- 1. Re: [BRHSlist] Real LIfe (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:30:17 -0600
- Leo In Ref to Mr. Johnson. Any idea how many flagman were employed? In Aurora preelevation there would have been at least 5 main crossings downtown. If Jerry ever gets the photos repoed maybe we can
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00057.html (9,492 bytes)
- 2. Re: [BRHSlist] Wig-Wag Crossing Signals (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:00:55 -0600
- I am not sure it it was a standard signal but the last wig-wags were on the Albia Branch mainly on the Wabash Trackage and were some of the last to be changed out sjh -- Original Message -- From: <sd
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00143.html (8,072 bytes)
- 3. Re: [BRHSlist] Albia depot and the "Capital City Limited." (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:07:41 -0600
- Steve The building of the Red Rock Dam on the put the track under water. Due to the traffic or lack of it the Government would only put in one track to be shared by the CB&Q and the Wabash. Some trac
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00144.html (10,571 bytes)
- 4. Re: [BRHSlist] Real LIfe (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:18:03 -0600
- Thanks for looking Leo I have been looking at photos and found some of the Aurora flagmen shantys to be elevated while others on the ground level. Was suppose to be a flagman at Ottawa but in 1928 an
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00145.html (8,208 bytes)
- 5. Re: [BRHSlist] FW: Station Identifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:48:05 -0600
- Some came from the late Don Seeger sjh
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00217.html (8,765 bytes)
- 6. Re: [BRHSlist] Albia, Moravia and the IaC (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:10:53 -0600
- Bill It was a St. Louis-Twin City Train over Wabash and M&St.L sjh -- Original Message -- From: Bill Chambers <ace1942us@y...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:59 PM S
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00234.html (11,581 bytes)
- 7. Re: [BRHSlist] Albia, Moravia and the IaC (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:24:51 -0600
- Lenny They were RS-1's Built by Alco sjh -- Original Message -- From: Bill Chambers <ace1942us@y...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Al
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00259.html (10,934 bytes)
- 8. Re: [BRHSlist] Beaconsfield notables (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:27:16 -0600
- Use to have a switch engine at Chariton which went on duty every morning to move the reefers we had set out each nite in to the warehouse. They would call in around 6:30SAM to crossover. Then it was
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00282.html (9,110 bytes)
- 9. Re: [BRHSlist] A WINTER RAILROAD SONG (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:20:42 -0600
- Ken My runaway train in '88 down West Burlington Hill was quite as a mouse untill it got to the jog at South Street sjh -- Original Message -- From: Ken Martin <kmartin@c...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroup
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00370.html (7,872 bytes)
- 10. Re: [BRHSlist] Blew the Order (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:53:58 -0600
- Ed It was DARK. And with the date there was not three tracks thru Aurora. The next "Control" Point would have been South Aurora. This was the tower at the end of North Ave. on the west side of the ri
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00426.html (10,096 bytes)
- 11. Re: [BRHSlist] Blew the Order (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 23:20:09 -0600
- May have an interesting bulletin article if someone will get the photos done sjh -- Original Message -- From: Ed Pavlovic <cbq168a@i...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 200
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00432.html (8,100 bytes)
- 12. Re: [BRHSlist] Savanna "Crossing Gates" (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 23:39:32 -0600
- Bob Which crossing in Savanna there were a couple??? sjh -- Original Message -- From: <bherrick@k...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 7:46 AM Subject: [BRHSlist] Savan
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00433.html (7,526 bytes)
- 13. Re: [BRHSlist] Fox River Fire (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:26:38 -0600
- This was attempted at the meet in Red Oak years ago. We put a tape recorder in the middle of the table at the banquet and he rambled on the whole table was in stiches and got a lot of dirty looks fro
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00108.html (7,395 bytes)
- 14. Re: [BRHSlist] Milk (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:36:56 -0600
- It often did not One reason you can get Sweet Cream Butter sjh -- Original Message -- From: cy svobodny To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Mi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00109.html (9,276 bytes)
- 15. Re: [BRHSlist] Enlightment please (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 00:37:49 -0600
- Ben and others I started as a stock yard labor in the Sheep Yards at Montgomery while in High School in the spring of 1967 working days on Sat and Sun and any extra and relief work needed. All stock
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00139.html (8,875 bytes)
- 16. Re: [BRHSlist] MORE MILK (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:05:22 -0600
- Leo My wife does not like me to get so excited before bed time. I enjoy a good research time. C&A Timetable No.52 Dated June 5, 1927 does not have a train No. 38 or 21 on the C&I. No 42 shows as a Da
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00140.html (7,689 bytes)
- 17. Re: [BRHSlist] head on collision (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:14:34 -0600
- Archie I think the event took place at the Northern Illinois Fair Associtation gounds (NIFA Branch) on the west side of the river north of Aurora(use to be before you got to North Aurora) Later Auror
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00211.html (8,250 bytes)
- 18. Re: [BRHSlist] CNW highlevels (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:34:49 -0600
- They Turned sjh Not quite the Q era I realize. When the ex CNW highlevels ran from Chicago to Quincy was that a push pull operation or did the train get turned in Quincy? I am trying to decide if I n
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00241.html (6,919 bytes)
- 19. Re: [BRHSlist] Milk Chptr 3 (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:41:46 -0600
- John and Pete No your not. Most of my experience was from the shipping end. Hogs just loved the skimmed milk. And what do people drink today?? Most milking was done at nite before supper and in the m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00267.html (9,515 bytes)
- 20. Re: [BRHSlist] Iron ore trains on the CB&Q (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:52:45 -0600
- Tim Must have been Summer of '74 or '75 I caught a first trick off the extra board to work the C&I in Cicero. You handled everything from Aurora to St. Croix. Didn't have a whole lot of traffic and h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00268.html (9,478 bytes)
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