- 1. [CBQ] Re: Clyde Yard (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:14:13 -0600
- I must say, the "Belt" (BRC) was still a good hiding place up until about a year ago when the traffic died. Just a lot easier to keep track of who is where now I suppose. There was a tower on the wes
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00057.html (11,802 bytes)
- 2. [CBQ] Clyde Yard (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:58:58 -0600
- Thanks for the info Leo. Must have been a packed house at the beginning of each shift with the 4/5 man crews. Today we all go on duty at the "Eastbound" (except two at Western Ave. and one at 14th St
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00070.html (10,504 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] Re: Clyde Yard (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:44:26 -0600
- Thanks again Leo for the info on the jobs. Eola is a whole other story... 2 day switch engines (east yard and west yard), 2 afternoon (they just put the afternoon east yard back on when they were wor
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00078.html (11,476 bytes)
- 4. [CBQ] Re: Transload Facilities (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:27:36 -0600
- The lumber facility is still at Eola and they have been receiving salt for the last 6 months or so up there as well(about 10 or 12 loads every other day prior to Sept.). Jeff -- Yahoo! Groups Links <
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00084.html (10,743 bytes)
- 5. [CBQ] Irish Mail (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:31:19 -0600
- Leo and everyone, What is the origin of the name Irish Mail and I assume it was called that for some time? I've heard a lot of stories but none that were certain. A detailed article would really be n
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00092.html (10,562 bytes)
- 6. [CBQ] Re: Irish Mail (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:36:37 -0600
- Thank you again, Leo, for the info. Us youngins working now figured it might have had something to do with all the beer cars we used to take up to West Chicago. :-D Guess it's one of those "how many
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-12/msg00108.html (10,755 bytes)
- 7. [CBQ] Re: Gallery Cab Car Replacements (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:23 -0600
- Steve, If you're referring to the 793 it has been retired for about 4 years now. Needless to say, they didn't rebuild it. Was like a Frankenstein cab/coach. The 802 or 806 I think is the last non bla
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00031.html (12,299 bytes)
- 8. [CBQ] Re: Commuter Consist Question (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:27:23 -0600
- Yes I have and still work with John Smith from time to time. He is one of those legendary conductors that the guys will be talking about for years. His favorite saying is "What a project..." That com
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00070.html (12,098 bytes)
- 9. [CBQ] Re: Commuter Consist Question (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:46:38 -0600
- So long, Sam... You will be missed. Kevin "Bogus" Schindley (afternoon east end tower operator) was lamenting today that he will have to train a new dispatcher... Now you can go write a book. :-) --
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-11/msg00084.html (10,843 bytes)
- 10. [CBQ] Re: Commuter Consist Question (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:05:24 -0600
- Hello Group, This is my first post here and I just want to say how educating this list has been for me since I joined about 6 months ago. I am an Engineer/Conductor working for the BNSF out of Aurora
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-10/msg00090.html (12,630 bytes)
- 11. [CBQ] Re: (no subject)Commuter consists Question (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:31:19 -0600
- There were only a few cars left with the drilled out Boston Pneumatic door controls when I came around. All of those cars are retired/rebuilt now. They gave us what they called "Door Stimulators" whi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-10/msg00100.html (11,488 bytes)
- 12. [CBQ] Re: East End Job (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:41:05 -0600
- Just a bit of info on the current BNSF situation. There is still a Congo Job (technically the House 8 Job CHC305) that's a night job out of Western Ave. It takes cars to the old sugar plant at Congre
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00010.html (11,124 bytes)
- 13. [CBQ] Re: Lumber District / question (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:28:13 -0600
- The BNSF switch job is the CHC 105 out of W. Ave. It is a regularly assigned job now on duty at 0659 M-F. It is probably a quit job but I haven't worked it yet. Rumor has it we may be getting the She
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00155.html (10,950 bytes)
- 14. [CBQ] Re: Lumber District / question (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:14:52 -0600
- Leo and Steve, Thanks so much for the info on all those local jobs. I wish we had half that number of jobs still out of Eola. The "steel place" I was referring to was indeed Lyon Metal. Cat seemed li
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00298.html (11,627 bytes)
- 15. [CBQ] Re: Waycar at Aurora (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:59:33 -0600
- If you look real close on the end "gate" on either end of the waycar, you can see the painted over outline of the scotchlite circle GN herald. Jeff -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-07/msg00087.html (10,382 bytes)
- 16. [CBQ] Re: High Water at Savanna,IL (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:49:27 -0600
- They've been ordering work trains out of Aurora for the last day and a half. One call sheet said to bring supplies for three days. Must be a mess. Jeff -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-07/msg00181.html (11,757 bytes)
- 17. [CBQ] Requiem for a Conductor (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:53:43 -0600
- Hey Group, I was at my Girlfriend's Parent's house yesterday and, upon going through their attic, her Dad showed me this small birdhouse on a back shelf and said I might find it interesting. It was a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-06/msg00123.html (11,487 bytes)
- 18. [CBQ] Savanna Yard (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:05:26 -0600
- Group, Just curious about a few things in the Savanna, IL yard. According to the maps, it shows a Milwaukee line arcing across the west end of the yard heading south. Now, I assume that was an at gra
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-02/msg00184.html (9,897 bytes)
- 19. [CBQ] Star Brakemen (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:20:34 -0600
- List, Sorry if this has been covered before, but, I was ordered for a train today that requires a brakeman and the crew caller told me to "take care of his star brakeman." I thought he was just being
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-01/msg00049.html (10,165 bytes)
- 20. [CBQ] The Aurora Branch RR (score: 1)
- Author: "superconductor80" <superconductor80@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:23:53 -0600
- Hello group, Just out of curiosity, and forgive me if this topic has been covered before, is there any information and/or lists of equipment used on the Aurora Branch RR upon its start up in 1849/50?
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-05/msg00099.html (9,892 bytes)
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