film be available on TV, VHS, or disc at a later time? -- Original Message -- From: Don Zinnecker To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006
Rupert, I think what Bill saw was an extended vision cupola waycar. The bay window waycar you mentioned was at Hannibal sometime around the merger and we would take it out the Old Jo Main to do the c
Glen, When you get home to Hannibal, give me a call. I will show you something interesting along the concrete pier line in the old yard. Archie -- Original Message -- From: "GLEN HAUG" <glenehaug@msn
Steve, Around 1909 the CB&Q began making the concrete pieces at Hannibal. Because of the big cement plant located about 3 miles south of Hannibal at Ilasco, there were many men familiar with concrete
Hank, I asked a 99 year old brakeman if he remembered how the plant was switched in the early years and he told me that he was in the military when the war broke out and he was assigned to guard the
I believe 1904 was the year that most of these lines finally took on the name of the CB&Q. It was also the last year that I have employee timetables for those roads, except for the QO&KC which fell u
Rob, I'm pretty sure the N stood for north and on the other side of the signal was a number plate with a "S". Regards, Archie -- Original Message -- From: "Rob Adams" <steamera@netins.net> To: <CBQ@y
Cy better go look at the signals on line today, he'll see that both aspects are on the same signal pole, however, I'll give him credit for signals of that era, they were on different poles. The S and
List, I put a 1961 Car Builders' Cyclopedia on Ebay if anyone is interested. It has some very nice shots of new silver waycars both interior and exterior. I will be selling more soon from 1946 to 197
Bob, The Francis interchange point was actually a couple of miles from Francis at Mexico. That is where we would make a pick up to add to our train as we made a crew change there. We would leave the
In Wisconsin it is slang for Ginseng, the Chinese herb grown here and exported. TEB [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to
Jerry, How about a few of your demolition shots posted in the files? Thanks, Archie -- Original Message -- From: Jerry Stauffer To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 2:47 PM Subject
Pete, Why didn,t you tell the group about those old crabby conductors who wouldn't let you take a dump in their dry hopper? Remember, now, that they were assigned to that particular waycar and they p
Group, FYI I contacted Tiffany Adrian at the Univ. of Iowa asking about using these photos from the Calvin Collection in a future publication. She told me it would be ok as long as we gave due credit
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