- 1. [CBQ] Rochelle Depot (score: 1)
- Author: "Jerry Stauffer" <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:23:50 -0600
- We saw a sad day today as crews with a large trackhoe demolished the Rochelle depot today. When I arrived about 9:45 am, they had just pulled down the west end wall and were removing the scale which
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-12/msg00106.html (10,314 bytes)
- 2. Re: [SPAM][CBQ] Rochelle Depot (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:28 -0800 (PST)
- Archie, and everyone. I just posted a few pics of the demolition of the Rochelle Depot and as time permits may add more down the road. Enjoy Jerry Archie <kliner@mywdo.com> wrote: Jerry, How about a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-12/msg00111.html (11,142 bytes)
- 3. Re: [SPAM][CBQ] Rochelle Depot (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:02:51 -0800 (PST)
- Tim, You are correct that our values have gone way down..we are a throw away scociety these days. But I have to believe we have always let money and wealth dominate to a large degree in what was done
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-12/msg00146.html (11,371 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] Hinckley (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:05:53 -0800 (PST)
- Leo, I love your stories, keep'em coming. Your mention of dinky's is interesting, everyone in Mt. Morris has forever called the local the "dinky". It would be interesting to know where the phrase cam
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-02/msg00123.html (11,735 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Mt Morris (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:18:26 -0800 (PST)
- Leo, Off the top of my head I have no idea when they stopped loading magazines into box cars, for a number of years they had the piggy back ramps until they started loading trailers and sending them
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-02/msg00136.html (10,668 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] C&I: the cut at Oregon, IL (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:32:44 -0700 (PDT)
- Pete , I had notices a Hulcher lowboy truck in Oregon east of the depot over a week ago and wondered what was going on. A day or two later I decided to drive out Burlington Rd at that cut to do a l
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-08/msg00018.html (11,311 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] Re: Oregon, IL (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:59:50 -0800 (PST)
- I've seen it in track plans but never was really able to confirm that it was ever built. Jerry find at one. Yes, there was a wye at Oregon. Jim Singer's article in Zephyr a few years ago included a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00088.html (10,533 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] Re: Mt. Morris Track Plan (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 19:02:33 -0800 (PST)
- Tom, Haven't forgottem you...just have been very busy and also been sick. I'm also searching info on the ramps... Jerry Jerry, First, thanks for the info on Mt. Morris. It was great! I model O
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00015.html (17,690 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] Re: Mt. Morris Track Plan (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:20:23 -0800 (PST)
- Tom, Please forgive me on not getting back to you sooner! Like they say...better late than never. Question #1 As I recall, all lumber was in box cars and were unloaded from the west side to the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00173.html (19,428 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CBQ] Mt. Morris Track Plan - Piggyback Operations (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:27:55 -0800 (PST)
- Hi Tom, and group. The Piggy back ramps were outside north of the building and served both the pigs and also as the lead tracks to the 2 indor tracks tat held about 6 cars each of paper to unload.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00265.html (14,445 bytes)
- 11. Re: [CBQ] Mt. Morris Track Plan (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:07:58 -0800 (PST)
- Roger / Jim, First let me say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I am a list member but have been very busy this summer and fall so haven't paid much attention to the postings on any of my groups fo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00264.html (19,956 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CBQ] Mt. Morris Track Plan (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:14:19 -0800 (PST)
- Hoping my post on the MM businesses helps and I wil be very interested to learning from you Steve the RR side of the story and locos used in town so I will be watching the topic for awhile. Thanks,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00265.html (12,413 bytes)
- 13. Re: [CBQ] Mt. Morris Industries (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:48:00 -0800 (PST)
- Rus, Rich, I remember the NW2 sitting on the lead track to Carnation very well as well as watching them work the local job. Does anyone remember Tom Teasdale, station agent here in Mt. Morris??
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-02/msg00215.html (12,926 bytes)
- 14. Re: [CBQ] Mt Morris Industries (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:44:57 -0800 (PST)
- Leo, Mt. Morris never had a ready mix. Besides Kable Printing there were at different times, 2 lumber yards that recieved lumber, a coal dealer and 2 elevators. As a teen I worked for the one ele
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-02/msg00216.html (12,271 bytes)
- 15. Re: [CBQ] Mt Morris Industries (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:24:43 -0800 (PST)
- Leo, I've been a resident of Mt. Morris all my life but there was never any kind of cement operation of any kind here that I'm aware of. One of the lumber yards may have recieved sacrete of some t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-02/msg00218.html (10,697 bytes)
- 16. [CBQ] Mt. Morris branch line (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:44:53 -0800 (PST)
- As many of you know, the Kable Printing/Quad Graphics printing plant here in Mt. Morris was shuttered earlier this year. Quad Graphics has hired a national scrapper from Tennessee to come in and scra
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-12/msg00252.html (12,203 bytes)
- 17. Re: [CBQ] Just like the Q (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:13:54 -0800 (PST)
- This post has nothing and everything to do with the Q. Many of you know I am still active in the rail industry buying/selling and scrapping railcars. Yesterday I had business reasons to spend a coup
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00237.html (17,075 bytes)
- 18. Re: [CBQ] Re: A Trespasser - Is You Is or Is You Ain't (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Stauffer <milw265@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:01:31 -0700 (PDT)
- Well folks...it isn't a perfect world.....and we always blame the other guy, and the first thing that seems to come to mind is...lets sue someone. hmmmmm I've been asked numerous times by both RR pol
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-03/msg00242.html (15,370 bytes)
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