- 21. Re: [BRHSlist] "Q" Bridges & Investigations (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:25:37 -0600
- Hi Steve: Nest of confusion....good one, I'll have to use that. I call it the "fuhrer bunker". Actually, all the big bridges up here have wooden decks, the one at Whoop Up Creek, (MP-506.5, Main 1) i
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00085.html (8,262 bytes)
- 22. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1107 (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:02:45 -0600
- Hi Leo: I don't know how it's "suposed" to operate, but if you look at the top of the wheel, it tells you how many hours and minutes "late" (or very rarely, early) the train was when it went by the l
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00108.html (7,465 bytes)
- 23. Re: [BRHSlist] Boxcar in Gillette (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:37:30 -0600
- Hi Dave: I've seen the boxcar sitting up at the museum. Next chance I get to go up there, I'll see what I can find. BTW, I have the numbers of a couple of waycars on display here in the Hills.....can
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-09/msg00092.html (8,309 bytes)
- 24. Re: [BRHSlist] Boxcar in Gillette (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:50:43 -0600
- John, Ed and Marshall: Thanks very much for the waycar information. Best, Mike Decker
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-09/msg00104.html (7,279 bytes)
- 25. Photo(s) from Mike Decker (score: 1)
- Author: mdecker@g...
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 10:03:49 -0800
- This PhotoMail® link has been e-mailed to you from Mike Decker compliments of PhotoWorks. HI FOLKS: HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF THE AMTRAK BIKER'S SPECIAL IN NEWCASTLE, WYO. AUG. 5-12. THEY BROUGHT BIKER
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-08/msg00166.html (8,311 bytes)
- 26. Re: [BRHSlist] re:Steam Engines (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:42:45 -0600
- Hi Leo and Kurt: When I was hanging out at the CRRM in the 1960's as one of Bob's honorary "nephews", it was my understanding that the 5629 has a cracked frame, sustained during her last fan trip. Si
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-07/msg00017.html (7,114 bytes)
- 27. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1006 (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:34:01 -0600
- Hi Steve and Leo: The Dinkeys aren't quite the last three man crews around. The Gillette loading(?) Pool still carries a brakeman around in the vans with them while they are trying to avoid getting o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-07/msg00033.html (6,870 bytes)
- 28. Student Trip (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:44:49 -0600
- Hi Folks: Wednesday, I took a student trip on the Black Hills Central's newly restored Mallet, Wyerhauser #110, a compound 2-6-6-2T. She walked up Tin Mill Hill out of Hill City with six cars full of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-07/msg00072.html (6,390 bytes)
- 29. Re: [BRHSlist] Hamiltons vs. Balls (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:32:45 -0600
- Karl and folks: My working watch is an Elgin "B. W. Raymond", 21 jewel, lever set. Keeps good time. My back-up is a Walthem, 17-jewel stem-set....almost as accurate as the Elgin. Most guys out here t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-06/msg00007.html (7,621 bytes)
- 30. Re: [BRHSlist] Snow Plowing (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:12:43 -0600
- Hi Leo: Joe Arrington was our Sup't when we started running the SD-40-2 slaves, years back. I cought the first eastbound set, and he rode the slaves from Donkey Creek to Alliance, claimed the ride wa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-06/msg00144.html (7,862 bytes)
- 31. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Snow Plowing (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:06:32 -0600
- Hi Leo; No...I never heard anything about him before or since. Last time I remember seeing him, he pulled up in his Hi-Rail to the waycar ahead of us, about fifth out at Marietta getting ready to be
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-06/msg00170.html (8,814 bytes)
- 32. Re: [BRHSlist] (Diversions, was: no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:45:25 -0600
- Hi Jerry: Karl has explained why the Company isn't hot on the Builder going up the river. We went back to Wisconsin for a funeral Easter weekend, and on the way back, we had lunch at a place right on
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-05/msg00040.html (9,488 bytes)
- 33. Re: [BRHSlist] NORMALLY ASPIRATED (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:10:02 -0600
- Hi Leo: The 6153 was one of our regular switch engines in Edgemont when we still did switching. A couple years back, I came to work on the local. When I got the call slip, I was writing down the powe
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-05/msg00099.html (7,688 bytes)
- 34. Re: [BRHSlist] Minden, NE, bobber (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 07:25:21 -0600
- Hi Folks: The 40" ga. waycar at Minden would probably be from the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway in Canada. I believe they also have the two Porter locos that came from the H&LB. It might be let
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-04/msg00056.html (7,295 bytes)
- 35. Re: [BRHSlist] Concrete trestles (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 07:36:07 -0600
- Hi Glen: We've got several of the concrete trestles on the "coal main" out here in the PRB. Most of them have been "improved" by bolting bridge timbers to the top edges so as to support more ballast.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-04/msg00057.html (7,322 bytes)
- 36. Re: [BRHSlist] Wood Bros., was Oregon Wye (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:30:38 -0600
- Bill and Folks: I have a Koppel Industrial Car and Equipment Company Catalog No.1, which shows their "Hauling Outfit for Building Concrete Roads", using Koppel's "Direct Charging System". The railway
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-04/msg00249.html (8,186 bytes)
- 37. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 937 (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:32:21 -0600
- Hi Leo and folks: I can relate to your derail story. One night I was running 369 (Edge. to Gill. Local) and the FRA had been out all day red tagging the SD-9's on all the work trains we had at the ti
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-04/msg00272.html (8,797 bytes)
- 38. Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: search for a train (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:41:08 -0700
- Hi Folks: While I was at Sandley's, Elliot Donnelley bought one of our 15" ga. Atlantics (#127, Sandley 1952) and all eight of our old coaches for the 15" ga. Quinsippi Central Railroad that ran on Q
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00043.html (8,057 bytes)
- 39. [BRHSlist] Sandley Equipment (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:16:23 -0700
- Thanks Bob: I knew that It was sold because the R&GN Ry. Preservation Society tried to buy it at the auction, but it went too high and I never heard who bought it. They now have only two original San
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00059.html (8,415 bytes)
- 40. New official at Galesburg (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:39:18 -0700
- Hi Folks: Sorry to bother you non-rails with this, but it's the quickest way I know. You brothers that work into, or out of, Galesburg are about to be inflicted with a new Termoil Manager. Last week,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00207.html (6,845 bytes)
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