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1. Re: [CBQ] Con-Cor PZ 4th Car (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:23:37 -0700
I don't really see why the number of the car matters. Con-Cor says it is only issuing one version of the extra car, and that version will have NO LETTERING because "no lettering was on the 4th cars i
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-08/msg00110.html (9,749 bytes)

2. [CBQ] Re: GN EB 1967-68 on Q (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:28:39 -0700
Here is a 22-car consist leaving St. Paul westbound on July 15 1968 from John Strauss, "Rocky's Robe of Many Colors": Two SPD 45s RPO-storage mail Storage mail Storage mail Baggage-dorm Flat-top coa
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-07/msg00044.html (13,532 bytes)

3. [CBQ] GN Black Hawk Cars (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:48:10 -0700
I am not a Black Hawk expert, but I take it you mean the Chicago connection to the Western Star. The 48-seat day-nite coaches on the Empire Builder were also used on the Western Star, but these are
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-07/msg00048.html (10,599 bytes)

4. [CBQ] Re: turning passenger cars (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:04:44 -0800
Did the Q paint the NCL observation silver after the NCL stopped using observation cars? Since the car was built by Pullman, it was not stainless. Are any photos available? Randal O'Toole -- 1425 Be
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-04/msg00022.html (9,028 bytes)

5. [CBQ] Re: DZ and TCZ Passenger Cars (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:53:02 -0800
Randal O'Toole -- 1425 Beach Loop Drive Bandon, Oregon 97411 541-347-1517 541-297-6798 cell Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> To un
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-03/msg00075.html (9,246 bytes)

6. [CBQ] 1910 Zephyr Calendar (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:56:45 -0800
All the calendars this ebay seller has for sale are for a year in which January 1 is on a Sunday. Do you think the seller is just to lazy to print up fake calendar pages for other years? I notice tha
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-03/msg00127.html (9,042 bytes)

7. [CBQ] Re: Naperville Mural. (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:42:29 -0700
The Naperville mural can be viewed at http://www.rickwagnerart.com/cgi-bin/more_info.cgi?226&1 and http://www.rickwagnerart.com/cgi-bin/more_info.cgi?225&1 Randal O'Toole -- 26344 SW Metolius Meadows
/archives/BRHSLIST/2008-04/msg00084.html (9,704 bytes)

8. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Bus (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:22:58 -0700
There is a great deal of information, not always well organized, about the history of various Trailways lines at http://www.angelfire.com/al/silverball/Jon.html Unlike Greyhound, which was one compan
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-10/msg00080.html (10,899 bytes)

9. [CBQ] Re: Passenger Trains named for Women (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:38:36 -0700
Nancy Hanks wasn't named for a race horse, it was named for Abraham Lincoln's mother. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Hanks_(passenger_train) Best, Randal P. O. Box 76 Camp Sherman, Oregon 97730
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-10/msg00099.html (10,676 bytes)

10. [CBQ] Re: Passenger Trains named for Women (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:45:33 -0700
Oops, sorry. I should have read the Wikipedia article more carefully. It was named after a race horse named after Abraham Lincoln's mother. Best, Randal P. O. Box 76 Camp Sherman, Oregon 97730 541-59
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-10/msg00100.html (10,432 bytes)

11. [CBQ] Who owned Q stock? (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:50:28 -0700
Hi, Everyone knows that after 1901 the GN and NP each owned about half of the CB&Q. However, they didn't own 50 percent each; they owned 48.4 percent each. I've always wondered who owned the other 3.
/archives/BRHSLIST/2011-04/msg00072.html (11,558 bytes)

12. [CBQ] Re: The angle of the slant? (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:11:55 -0800
Just to be clear: The shovel nose locomotives were designed by Budd; the E units were designed by EMD. So they were not designed by the same engineer(s), unless someone defected from Budd to EMD. Bur
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-12/msg00324.html (12,034 bytes)

13. [CBQ] New blog (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:08:21 -0700
Hi, I've been collecting rail memorabilia since 1983 and recently decided to scan most of my paper items into PDFs. I am posting them on the web in the form of a blog at http://streamlinermemories.in
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00181.html (10,794 bytes)

14. [CBQ] Aristocrat (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:52:11 -0800
Does anyone know the dates of the first and last runs of the Aristocrat? I have one book that says it began in December 1929 and another that says January 1930. I can't find any record of when or why
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-12/msg00174.html (9,971 bytes)

15. [CBQ] Re: Missing Link (score: 1)
Author: "rot@ti.org [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 08 Aug 2014 22:52:09 -0700
CB&Q wanted to continue to buy shovel noses, but the unions warned that they were dangerous for crews. So CB&Q asked EMD to design an E-unit that looked like a shovel nose. The apparent windows below
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-08/msg00057.html (12,697 bytes)

16. [CBQ] CZ Menus: $100 each (score: 1)
Author: Randal O'Toole <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:32:44 -0800
Whoa! Two people bid $600 for six California Zephyr menus on ebay this evening. See http://tinyurl.com/ntexk5p These are nice menus and I would have guessed these were worth about $20 to $30 each. I
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-01/msg00013.html (11,060 bytes)

17. [CBQ] Trailways and Burlington Affiliation (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole rot@ti.org [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 07:26:10 -0700
Trailways was not a single company but a group of bus companies that decided to market themselves together. Theres a web site that details the history of Trailways. Unfortunately, it has a lot of pop
/archives/BRHSLIST/2015-05/msg00119.html (15,017 bytes)

18. [CBQ] Re: Silver Spirit? (score: 1)
Author: "rot@ti.org [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 04 Aug 2016 11:07:18 -0700
According to Daniel Liedtke of the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, the Silver Spirit is and has been in Green Bay. He doesn't know what car is in Kentucky. Sounds like a good mystery for this
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-08/msg00007.html (12,816 bytes)

19. [CBQ] Romance of the Rails (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 09:50:00 -0700
Hi, I am proud to announce the release of my new book, Romance of the Rails. I wrote this book to reconcile my love for passenger trains (including urban rail transit) with my skepticism of transport
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-11/msg00015.html (10,765 bytes)

20. [CBQ] Burlington Bulletin No. 55 (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 22:47:32 -0700
The Burlington Bulletin on the 1956 Denver Zephyr is a beautiful book and tremendous work of scholarship. I commend John Schultz and the Burlington Route Historical Society, and I can see that Im goi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-07/msg00017.html (13,624 bytes)

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