- 81. [CBQ] Stewart FT Models (score: 1)
- Author: railbass@comcast.net
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:41:44 +0000
- I am detailing Stewart HO FT models, using Detail Assoc grilles. Does anyone know anything about the radiator cooling fans in the FTs? How many blades, what shape, etc.? Is there a detail part which
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00105.html (8,952 bytes)
- 82. Re: [CBQ] +Re:Stewart FT Models (score: 1)
- Author: railbass@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:35:51 +0000
- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email |
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00120.html (9,547 bytes)
- 83. [CBQ] Oriental O-1a (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:04:53 -0700
- In answering a question recently on LMB O-1a's, I got out my Oriental model of a Q O-1a. The model is nicely painted and lettered for C&S #803. However, it has the 64" drivers and short cab of a 4900
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00061.html (9,990 bytes)
- 84. Re: [CBQ] Book on freight ops (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:31:14 -0700
- Bryan - You sound as if you're more interested in the later years of the Q with primarily diesels. I particularly model diesels of the D&RGW and the Q, and I have many books on them. The two question
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00103.html (12,960 bytes)
- 85. [CBQ] GE 44 ton (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:34:50 -0700
- I am raising this question to all three of the historical societies to which I belong. As many of you know, I model HO diesels, especially of the D&RGW. I have models of all the Rio Grande diesels fr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00142.html (10,925 bytes)
- 86. Re: [CBQ] FW: Morse Code: A Lost Language (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:28:11 -0700
- These stories about Morse code make me recall a situation in which I was involved in the 1990s. I worked for the Naval Reserve in New Orleans for six years next to a retired chief petty officer. He t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00173.html (27,726 bytes)
- 87. [CBQ] Q F Unit Painting (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:37:41 -0700
- A fellow NKP modeler from the NKP e-list has asked an interesting question. He is modeling the borrowed Q F3 A-B-B-A set (#116) that was tested on the NKP in June 1948 and yet led to ten more berkshi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00213.html (9,818 bytes)
- 88. Re: [CBQ] unit coal trains - equipment trusts (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:11:29 -0700
- The Southern was responsible for one of the major changes in rate regulation by the ICC in the early 1960s with "Big John," a 100-ton aluminum covered hopper which allowed grain to be carried in long
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-11/msg00312.html (14,263 bytes)
- 89. Re: [CBQ] C&S operations in Denver (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:39:49 -0600
- Bill - You are referring to the branch that many of us knew as the Buchtel Branch, because it ran along Buchtel Blvd, but actually it was known as the Connors Spur. It was a remnant of the old Denver
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-10/msg00034.html (14,453 bytes)
- 90. Re: Re: Re: [CBQ] C (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 05:09:12 -0600
- Bill - Hol Wagner and I went to high school together, and he started me on CB&Q and railfanning in the early 1960s. We made trips to the Great Western, rode behind C&S #638, and chased her last run i
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-10/msg00049.html (13,084 bytes)
- 91. Re: [CBQ] FT units question (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:17:22 -0600
- I specialize in modeling diesels in HO for D&RGW, and some for CB&Q, so I have done quite a lot of research on them, especially the F units. My sources have been Diesel Era's *The Revolutionary Diese
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-10/msg00151.html (15,198 bytes)
- 92. Re: [CBQ] Re: BRHS vitality (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:45:22 -0600
- Two items in which I am involved might help to get younger people interested and involved here in Colorado. I am a foundation member and volunteer for the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. We have
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00026.html (26,165 bytes)
- 93. Re: [CBQ] Re: BRHS vitality (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 23:14:04 -0600
- I went to college in the mid 1960s in Fort Collins, CO, and I have memories and photos of chasing a school special through Fort Collins behind #4960 in 1963. The C&S tracks ran down the middle of Mas
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00028.html (26,732 bytes)
- 94. Re: [CBQ] O1A's (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:41:05 -0600
- Leo - In answer to your question on an O1a going to Denrock, it may have been 4955 of which you were thinking. In Steam on Q (1960), it describes that 4955 took a five-car Illini Club train over from
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00174.html (12,700 bytes)
- 95. [CBQ] Q VO-1000 (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:42:28 -0600
- I have a Stewart HO Baldwin VO-1000 painted as CB&Q #9365. Holck Vol 1, p 58, shows a photo of #9365 at St Joseph in 1960 with four exhaust stacks appearing to be mounted slightly towards the fireman
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00176.html (10,219 bytes)
- 96. Re: [CBQ] re: Grier restaurants (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:46:04 -0600
- I just finished reading Lesley Poling-Kempes' *The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West *(1989)*. *Fred Harvey, an English immigrant, worked for the H&SJ and CB&Q from 1862 into the late 1870s. He
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00235.html (12,658 bytes)
- 97. Re: [CBQ] Lambert 2-8-2 (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:25:42 -0600
- Ricky - I have three LMB O-1a's and an Oriental O-1a, but I do not have a layout and so can't speak to running experience. I took a couple of my LMBs out and tried them on my test track. One does not
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00276.html (12,036 bytes)
- 98. Re: [CBQ] New Q Book ????? (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:23:54 -0600
- Ray - I have a copy I acquired a couple of months ago, and it is not exactly new. It is edited by Thomas E. Burg and copyrighted 2005 by Merrill Publishing, Merrill, WI. It is softbound and features
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-07/msg00057.html (13,495 bytes)
- 99. Re: [CBQ] Station vs Depot (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:43:54 -0600
- Hi there - As we are talking about Q stations and depots, I lived for four years in Fort Collins while attending Colorado State University 1963-1967. I remember C&S trains - and UP trains as well - r
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-07/msg00175.html (31,079 bytes)
- 100. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Night Crawler (score: 1)
- Author: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 16:52:10 -0600
- Kent - Hol Wagner mentions the "Night Crawler" in his book *The Colorado Road, *as it was a C&S train, no. 29-30, which operated until Sept 2, 1967. I am aware of it because I went to Colorado State
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-05/msg00004.html (13,190 bytes)
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