Layout as follows: Top chart is East-West oriented. C&S crosses the UP West of town and turns East to reach the wye. CB&Q crosses the UP East of town and runs thru downtown just to the North of the
Lenny, Packing plant at Glenwood IA was called "Glenwood Packing". There was also Missouri Beef Packers at Phelps MO. Plant is still there but is now Iowa Beef Packers owned. Meat cars were cleaned a
Leo, I recall a certain Extra Conductor at La Crosse that once made three trips to Cicero between Friday and Monday evenings. Can we all calculate what 293.3 times six is with a 100 mile basic day? T
Florian, Unfortunately that is no longer true. Dishonesty is a basic part of the new Corporate atmosphere. Those that lie or steal do get reinstated and occasionally promoted. The "Mortal Sin" nowada
Tom, Think that is a donation for the Colorado Railway Museum. RBBQ 77000-77246 is a good car number series. That was the last one still lettered RBBQ. Assigned BN numbers were 747000-747249. 64 cars
LaVerne, It was assigned. It's funny but I can not remember ever getting a car for Hy-Vee at Chariton. Lots of cars for "Chariton Wholesale Grocery". Were they the same thing?
George, 1930 was very early in the hopper car game. At that time most coal would still be moving in gondolas. Those giant fleets of hoppers were not built up until the 40's and 50's. The CB&Q stuck w
Tom, Cars in that paint scheme were leased from General American Transportation. In the early days of loading devices some Railroads did not want to invest in specialized equipment that would raise t
Leo, Teddy Bear Harrington had a comedy routine he would throw at the departed C L Lynd called "The Drone's Prayer". With no blasphemy intended it started out "Oh Lord, if I could only be like Teddy
I would say "yes" except between Denver and Pueblo. I do not know what the AT&SF crew's attitude was about waycars but I would be fairly certain that in the days of assigned waycars the crew would us
Gerald, I was involved in the data compilation that provided the information in the 1977-1980 BN Annual. Have never seen any photographic or computer information that indicates any of those "last uni
John, No SD24's were delivered in 1958. Only demonstrator built. CB&Q & AT&SF SD24's were first production models in May/Jun 59. C&S 828 wreck repair painted at EMD 04/59.
Bob, If what went on during the 60's is any indication I would say yes. Primarily traffic coming up from Galesburg. Coal for Dubuque Packing would be one example. Generally any place where trunk line
Leo, What is interesting is that the reductions are now occurring in Middle Management. Room I work in has lots of empty desks and those are not Union jobs.
Following units know to have been repainted from CB&Q Red to BN Green after 01-Apr-76: CB&Q 983 = 2529 23-Apr-76 West Burlington CB&Q 310 = 6033 13-May-76 Clyde CB&Q 402 = 6050 21-May-76 Clyde CB&Q 5
No, AT&SF had GP7B's. Russ -- Original Message -- From: "cy svobodny" <ctsvobodny@y...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, 30 December, 2002 16:58 Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Alco's on the Q -
Leo, Just to avoid confusion the "Joint Line" is the Orin Line. Denver to Pueblo is the "Pikes Peak Subdivision". This is of course in "Railroad Speak". As to the Front Range issue it is interesting