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1. Re: [CBQ] Switch Stands (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:28:32 -0700; From personal experience, I can guarantee that the foot pedals could be a literal pain. When I hired out on the Alliance Division in 1977, the CTC ended at the west end of the Alliance yard. The only; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-01/msg00066.html (11,488 bytes)
2. Re: [CBQ] car body buildings (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 06:47:14 -0800; There used to be a passenger car body as a bar/grill a little ways north of Mule Creek Jct., Wyo. on US highway 85. It gradually deteriorated until one deadhead trip it just wasn't there anymore. The; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-02/msg00084.html (10,686 bytes)
3. Re: [CBQ] Divisions of the CB&Q just prior to merger into BN (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:56:31 -0700; Out in the PRB, post-merger, Rule 91 was frequently stretched a little. For instance, by two mtys leaving the siding at Moorcroft. The first train would show out when they started pulling, and the se; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-04/msg00017.html (12,040 bytes)
4. Re: [CBQ] Unusual wreck (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:30:09 -0700; I agree with Leo. It looks like a coal merchant, with the 'tunnel' below the track for loading wagons. My guess is that it was an Extra Board man running and he didn't have the experience to know how; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-04/msg00074.html (10,475 bytes)
5. Re: [CBQ] Rochelle Night Job-Friends of BN July issue article (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:03:50 -0700; Richard... My Mother was from Rochelle, my grandfather ran a slotter at 'The Whitcomb'. She and her sisters all worked at various times at 'The Canner' and 'The Spinner'. My Godfather, Adelard (Short; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-06/msg00027.html (11,748 bytes)
6. Re: [CBQ] Photo: Structure At The Oswego Stockyards Montgomery, IL (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:37:20 -0700; Leo, it was at least late '77. When I was still braking in the late summer of '77 we caught #74 out of Gillette. There were six cars of cows on the head end. Somebody decided that ten cars of coal at; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-08/msg00043.html (12,152 bytes)
7. Re: [CBQ] Map of the West (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 06:32:54 -0700; There was one of those system maps in the Newcastle, Wyo. depot. People had pointed to Newcastle so often that the printing was worn off there. When I was working at Topco in Skokie, the Shipping Man; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-09/msg00056.html (11,748 bytes)
8. Re: [CBQ] Passing of Bill Greenwood (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:55:35 -0700; Mr. Greenwood was our Division Supervisor in Alliance for a while. We would have monthly meetings with the 'brass' when I was S-T of Div. 213. He was always fair to us. When I got five days for criti; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-09/msg00099.html (11,567 bytes)
9. Re: [CBQ] BURLINGTON TRAIN ORDER FORM 19 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2023 07:49:21 -0700; When I started in Edgemont, the 3rd. Sub. was still dark territory. You'd be in the depot in Gillette, and hear the Dispatcher; "19, copy a bunch." The Operator would have a stack of Forms and carbon; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-10/msg00044.html (15,343 bytes)
10. Re: [CBQ] Train order question (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 06:38:07 -0700; Ken... In my experience with train orders on the Alliance Division in the '70s, when the responsible track person 'took down' a slow order, it just went away. I don't remember ever getting an order a; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-10/msg00110.html (12,471 bytes)
11. Re: [CBQ] Bentonite Cars (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:26:28 -0800; Leo... Admittedly in the BN era, but we loaded Bentonite out of two plants just west of Upton, Wyo. One was called Colloid, and the other Bentley, both names associated with the type of clay. These w; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-11/msg00054.html (13,406 bytes)
12. Re: [CBQ] Bentonite Cars (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:27:51 -0800; [Edited Message Follows] Leo... Admittedly in the BN era, but we loaded Bentonite out of two plants just west of Upton, Wyo. One was called Colloid, and the other Bentley, both names associated with; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-11/msg00055.html (13,226 bytes)
13. Re: [CBQ] E-unit headlight questions. (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:49:27 -0800; Admittedly not Q, but when the Frisco motors started showing up on the Alliance Div. I used to run the Gyrolights for fun at night. It lasted until they cut the wires. Mike _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links:; /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-12/msg00066.html (13,244 bytes)
14. Re: [CBQ] Livestock Transportation (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:46:02 -0700; I was the head brakeman on train #74 out of Gillette with stock on the head end. Somebody decided we needed to stop at Wyodak and pick up about 10 cars of 'hot' coal. I went in there hanging on the s; /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-08/msg00004.html (12,723 bytes)
15. Re: [CBQ] Livestock Transportation (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker via groups.io" <mdecker=gwtc.net@groups.io>; Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:59:49 -0700; Well, Marty... I was a fairly new Brakeman. The Conductor said to put the coal right behind the stock, so I did as I was told. It didn't kill me, I spent 36 more years out there, though admittedly, I; /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-08/msg00006.html (13,214 bytes)

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