- 81. [CBQ] A late Q "gallows" turntable (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 21:45:20 -0500
- During my December research trip up to Nebraska, Jim Krzycki of the Schuyler Historical Society let me scan several photos, one of which was the attached (with his permission). On the rear is written
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00019.html (13,657 bytes)
- 82. [CBQ] RE: Turntables Lines West (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 08:28:34 -0500
- I realize this is a really late reply. Hol, how large physically is the listing? If it is an engineering-size drawing and you're willing, I'll send you some money to have it scanned at a FedEx Office
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00021.html (12,323 bytes)
- 83. [CBQ] Re: End of Branchline - How did they turn the engine? (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 08:39:18 -0500
- Pete, I don't know how I missed this, but that is a very nice photo. thank you for pointing it out. I'll use that enginehoue as a pattern for the Schuyler and Ashland engine houses in the absence of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00022.html (11,281 bytes)
- 84. RE: [CBQ] RE: Turntables Lines West (score: 1)
- Author: <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: 07 May 2014 08:24:06 -0700
- Scott, the Lines West list that Hol attached last May (still in the attachments folder) says that in 1940 Ferry had a 70-foot turntable and a roundhouse with 10 stalls of 100'0" Randy
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00025.html (11,240 bytes)
- 85. [CBQ] Re: A late Q "gallows" turntable (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 21:02:46 -0500
- This started out as wanting to build a model railroad... That will come eventually, but the research/learning has taken on a life of its own. To coin a phrase, "I'm loving it". Were Lines East and Li
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00029.html (12,376 bytes)
- 86. [CBQ] Ferry, was RE: Turntables Lines West [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Gordon-Gilmore randy@prototrains.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 19:51:09 -0500
- I'm sorry, no, Scott. The best I can do is supply the attached alignment chart fragment from the ~1967 PDF. I've played with the brighness levels and a little sharpening and converting to grayscale.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00051.html (14,493 bytes)
- 87. [CBQ] Ferry, was RE: Turntables Lines West (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Gordon-Gilmore randy@prototrains.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 16:38:56 -0500
- Scott, it is a pretty late photo (April 1966) but the high-resolution image 1SWAR00030258.tif on the earthexplorer.usgs.gov website shows the track arrangement and surrounding buildings fairly well:
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00053.html (13,336 bytes)
- 88. [CBQ] RE: Great CB&Q layout story (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Gordon-Gilmore randy@prototrains.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 12:50:54 -0500
- I downloaded the video. It is a 32MB mp4 file and I'd be happy to put it on my website for a while for folks to download, if I can do so without violating copyrights etc. Randy -- Randy Gordon-Gilmor
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-05/msg00206.html (11,365 bytes)
- 89. [CBQ] RE: Mark Twain Zephyr question (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:10:49 -0500
- That is a great photo, Eric, but the MTZ is not quite new. The sloping vents on the engine room roof weren't added until sometime after June 1936 (the date of the last dated photo I have seen without
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-04/msg00116.html (11,538 bytes)
- 90. [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Barriger Photos, CONSOLIDATED INDEX (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:31:46 -0600
- I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but the bridge in 447 (Lincoln yard) is the old Coddington Avenue bridge that went over the yard just east of the hump. As a kid in the 1960's I always bugged
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00206.html (14,243 bytes)
- 91. Depots, was RE: [CBQ] Barriger Photos Photo IDs (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:00:19 -0600
- Harold, are your plans different than the "QDepots.pdf" that has been floating around? That one is far from complete--in particular, I know it has none of the Ashland-Schuyler NE depots, other than A
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00284.html (12,865 bytes)
- 92. [CBQ] RE: Depots (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:05:27 -0600
- use >those plans. Thank you for the additional info, Harold. My problem is that, for some towns along the branch, I have not found any photos. So I've been hoping to find a list of what type of depot
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00298.html (11,123 bytes)
- 93. [CBQ] RE: B&MRR Depot (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:07:42 -0600
- At this point in time, I can't figure out who I even got it from. I went through all my email archives. My copy was on a CD-ROM with a P-Touch label stuck on. As I remember, all I paid was the duplic
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00311.html (11,097 bytes)
- 94. [CBQ] RE: B&MRR Depot [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:58:38 -0600
- Back in 2003, Jim Reisdorff loaned me a photocopy of a photocopy of a large-scale drawing for the "Standard 2 Story Frame Depot 20x40", which I photocopied. Jim said the BN "original" was blotchy to
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00317.html (11,456 bytes)
- 95. [CBQ] Rear of a saltbox [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:14:12 -0600
- All, Someone had asked about what the rear of a saltbox depot looked like, but I cannot find the email now. In my research on the Ashland-Schuyler branch line, I have found one photo of the rear of t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00327.html (10,683 bytes)
- 96. [CBQ] Surviving saltboxes? [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:08:12 -0600
- All, I currently only know of four surviving saltboxes, of which I have only personally seen one. The first two follow the basic 20x40 plan: Ithaca, NE: (my photo from Dec. 2013 attached, being used
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00333.html (11,647 bytes)
- 97. [CBQ] Re: Surviving saltboxes? (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:24:48 -0600
- Thank you Ken, Hol and Chris for your replies. Randy -- Randy Gordon-Gilmore http://www.prototrains.com randy@prototrains.com -- Yahoo Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://g
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00338.html (10,632 bytes)
- 98. [CBQ] RE: Surviving saltboxes? [2 Attachments] (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:29:10 -0600
- Wahoo isn't a saltbox, is it? I thought "saltbox" was specifically the 20x40 foot depot, sometimes extended on one end for the full height. Wahoo (and the former similar Schuyler) is 24x90, with an e
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00339.html (12,111 bytes)
- 99. [CBQ] Re: Surviving saltboxes? (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:28:01 -0600
- All, OK, so I may be a little slow on the uptake. :) The plan I posted is CB&Q 73040 "Standard 2 Story Frame Depot 20'x40' ". I had been assuming that this was THE standard Lines West depot, and all
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00341.html (10,252 bytes)
- 100. Re: [CBQ] Rear of a saltbox (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:37:17 -0600
- I am impressed that the early tank survived so long. There is a picture in the Schuyler 125th anniversary book that shows a later CB&Q-style tank being erected next to the earlier B&MRRRinNeb (I just
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2014-02/msg00342.html (10,692 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu