- 1. [CBQ] Re: Happy Thanksgiving! (score: 1)
- Author: "LaVerne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:42:11 -0600
- David, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well! And Thanks for being our list owner. Verne Brummel, Fitchburg,WI filled and journeys, enjoy who share Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your g
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00225.html (10,410 bytes)
- 2. [CBQ] Harry Bedwell (score: 1)
- Author: "LaVerne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:24:03 -0600
- Hi Pete, I remember reading the stories by Harry Bedwell of "Eddie Sand" and the others in the old "Railroad" magazine. It's editor, Freeman Hubbard thought the world of Harry Bedwell, and reprinted
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-02/msg00071.html (12,573 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] New Member-Introduction (score: 1)
- Author: "LaVerne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:03:44 -0600
- I'm been a member of this list for a few weeks and realize I haven't introduced myself. I've lived in Wisconsin for most of my life, but was born in Aurora,IL, in 1953. Frequent visits to relatives i
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-02/msg00073.html (9,993 bytes)
- 4. [CBQ] Re:C&S trains 29 and 30 in 1958 (score: 1)
- Author: "LaVerne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:31:49 -0600
- Hi Steve, I remember seeing the train, once, at Denver Union Station, in 1967. It was pretty much as you described, with the power that day being (I think) a E7. I believe that train was discontinued
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-05/msg00113.html (11,187 bytes)
- 5. [CBQ] Re: Barber-Greene (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:07:37 -0600
- Hi List, I wish my relatives were still alive, as they would have enjoyed the recent postings! One uncle worked at Barber-Greene his entire working life, and was proud of it. Another uncle, my Grandf
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00093.html (14,073 bytes)
- 6. [CBQ] Re: exisiting BR steam locos & "10 Meets (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:57:41 -0600
- Hi Ryan, Thanks for your post. I took my two kids to RR museums, train rides, etc. growing up, but they never developed an interest in railroads (and they both hate history!). We need people like you
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00169.html (16,046 bytes)
- 7. [CBQ] Re: Dinky Service. (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:00:37 -0600
- I also enjoyed the posts very much. I was born in Aurora, and my family rode the "Dinky" trains (as well as the CA&E, "Third Rail") for many years. My Dad worked in the Aurora Shops during World War
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-10/msg00112.html (11,435 bytes)
- 8. [CBQ] Re: Missouri CB&Q Depots (score: 1)
- Author: "LaVerne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 18:46:33 -0600
- Hi Mike, Albany was a station along CB&Q's line from Chariton,IA to St. Joseph,MO, while Barnard was on a CB&Q branch out of Creston,IA. According to the BN employee timetables that I have, the Alban
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00159.html (12,144 bytes)
- 9. [CBQ] Re: Depot interior question (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:56:35 -0600
- Hi Pete, Harry Bedwell...that's an author that you don't hear about much these days! I remember reading many of Harry's stories that Freeman Hubbard reprinted in the old "Railroad" magazine. Verne Br
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00099.html (12,446 bytes)
- 10. [CBQ] Re: Naperville Crash (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:56:19 -0600
- Hi Rupert, Greg and List, Before I was born, my parents and older siblings lived in Naperville, near the accident site at the time of the crash. I recall them, while I was growing up, discussing the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-04/msg00045.html (12,193 bytes)
- 11. [CBQ] Re: Naperville crash (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:47:33 -0600
- Chuck, It's a small world. My Dad also worked at Kroehler in Naperville at the time (he was there from about 1945-50). Maybe our two Dads knew each other! All I remember is the family talking about t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-04/msg00100.html (12,517 bytes)
- 12. [CBQ] Re: Aurora Grade Separation (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:45:54 -0600
- I remember my Dad telling me about riding his bike in downtown Aurora and watching the construction of the grade separation. He also saw the construction of the new CB&Q Aurora depot. I think this wa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-04/msg00169.html (11,789 bytes)
- 13. [CBQ] Re: In today's Ottumwa Courier (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 19:43:04 -0600
- When I read this, I thought of my late mother, who died at 96 in 2007. She was a railfan who took me on my first long distance train trip when I was 14 in 1967. We rode round trip on the CB&Q from Au
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-05/msg00050.html (11,022 bytes)
- 14. [CBQ] Re: EPB on CB&Q LaCrosse Div! (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:55:01 -0600
- I agree that those are very nice photos! I'm happy to see that the Prairie du Chien depot is still standing, and that the old CB&Q searchlight signals are still in service along this segment! Verne B
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00044.html (11,385 bytes)
- 15. [CBQ] Re: The Rest of the Story (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:55:01 -0600
- This is not CB&Q related, and it's doubtful that it involves anyone on this list, but three other railfan friends and I ordered copies of a book called, "Diesel Locomotive Rosters of North America" b
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-03/msg00172.html (11,096 bytes)
- 16. [CBQ] Re: Passenger Train Detours Over the Q (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:55:01 -0600
- Tom, I might be wrong, but I don't think that happened. Unlike the CB&Q, the MILW had several detour options over its own lines. MILW lines from Milwaukee-Horicon-Portage, Watertown-Madison-Portage,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00005.html (11,427 bytes)
- 17. [CBQ] The "B" in CB&Q (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:55:01 -0600
- A memory came to me today from a ride I took on the DZ from Aurora to Denver back in 1967. As our westbound train got close to the Mississippi River Bridge, the conductor (or other crew member) annou
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00141.html (10,201 bytes)
- 18. [CBQ] Re: Aurora IL depot (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:55:01 -0600
- So sad to hear about this. My parents, siblings and I took many trips from this station over the years. My Dad remembered (and witnessed) when it was constructed (in the early 20's), and my Mom took
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00211.html (11,208 bytes)
- 19. [CBQ] Re: Aurora Depot demolition - April 22, 2013 (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:55:01 -0600
- Jon, Thank you for posting those photos! Closure to a lot of memories for my family. If my Mom was still alive today, she would have said, "Come on now, they can't tear down that station, what is thi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00261.html (11,168 bytes)
- 20. [CBQ] Early CB&Q Family Members (score: 1)
- Author: "Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:55:01 -0600
- I'm wondering if any older list members remember members of my family who worked for the CB&Q many decades ago. My Dad, Ralph Brummel, worked at the Aurora,IL shops during World War II. My uncle, Ral
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00501.html (11,186 bytes)
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