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21. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Different Empire Builder question (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:46:52 -0600
Two reasons: Timekeeping and station stops. Long trains might have to make two or even three station stops. So, I assume there was a limit on how big of a passenger train could be pulled. Was steam t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00278.html (11,183 bytes)

22. Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:55:55 -0500
Bob, On Railroads that used hoops the crew just threw it out the window as soon as possible. Operator would walk down and get it. Bamboo is tough, it can take that treatment. Russ remember seeing was
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00027.html (13,290 bytes)

23. Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings Train orders (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:52:31 -0500
Mike, The train order pages were very thin light colored paper. The carbons were a very heavy black. The text could be read whether it was on the front or back of the page. Looked the same. The advan
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00029.html (13,077 bytes)

24. Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:39:48 -0500
Bob, Why do you need a web site when you have this list? If I don't have the answer Steve Holding surely would. Just got home from spending 8 hours dispatching 650 miles of railroad. Dodge City KS to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00043.html (13,840 bytes)

25. Re: [BRHSlist] Further on Flyer's Flags (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:32:30 -0500
Pete, Yes, I'd agree the flags or whatever are meaningless. CTC was installed from Akron to Denver in 1937. On the other hand it was still ABS from McCook to Akron where the train would normally run
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00063.html (12,149 bytes)

26. Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 07:56:00 -0500
Steve, Yes, it does depend on the territory. Think the "Operator" at East End Tower is actually a Switchtender. Right? Surprised he still has a job. They are in the process of taking all the switch m
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00081.html (12,495 bytes)

27. Re: [BRHSlist] F3 Passenger Units (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 07:54:59 -0500
Charlie, The last "A" in service, 9960C had a red lens on the top headlight. Never saw another "F Unit" with that feature. -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your H
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00086.html (11,799 bytes)

28. Re: [BRHSlist] Diesel loco "steam generators" (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:49:58 -0500
1st question: Yes 2nd question: Not to my knowledge, all axle driven generators. 3rd question: Not to my knowledge, either axle driven or small diesel/gasoline engine. 4th question: Yes, it was. 5th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00140.html (10,112 bytes)

29. Re: [BRHSlist] Are these guys legal? (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:08:02 -0500
Are these guys legal? Have lived in Colorado and know of no laws against eating, as long as it's paid for. -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Rent DVDs Online - Over 14,500 titles. No Late Fees & Free S
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00149.html (9,166 bytes)

30. Re: [BRHSlist] How does a railroad crossing work? (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:31:36 -0500
There are a number of different technologies applied to the activation of grade crossing protection. The simplest ones just put the gates down when ever there is an occupancy in a certain section of
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00150.html (11,965 bytes)

31. Re: [BRHSlist] re: car seals: grain door mfg (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:26:49 -0500
Gerald, Signode did not have their own cars. Their Chicago/Midwest factory and warehouse were in the industrial area along C&NW's Yard 9, which is the receiving yard for Proviso. Shipped to coopering
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00186.html (10,764 bytes)

32. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1842 (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:34:04 -0500
Steve, Yes, that is true. They was also one on the yard lead between the track one switch and the crossing. There was not one on the East side of the crossing on the extension. Gates could also be ke
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00201.html (10,939 bytes)

33. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Are these guys legal? (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:07:41 -0500
Bob/Don, Have a .pdf file of a Nebraska Railroad map dated 1929. It is a scan of a map that was originally 45.58 x 24.43 and is in a scale of 10 miles to the inch. It not only shows all county border
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00207.html (10,658 bytes)

34. Re: [BRHSlist] Torpedo tubes. (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:02:16 -0500
Did not recall any CB&Q units that had rooftop air tanks outside of the SD24's but whatever. Normally the air tanks on a diesel were mounted in an indented area above and outside the fuel tanks, just
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00210.html (10,681 bytes)

35. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:10:05 -0500
Pete, Yes, have seen those devices. Last one I can remember as to location was at Gibson City IL. Must been really dusty. While it was much older it was built on the lines of the rotary coal dumpers
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00225.html (12,326 bytes)

36. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:15:02 -0500
Pete, I don't know why. I would have more faith in a plywood lined stock car that one of those miserable door and a half box cars that they tried to foist off on their shippers. Half the time the met
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00232.html (10,500 bytes)

37. Re: [BRHSlist] Fred and Lou from Railspot, was: Obituary: Herb Wallace, Jr. (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:07:05 -0500
God? No way. Lucifer? Much better likeness. Streets were probably named by Krebs and what did he know of what had happened during the 60's and 70's? There are a few personal worshipers still around b
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00032.html (11,300 bytes)

38. Re: [BRHSlist] Q Caboose (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 16:51:52 -0500
Bill, BN 968767 was BN 12272, an International car built in 1979. A long ways from the CB&Q. -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Pri
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00095.html (9,428 bytes)

39. [BRHSlist] An old question (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:27:15 -0500
All, Someone asked a while back about the device that looked like a speaker mounted on the front of a unit. In the days before portable radios this was a way for the Switch Foreman or Switchman to ke
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00117.html (8,886 bytes)

40. [BRHSlist] Order Numbers (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:41:47 -0500
All, Does anyone know the Baldwin order numbers for 6310-6327. Did West Burlington apply shop numbers to the M4A rebuilding? Does anyone know the Baldwin order numbers for 3000-3012 Did West Burlingt
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00132.html (8,574 bytes)

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