- 61. [CBQ] Switch Lists (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:48:19 -0700
- There is a point of confusion I have about switch lists, which I'm hoping someone can clarify for me. I have read that conductors are handed a list when leaving the yard for local work on the cars in
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-04/msg00119.html (11,036 bytes)
- 62. Re: [CBQ] Switch Lists (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:25:34 -0700
- Thank you, Pete! Perfect explanation. Is a "wheel report" the same thing as the lists the conductor makes out at the point of departure and the end of the day's run? Bob _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: Yo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-04/msg00126.html (11,415 bytes)
- 63. Re: [CBQ] Signals (was Alignment Charts) (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 05:36:55 -0700
- Rich--you may remember this photo of the operator's board in the Rochelle depot from my presentation at the annual meet a few years back. _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00020.html (11,094 bytes)
- 64. [CBQ] Pre-Depression passenger car lettering (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 12:26:45 -0700
- Folks-- I need to letter some passenger cars for my 1920-era layout. The heavyweight passenger car set from Microscale is for 1940-to the merger. The lettering looks different to me from pre-Depressi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00046.html (10,081 bytes)
- 65. [CBQ] Switch Stand Placement (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 13:03:04 -0700
- Please excuse the cross post. What was the CB&Q protocall for placement of switch stands, e.g. diverging route side or straight route side? Thanks, Bob Herrick _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00139.html (9,271 bytes)
- 66. [CBQ] Dave Beck (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 07:10:09 -0700
- Decades ago Dave Beck did a few clinics, with handouts, on how he rebuilt a B-1A. I've lost mine my copies of the handouts and I'm looking for the page on how he fabricated a new smokebox front. If y
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-06/msg00000.html (9,024 bytes)
- 67. Re: [CBQ] Last Steam Locomotive in Mt. Morris? (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:00:13 -0700
- Leo--this is just a guess, but I would guess the Oregon wye was put in to turn the Forreston mixed before the line was cut back to Mount Morris in 1932. The Q and the IC shared the turntable, roundho
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-06/msg00078.html (13,445 bytes)
- 68. Re: [CBQ] S-2 Pacific (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:09:48 -0700
- This is a very subjective issue, Mark, because each of us has a personal line in the sand for how far we are willing to stray from reality. Not far, in my case, when it comes to Q steam locomotives.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-07/msg00004.html (11,795 bytes)
- 69. Re: [CBQ] S-2 Pacific (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:34:43 -0700
- You can always start with, say, the Athearn chassis and scratch a new boiler and cab from styrene. Don Adams wrote a three-part article on doing this beginning with the August, 1999 issue of Mainline
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-07/msg00008.html (11,039 bytes)
- 70. [CBQ] S2 Redux (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:40:04 -0700
- For the person looking for an LMB S-2 Pacific, Brass Trains has one for sale for $215. Bob Herrick _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#64006) |
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-07/msg00066.html (9,022 bytes)
- 71. [CBQ] Bad copy (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:22:40 -0700
- My copy also has issues. Parts of two bulletins were stapled together and some pages are missinh. Bob Herrick _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-07/msg00108.html (8,997 bytes)
- 72. [CBQ] Switch List Redux (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:50:07 -0700
- Out on the road I have heard about conductors making a switch list and also about agent/operators making a switch list of cars at their station. Can someone explain what seems to me to be somewhat of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00147.html (9,304 bytes)
- 73. Re: [CBQ] Switch List Redux (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:26:57 -0700
- Thanks, Leo, as always. Bob _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#64208) | Reply To Group | Reply To Sender | Mute This Topic | New Topic Your Su
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00149.html (9,778 bytes)
- 74. [CBQ] Roundhouse Interior (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:31:20 -0700
- I'm beginning construction of the Forreston roundhouse and the doors will be open. Anyone know what the Burlington used for a base interior color before it was obscured by decades of grime? Note that
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00000.html (8,835 bytes)
- 75. Re: [CBQ] Roundhouse Interior (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:48:27 -0700
- Thank you, Dave. Looks like the interior in your photo may have been painted a light gray, as Jim Cunningham said in his response, but years of smoke, grime and what have you seems to have overlayed
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00010.html (11,308 bytes)
- 76. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Budd Gallery Cars in non-Commuter Service (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:26:43 -0700
- I'm late adding to this, but when I was a student at Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa I rode the Q to and from home in Downers Grove. The college kids normally rode in heavy weight coaches tacked o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00086.html (11,928 bytes)
- 77. Re: [CBQ] S-2 Pacific (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:58:24 -0700
- With respect to old brass steam locos and open frame motors, Mark Guiffre at All Brass Workshop left the original open frame motor in my NPP K-2 because he said it ran just fine and he is a stickler.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00125.html (10,385 bytes)
- 78. [CBQ] LMB Pacific (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 06:24:02 -0800
- If anyone is still looking for a LMB S-2 Pacific, there is one for sale on Ebay, painted. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1312&_nkw=cb%26q+brass+models&_sacat=0. The
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-11/msg00074.html (9,388 bytes)
- 79. [CBQ] Leo Phillipp (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:46:21 -0800
- Leo--I've lost your contact info. Please email me at rdherrick@gmail.com. Bob Herrick _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#64685) | Reply To Gro
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-12/msg00012.html (9,095 bytes)
- 80. Re: [CBQ] Dan Holbrook Passenger Train Consist Book (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 06:58:17 -0800
- Tom--I bought one when it was published from a guy somehow involved in the Range Research Group who sold it through his brass import business (long defunct). Your description is accurate. I would add
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2023-01/msg00016.html (10,635 bytes)
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