- 161. [CBQ] Re: Looked like the Fox River wayfreight (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl" <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:55:01 -0600
- Remember, we'd spend ALL DAY switchin' Ottawa Silica in 100 degree temps. with silica dust so thick ya couldn't see through it. As you choked down the dust and acquired a good dose of silicosis you'd
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-01/msg00114.html (11,234 bytes)
- 162. [CBQ] Re: Surviving CB&Q Way Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:44:57 -0800 (PST)
- Hol, This waycar is set back off of Hy; 12, west of Tdad. It would be approx. 1 mi. before the turn-off to Jansen and is on the north side of the road. The view of the car is obscured by trees and fe
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-01/msg00128.html (12,269 bytes)
- 163. [CBQ] Re: Surviving CB&Q Way Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl" <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:55:02 -0600
- Larry, I'm not familiar with the Centerville car. A pic would go a long way in ID'ing. the car if you can find those shots. Karl -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-01/msg00129.html (12,087 bytes)
- 164. [CBQ] Re: Surviving CB&Q Way Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:36:58 -0800 (PST)
- The Centerville car is Ex. NP 1050/10050. Karl __._,_.___ Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-01/msg00151.html (11,238 bytes)
- 165. [CBQ] Re: Fox River Branch Update-Yorkville,IL (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:18:16 -0800 (PST)
- Derailments on the Branch are nothing new, that's fer sure !! Leo, I remember Fox, Yorkville, Yeagan, Oswego and a couple others. One of the more "colorful" derailments was in downtown Yorkville. "Ro
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-01/msg00283.html (11,339 bytes)
- 166. [CBQ] Oil on the Q in WW II. (score: 1)
- Author: <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: 01 Nov 2013 09:02:35 -0700
- Many of the "old heads" I worked with in the early 60s talked about the unusually high numbers of RED signal violations as a result of handling the large numbers of WW II "unit" oil trains. As Pete m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-11/msg00006.html (11,662 bytes)
- 167. [CBQ] Re: (unknown) (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:22:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Has anyone reading or writing these little anecdotes of railroading ever used the age old "instructional" phrase "OK, go ahead and back em up" ?? Its a common but dichotomous statement indended to in
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-07/msg00094.html (11,644 bytes)
- 168. [CBQ] Re: Unknown (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl" <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:55:01 -0600
- Has anyone reading or writing these little anecdotes of railroading ever used the age old "instructional" phrase "OK, go ahead and back `em up" ?? It's a common but dichotomous statement indended to
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-07/msg00095.html (10,422 bytes)
- 169. [CBQ] Re: BN derailment at Downers Grove, IL (Belmont Ave) [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 06:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
- [Attachment(s) from Karl Rethwisch included below] Plenty of Johnson outboards buried in the parkin' lot. "Shovel ready" !! qman Attachment(s) from Karl Rethwisch 1 of 1 Photo(s) Q Belmont-3.jpg Q Be
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00000.html (12,180 bytes)
- 170. [CBQ] Re: Passenger Train Detours Over the Q [3 Attachments] (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 19:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
- [Attachment(s) from Karl Rethwisch included below] I was on #7 and #10 between CUSCo and Savanna and Savanna and CUSCo. 5'-45" on duty !! Those 40's were the SECOND worst ridin' engine I've EVER been
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00021.html (14,599 bytes)
- 171. [CBQ] Re: Passenger Train Detours Over the Q (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl" <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:55:01 -0600
- you've ever been on?> <Those 40's were the SECOND worst ridin' engine I've EVER been on> -- C&S 891 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! The 890, 892 and the rest of that ge junk rode BAD !!!! The 891 exceeded its closest
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00025.html (11,434 bytes)
- 172. [CBQ] Re: BN derailment at Downers Grove, IL (Belmont Ave) (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
- T W Cox, Engr. and Ben (Red) Riebel, Con. Belmont incident. Karl __._,_.___ Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Ful
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00033.html (10,759 bytes)
- 173. [CBQ] Re: Water Cooled Journal Box Bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:04:10 -0700 (PDT)
- In the early 70's we brought a switch engine from Rock Falls to Earlville with a bad journal on R3. We "baby-sat" the thing all the way over the road and it ran hot the whole trip. At Earlville it wa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00103.html (11,487 bytes)
- 174. [CBQ] Re: VO-1000 at CUS (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
- 9351 was a "regular" at 14th. St. That was nearly the ONLY location where that engine could be used on a regular basis without being shot at by "disturbed" trackside residents !! She was LOUD !!!! Ka
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00105.html (10,734 bytes)
- 175. [CBQ] Re: Water Cooled Journal Box Bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:08:51 -0700 (PDT)
- About a hunnert years ago (late 50's) a Snuffy set out a blazin' hotbox at Montgomery, across from the tower and west of Webster St. X'ing. I can only assume they pulled the burning packin' out, tied
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00116.html (11,741 bytes)
- 176. [CBQ] Re: Anatomy of a hot box (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl" <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:55:02 -0600
- Packin' and FIRE !! There was a gentleman, who is no longer with us, while brakin' on the Congo (Congress Park Tabulated Wayfreight) did as his "boss" instructed him to do at Cicero. "Get the stove g
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00135.html (11,681 bytes)
- 177. [CBQ] Re: Grandma & Grandpa at Milledgeville,IL (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:48:38 -0700 (PDT)
- In the days of order string and Morning Zephyrs it was a common task to save all the order string ya grabbed cause ya never knew when something might need to be "fixed". Order string was also quite h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00181.html (12,467 bytes)
- 178. [CBQ] Re: Grandma & Grandpa at Milledgeville,IL (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:23:48 -0700 (PDT)
- A secondary usage for a lot of the papers that were collected from the dinky's was that of mattresses for the 12th. St. bunkroom. THAT was a really memorable experience to have gotten "your rest" in
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-04/msg00185.html (11,340 bytes)
- 179. [CBQ] Re: Oregon Signals [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:05:26 -0800 (PST)
- [Attachment(s) from Karl Rethwisch included below] A view of the east end of Oregon as seen through the windshield of a GP20. This was 1971. Karl Attachment(s) from Karl Rethwisch 1 of 1 Photo(s) 31
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00019.html (12,263 bytes)
- 180. [CBQ] Re: Oregon Signals [2 Attachments] (score: 1)
- Author: Karl Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 07:00:59 -0800 (PST)
- [Attachment(s) from Karl Rethwisch included below] Bob, in this cropped 126 image the pot is visible just beyond the switch immediately in front of my engine. The white object is a stone bridge pier.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00028.html (14,725 bytes)
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