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181. [CBQ] CB&Q Iowa Train Orders mainly 1967-1968 (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:10:09 -0500
Here is another set of train orders from the Pete Hedgpeth/Lenny Ohrnell collection. Most are from 1967 and 1968 across Iowa. About one half of the orders are from 1967. From mid-May to early July 19
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00077.html (16,936 bytes)

182. [CBQ] Daily Freight Trains Ordered Out of Kansas City November 2 1966 (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:09:13 -0500
Another document from the Hedgpeth/Ohrnell collection. A listing of the daily freight trains ordered out of Murray Yard North Kansas City MO for November 2, 1966. Format is train number, motor assign
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00079.html (10,342 bytes)

183. [CBQ] Rapido Trains HO Scale SW1200 (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:01:15 -0500
I received a new newsletter email today from Rapido. They heard the comments about the paint schemes on the SW1200s that were made by several people on this list. Here is what they say in the newslet
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00083.html (10,491 bytes)

184. Re: [CBQ] Walthers Proto GP7 Phase II Diesels (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:01:09 -0500
There is a undocumented horn selection that I got from Walthers on the previous run of the LokSound equipped locos. Setting the horn CV to 15 will give you a dual A200. It definitely has a different
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00095.html (14,135 bytes)

185. Re: [CBQ] Autoparts Movement (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:41:15 -0500
Fred, Thank you for the write up. Informative as always! Bill Hirt On 8/18/2020 5:14 PM, Fred Crissey wrote: After several weeks of research and trying to recall some of details on the who, what, whe
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00125.html (12,885 bytes)

186. [CBQ] Missouri train orders - Mostly 1967 and 1968 (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:04:43 -0500
More train orders from the Hedgpeth/Ohrnell collection. June 22, 1967 was particularly busy day on the St. Joseph-Brookfield-West Quincy line as trains were detouring off the Iowa east-west mainline.
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00155.html (13,238 bytes)

187. Re: [CBQ] Missouri train orders - Mostly 1967 and 1968 (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:18:28 -0500
Dave, That is what I figured. However, why would they do this? Was there some agreement about crewing detour trains because obviously a Hannibal Division crew could handle a train on the Hannibal Div
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00161.html (11,732 bytes)

188. Re: [CBQ] Missouri train orders - Mostly 1967 and 1968 (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:35:31 -0500
Leo, Thanks. That helps explain it. I wish I had some other orders from West Quincy, Brookfield and St. Joseph for that period to help better define what was happening. Bill Hirt Any time a crew was
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00166.html (15,151 bytes)

189. [CBQ] More train orders mainly from 1967-68 for Nebraska (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 08:56:24 -0500
From the Hedgpeth/Ohrnell collection, here are more train orders from Nebraska. Most are circa 1967-68 and most are on the Alliance-Lincoln line. An interesting observation are train orders indicatin
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00197.html (12,075 bytes)

190. Re: [CBQ] EMD TR-2 Cow and Calf (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 18:38:30 -0500
Bryan, Actually Oriental Limited made a brass TR2 set in HO. They pop up occasionally. There was one sold on Brass Trains not too long ago. <https://www.brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/051961/
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-07/msg00016.html (15,270 bytes)

191. Re: [CBQ] Terminal Jct. Location? (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:01:29 -0500
It's collection of photos that were taken for the CB&Q sponsored book Granger Country: A Pictorial Social History of the Burlington Railroad issued in 1949 in commemoration of the Q's 100th anniversa
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-07/msg00086.html (12,264 bytes)

192. [CBQ] Burlington billboard near Kansas City Union Station (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:57:22 -0500
I was asked this afternoon if I knew of a good picture of the Burlington billboard which was near Kansas City Union Station. I looked through various books and photos I have and I could not find a pi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-07/msg00095.html (9,458 bytes)

193. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Wheel Reports (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:33:16 -0500
All of the CB&Q wheel reports I've seen are due to someone (in this case Russ Strotz) saving old teletype consists and switchlists. I tend to doubt this was intentional and the ones saved were thrown
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-07/msg00115.html (11,989 bytes)

194. Re: [CBQ] Bachmann News (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:01:43 -0500
Charlie, When I was looking for news last night on the 2020 Virtual National Train Show, someone taking notes posted that the "streamlined caboose" by Bachmann is $45 MSRP. There was supposed to be s
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-07/msg00151.html (10,493 bytes)

195. Re: [CBQ] CBQ Diesel Horns and Steam Whistles (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:15:46 -0500
Soundtraxx has this list of general diesel airhorn use by railroad: <https://soundtraxx.com/reference/locomotive-airhorn-usage/> and this page on locomotive airhorn history: <https://soundtraxx.com/r
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-07/msg00152.html (12,874 bytes)

196. Re: [CBQ] Dave Beck's HO Scale S3 4-6-2 model. (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:24:07 -0500
For those interested in this subject (model cost, availability and production), I would strongly recommend reading Jason Shron's (of Rapido Trains) column in the August 2020 issue of Railroad Model C
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-07/msg00225.html (13,462 bytes)

197. Re: [CBQ] Track Scales (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 09:46:41 -0500
Glen, Thank you. Somewhere in my collection I have a BN local notice from 1982 about the Leavenworth, Kansas, Bay State Milling scale. Bay State was complaining about the local switch crew running ac
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-06/msg00015.html (16,862 bytes)

198. Re: [CBQ] Shovelnose question (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 08:55:41 -0500
A long time ago one of the sound manufacturers claimed they had found a tugboat in the northeast that still had a Winton engine. They were supposedly going to record it and then release it as a sound
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-06/msg00039.html (11,158 bytes)

199. [CBQ] Great new YouTube video (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 09:44:57 -0500
Periscope Films just posted a great new YouTube video yesterday. They are home railroad movies from the mid 1930s to late 1940s. There is footage of one of the Twin Zephyrs being pulled by one of the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-06/msg00040.html (10,117 bytes)

200. Re: [CBQ] [EarlyRail] Photo: Simple Weathering Project - CB&Q Boxcar 12138 (score: 1)
Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:57:15 -0500
Just as point of reference, the west bottoms area of Kansas City (which is where this photo was taken) has not flooded again since the great 1951 flood. After that flood, a 50 foot concrete flood wal
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-06/msg00111.html (15,299 bytes)

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