- 1. [CBQ] Re: Columbus, Nebraska and the cattle pens (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:19:17 -0600
- Thanks, Steve. -- 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 settings onli
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-10/msg00003.html (9,476 bytes)
- 2. [CBQ] Columbus, Nebraska and the cattle pens (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:45:08 -0600
- Now they we are back to discussing railroading, I have some questions. There were cattle pens of considerable extent beside the CB&Q tracks in Columbus, Nebraska. They were on the north side of the C
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-09/msg00160.html (9,314 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] Re: Help with dating BR blotter (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:36:09 -0600
- Also Kansas had 'Aggies' added (to differentiate from K State?). The Kansas Aggies later became K-State. Kansas was the Rock Chalk Jayhawks! -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00207.html (10,960 bytes)
- 4. [CBQ] Re: Shoshoni to Casper CNW route (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:06:32 -0600
- Norm wrote that the C&NW line between Illco and Shobon was abandoned in 1943. From things I've read, it was part of a scrap drive for tanks and ships during WWII, likely producing upwards of 15,000 t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00031.html (12,281 bytes)
- 5. [CBQ] Re: Abandoned railroad trestles (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:09:33 -0600
- I'd do it for safety (keep the NSBs* from hurting themselves), if for no other reason. *Not-so-Brights larrgra -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.co
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00032.html (11,572 bytes)
- 6. [CBQ] Re: Abandoned railroad trestles (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:55:16 -0600
- Ted, Think about the type of person who might consider a bunch of wooden pilings to be a bridge. Do you believe,for even a second, that he could actually read, and comprehend, a "No Trespassing" sign
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-08/msg00036.html (10,986 bytes)
- 7. [CBQ] Wanted, for "Thank You"s (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:30:07 -0600
- I lived in Columbus, Nebraska as a kid. The Q crossed the UP right behind my house. I spent a LOT of time trackside, watching the Q local come and go. There were two brakemen that worked the local an
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00070.html (10,476 bytes)
- 8. [CBQ] Re: Wanted, for "Thank You"s (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:02:10 -0600
- I was seven years old in '56. I started watching trains at least three years earlier. I was in Columbus, and watching trains, until 1967 (graduation). Both the gents I referred to looked pretty youn
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00076.html (11,350 bytes)
- 9. [CBQ] Re: Old Equipment (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:28:07 -0600
- The current AAR rules allow 60(!) to 65(!!) years of service for new cars. As long as those older ATSF & SLSF cars meet the BNSF's standards, they can run on home rails till the cows come home. -- Ya
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00232.html (11,552 bytes)
- 10. [CBQ] Location of Zephyrs in Saudi Arabia (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:10:59 -0600
- Guys, I was searching on Google Maps and may have found them. Go to Ad Dammam in Saudi Arabia. Some 2.7 to 2.8 km SSE of Ad Dammam is a yard with two tracks running NW to SE, each of which appears to
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00210.html (11,640 bytes)
- 11. [CBQ] Re: Location of Zephyrs in Saudi Arabia (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:32:17 -0600
- Sorry, folks, I was out of the office yesterday. I messed up. That should have been ESE, not SSE. What a difference, eh? Anyway, on ACME Mapper the coordinates are N 26.42125 E 50.14040 for the "obse
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00219.html (11,915 bytes)
- 12. [CBQ] Re: Welded Rail (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:26:43 -0600
- Casper Sub, Wyoming. Beside the dam that creates the Boysen Reservoir, at the south end of the Wind River Canyon. -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00155.html (15,603 bytes)
- 13. [CBQ] Re: Intimidation Factor (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:45:10 -0600
- everything but Denrock the front this day and I the engineer addressed to ? Leo, et al: Like the rest, I really appreciate these "strolls" down Memory Lane. I hope you gentlemen keep these coming. la
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00071.html (12,296 bytes)
- 14. [CBQ] Re: Meet Reefers Shipping Weight (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:25:48 -0600
- Bob, I hauled swinging beef via semi in the 70s. Each half or quarter was weighed individually before being loaded onto the trailer. LarryG -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00262.html (10,630 bytes)
- 15. [CBQ] Re: GP (and SD) Headlight Operation Question (score: 1)
- Author: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 06:50:44 -0600
- Gyrating. -- 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 settings online go
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00007.html (11,261 bytes)
- 16. [CBQ] Re: GI-67 and 68 interchange between CB&Q and UP (was: PRR-UP power) (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:55:01 -0600
- There was, indeed, a connection in the Southwest quadrant at the time these trains were interchanged in GI. The crossings at grade went away when the overhead route went into service in 1995. LarryG
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00070.html (13,529 bytes)
- 17. [CBQ] Re: BN GP 20s (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:55:01 -0600
- You asked about UP's huge purchase of SD70Ms. I believe the order was for some 1000 units. The RR got a great deal because of both the size of the order and the "apparent" quality of just-previous EM
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-01/msg00080.html (15,973 bytes)
- 18. [CBQ] Re: Operations at Grand Island Nebraska (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:55:01 -0600
- The Beltline is still fairly visible on Acme.mapper. From a point at the end of East 1st Street (eastbound US30) in eastern Grand Island, the John Brownell Trail heads south from the BNSF mainline, t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-07/msg00138.html (11,993 bytes)
- 19. [CBQ] Question re; spring switches (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 07:55:01 -0600
- For anyone that knows: Does a spring switch function as a spring switch regardless of which way the points are thrown? LarryG -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00053.html (10,959 bytes)
- 20. [CBQ] Re: Question re; spring switches (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@opc.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 13:55:01 -0600
- Thanks to everyone who responded. I would have to believe that a "flying" switch handle could do a lot of damage. LarryG -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://group
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00093.html (13,503 bytes)
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