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101. Re: [CBQ] some more photos (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 02:47:07 -0600; Greg, Can not place the meet on double track. Of course I was not there in the 40's. Give me some time and I'll sure give it a try. The 40's from the cab view that is labeled East Winona is at Winona; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00062.html (11,631 bytes)
102. Re: [CBQ] Re: some more photos (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:14:58 -0600; Greg, If memory serves me right the coal chute was at Stockholm. BTW, your photo of Alma was interesting because it showed me land that is not there anymore. Just about everything on the river side i; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00064.html (11,939 bytes)
103. Re: [CBQ] Q-UP Chicago Grand Island train (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:29:54 -0600; Jeff, Part of the original concept was that freight from Council Bluffs was "Pooled". This was an early agreement that split the revenue on that traffic equally between the C&NW, CB&Q, CRI&P, and CMS; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00070.html (11,768 bytes)
104. Re: [CBQ] Question about C&S power (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:34:12 -0600; Tim, Before the merger would have stayed home. After the merger were assigned to Livingston and used system wide. Was in Colorado Springs from May of 70 until May of 71 and saw very little of the U30; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00112.html (10,350 bytes)
105. Re: [CBQ] SD45 & Type of cooling Fans (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:54:53 -0600; Terry, Right on target there. The way things are going these days it would no surprise me to see a unit with a fan missing. If they could get it on a train and out of the yard before it died that wou; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00125.html (11,025 bytes)
106. Re: [CBQ] Rail size (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:25:16 -0600; Bill, Should be 100lb. The movement up to 112lb did not happen until after WWII. Can't help on ballast in that era. Greetings to all, Does anybody know (or at least have a good guess) what size of ra; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00130.html (8,995 bytes)
107. Re: [CBQ] History question: meat packing plants (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:21:43 -0600; Doug, 40's is way too early for me but here are a few ideas. Minnesota-Iowa-Dakota Packing in Worthington MN. Don't know if new like IBP but they did exist. MIDX cars from Merchant's Dispatch with ve; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00136.html (11,560 bytes)
108. Re: [CBQ] Oregon, IL circa "62 (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:27:52 -0600; Rich, Worked one day in 1967 at Lisle. After the morning parade it was totally dead. There was a car on the Team Track across from the depot that was being unloaded so I walked over. It was 2x4's in; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00157.html (9,892 bytes)
109. Re: [CBQ] CB & Q switch stand No. 4 (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:31:21 -0600; David, Really do not understand your question. While there are lots of variations in recent years for safer working condition most of the RR only has two styles of switch stands. For Main Track turno; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00170.html (12,542 bytes)
110. Re: [CBQ] Information Please... (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:33:58 -0600; Sam, Can answer one question. BN did not classify either waycars or freight cars. They did use the AAR's standard mechanical designations so all waycars are listed as "NE". I am getting together a pr; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00175.html (10,307 bytes)
111. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Freight Symbol Question (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:03:33 -0600; Ted, Those symbols are connections at 55th Street but at least as of Sep-66 CB&Q did not run a dedicated PRR connection. A little later they did try to run a "QNY" with solid NYC traffic but it did n; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00197.html (13,798 bytes)
112. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Freight Symbol Question (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:52:45 -0600; Rick, That would not make much sense. Yard at Harrisburg was Enola. Altoona was a back shop location. I do not think PRR train designations of that era had much to do with the Origin/Destination. Mor; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-03/msg00209.html (11,469 bytes)
113. Re: [CBQ] Fuel Dye (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 06:16:48 -0600; Cy, At LaJunta fueling is done by an outside vendor. They only have access from the South side but most of the trains that are fueled are on MT#1. This means that MT#2 has to be blocked while they ar; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00039.html (9,386 bytes)
114. [CBQ] The Freight Car Color Issue (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:11:09 -0600; All, Have always been slow. Nothing new about that. Quite some time ago I commented that the color on a ballast car that is new on the market was, at least in the linked image, not the way I remember; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00051.html (9,941 bytes)
115. Re: [CBQ] commuter ? (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:29:28 -0600; Mike, To the best of my knowledge, after the line elevation, there were not. Morton Park was in Cicero so it does not count. there are 2 city stops on the line Halsted and Western. was there ever in; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00096.html (9,103 bytes)
116. Re: [CBQ] RE: Two Questions (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:11:30 -0600; James, The Aurora Passenger switcher during most of the 60's was CB&Q 9153, a SW1. It became BN 97 and was later used as a yard engine at Cicero, Dubuque, North La Crosse, and Winona. Sold to Indepen; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00108.html (10,888 bytes)
117. Re: [CBQ] E9's (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:27:17 -0600; BN used both CB&Q and GN E7's in freight service between Lincoln and Omaha in 1970/1971. For the next few years they were replaced by displaced GN and NP passenger F's. The last group of E8's that we; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00150.html (10,768 bytes)
118. Re: [CBQ] CBQ interchange with ATSF (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:23:53 -0600; Bill, Do not know how much interchange took place at Trinidad, probably not much. The big California connection for the C&S/FW&D was at Dalhart. FWIW, the C&S/BN never lost the industries that they s; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00230.html (12,042 bytes)
119. Re: [CBQ] Re: CBQ interchange with ATSF (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:39:09 -0600; Jim, During the mid-60's there was an almost daily delivery from Corwith to Cicero by the AT&SF. Seems that one of the freight house's at Corwith did some loading via Billings Shipping. These cars we; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00232.html (11,341 bytes)
120. Re: [CBQ] 4960, 4963, 5632 stories (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:52:58 -0600; Gerald, There was an oddball trip, I think in 1940, that went from CUS to Streator, then via La Salle to Zearing, on to Denrock, then Rock Falls and back to Earlville. Used a R4/R5 for that leg of th; /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-02/msg00233.html (10,180 bytes)

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