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301. [CBQ] Dog Catching 1973 (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:11:39 EDT
Russ is so right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In 1973 while on the extra list(where dog catching belongs) I got called to go to the Aurora depot and "go dog catching". Normally when called to dog catch,you ca
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00174.html (11,149 bytes)

302. [CBQ] 31/32 Empire Builder H.E. Car (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:00:50 EDT
Tom, Hoepfully AOL/Yahoo wont mess this listing up.Here's what I found in my copy of the "Burlington Route Conductors Booking Books". These are the exact records taken by Condrs. Repetto and Shields
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00229.html (10,422 bytes)

303. [CBQ] West Aurora depot/frt house (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:30:57 EDT
Anybody have anything on the structure that housed Griswold Feed and Seed at the southwest corner of Walnut and River in Aurora,IL? I remember this structure from my early childhood visits to the All
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-06/msg00230.html (9,820 bytes)

304. [CBQ] Geeps(ex troop kitchen cars) at Oregon (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:27:35 EDT
If my memory hasn't failed the discussions I recall with the "old heads" was that once the Geeps were being transported on the Oregon Turn instead of the former method of using passenger trains: the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00027.html (10,964 bytes)

305. [CBQ] Railroad Terminology (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:52:52 EDT
Just as info. UTLX published a railroad "Jargon" dictionary in 1993. It's 91 pages of mostly mechanical terminology and some operating terms buts it's for their employees use only. Simons Boardman pu
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00028.html (10,155 bytes)

306. [CBQ] Geeps(Ex troop kitchen cars) (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:08:55 EDT
I misspoke on the wayfrieght rate. The last suburban crew of the day did earn wayfreight pay. It was because they handled the wheel car which was "company material" and handling company material on o
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00029.html (10,112 bytes)

307. [CBQ] Geeps at Oregon (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 23:30:49 EDT
Russ, You are right about Western Springs. Courtesy of the UTU files I have copies of some Ass't. Sup't. and trainmasters notices from the 50's for suburban job postings. These notices get into the r
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00034.html (10,910 bytes)

308. [CBQ] List (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 21:17:23 EDT
Russ, I'd like to see the Mt Morris stuff and stock. Leo **Big savings on Dells most popular laptops. Now starting at $449! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221827510x1201399090/aol?redir=ht
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00039.html (10,361 bytes)

309. [CBQ] Stock from North going west (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 21:50:42 EDT
Only because I'm planning on modeling the "aurora terminal" and the movement of stock is one of the interesting items and I know from hanging on the sides of the cars how the normal,routine stock mov
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00051.html (11,323 bytes)

310. [CBQ] Vacations (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 20:57:27 EDT
Today we take paid vacations as a normal paid benefit. For many decades there was no such thing. here's a quiz w/o a prize,just something to think about: In what year did the "scheduled" employees of
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00054.html (10,697 bytes)

311. [CBQ] Vacations (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 22:38:23 EDT
Pete, 1948 is correct. That years contract marked some major changes;vacations and as you mentioned the 40 hr week This was also the national agreement that established the 40 hr week for yard servic
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00060.html (11,571 bytes)

312. [CBQ] Vacations (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:51:49 EDT
Russ, The guy you are referring to was Roger T.,the regular rear man on the east end in the 70's. By this time the east end w/f was the opposite of what it had been in the 50s and earlier. It was a q
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00062.html (11,897 bytes)

313. [CBQ] Cinders (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:34:48 EDT
Anybody know how the Q handled all the cinders generated by the locomotives ? In the late 60's/early 70's on the Chgo and Aurora div they were track ballast on the east end of both yards at Eola, the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00126.html (10,670 bytes)

314. [CBQ] Line Abandonments (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:03:05 EDT
First I want to thank Russ for posting the line segment info. I was struck by the news that both the West Batavia(Nifa) and West Chicago branches have been filed for abandonment. While I fully see th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00199.html (10,920 bytes)

315. [CBQ] Transload Facilities (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:18:16 EDT
In my real job I have recently spent some number of hours at a transload facility. A few years ago I spent an evening at a CSXT facility but the one I was at twice this week was on the BNSF. Having s
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00200.html (10,597 bytes)

316. Re: [CBQ] FW: Program for Little White School Museum? (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:42:41 EDT
Dave, Tried to respond directly to you but it failed twice. Contact me off list. Leo **Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a recession. (http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00004.html (9,826 bytes)

317. [CBQ] Rockfalls Wayfreight (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:57:26 EDT
Andy, I never had the opportunity to work the Rock Falls or Sterling yard engines, Karl has supplied the info you requested on those jobs. The Rockfalls wayfreights that I worked in the 70s were typi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00117.html (11,587 bytes)

318. [CBQ] Charlies Train Tales (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:54:36 EDT
I was just rereading my copy of Charlies Train Tales written by R R Charles who was a Q brakeman and Condr after having worked on the IHB,Erie and Monon. Funny I worked w/RR many times on the dinkies
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00134.html (10,423 bytes)

319. Re: [CBQ] Re: Rockfalls Wayfreight (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:21:29 EDT
Andy, It's been well documented in the BRHS articles and various books that the Q sold some of their cars directly to NWST&W. Also I believe some locomotives went there based on BRHS member John Schm
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00137.html (10,913 bytes)

320. [CBQ] E-Zine (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:59:05 EDT
I must have deleted an email prematurely. What is an E-Zine ? Just as info.I handed Dave Lotz a proposed completed 9 page article for the Zephyr at the Spring meet. My guess is it will have to be cut
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00192.html (11,527 bytes)


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