- 121. Re: [CBQ] Hot Springs, SD Water Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:24:20 -0800
- That's probably what the Q did James... There was a water tank at Minnekahta, they could have made sure they had enough water both times they were there. The pictures of the mixed trains in Hot Sprin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00022.html (11,477 bytes)
- 122. Re: [CBQ] Hot Springs, SD Water Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:50:51 -0800
- The Mystery is (partly) solved.... From 1891 until 1922, the Q had an Engine Terminal in Hot Springs. A spur came off the Branch behind the Evans Plunge building, crossed Hot Brook, then Cold Brook t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00063.html (12,075 bytes)
- 123. Re: [CBQ] Photo of the Day - explanation for feature on steam engine needed (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:08:39 -0800
- Richard... I don't think that's a capped stack. It looks more like the right hand 'running board' on the 453's smokebox. The fenders look like car wheels on a flat car. The Colo. RR Museum has a Ridg
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00064.html (11,950 bytes)
- 124. [CBQ] Patent Pilot? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:21:17 -0800
- Hi Folks... This isn't directly Q related, though the photo was taken at the B&MR end of the Hot Springs, SD Union Depot. It is the front end of Sioux City & Pacific 4-4-0 #9, Manchester of 1873. Wha
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00066.html (10,534 bytes)
- 125. Re: [CBQ] Patent Pilot? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:02:40 -0800
- Hol... Well, then, that's what the horizontal rods to the coupler are on this engine at the Hot Springs. Freight House. Mike _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. Vi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00087.html (10,480 bytes)
- 126. Re: [CBQ] Zephyrette video (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:46:38 -0800
- The wife of my friend Jim Baumann, who lined me up with the BN, was a Zephyrette. I forget her first name, it was a long time ago, and I haven't talked to Jim since he went to the UP in the late '70'
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-02/msg00058.html (10,636 bytes)
- 127. Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 09:28:58 -0700
- I had the good fortune to ride several pre-Amtrak name trains. In eighth grade, our class trip was from Chicago to Washington, DC on the B&O Capitol Limited. I rode the Lac du Flambeau 400 from the n
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00113.html (12,357 bytes)
- 128. Re: [CBQ] Switch Stand Placement (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 08:05:20 -0700
- I'll agree with that, I doubt they were moved when the BN was formed. And the foot pedal lock was on the tangent side when it was still dark territory in 1977 on the Alliance Div. Mike _._,_._,_ Grou
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00162.html (10,121 bytes)
- 129. Re: [CBQ] Switch Stand Placement (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 06:58:17 -0700
- Yup, Pete....and sometimes the pedal would snap back up before you could get to the switch stand. Mike _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6383
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00168.html (10,713 bytes)
- 130. Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 07:00:57 -0700
- The camera I took to DC in '58 was a 'Hopalong Cassidy' box camera. If I could find the prints, I'm sure I took some railroad pictures. Mike _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00169.html (12,376 bytes)
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