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21. Re: [CBQ] Great new YouTube video (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 14:03:32 -0700
Starting at about 18:20, this video shows a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha 4-4-0, number 136, pulling a train of four wooden passenger cars. The train and locomotive are obviously historic re
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-06/msg00042.html (9,053 bytes)

22. [CBQ] Numbering of Burlington passenger trains (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 10:13:44 -0700
Hi, Pardon me if this has been asked before, but does anyone know why Burlington had such an odd way of numbering its passenger trains? From the 1960 timetable: Denver Zephyr: trains 1 & 10 Chicago-G
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00112.html (10,708 bytes)

23. [CBQ] Reproduction menus (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:51:04 -0700
Hello, Someone whose eBay moniker is poppop2000 is selling reproductions of Burlington and other railway menus on eBay for $6.99 each plus shipping. He used many of my scans and pdfs of menus that I
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00137.html (10,547 bytes)

24. [CBQ] Vacation Special (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:04:08 -0700
My 1940 Burlington timetable says that a train called the Adventureland ran from Kansas City to Billings, where it met with GN and NP. According to Wikipedia, the train went by this name from 1837 to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00106.html (9,980 bytes)

25. Re: [CBQ] How Popular Were the Zephyrs? (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 07:49:15 -0700
For a definitive answer, download the Reports on Streamline Trains written by Coverdale and Colpitts and available at http://streamlinermemories.info/?page_id=5435. Randal O'Toole https://streamliner
/archives/BRHSLIST/2022-11/msg00002.html (9,898 bytes)

26. Re: [CBQ] 1897 timetable (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 07:49:09 -0700
I don't have an 1897 Burlington timetable but an 1885 timetable is at http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=21181 and an 1893 is at http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=21356. Both of these are from the D
/archives/BRHSLIST/2023-05/msg00032.html (9,875 bytes)

27. [CBQ] Passenger train history (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 17:24:22 -0700
Hi, Some of you may know that I run the Streamliner Memories web site and have posted more than 5,000 PDFs of memorabilia and documents to that site. I am also planning a book on the history of weste
/archives/BRHSLIST/2023-05/msg00046.html (10,107 bytes)

28. Re: [CBQ] Map of the West (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:08:18 -0700
A PDF of a similar map is posted at http://streamlinermemories.info/Zephyr/B58Map.pdf. Feel free to print it out. A nearly identical map from 1953 is for sale on ebay for $18.99 including shipping. A
/archives/BRHSLIST/2023-09/msg00029.html (12,493 bytes)

29. Re: [CBQ] Western Star as separate train between Chicago and St. Paul (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:31:47 -0800
According to 1949, 1951, and later Burlington timetables, the postwar Oriental Limited and its 1951 replacement the Western Star were always part of the Blackhawk between Chicago and St. Paul. As I i
/archives/BRHSLIST/2023-12/msg00032.html (14,441 bytes)

30. Re: [CBQ] Western Star as separate train between Chicago and St. Paul (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:37:18 -0800
I should add that I don't have a May 1953 timetable, but I do have May 1950, May 1951, May 1956, and May 1957, and they all show the Star and Blackhawk having identical schedules between Chicago and
/archives/BRHSLIST/2023-12/msg00033.html (12,789 bytes)

31. [CBQ] The Aristocrat and Black Hawk (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:35:13 -0800
Hi, Does anyone know the inaugural dates of the Aristocrat and Black Hawk? The March 8 1930 issue of Railway Age says that the Aristocrat first ran in "late December" 1929. But it is in a full-page a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2024-01/msg00076.html (11,875 bytes)

32. [CBQ] Adventureland/General Custer (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:15:58 -0800
Most people on this list probably know that for many years the Burlington ran trains from Kansas City to Seattle via connection with the Northern Pacific at Billings, and for fewer years it ran train
/archives/BRHSLIST/2024-02/msg00085.html (11,608 bytes)

33. Re: [CBQ] Western Star as separate train between Chicago and St. Paul (score: 1)
Author: "Randal O'Toole" <rot@ti.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:17:40 -0700
Back in December, there was some discussion on when the Western Star and other GN/NP transcons were combined with the Black Hawk and when they were run as separate trains. I've gone through most of t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2024-03/msg00075.html (15,112 bytes)

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