- 241. Re: [CBQ] Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 21:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
- One time we had a family of beavers move in along the ROW near Halpin on the Ottumwa Div. Not the best at logging along the tracks they would drop trees on the tracks So an order was put out to look
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00012.html (11,894 bytes)
- 242. Re: [CBQ] Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 21:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
- I would suggest this was the change of a normal scheduled meet as the trains have numbers rather then running as extras. A Scheduled Meet would show up on the timetable schedule with small numbers no
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00013.html (12,492 bytes)
- 243. Re: [CBQ] Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 21:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Pete I am still working on the telegraph call signs SJH On the Lincoln Division in the? 50's during county fair time "westward trains via Crete" would get an order reading something like this. Run ca
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00017.html (13,958 bytes)
- 244. Re: [CBQ] +Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
- But Where would you start. There is a Xerox copy floating around for the Beardstown. A former Q employee put out the book given to all new Dispatchers and he did not put in Waycar???? And with Dispat
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00023.html (10,695 bytes)
- 245. [CBQ] Amtk Detours (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:18:34 -0700 (PDT)
- If your out and about on May 5th Amtk is suppose to detour the Empire Builder St Anthony to CUS No 7 should be departing CUS around it's time at 2:15 Not sure when No.8 would be coming east Time to g
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00024.html (9,634 bytes)
- 246. Re: [CBQ] Vacations (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 20:39:53 -0700 (PDT)
- In the Cicero Dispatchers office we had paid vacations. Scheduled before the end of the preceeding year. Then If you worked the East End(aurora to chicago) you generally worked 7 days a week for mont
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00057.html (12,451 bytes)
- 247. Re: [CBQ] Cinders (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:35:57 -0700 (PDT)
- I use to work for a man across the street who was in sales for the Q and he use to tell of the farmers needing gravel to get into the fields which fed the canneries in Rochelle. He ordered up a car o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00129.html (11,809 bytes)
- 248. Re: [CBQ] Re: Savanna Depot Color (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:51:05 -0700 (PDT)
- Paul The "Bricks" on the smoke stack look like glazed tiles. A lot of the WWII construction used hollow tiles like those used on the Burlington Building in downtown Chicago. Speed in construction and
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00150.html (13,340 bytes)
- 249. Re: [CBQ] Re: Savanna Depot Color (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 21:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
- Paul Just as a guess I would suggest the color of the Princeton or Earlville Depots Or the Burlington Box at Aurora. It would be almost a tuscan red rather then a box car red color. And of course the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00163.html (13,994 bytes)
- 250. Re: [CBQ] Missouri CB&Q Depots (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 21:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
- Or our own existing structures list on the BRHS Site SJH Mike, For other stations in Missouri take a look at: http://www.missouridepots.com/ Or the RR Station Historical society page at: http://www.r
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-05/msg00164.html (11,515 bytes)
- 251. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:50:37 -0700 (PDT)
- Often too a wholesaler would buy a load of produce, Apples, Peaches , oranges and sell them right out of the car with a simple ad in the local papers SJH In Ottawa the team track was a siding north o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00107.html (14,446 bytes)
- 252. [CBQ] West Chicago Meet (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:03:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Ted Schnepf Could you contact me off list Steve Holding [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00108.html (9,483 bytes)
- 253. Re: [CBQ] Re: Spring BRHS Meet THIS Saturday! (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:57:40 -0700 (PDT)
- If you are out and about McClure Road has been closed and there no longer is a crossing there. Western Springs it a new brick depot to replace the glass square which use to be there very nicely done
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00110.html (14,051 bytes)
- 254. Re: [CBQ] Re: BRHS Vitality (Action Item) (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
- The Rockford Meet will be a joint meet with the members of Illinois Railway Museum as the weekend we will be there is also Members Weekend The SD-24 504 should be finished in time for Diesel Days Jul
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00263.html (17,700 bytes)
- 255. Re: [CBQ] Train/car bridges? was Re: Burlington Railroad Bridge, now fountain pens and train orders (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:45:40 -0700 (PDT)
- The joys of train orders was setting up the stack to make the copies. Often used was a piece of sheet metal or the cardboard off the back of a note pad. But the metal worked the best. Next was carbon
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00278.html (15,226 bytes)
- 256. Re: [CBQ] SouthEast BRHS Meets? (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
- Jan It will be Lines East of the Pidemonts You in NC, I will soon be in Travelers Rest, SC(10 weeks if my house sells) and Dave in Savannah,(Ga not Ill) Any one else want to jump in SJH I've mildly c
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00279.html (14,802 bytes)
- 257. Re: [CBQ] Re: TRAIN ORDERS (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:27:01 -0700 (PDT)
- OK Pete. I will work one up as soon as I can get unpacked from the move. On the BN we did not use the 31 form but when you needed to restrict a train you just had the op copy the order and when the c
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00301.html (17,214 bytes)
- 258. Re: [CBQ] Re: westbound sheep (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:14:46 -0800 (PST)
- In the '67-69 period I worked at montgomery there were four key players CB&Q Moiner Sheep Fed lambs for slaughter and sold feeder lambs to local farmers(Middle barn in the yard) Weritheimer Cattle Co
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00010.html (14,076 bytes)
- 259. Re: [CBQ]Beer moves (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:28:18 -0800 (PST)
- That is strange Leo the beer was gone by the '60's after the move to Galesburg I wound up on the Ottumwa Div for a few years(Sorry Guys it is BN) and we use to have beer come out of Galesburg on 101
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00026.html (13,478 bytes)
- 260. Re: [CBQ] Barstow Followup (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:10:51 -0800 (PST)
- Bob It is traffic patterns and haulage. I once asked many years ago why we (BN ) moved cars from Galesburg thru Zearing to Chicago and gave them to the Penn Central only to get them broken into by th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00055.html (11,148 bytes)
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