- 201. [CBQ] Yard Signals (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:32:15 EST
- Mark, My experience was the yard signals were only used where sight lines were bad and volume dictated their use. Please check the archive for a discussion on the operation of the yard signal in the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00093.html (9,348 bytes)
- 202. [CBQ] Human Side-Chucking your Rights (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:04:08 EST
- It's been two weeks and it looks like the prize for answering the "chucking your rights quiz" will go unclaimed. Nice try Brad as you got two questions right. The answer key(at least my version): 1)T
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00104.html (12,381 bytes)
- 203. [CBQ] Hog Board (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:29:38 EST
- The "hog board" or 'hogging" list at Aurora was very informal. A man simply let the caller know he was available for work on his rest day or even between runs. Some guys made large amounts of money b
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00112.html (9,598 bytes)
- 204. [CBQ] Human Side-Forced (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:34:08 EST
- Almost forgot about the biggest non incentive to take the promotion to Condr. Once you were "examined" and if you had the lowest brkmns seniority date in your newly promoted group you were subject to
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00113.html (10,169 bytes)
- 205. [CBQ] Drawbridge-Burlington,IA (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:49 EST
- If my memory is correct the Burlington,IA bridge controls are in the bridge tenders building in the center of the bridge on the lift portion. Ottawa and La Salle,IL were similarly arranged. Stopping
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-02/msg00121.html (10,065 bytes)
- 206. [CBQ] Oregon Tracks (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:47:11 EST
- Using the highway bridge as your vantage point and looking east: To the left of the main is the Mt Morris main,it runs all the way down to the east end where it rejoins the main, the track that rejoi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00009.html (10,662 bytes)
- 207. [CBQ] Street Running/Alley Job (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:46:59 EST
- There was a short stretch of street running in Amboy down a beautiful brick street lined with handsome old homes. Also ran immediately adjacent to street in other parts of town, also in Ottawa and Na
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00021.html (11,149 bytes)
- 208. [CBQ] Please Contact me (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:40:14 EST
- to the list in general please excuse this non Q item but there is a sad side to RR ing that comes up every so often no matter how much safety is stressed. All accidents are preventable but...........
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00023.html (9,672 bytes)
- 209. [CBQ] Another Pheasant Story-Oregon,IL (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:01:39 EST
- I swear this is true. If I've told this one before I apologize upfront. The previous email/newspaper story about Marshall Aull brought this one back from the depths. One night we're headed east on so
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00027.html (11,031 bytes)
- 210. [CBQ] street Running in Yorkville (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:13:30 EST
- The old Fox River Branch is indeed immediately adjacent to Hydraulic St for a few blocks in downtown Yorkville,IL. Probably the most storied incidents I recall seeing or hearing are: 1) the old early
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00028.html (9,951 bytes)
- 211. [CBQ] Street Running Photos (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:37 EST
- The one good shot of Q street operations that comes to mind is the one of downtown La Crosse,WI that was in a BRHS calendar a few years back. Leo Phillipp **Start the year off right. Easy ways to sta
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00063.html (9,201 bytes)
- 212. [CBQ] Commercial Post-Q S scale engines for sale (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:08:17 EST
- Please excuse this commercial post. After 30 plus years in storage I have decided to sell my American Flyer collection. Currently listed on Ebay under Toys and Hobbies,Model RR,American Flyer are thr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00075.html (9,669 bytes)
- 213. [CBQ] Commercial post-Q books on Ebay (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:04:35 EST
- If anyone is interested I have placed hard cover original editions of "The Burlington in Transition" and "Burlington Route" for sale on ebay. Leo Phillipp **Start the year off right. Easy ways to sta
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00076.html (9,176 bytes)
- 214. Fwd: [CBQ] Street Runin'. (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:35:40 EST
- Karl, Here's a guess on my part. Was it Barnes ? He worked Rochelle for awhile in the later 70s and I am thinking he came over after #94 came off. Leo **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00095.html (9,836 bytes)
- 215. [CBQ] Deadwood Branch (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:33:51 EST
- Andy, Suggest you find a copy of "Railroads of the Black Hills" by Mildred Fielder which was published in 1964 and reissued in 1993. Also the CNW Society ran an in depth three part series on the Blac
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00174.html (9,819 bytes)
- 216. [CBQ] Slag Ballast Color (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:33:22 EST
- Guys for photographic verification of slag colors(note the plural) go to Mike Spoors Color Guide for Q equipment and on page 102 there is a shot of a w/c on the west end of trk 13 in the East Yard at
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00196.html (10,426 bytes)
- 217. [CBQ] Slag Ballast Color (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:23:38 EST
- As Karl states slag ballast did work to hold and support track. But I will tell you from first hand experience it wasn't fun or comfortable to hike on,especially on the shoulder of the stuff. I never
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00210.html (10,246 bytes)
- 218. [CBQ] A Human Side Topic-Chucking your Rights (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:51:03 EST
- It's way too quiet on the list of late. Here's a test and the winner gets lunch at the Zephyr Grill, just inside the fence at 14th St yard (oh,that's right it got knocked down in the last yard recons
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00243.html (12,053 bytes)
- 219. Fwd: [CBQ] A Human Side Topic-Chucking your Rights (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:32:53 EST
- Steve, Not at all,go for it. Leo **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 [Non-text portions of this message have
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00246.html (10,388 bytes)
- 220. Fwd: [CBQ] A Human Side Topic-Chucking your Rights (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:40:31 EST
- Pete, At least from the 70s on we referred to it "as going out on disability" . Leo **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00247.html (10,409 bytes)
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