Great Poem,Pete!! And great clarifications, too. There's just a few terms/expressions, tho, that I'm curious about: "give a yank" I assume that's a whistle blow "drawhead" ?? "drawbars down" I assume
Pete, thanks MUCH for the clarifications. Great histroy lessons in those. My guess as to how one might create an 'old break': If it was me, I would look for another piece of heavily-rusted iron and t
I recently came upon the following sets of Microscale CB&Q N-scale decals. Since I model in HO scale, they are not going to do me much good. And since the topic of decals has been mentioned many time
One correction: Case did not 'become' IH. Rather, Tenneco, the corporate conglomerate that owned Case also bought out IH about 15 years ago and merged the two together to form Case-IH. If anything, I
The Hobby Shop in question here is called Sir Jim's Hobbies. I have been in there several times and (except for the cigarette smoke - lol) have been quite happy with the service. Jim will personally
Hi Rick, Thanks for the note. I sure didn't mean to come off that way, so I apologize for coming off a bit stronger than I should have. I was just trying to respond to the guy who said, in essence, t
In regards to B-units, according the the Burlington Bulletin #10, page 5, author Jim Sandrin states of the E5-B's: "Very quickly, the Q learned just how inflexible an E B-unit could be in passenger s
All of the Q bridges I have ever seen in Nebraska and North-eastern Colorado where steel beams were used were always black. For what that's worth... -Val
John, the information you relayed regarding the number of E5 B-units on the Q is not quite accurate. According to Burlington Bullington (Bulletin - he he) #10, page 5 states as follows: "Delivered in
Hi all, It's hard for me to nail down a specific locomotive (diesel) as I like several. However, the ones I truly like were/are made by EMD. I don't really like anything GE, Baldwin, Alco, etc. ever
Hi Pete, For what it's worth, I happen to have a couple of sets of #60-752 that I bought by mistake on Ebay -- I model HO rather than N. I have been told that Microscale is no longer producing decals
My apologies to all of you. I forgot to change the email address from the group mailing to the person I was contacting. I will be more mindful of that in the future. Thanks, Val
Here is an informative email I received from David Lotz that perhaps a lot of you have not yet seen. I was not aware of this situation until today. -Val To: Members and Friends of the BRHS This note
My appologies to everyone. It certainly was not my intention to spread false information, by any means!! My hobby shop guy is a very respected dealer, having been in the business for over 35 years. H
HI all, I have a question that has bugged me for a long time. Whenever a renumbering has taken place, you will often see a reference to the former history with the annotation of 'nee' (e.g. dome-coac
Thanks for all your replies. They have been very helpful and explain a lot regarding this simple term. It must be Latin or something of that nature. Another term that used to bug me a lot was the wor