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1. Re: [CBQ] Re: Crew Change Point (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:45:28 -0700
It was Denver to Akron CO, Akron to McCook NE. The last time I was in Akron the crew quarters were still there. Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the we
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00058.html (10,510 bytes)

2. Fwd: Re: Re: [CBQ] Chinese Red Switcher (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:31:15 -0700
One more time I'll tell the story behind FW&D 605. The Denver had applied MU to its Wichita Falls based switchers so they could be used in multiple as road power on the former Wichita Valley branches
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00071.html (13,500 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] Interchanges, Codewords & MErry Christmas! (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:23:17 -0700
The Utah Coal Route wasn't a railroad. See www.utahrails.net It consisted of 700 coal cars jointly owned by the Utah Railway and the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad. Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado -
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00292.html (12,062 bytes)

4. Fwd: Re: RE: [CBQ] Silver Charger (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:42:50 -0600
Yes, 9908 definitely was reassigned to Galesburg-Burlington-Dayman service after the demise of trains 1 and 44. In June 1963 I photographed it in the roundhouse at Galesburg, coming out for the caboo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00067.html (12,527 bytes)

5. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] Re: Everywhere West Slogan (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:17:10 -0600
From: HOL WAGNER The Everywhere West slogan was first painted on freight equipment in 1937, along with the Way of the Zephyrs slogan. Neither was used on equipment prior to that time, though Everywhe
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00079.html (15,626 bytes)

6. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] IL Line south from Quincy (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:11:50 -0700
In the late 1920s daily-expect-Sunday service between Quincy and Louisiana was provided by mixed trains 91-92. By 1933 the run had been cut back to Quincy-Pike, still passing through Rockport on a da
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00198.html (12,424 bytes)

7. Re: [CBQ] unit coal trains - equipment trusts (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:14:32 -0700
While it may not have been the first railroad to run unit trains the Denver & Northwestern was completed in 1903 for the purpose of running unit coal trains from Leyden CO to Denver CO. Norm Metcalf,
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00300.html (13,019 bytes)

8. [CBQ] CS operations in Denver (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:17:16 -0600
Bill: As someone who, like you, lived in the area and went down almost daily to see, and sometimes ride, the Conners Branch local of the C&S as a boy of 10 to 15, I can tell you with a degree of cert
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-10/msg00035.html (11,632 bytes)

9. Fwd: Re: Re: [CBQ] C&S operations in Denver (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:52:05 -0600
C&S 155 -- if it ever actually carried that number -- never turned a wheel in revenue service on the C&S, as it was acquired for service on the FW&D at Amarillo. The 10600 series wooden cabooses were
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-10/msg00039.html (15,437 bytes)

10. [CBQ] Connors branch (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:07:25 -0600
For many years the Connors branch ended at a lumber yard east of Monaco and north of Evans. I just checked Google Satellite and some of the right-of-way is still visible. Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colora
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-10/msg00048.html (9,432 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] Atomic trains in the 50s (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:45:35 -0600
Perhaps the equipment you're referring were the U.S. Department of Energy, Albuquerque Operations Office LO's, and such guard cars as G23. The Official Railway Equipment Registers have rosters of the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-10/msg00095.html (14,074 bytes)

12. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] Black Nose Stripes in 1968? (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:19:02 -0600
Most likely a typo; the view was probably taken on 6/1/*/58/*. -- Original Message -- Subject: [CBQ] Black Nose Stripes in 1968? Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:11:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Levine <sjl_
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00052.html (10,642 bytes)

13. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] Re: Black Nose Stripes in 1968? (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:47:36 -0600
To settle once and for all the question of the accuracy of the date of the photo of unit 9947B with black nose stripes, purportedly taken on June 1, 1968, I have a color slide, which I took myself, o
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00087.html (12,501 bytes)

14. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] WHEN did Black Nose Stripes changed to Red (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:16:02 -0600
the change was begun -- and very nearly completed -- in 1959. Hol Wagner I saw the notes that the changes to RED on E units was completed by 1960's, but what date did the Q start changing the nose fr
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00121.html (9,966 bytes)

15. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] Montana Museum (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:18:44 -0600
This is the Ron Nixon collection, and the captioning on many of the photos -- done by volunteers at the library -- is notoriously inaccurate. I've noticed this especially in the C&S photos. Hol Wagne
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00095.html (11,357 bytes)

16. [CBQ] CS & FWD cabooses [was] C&S Waycars (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:43:47 -0600
From: HOL WAGNER On the C&S and FW&D they were always cabooses, not waycars. Hol Wagner Subject: [CBQ] Re: C&S Waycars Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:31:34 -0000 From: jonathanharris@earthlink.net This ra
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00214.html (11,349 bytes)

17. Fwd: Re: RE: [CBQ] Grier Restaurant at Burlington, Iowa (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:49:34 -0600
In June 1963 I enjoyed lunch in the Galesburg depot Grier's and dinner that same day in the one at Burlington, before spending a night in the Burlington Hotel, a grand old place. The food at both Gri
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00222.html (11,061 bytes)

18. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q G-3 0-6-0 in Quaker Square, Akron, OH (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:01:54 -0600
According to the SteamLocomotive.com website, CB&Q G-3 class 0-6-0 switcher #1548 is displayed in Quaker Square, Akron, OH. Is it still there and does anyone have photos? I live near Seattle and am t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-07/msg00013.html (10,451 bytes)

19. Fwd: Re: RE: [CBQ] Twin Cities Trains (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:59:37 -0600
And its solarium parlor cars in the Thirties and early Forties were the "Mississippi" and the "Riverview." The Mississippi Riverview was the 'day' train between Chi & the Twin Cities with the Black H
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-07/msg00014.html (12,294 bytes)

20. Fwd: Re: [CBQ] 2-8-2 and how was it used? (score: 1)
Author: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@att.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:04:04 -0600
In the 1920s and early 1930s, the O-1-A Mikes were used on many occasions on secondary passenger trains on Lines West. Examples include 41-42-43-43 between Lincoln and Billings and 303-304 between De
/archives/BRHSLIST/2010-07/msg00015.html (10,881 bytes)

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