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1. Re: [BRHSlist] Recalibration (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:23:07 -0700; Hi Leo: The method of choice out here on the Alliance division was a hollow rubber kid's ball, about 1-1/2" in dia., with a slot cut in it so's it would fit over the recording arm on a Chicago Pneuma; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00152.html (8,200 bytes)
2. Rights of Trains (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:16:34 -0700; Hi Folks: I just found out that Simmons-Boardman in Omaha has reprinted Peter Jossrand's "Rights of Trains". This is a book written by a Western Pacific RR Dispatcher which "explains" the pre-Consoli; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00019.html (7,064 bytes)
3. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 772 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:07:12 -0700; Hi Don: In the late 1960's as one of Bob Richardson's honorary "nephews" at the CRRM, I rode the 96 a couple of times. Once was a trip to Julesburg & return behind the 8444. I saw 90 MPH on the speed; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00127.html (8,439 bytes)
4. Re: [BRHSlist]Business Car #96 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:46:33 -0700; Hi Don: Yes, it has. They'd have a hard time dragging the 96 up to Deadwood again too. It would be kinda hard on the Mickelson Trail (our local "rails to trails" to Deadwood). We walk the high line f; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00145.html (7,639 bytes)
5. Hot Springs waycar (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:45:37 -0600; Hi Folks: One of our conductors, who is also on the Hot Springs, SD city council, talked the Company out of a waycar to sit on a piece of new track in front of the Hot Springs Union (CB&Q/C&N-W) Depo; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00113.html (6,612 bytes)
6. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 750 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:34:09 -0600; Hi Tim: That stuff that they call coal that we haul out of the PRB will burn in the ground at the mine. We've got a cut alongside Dry Fork mine, up on the 10th. sub, that goes right through a coal se; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00168.html (8,013 bytes)
7. Re: [BRHSlist] Weighing Cars (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:08:08 -0600; Hi Leo: When I first hired out in Edgemont, we had a 24 hour switch job. Part of the 7:59-3:59 job's work was weighing cars. There were usually about 20 everyday. Mike Decker; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-09/msg00134.html (6,540 bytes)
8. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 671 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 08:45:46 -0600; Hi Jeff: Right now, my B. W. Raymond (21 jewels-lever set) is in the shop for a 20 year set of class 1 repairs. I'm carrying my back-up, a 17 jewel-stem set Waltham. I'm sure that neither one of them; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00023.html (7,477 bytes)
9. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: a dumb question about getting air (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:55:46 -0600; Hi John: I just got back from depositing our daughter in UP territory (Laramie, Wyo.) for college, and saw your question. Putting your inside leg against the hose on your side is a good plan. That wa; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00156.html (8,573 bytes)
10. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 692 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:10:50 -0600; Hi Folks: As Karl says, there is a formula for retainers. I don't know that we ever referred to it though. When we were still hauling rock down off of the High Line (4th. Sub.-Deadwood Branch) down t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00173.html (8,895 bytes)
11. Re: [BRHSlist] FW: Fan Trip Book/Northern 5632 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:32:58 -0600; Hi Folks: I have a copy of the "Steam on Q" book that I bought from Harold while on one of the '60's excursions. I rode most of the Illini and Chicago RR Club excursions on the Q and GTW from '60 to; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00098.html (8,569 bytes)
12. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 655 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:41:35 -0600; Hi Folks: While the 3007 was on Quinsippi Island, there was a 15" gauge railway operation that used the Q bridge to get out to the park. I was working at Sandley's when Elliot Donnelley bought our At; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00099.html (7,442 bytes)
13. Bulletin #34 (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:29:34 -0600; Hi Folks: While I was over at Newcastle doing research and taking measurements of the Clay Spur Whitcomb locomotive for a drawing, I came across Bulletin #34 in the Museum library. I'll bet someone o; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00107.html (6,164 bytes)
14. Re: [BRHSlist] X/O Speed (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:21:34 -0600; Hi Folks: This is the same thing that the fancy new coal train electro-pneumatic brakes do, except that they run from a "Black box" that is just far enough out of reach to make using them really unha; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00131.html (8,150 bytes)
15. Ballast pits (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:12:24 -0600; Dear Amy: I found your question on the BRHS list. I think I can help you out. This information is taken from my copy of "The Trackman's Helper" (Revised 20th. Century Edition), by J. Kindelan, publis; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00047.html (11,639 bytes)
16. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 559 (re: Tanks) (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:01:13 -0600; Hi Folks: I can promise you that a partly mty tank of diesel sloshes. When we were playing with fuel tenders on the coal trains, you could get some interesting stops when you were running light engin; /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-04/msg00107.html (8,769 bytes)
17. Re: [BRHSlist] Rights of Trains (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 17:22:28 -0700; Hi Jeffery: Yes.....I spent 15 years on the R&GN Ry., and next June I'll have 25 on the BN. You're welcome. BTW.....the Milwaukee Road's regular operator at Wis. Dells in the early '70's used the "mo; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00281.html (7,480 bytes)
18. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: OS - Was Suggested Reading (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:59:37 -0700; Hi Folks: Re: "OS". I've always understood it to mean "On Sheet", where the Operator was reporting to the Dispatcher that a train had arrived, and/or departed. When they ran the CTC through Edgemont,; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00328.html (10,334 bytes)
19. "Q" Bridges & Investigations (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:00:46 -0600; Hi Folks: This year the Santa Northern has rebuilt/replaced two of the "Q" bridges on the Third Sub. of the Alliance Division. The 1909 bridge over the Belle Fourche River at Moorcroft (MP-570.9) had; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00067.html (9,358 bytes)
20. Fw: [7-plus-NGM] Blueprints required (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>; Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:29:04 -0600; Hi Folks: Can anybody help this fellow? Thanks, Mike Decker; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00084.html (6,991 bytes)

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