- 41. Re: [CBQ] Rapido Slumbercoach Update (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 00:36:05 -0500
- Looks very nice, but the Slumbercoach I want is a Zephyr car, not an NCL. -- David Streeter On 7/7/2022 2:37 PM, Dave Lotz wrote: Hello all, This is from the latest Rapido newsletter. For the CB&
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-07/msg00028.html (20,140 bytes)
- 42. Re: [CBQ] Location Help in Kane County and Around Aurora (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 14:20:57 -0500
- -- David Streeter The following photo on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144606279416 is marked simply as "Kane County, IL", which includes Aurora, IL. Does anyone recognize this spot? Might this be t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00021.html (17,175 bytes)
- 43. Re: [CBQ] Location Help in Kane County and Around Aurora (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 15:17:38 -0500
- It worked this time, but I can't help you with it. -- David Streeter On 8/3/2022 3:21 PM, Tom Mack via groups.io wrote: Just in case the link Dave mentioned is bad (for some reason it works for me, h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00033.html (13,971 bytes)
- 44. Re: [CBQ] Location Help in Kane County and Around Aurora (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 17:24:36 -0500
- I'm more awake now and taking a more critical look at it. A major clue to consider is the sloping ground, not only on the left but also quite likely on the opposite side of the tracks, as indicated
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00035.html (15,018 bytes)
- 45. Re: [CBQ] GN U33C's Being Delivered On CB&Q (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 12:20:38 -0500
- I remember reading about that. They flew it to meet a deadline to deliver the first unit of the order. Once that was met, they were free to send the rest by ship. -- David Streeter On 8/6/2022 10:50
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00046.html (14,232 bytes)
- 46. Re: [CBQ] GN U33C's Being Delivered On CB&Q (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 13:02:53 -0500
- I think I want to see documentation of that. -- David Streeter On 8/6/2022 12:55 PM, Mike Schattl wrote: IIRC, Amtrak's very first "Genesis" unit was shipped by cargo jet to the US from Europe roughl
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-08/msg00048.html (15,977 bytes)
- 47. Re: [CBQ] Suburban Commuter Stations (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 11:24:26 -0500
- Hollywood is well beyond the Chicago city limits and the mandate for grade separation. The Q came down to grade by Cicero. -- David Streeter On 9/2/2022 10:45 AM, Ted Schnepf wrote: Hi Ray, When any
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00017.html (15,460 bytes)
- 48. Re: [CBQ] Suburban Commuter Stations (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 22:27:28 -0500
- Is that the same depot that's at Fairview now? -- David Streeter On 9/2/2022 9:49 PM, Steven Holding wrote: One of the guy's mother lived upstairs in the Fairview Depot. Which if you look at old pho
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00023.html (12,999 bytes)
- 49. Re: [CBQ] Montgomery Tower & MOW shed Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:46:14 -0500
- Plus he asked in the CB&Q list and they didn't go to Alabama. -- David Streeter Erik -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#64316):
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00095.html (12,481 bytes)
- 50. Re: [CBQ] Montgomery Tower & MOW shed Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:00:14 -0500
- You are not excluded from liking the Q just because you live in Alabama. However, simple logic is that the question had to be about a Montgomery that the Q served. I know how you feel. When I see a m
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00104.html (13,919 bytes)
- 51. Re: [CBQ] Mid-1970's Aurora Slides on eBay (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:15:37 -0500
- An answer and a question: The slide of the Eola roundhouse in 1969 gives a definitive answer to the recent question of what color the doors were painted. In Aurora Shop slide #16, there are two overh
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00162.html (14,063 bytes)
- 52. Re: [CBQ] FW: Rapido News 157 - Big Product Launch Email (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 12:27:57 -0500
- They say "removal of the name boards." I hope someone points out to them that the name boards were not removed, but that only cars ordered by CB&Q, 700-795, had them, while 796-820 were built in the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00028.html (127,108 bytes)
- 53. Re: [CBQ] FW: Rapido News 157 - Big Product Launch Email (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 16:15:17 -0500
- I also hope they get the toilets right. Holgate & Reynolds put them in the wrong corner, but more importantly, the Q ordered some of the early cars with no toilet at all. -- David Streeter On 10/3/20
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00034.html (131,367 bytes)
- 54. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Budd Gallery Cars in non-Commuter Service (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 12:12:46 -0500
- The first time I went to Railroad Days, the yard tour train was in gondolas. My father dropped his camera's lens cap somewhere in the yard. This was early 1980s, possibly the year the cabless GEs wer
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00057.html (15,920 bytes)
- 55. Re: [CBQ] Question regarding oil tanks at the old Downers Grove commuter yard. (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 15:18:10 -0500
- Hines was served until it closed in the late 1990s or 2000s. I remember fantasizing that if I won the lottery and bought a private car, I would buy the Hines property as a place to store it. -- David
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00098.html (14,027 bytes)
- 56. [CBQ] types of gallery cars (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:41:51 -0500
- The apparent confusion at Rapido got me to thinking... From my personal observations, there are five types of Burlington gallery cars. 1: name board, no toilet, no cab, starting with 700. http://rrpi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00101.html (13,171 bytes)
- 57. Re: [CBQ] types of gallery cars (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:23:06 -0500
- Thank you. -- David Streeter On 10/10/2022 2:13 PM, Bryan Howell via groups.io wrote: Groups 4 and 5 arrived after the merger. Group 4 was ordered by the Q, but delivered after the merger. WSMTD/BNSF
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00107.html (19,347 bytes)
- 58. Re: [CBQ] types of gallery cars (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:51:41 -0500
- Thank you. That confirms that there never was a 788 or 789. Of course, eventually all of them had the 27-pin wiring added. "My observations" were made mainly in the early 2000s (or possibly late 1990
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00108.html (26,265 bytes)
- 59. Re: [CBQ] types of gallery cars (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:55:18 -0500
- Thanks. I never knew about the crew lockers. They didn't affect the window patterns, did they? -- David Streeter On 10/10/2022 8:14 PM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io wrote: The only link was that the tr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00109.html (32,882 bytes)
- 60. Re: FW: [CBQ] types of gallery cars (score: 1)
- Author: "trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:32:22 -0500
- Thank you for detailing which cars had toilets. I hope someone forwards it to Rapido. I am quite sure that all cab cars had toilets and that 816-820 were additional non-cabs built along with or after
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-10/msg00113.html (27,591 bytes)
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