- 121. St Louis (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:14:22 EDT
- Steve I agree w/the spots Bill is recommending but don't forget the hobby shop in Union Station in the N.W. corner. Also Union Station is full of wonderful restaurants and so is Lacleds landing. The
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-06/msg00114.html (6,970 bytes)
- 122. Geeps (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:05:45 EDT
- Can anybody (Mike Spoor) share how the converted troop sleepers that handled the periodicals out of Kable Bros at Mt Morris were handled. Over the years the "old timers" said the mtys went to Oregon
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-06/msg00125.html (6,282 bytes)
- 123. Western Ave (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:09:29 EDT
- If I asked this before and have forgotten I apologize upfront. Does anyone know what the elevator (huge) that stood at the East end of Western Ave yd until just a few years ago was utilized for? Was
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-06/msg00126.html (6,020 bytes)
- 124. Stealing the unlock (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:27:15 EDT
- Besides those of us who used to do it on a regular basis (or sit in the cab and observe somebody else do it) can anyone tell us what the phrase "stealing the unlock meant" and how one accomplished sa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-06/msg00139.html (6,414 bytes)
- 125. Stealing the unlock (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:24:26 EDT
- Thanks Russ and Gabe as you guys are close and really know in principle to what I refer. Karl was never convicted because he just watched. Stealing the unlock on the Q/BN specifically (at least on th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-06/msg00167.html (8,810 bytes)
- 126. Re: [BRHSlist] Signals and Stuff,Lenny (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:27:42 EDT
- Yes, a clearance form and/or orders could be hooped up at that station. The train could not "pass' the station w/o a clearance beyond that point. In some cases if the operator at the station was goin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00006.html (7,116 bytes)
- 127. Steam on Suburban (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:39:10 EDT
- A couple weeks ago we were talking about how the steam engines got to Eola after there were just a handful left in this service. During the discussion on Sat at the meet J.F. Schmid (long time engine
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00007.html (6,286 bytes)
- 128. Rochelle Ramblings (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:44:45 EDT
- Thanks to all who worked to make the spring meet a fun and interesting event. I enjoyed the exchange of info and camaraderie. I was chauffeured around town by Ed Pavlovic(Ed excuse the sp) and was st
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00008.html (6,055 bytes)
- 129. volume 4 (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 22:03:41 EDT
- Mike Spoor a thought just flashed past for volume 4. How about a photo or 2 on the West Batavia or West Chicago branch. How about spotting stock at the sheep yards or spotting cars at Lyon or in the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00010.html (5,974 bytes)
- 130. Re: [BRHSlist] Steam on Suburban (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:39:30 EDT
- Russ,As mentioned previously between 1/73 and 3/80 I only went thru the handthrows twice,both when"dead on the hours of service".I never ever saw anybody(except the west yd engine, when switching the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00028.html (7,065 bytes)
- 131. Re: [BRHSlist] Signals and Stuff,Lenny (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:42:19 EDT
- All thru the 70s it was common for the DS to come on the radio to the C&E of a train to copy a freshly issued slow order. Leo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00029.html (6,622 bytes)
- 132. Walking your Train (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 23:05:52 EDT
- As a pretty firm rule road crews would walk their trains in the initial terminal before departing (at least on the Aurora Div when Carmen didn't run the initial air test). This applied to Cicero,Eola
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00030.html (7,273 bytes)
- 133. Re: [BRHSlist] Steam on Suburban (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:15:14 EDT
- Russ,"the handthrows" is how the switches from the Aurora lead to the track behind the W Eola tower and then from that trk to the West yd were referred to during the time I worked and from my earlies
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00038.html (6,897 bytes)
- 134. Irish Mail (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:30:00 EDT
- Bill, The Irish Mail was a local out of Eola up both sides of the Fox River from Aurora to West Batavia and Batavia (at one time on the East side it went all the way to W Chicago). When General Mills
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00040.html (6,576 bytes)
- 135. Set out/pickups (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 21:08:32 EDT
- Russ, Here's a question i first asked about 1974 or '75. In the pre or mostly non radio days how did the road jobs know which trk to s/o or p/u on at Eola? I would guess that your comment about handi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00053.html (6,570 bytes)
- 136. Chalk Marks (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 23:00:51 EDT
- I've been asked to expand on a comment that I made during the hand sign clinic at the spring meet about chalk marks. At one time they were almost universal in switching both on yard and wayfreight ty
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00066.html (7,849 bytes)
- 137. Work Rules (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 22:55:41 EDT
- While it is fashionable to lambaste the old work rules that the operating unions coerced from the carriers as featherbedding; they each had a purpose at one time. The main purpose was to protect the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00087.html (7,652 bytes)
- 138. WORK RULES-AIR PAY (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 22:59:14 EDT
- Can anyone other than Karl,Gary,Ed or Bob explain the Air Pay rule? Just a little quiz to get the conversation going. Leo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00088.html (5,981 bytes)
- 139. Air Pay (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:18:51 EDT
- Steve, you allude to the correct answer. Air pay was the arbitrary(extra) that switch (yard) crews received when carman were available to either couple air hoses or bleed cars in yards. Clearly the i
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00105.html (6,234 bytes)
- 140. Milw 261 (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@a...
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:20:39 EDT
- I have it from one of the best sources that 261 will be at Western Ave on the 18th and on to GT on the 19th(if I got the dates right). Leo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-05/msg00106.html (5,775 bytes)
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