- 21. [CBQ] Re: CBQ interchange with ATSF (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:01:06 -0600
- Denver is one possibility. Actually, AT&SF and C&S jointly owned switchers there, painted in the Burlington scheme. In Pueblo, the jointly owned switchers were painted in AT&SF scheme. Also, at Camer
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00204.html (10,184 bytes)
- 22. [CBQ] Re: CBQ interchange with ATSF (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:32:23 -0600
- Make that Fort Madison, IA. Sorry sjl members, Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00205.html (10,535 bytes)
- 23. [CBQ] Re: Lou Menk (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:37:43 -0600
- Fred W. Frailey's Twilight of the Great Trains Burlington Chapter has a small bio on Menk. Son of a UP Trainman, he worked for UP as a telegraph messenger while attending the University of Denver (co
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00217.html (17,007 bytes)
- 24. [CBQ] Re: Lou Menk (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:49:57 -0600
- My revenge on Menk: According to Fred Frailey, W. Edwards Deming, the fellow who taught the Japanese how to manufacture and put them ahead of the Americans for awhile, was hired by Menk to prove that
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00219.html (9,696 bytes)
- 25. [CBQ] Silver Slumber now at Gold Coast Railroad Museum (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:15:17 -0600
- In case you were all not aware, the Silver Slumber, one of only 2 surviving DZ Slumbercoaches, is now at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, FL. Their website is http://www.goldcoast-railroad.or
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00220.html (8,707 bytes)
- 26. [CBQ] Re: Digest Number 1972 (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:19:32 -0600
- His team tried to, according to Frailey. For example, they would include a lunch break for a crew if immediately after, or before, they worked a passenger train. They were not successful. The stateme
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00226.html (9,729 bytes)
- 27. [CBQ] Re: Lou Menk (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:27:53 -0600
- Sorry, Ed The difference between Menk and the others was that he tried to kill Burlington's passenger service, even to the point of intellectual dishonesty. Certainly he castrated the passenger depar
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00227.html (19,399 bytes)
- 28. [CBQ] Re: Budd "pool" sleepers (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:47:53 -0600
- Ed You are clearly not having a good day at the ballpark <g>. Your statement "The three or four rear cars of the DZ were cycled to Colorado Springs and back while the DZ consist layed over" is not qu
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00229.html (10,819 bytes)
- 29. [CBQ] Re: Digest Number 1972 (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:35:06 -0600
- Where Menk made his mistake was that, with regard to passenger trains, particularly on Burlington's Chicago-Denver route. The Frisco's Oklahoma City, St.Louis mainline was very curvaceous, even on th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00240.html (11,752 bytes)
- 30. [CBQ] Re: Digest Number 1972 (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:51:06 -0600
- Even with I-76 (then I-80S) and I-80, the DZ was very attractive to passengers. When you get to trips over 12 hours, you got to stop and sleep. On the DZ, I could do that and still be moving. I reall
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00245.html (10,982 bytes)
- 31. [CBQ] Re: The DZ, Menk, and the Coming of Amtrak (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:58:35 -0600
- Ed You write: My observations of the DZ in the sixties were that most passengers were, like myself, Chicago to Denver. There was significant intermediate traffic but, particularly in the slumbercoach
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00252.html (12,264 bytes)
- 32. [CBQ] Re: Dallas-Ft. Worth (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:01:10 -0600
- Ken, You must ride the DART light rail and the Trinity Rail Express over to Fort Worth to see the new transportation center there. sjl -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kit
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00253.html (8,988 bytes)
- 33. [CBQ] Re: Digest Number 1972 (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:02:34 -0600
- Amen, brother! sjl you right (former and Chair Car passengers night for folks Houston. That should have National Administration. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00254.html (8,936 bytes)
- 34. [CBQ] No one is trying to take your horse away (was Re: Digest Number 1972) (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:21:25 -0600
- Steve No one is saying you can't drive. However, our taxes have paid for your highway. On the other hand, I do not want to be forced to drive. I do not like to drive. I personally think it is just pl
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00258.html (10,034 bytes)
- 35. [CBQ] Re: Lou Menk (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:49:23 -0600
- I always felt that the crews on the DZ 1966 and after had lost their enthusiasm. I remember one waiter on that trains dining car placing a breakfast plate on my table knocking my silverware off of th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00268.html (9,007 bytes)
- 36. [CBQ] Re: One Last Gasp..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:56:12 -0600
- Ed My apologies that you did not enjoy the discussion. I feel badly about it. I guess I sometimes get overzealous, for which I apologize. Rails are to be enjoyed, not fought over, something I forget
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00272.html (9,085 bytes)
- 37. [CBQ] Re: Menk/Wallace (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:57:43 -0600
- Interesting. My source on Wallace is Fred Frailey, and he could be incorrect. sjl -- who is the only 100% percent perfect person in the world (and who hears the justifiable groans and guffaws that th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00273.html (8,531 bytes)
- 38. [CBQ] Re: Digest Number 1975 (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:06:58 -0600
- a product nostalgia choices, grandparents That is assuming that they would even consider the options of looking at rail transportation. I think too many executives have the misconception that rails a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00274.html (9,360 bytes)
- 39. [CBQ] Re: The DZ, and Train 2 (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:03:59 -0600
- I guess y'all snuck the coach onto the end of the DZ in Burlington while I was not looking <g>. Usually, when I was riding it, the train was so long that you had to do this while the rear of the trai
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00295.html (9,271 bytes)
- 40. [CBQ] Re: One Last Gasp..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:48:51 -0600
- All I can say is that you have one fine dad. I think my 19 y.o. daughter is now showing some interest in trains. Her boyfriend likes trains and they both travel on DART. What we have to do is tell it
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00299.html (9,074 bytes)
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