- 1. Re: [CBQ] GP 40's with white number boards (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via Groups.Io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:18:40 -0600
- In Al Holck's Burlington Route Color Pictorial Volume 2, there a picture of 631 with white number boards on p78. Bill Hirt On 2/20/2020 10:09 AM, Randy Doman wrote: Hi Everyone, Looking for info and
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-02/msg00157.html (12,908 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Diesel Service Tank Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:05:23 -0600
- End Cab Models a number of years ago offered custom painted and lettered model kits of the Athearn tank car that Leo referred to. There are not bad looking cars and good stand-ins. Jim Singer is list
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-11/msg00063.html (14,614 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Diesel Service Tank Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:05:26 -0600
- There is a picture of one of 231000 series tank cars in Mike Spoor's Morning Sun CB&Q Color Guide on page 121. The picture notes it was taken in March 1970 and the car is painted oxide red. The car i
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-11/msg00071.html (16,048 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] Distribution of Power (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:14:23 -0600
- If you mean Locomotive Assignment reports, they are available for purchase in the BRHS Company Store. Locomotives are listed by Division assignment. Bill Hirt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links:
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-12/msg00028.html (12,875 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Council Bluffs exchange (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:50:54 -0600
- Rupert, If you access to it, Ed DeRouin's book Moving Mail and Express by Rail has consists of through cars that moved through Council Bluffs Transfer from CB&Q trains to the UP. Bill Hirt On 12/27/2
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-12/msg00059.html (18,161 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] Track Profiles (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:55:07 -0600
- Randy, These are available in the Members Only area of the BRHS website. Click on the Alignment Charts by Division icon. The date on the track chart index says 10-10-1962. BIll Hirt Does anyone know
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-12/msg00073.html (13,893 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] Pioneer Zephyr into KC (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:40:32 -0600
- According to Burlington Bulletin 13, the Pioneer Zephyr had an accident with a truck on April 29, 1950. After repair, it was assigned the Galesburg-Quincy run until early 1953. After the introduction
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-01/msg00030.html (13,506 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] Blackbird Paint Scheme in HO? (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:09:09 -0600
- To add to Jonathan's info, Holck's Burlington Route Color Pictorial Vol. 1 shows: SW1 9143 leading the Cheyenne WY-Sterling CO local in 1956 (p53). GE 44 tonner 9104 which handled the Red Oak IA-Hamb
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-01/msg00031.html (18,439 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q-NYC Pooled Trains (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 10:08:22 -0600
- Pooled trains always received whatever the top end power on the system at the time. Earl Currie did a presentation at a Spring meet several years ago and made the point that in the 1960s, all railroa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-02/msg00020.html (17,361 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CBQ] Burlington Truck Lines 26 and 32 ft. Trailer Paint Schemes (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:09 -0600
- I bought one of these and have assembled it. I asked Jim Gooden, who has done a clinic on Burlington Truck Lines and is working on a Bulletin article about the truck lines, about the kit and decals.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-02/msg00038.html (16,313 bytes)
- 11. Re: [CBQ] FT Lettering (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:15:00 -0600
- Bryan, I've attached a scan of 110DC taken at Cicero in January 1964. It is a TIF image. I had scanned the slide at 4600 dpi so you can zoom in to see the detail. I do not see anything below the Burl
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-02/msg00045.html (14,384 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CBQ] FT Lettering (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:55:41 -0600
- Rob, I model August/September 1963. I've been told by a retired Q employee that the FTs made trips very late in their lives from Kansas City to St. Louis on the GM&O trackage rights because the GM&O
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-02/msg00050.html (19,367 bytes)
- 13. Re: [CBQ] FT Lettering (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:51:55 -0600
- Fantastic!!!!! Thanks. I see Bill Schneider of Rapido just bought a picture off the BRHS SmugMug site. https://burlingtonroutehistoricalsociety.smugmug.com/ Bill Hirt On 2/26/2025 10:29 PM, Bryan How
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-02/msg00088.html (15,841 bytes)
- 14. Re: [CBQ] Freight Houses (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:22:42 -0500
- North Kansas City MO as of 1961 when the new freight house was constructed. The old freight house was in the Kansas City MO west bottoms. The St. Louis MO freight house was at Carr St. in downtown St
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-04/msg00030.html (13,726 bytes)
- 15. Re: [CBQ] Rapido gallery car and E9 horn choices (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:27:00 -0500
- Ed, What sound file did you install on the cab car? If it is the LokSound 5 E unit file, the horn list from the web site shows: 1st Generation Horn Template Pack 1 Horns (SoundCV9): CV163=0 Leslie A-
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-04/msg00040.html (15,641 bytes)
- 16. Re: [CBQ] XM-27 box cars (score: 1)
- Author: "William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 14:26:05 -0500
- According to the CB&Q Freight Car Roster 1875-1970 researched and assembled by Rupert Gamlin and published in 2021 by the BRHS, the Class XM-27 was built in 1926 by the CB&Q Aurora shops. These were
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2025-05/msg00017.html (13,849 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu