- 241. [CBQ] Carter Blatchford (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:20:21 EST
- Ok heres a clue as to where the Milw would hand a car to the Q that was headed to Carter Blatchford at Aurora. The Q revenue on the move would be so small that the paperwork probably cost more to pre
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00112.html (10,134 bytes)
- 242. [CBQ] Carter Blatchford (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:59:20 EST
- Sorry but while Rochelle was an active interchange point these cars came much closer to destination on the MILW before going to the Q. Leo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yah
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00113.html (10,002 bytes)
- 243. [CBQ] Carter Blatchford (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:42:47 EST
- You are all sort of right ! The CM&G was a sub. of the Milw and there was an interchange trk just at Terry Ave off the Aurora Pass on the C&I in Aurora. Now here's the tougher question. Which job wou
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00116.html (10,422 bytes)
- 244. [CBQ] Carter Blatchford (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:20:04 EST
- Dan, The # of industries on the Geneva/West Batavia branch? In a word. Many. It would depend the particular time period. What I've come to really understand while spending my entire working life in t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00119.html (10,617 bytes)
- 245. [CBQ] Carter Blatchford (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:04:00 EST
- Who pulled & delivered the CM&G interchange at Aurora ? Ok. It was the Aurora "depot" 4pm job. They also did the CA&E interchange work. And depending on what decade or year we're talking about they m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00126.html (10,488 bytes)
- 246. [CBQ] signalling (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:13:55 EST
- Mark, Maybe others can advise if there was a formula to determine when volumes required if signals or hand throws governed a movement in a "plant". What I can tell you is what I saw on the "property"
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00165.html (10,198 bytes)
- 247. Re: [CBQ] Re: signalling (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:20:30 EST
- Mark, Send me the sketch at my email address direct and I'll let you know what I think. Leo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00170.html (9,290 bytes)
- 248. [CBQ] Merry Christmas(an odd request....) (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:20:07 EST
- Archie, If my memory is correct Catalpa trees were marketed to farmers as a steady renewable source of fence post material throughout the Midwest and Plains. Leo Phillipp [Non-text portions of this m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00185.html (10,681 bytes)
- 249. [CBQ] (no subject)Commuter train w/baggage car (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:52:50 EST
- Please find a copy of BRHS Bulletin 1 entitled" The Dinkies in Transition" as it will provide some details. Here's a quick response. Suburban trains carried baggage cars to handle newspapers,company
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00221.html (10,789 bytes)
- 250. [CBQ] Commuter train w/baggage car (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:40:15 EST
- Gerald, The bid postings from the 40s and 50s for suburban jobs showing one or more baggage cars dont have a baggaman listed in the crew.These were closed cars being s/o in route or taken to Aurora.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00229.html (10,450 bytes)
- 251. [CBQ] Commuter train w/Baggage car (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:00:17 EST
- The Q would sometimes make arrangements for a man with a foot issue or injury to serve in limited services. Sometimes this back fired as anyone familiar with a guy nicknamed "Geep" will attest. On th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00232.html (9,886 bytes)
- 252. [CBQ] Cutting out brakes (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:55:42 EST
- Ryan, To cut out brakes on a car you find the cut out valve handle in the train line under the car and turn it to the cut out position. If my memory is working the handle is just off center from the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00019.html (10,011 bytes)
- 253. [CBQ] Commuter Consist (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:01:12 EST
- Take it from someone who knows John Smith personally,he lives in the same town as me. He follows me in seniority by about 2 years. I still ride w/him a few times a month on the middle round trip. Joh
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00078.html (10,600 bytes)
- 254. Fwd: [CBQ] Re: Transfer Rules (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:18:17 EST
- I do believe the return w/c lite stipulation was called the Chgo agreement. Each road would deliver to others and return w/c lite. If my memory is working in 1973 there were 72 jobs weekly jobs poste
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00079.html (10,346 bytes)
- 255. [CBQ] Reverse move at Naperville,IL (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:12:05 EST
- It seems like it was yesterday buts its been 36 or more years. We stopped at Naperville westbound on the last leg of an all day 2 rounder. Harley Peshia was the Con. we had an extra collector for par
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00081.html (11,981 bytes)
- 256. Fwd: [CBQ] Re: Commuter Consist (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:09:30 EST
- RJ, You are correct and I remembered Bob Mays as the correct identtity of the hoggers griever after sending the post. And Oh so true about the other 2 characters. Ray Niles is the name I was trying t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00125.html (9,387 bytes)
- 257. [CBQ] Frt cars moving on their own (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:18:44 EST
- Go way back in the archives of this list and find mine on cleaning coaches at Aurora depot and how quietly the DD moved around the yard. If the jointed rail was level and it was a night switching ope
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00126.html (9,835 bytes)
- 258. [CBQ] Transfer moves (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:38:10 EST
- Russ is correct. It was routine outside or inside yard limits as we often made moves w/o a w/c. It was a matter of convenience for the crew and room in the engine cab. If in doubt check the consolida
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00127.html (10,048 bytes)
- 259. [CBQ] Accident effects to crews (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:56 EST
- Ever have someone lay on the rails in front of you and then look right up at you? Shoe and I did one night at DG just west of the first xing in town eastbound. We got stopped at Pepperidge Farm and t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00171.html (10,457 bytes)
- 260. [CBQ] Accident effects to crews (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:33 EST
- Recalling that night at DG is making me feel real old. Only two of the four of us are left. Jerry left us a couple years ago after a long,happy retirerment and W.L left about 10 or so years ago prema
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00172.html (10,165 bytes)
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