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81. [CBQ] Re: OT - Quinsippi Central Railroad (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 13 May 2015 09:29:05 -0700
Hi Bob...... The Quinsippi cars ended up back at the Dells. They've been re-built,more or less like they were, by the Preservation Society. Those cars are the first cars built for the R&GN Ry. after
/archives/BRHSLIST/2015-05/msg00035.html (12,258 bytes)

82. [CBQ] Re: Miss Management (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 18 Sep 2016 07:02:42 -0700
Thank you, Rupert. That was good. It reminds me of the time I got a little hasty with my 'start' at West Moorcroft and got a drawbar. On coal trains, drawbars were almost always on the 'wrong end', a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-09/msg00146.html (12,723 bytes)

83. Re: [CBQ] Re: Miss Management (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 19 Sep 2016 06:14:33 -0700
It was a long time ago, but I suspect it didn't need 'converting'. Usually, they guy who pulled one in two wasn't the one who started the break. There were only a couple guys 'talented' enough to rip
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-09/msg00150.html (12,437 bytes)

84. [CBQ] Re: Izzy Jr. (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 08 Aug 2016 07:32:58 -0700
Most guys around here retired at 60, after the '30/60' plan came in. I made it to #1 in the Edgemont Pool by hanging on until I was 70 :>) I didn't mind, it still beat working for a living. Mike Deck
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-08/msg00037.html (12,796 bytes)

85. Re: [CBQ] Re: Depot Location? (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 06 Jul 2016 11:22:59 -0700
Hol, folks...... When I hired out in '77, the Gillette roundhouse was almost gone, just some walls on the west end remaining. There was a small brick office building that we always referred to as 'th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-07/msg00102.html (15,469 bytes)

86. [CBQ] Re: Depot Location? (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 09 Jul 2016 06:32:35 -0700
Pete......... When we moved to Hot Springs in '77, the old drug store was still operating. Like you said, soda fountain, and dark. Mike __._,_.___ Posted by: mdecker@gwtc.net Visit Your Group New Mem
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-07/msg00127.html (12,788 bytes)

87. Re: [CBQ] Q Cuckoo Clock Headlights [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 18 Apr 2016 07:34:27 -0700
[Attachment(s) from mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ] included below] Noel..... I don't have drawings, but I know where there is a headlight. It's on #719 in Alliance, Neb. Mike __._,_.___ Attachment(s) from md
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-04/msg00104.html (17,623 bytes)

88. [CBQ] Re: Q man made lake for steam engine water ? (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 12 Feb 2016 20:52:10 -0800
Gillette, Wyo. has Burlington Lake and the Burlington Ditch to supply it. The lake has been renamed, but there is a little section of the Ditch preserved near the Library. __._,_.___ Posted by: mdeck
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-02/msg00064.html (13,543 bytes)

89. [CBQ] Re: Coal Bunker in Savanna, IL (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 25 Feb 2016 07:00:50 -0800
That looks like the same type of bunker the Q had at Edgemont and Newcastle. __._,_.___ Posted by: mdecker@gwtc.net Visit Your Group New Members 3 Yahoo! Groups &bull; Privacy &bull; Unsubscribe &bul
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-02/msg00155.html (11,769 bytes)

90. Re: [CBQ] 4963 at IRM (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 09 Jan 2016 07:13:17 -0800
Relating to this thread.......here's some film I took at bevier in 1962 on a trip to Colorado. Enjoy, Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0jMWWR9yk __._,_.___ Posted by: mdecker@gwtc.net Visit You
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-01/msg00035.html (12,104 bytes)

91. Re: [CBQ] Re: Railroading dangers (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 28 Nov 2017 05:28:14 +0000
There used to be one, or more, mountain lion(s) down at North Antelope Mine. I saw it from the train one evening. I also saw one on Highway 18, when I was driving home from work another evening. Mike
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-11/msg00062.html (13,900 bytes)

92. Re: [CBQ] Helper ops (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 24 Aug 2017 18:00:26 +0000
I've done some of that stuff. One afternoon, I shoved a freight train over Newcastle with my 'hopper' without cutting off, or 'cutting in'. Like you say, it could have been messy, but wasn't, he real
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-08/msg00099.html (14,415 bytes)

93. Re: [CBQ] Sunday Only (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 07:05:49 -0800
I have both the record and the CD, which is combined with 'Steam Railroading Under Thundering Skies', on the Bonhomme & Hattiesburg Southern. I was on the Illini Colorado trip with the 5632 leaving B
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-12/msg00142.html (11,191 bytes)

94. Re: [CBQ] Sunday Only (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 11:17:39 -0800
Louis....It's a 3" bell, Lunkenheimer that Bob had in a display case at the CRRM. He had two or three of them, and if he told me, or knew where they came from I don't remember. I 'stepped' the top by
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-12/msg00150.html (11,670 bytes)

95. Re: [CBQ] ITD & FTD. (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 17 Jan 2018 05:22:11 +0000
My crew and I collected eight hours of ITD at Black Thunder Mine one day. They used to load at about three-tenths MPH, and only had about thirty cars worth of coal in the hopper. We were the third cr
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-01/msg00156.html (13,711 bytes)

96. [CBQ] 1960/61 Fan Trip Movies (score: 1)
Author: "mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 26 Jan 2018 02:37:19 +0000
Hi Folks...... In case you aren't on Facebook, here are two of my old movies I just put on YouTube. I was a 16/17 year old kid on fan trips with a rented, wind up, 8mm movie camera. https://www.youtu
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-01/msg00226.html (11,673 bytes)

97. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:18:35 -0700
Hi Pete... Here's another one I read from the MM 's files. We all know the Company would award 'Brownies' for Rules infractions. But, at least on the C&S, they would also award 'merits' for good deed
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00000.html (12,083 bytes)

98. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:25:50 -0700
Yup, Pete, I learned that one early, and when the helper crew 'drifted' their motors through the crossover into the side of a train loading at Belle Ayr, the Engineer was 'down in the nose'. I don't
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00010.html (11,689 bytes)

99. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:46:18 -0700
I see by the Patent papers that one of the applicants is a 'J. E. Clifton'. That leads me to believe that these are the chutes that are popularly called the 'Clifton Pocket Coal Chutes'. Among others
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00107.html (12,181 bytes)

100. Re: [CBQ] Burnt clay ballast (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:10:09 -0700
Rupert... I'll try and copy an article from the 1904 edition of "Notes on Track" by Camp, and send it to you. It's about the Q burning clay in pits outside of Lincoln, account it was too expensive to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-08/msg00079.html (11,627 bytes)

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