- 61. [BRHSlist] re: Ottumwa car seals (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:24:18 -0500
- Tks for comments. Head-On Collision Tank Car line does indeed exist (or did a few yrs ago) but are not in the "31 ORER & I believe they are a post-WWII company. (Business did not have that sense of h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00258.html (9,642 bytes)
- 62. [BRHSlist] Ottumwa car seals Part 2 (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:07:09 -0500
- This will cover May of "36 to May of "40 AND solves the mystery of seals on some steam locos: 5323, 5338 & 5610 got seals - in 2 cases it's noted it was by Rd Hse Foreman for lubricators. To keep wro
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00340.html (11,234 bytes)
- 63. [BRHSlist] re: car seals - CRLX? (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:21:09 -0500
- Finally found out who the mystery CRLX reefers belonged to: Cudahy Packing! Would have come off the C&NW as they served the plant and into 1980's used the old Cudahy/MDT car shops for a system repair
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00341.html (8,847 bytes)
- 64. [BRHSlist] re: CRLX = Cudahy (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:32:13 -0500
- Cudahy was founded in namesake city of Cudahy, WI & major pack was still there in early 80's @ least. The unusual thing was MDT, the NYC reefer subsidiary, provided some of Cudahy's reefers and thus
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00359.html (8,797 bytes)
- 65. [BRHSlist] Re: Approved (score: 1)
- Author: <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:21:23 -0600
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00371.html (8,007 bytes)
- 66. [BRHSlist] re: St. Charles Air Line (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 07:21:40 -0500
- When in doubt, check with Dick Overton! Per "Burlington Route": In 1852 the IC obtained rights to build a spur from their lakefront line to the Chicago River. John Murray Forbes whose Michigan Centra
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00000.html (9,039 bytes)
- 67. [BRHSlist] St. Paul annual mtg (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:36:34 -0500
- Anyone had any luck booking a room @ the Roseville Super 8 as BRHS? Tks, Gerald _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00081.html (8,390 bytes)
- 68. [BRHSlist] re: St Paul meet (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:44:23 -0500
- I prefer Super 8 so will have more $$$ to spend on Q things! Also understood per previous posts ithe Roseville Super 8 was the alternate to the Holiday Express. Or am I wrong? Gerald ________________
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00084.html (8,496 bytes)
- 69. [BRHSlist] re: I-90 to #4000 (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:12:52 -0500
- Take exit #3 (US #53 which is Copeland) south about a mile or so - is on west side of street - can't miss. There is a Hardees on N side and a Milw wood caboose & Grand Crossing Tower keep it company.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00091.html (8,800 bytes)
- 70. [BRHSlist] re: last unit painted (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:16:34 -0500
- BN 1960 was ex-Q GP-9 #275 which had been working So. Sioux City (quite a few 4-axle units assigned there due to the then wt restriction on the old "Omaha" bridge that the Q/BN had trackage rights ov
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00180.html (9,242 bytes)
- 71. [BRHSlist] LaCrosse 4000 Foundation RR Show (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:23:38 -0500
- I was in attendance so thought I'd share how BN handled this show. The 4000 Foundation, made up of area fans of the Q, Milw, C&NW and GB&W (all of which met @ Grand Crossing tower which is now in Cop
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00188.html (10,222 bytes)
- 72. [BRHSlist] CB&Q books - Saved flatcar (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:20:32 -0500
- There was a time when books on the Burlington were scarce but what we lacked in quantity, we made up with in quality: Overton, Corbin and later Olmstead plus the unique Lewis & Pargellis "Granger Cou
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00230.html (10,810 bytes)
- 73. [BRHSlist] re: Digest 1762 - Glick books (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:46:56 -0500
- Bill's books were publicized in the then CB&Q His. Soc. "Bulletins" when published and advertised in Trains, etc. Yes, he still has them & they are exclusively CB&Q with some great vintage photos amo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00262.html (10,229 bytes)
- 74. [BRHSlist] reL 14560 (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:17:02 -0500
- I owned #14560 for a yr (bought it from BN when ret'd. from Edgemont) - roof was black with 2 sets of sezts inside for passengers. Gerald _____________________________________________________________
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-06/msg00020.html (8,056 bytes)
- 75. [BRHSlist] RE: crossing between diesels (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 23:26:46 -0500
- Until recently there was NO rule against climbing aboard or stepping down from moving equipment, whether locomotive, freight or caboose. THat crew in Aurora was just practicing good RRing. Indeed whe
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-06/msg00057.html (10,537 bytes)
- 76. [BRHSlist] re: boarding flat cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:21:02 -0500
- Memories are coming back now (it's been 15+ yrs) - we did prohibit boarding Trailer Train flats on C&NW but not conventional ones. I only recall boarding a flat once while working Proviso during a BR
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-06/msg00062.html (11,190 bytes)
- 77. [BRHSlist] Ballast @ Riverside 1950 (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:32:43 -0500
- Per system ballast records, The W/B main was slag applied in 1943 & reapplied in 1951. Prior to "43, from Riverside to Harlem had been gravel ballast, one of the very few places with such ballast on
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-06/msg00071.html (8,301 bytes)
- 78. [BRHSlist] re: M4a extras (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:06:09 -0500
- Got pics of #6319 & 6326 @ Centralia 6-6-59, not stored and each sitting by themselves so would they have been fired up mid-year just to see how they were in event they would have been called that fa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-06/msg00094.html (8,413 bytes)
- 79. [BRHSlist] RE: Tender Deck/Cab roof colors (score: 1)
- Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:50:00 -0500
- The question of cab roof color 1st came up in the society in "77 and no less than Bernie Corbin stated that although the red lead roof was common, it was not universal as Lines West were less likely
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-06/msg00131.html (9,202 bytes)
- 80. [CBQ] re: BB30 (score: 1)
- Author: "gaedgar66" <vje68@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 14:27:13 -0600
- Both in-print & o/p BB's show up at BRHS meets & of eBay; on the latter I've seen them go from $5-20 depending on subj (2 complete sets were sold 1 by 1 last week and several more are on now). I woul
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-12/msg00022.html (8,682 bytes)
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