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41. RE: Re: [CBQ] FW: [steamlocomotivephotosandrestoration] Sandwich Fair Train (score: 1)
Author: <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: 26 Sep 2013 03:19:26 -0700
I designed and built the #6-ET brake valves that are on the engine. Does that make it better, Noel? Mike --In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <cbq@yahoogroups.com> wrote: That is beautiful. Whistle sounds very
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-09/msg00100.html (13,511 bytes)

42. RE: Re: [CBQ] FW: [steamlocomotivephotosandrestoration] Sandwich Fair Train (score: 1)
Author: <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: 27 Sep 2013 11:59:21 -0700
I hadn't watched the video until this morning up here in Gillette. It is too bad he doesn't know how to run. There is a pretty good shot of my brake valves, and I see they're still using a pair of ou
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-09/msg00103.html (16,538 bytes)

43. [CBQ] Re: (unknown) (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 07:55:02 -0600
My first pay trip out of Edgemont, I was the head man on an mty. We took siding at Upton to meet some. The first guy had us lined in, and so the first switch I had to throw was the West switch, after
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-07/msg00089.html (12,670 bytes)

44. [CBQ] Re: Question re; spring switches (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 22:55:01 -0600
Hi Larry....... Yes, they do. The one we had at the West end of the Gillette yard had a regular low level switch stand that you could use to line it if you needed to. The target was red and yellow in
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00078.html (12,338 bytes)

45. [CBQ] Re: Question re; spring switches (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 16:55:01 -0600
Yupper, Bill....... They don't mess with me anymore :>) It sure makes a new conductor nervious when you aren't stopping for the switch at West Caballo or the East end of the Buckskin Siding though :>
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00099.html (13,148 bytes)

46. [CBQ] Re: Arbitraries was Downers Grove Wreck (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:55:02 -0600
They're still arbitarily declining them John :>) We still have some left, but you boys are correct, even the Griever won't help the new guys with the schedule, let alone the Company. I collected an "
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00026.html (12,700 bytes)

47. [CBQ] Re: Water Cooled Journal Box Bearings (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:55:01 -0600
Hi Dick.....How'ya been? When I was braking for Bennett, we set the bridge on the siding at the east end of Dewey on fire "hooking out" the packing on a hotbox. So then we had to put out the bridge t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00104.html (12,890 bytes)

48. [CBQ] Re: Train orders (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:55:01 -0600
Hi Al......... I worked in train order territory between Edgemont, Gillette, and the mines. There was a register shack at Black Thunder Mine, later "Junction", where the mty would register in, and th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00226.html (12,672 bytes)

49. [CBQ] Re: Train order delivery (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:55:01 -0600
That's true, Al....... That, and the video game tryin' to tell me in "real time" how to run my motor, is why I'm not re-certing this year. My licence runs out end of November, my vacation starts firs
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00241.html (14,103 bytes)

50. [CBQ] Re: Train order delivery (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:55:01 -0600
As I recall, Larry....... One of the U-boats was standing on end, more or less :>) BNMike -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00267.html (12,435 bytes)

51. [CBQ] Re: Train order delivery (was 2-10-4) (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:55:02 -0600
The Great Northern rules guy who gave us our brakeman class in Alliance told us that we'd meet people who had been here fifteen years. Some of them would have fifteen years of experience, and some of
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00283.html (11,766 bytes)

52. [CBQ] Re: Unusual Company Form (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:55:01 -0600
My last "efficiency test" was whistling the East and West crossings at Edgemont while I was leaving town. Weed weasel #2 (the Roadforeman) passed me on both. He probably never left the depot....you c
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00148.html (11,826 bytes)

53. [CBQ] Re: black hills high line route (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:55:02 -0600
Mike, Bill, et al...... I'm in Gillette right now, and I can't bring up the title out of my feeble brain, but Rick Mills put out a photo book on the High Line, maybe 10 years ago. You might be able
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00285.html (12,200 bytes)

54. [CBQ] Re: CB&Q 6100 (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:55:01 -0600
Hi Mitch..... Cast iron car wheels have holes in them too, they are on the back side where you can't see them. Most cast car wheels had a hollow "donut shaped" section around the hub. The hollow help
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00324.html (11,540 bytes)

55. [CBQ] Re: Oregon Signals (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:55:01 -0600
Hi Bob........ I can't speak to why the diagrahm would show a dwarf signal, and photos show a high level, but I can tell you why the signals are placed the way they are. The two headed signals at the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00010.html (11,947 bytes)

56. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:55:01 -0600
That'll do doesn't cut it anymore :>) They did go back to letting the ground man say "half a car" instead of "25 feet", but it has to be "Stop" now, if you don't want to risk an "efficiency Failure"
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00116.html (13,460 bytes)

57. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:55:01 -0600
Ya, Pete. When I hired out we had a pole line. There were 40 poles to the mile, and I figured 2-1/2 cars to the pole. Everybody else was taught that when they hired out, so even with new guys, the ca
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00130.html (13,772 bytes)

58. [CBQ] Quick stop (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:55:01 -0600
Since the coal business is kinda' in the toilet, and the GN is filled up with oil trains, the Company is running quite a few freight trains through here to Billings and West. Last night I came up on
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00145.html (10,726 bytes)

59. [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz (score: 1)
Author: "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:55:02 -0600
Or less complimentary things Bill....LOL The last time I saw Jim was at Overland Park when they had us down there for our first Re-cert. Jim was our ATM when the rear truck on my lead motor split the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00151.html (13,404 bytes)

60. RE: [CBQ] Mineral Products from Upton Wyoming (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 05 Nov 2014 06:46:17 -0800
The clay plant at MP540 was "Colloid" and the one at MP541 was "Bentley". They are now shipping clay from a little plant at Thornton, MP556. A lot of it is going out in "CATX" covered hoppers to be c
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-11/msg00027.html (13,227 bytes)

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