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21. Re: [CBQ] Builder in 56 (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:28:16 -0500; I will keep that in mind. -- David Streeter The Q didnt start adding MU to the front of their E units until the mid to late 1950s per the BRHS E Unit Bulletin No. 10 and didnt finish the work until t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00153.html (11,817 bytes)
22. Re: [CBQ] Builder in 56 (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:27:37 -0500; I acquired the train from the estate of a deceased friend. The box is labeled "Empire Builder summer 1956" or something to that effect. I suppose I should do some research on it anyway, but that's th; /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00162.html (13,698 bytes)
23. Re: [CBQ] Shoo Fly at Illinois Tollway???? (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 12:32:08 -0600; I've seen the videos too, and I don't recall the storage track being there. Technically, taxpayers have nothing to do with it. This is a Tollway project and paid entirely out of toll revenues. -- Dav; /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-02/msg00020.html (35,311 bytes)
24. Re: [CBQ] Shoo Fly at Illinois Tollway???? (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 14:51:05 -0600; [Actually responding to several people...] On the Rt. 31 exit project, the new siding was probably cheaper than a new bridge would have been. Pepperidge Farm still has a track, doesn't it? And I beli; /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-02/msg00039.html (51,036 bytes)
25. Re: [CBQ] 0-6-0 No. 3? (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:55:00 -0600; Do these photos exist with higher resolution than you attached? I noticed on the first one that the number plate on the smokebox door quite obviously is indeed 504 with the 5 and 0 painted out, but t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2021-02/msg00226.html (13,831 bytes)
26. Re: [CBQ] Non Q Related Book Recommendations (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 23:17:35 -0600; Are you sure you have these details right? I searched for it at my library, then at WorldCat, and found nothing. Do you have the ISBN? At least the publisher? -- David Streeter -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00001.html (11,022 bytes)
27. Re: [CBQ] Non Q Related Book Recommendations (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 23:26:16 -0600; I must be really tired if I didn't think of Amazon. Thanks. -- David Streeter On 1/1/2022 11:21 PM, Michael Woodruff wrote: Amazon has it: https://www.amazon.com/RAILROAD-MAN-FIFTY-YEARS-MEMORIES/dp/; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00003.html (13,705 bytes)
28. Re: [CBQ] Any idea why the name os this Pullman was? (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 23:18:31 -0600; Looks like POPLAR BEACH, maybe... -- David Streeter Thanks! Brian Ehni -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#62976): https://groups; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00028.html (11,614 bytes)
29. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Flexi-Van Service (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:37:59 -0600; Now you've got me wondering... specifically where in Chicago were the Flexi-Vans loaded on and off the train cars? At the Zephyr Pit? At Cicero and then moved to the Zephyr Pit by a yard job? I can't; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00057.html (12,279 bytes)
30. Re: [CBQ] BRHS Archive auction (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:59:02 -0600; Can you provide a link to the auction? -- David Streeter On 1/20/2022 8:13 AM, Gene Tacey wrote: With only 5 days left till the bidding closes there are still 10 items on the auction that will go for; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00092.html (11,077 bytes)
31. [CBQ] Cicero FREIGHT HOUSE EIGHT (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 05:53:07 -0600; Along the south side of 29th Street, the north side of the west end of the yard at Lavergne, is a large warehouse. The west end of it, facing Ridgeland Avenue, is a brick section kind of like the end; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00134.html (11,275 bytes)
32. Re: [CBQ] Cicero FREIGHT HOUSE EIGHT (score: 1): Author: "little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 11:17:29 -0600; Tbat's the same entrance that Bing maps street view shows with VanGard signage. -- David Streeter On 1/29/2022 11:08 AM, Fred Hilgenberg wrote: Google Maps street view shows the entrance. -- Grateful; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-01/msg00137.html (11,748 bytes)
33. Re: [CBQ] Test msg to Dave Lotz (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 10:40:01 -0500; This is the second message with this subject that I've seen in less than a day. What makes you think it didn't go through? -- David Streeter -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all m; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-04/msg00059.html (12,171 bytes)
34. Re: [CBQ] SD7 Locomotives at Savanna, IL (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:58:05 -0500; I don't remember ever seeing it there. It may have languished in the filing cabinet. If it lasted that long, it was probably trashed when the club had to move out of the building in the mid-2010s (th; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-04/msg00096.html (14,553 bytes)
35. Re: [CBQ] Cicero FREIGHT HOUSE EIGHT (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:46:59 -0500; My fears are confirmed. I drove by again yesterday and most of the building is gone. They appear to be removing the dock-height floor as well. The west end office section is still standing, but proba; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-04/msg00218.html (12,638 bytes)
36. Re: [CBQ] Signals (was Alignment Charts) (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 05:47:15 -0500; On the modern-day BNSF, the UP crossing is MP 83.7 and Flag Center is MP 86.3. Assuming both were the same back then, that puts the signals you're asking about at least two miles apart. -- David Stre; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00018.html (12,760 bytes)
37. Re: [CBQ] Signals (was Alignment Charts) (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 06:12:33 -0500; Wow! Thanks for this fascinating look at history. I'm especially intrigued by all the differences between then and now. The diagram shows there was a left-to-right crossover between Flag Center and t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00019.html (15,223 bytes)
38. Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 11:05:13 -0500; And some of us aren't old enough to have done did it ourselves in person. (I'm 55...) -- David Streeter On 5/20/2022 10:30 AM, jpslhedgpeth via groups.io wrote: Dave: Some of us don't have to "IMAGI; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00102.html (13,382 bytes)
39. Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 16:22:06 -0500; I did almost the same trip in 1984. Yes, it was Amtrak, but IIRC on the Southwest Chief I rode an El Cap coach. Side trip (on Amfleet) to San Diego. And of course the Coast Starlight went to Oakland.; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00121.html (15,040 bytes)
40. Re: [CBQ] Imagine What Travel Was Like in the Classic Era (score: 1): Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>; Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 16:29:07 -0500; I can beat you on the cheap first camera. I had a more or less cubical box with one open side. The side opposite the open side had a very cheap fixed focus lens with a very cheap shutter. It didn't n; /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-05/msg00165.html (15,960 bytes)

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