Mike, As others have noted, Naperville was already a town 30 years before the railroad. There was plank road through town that preceded the CB&Q (there was a street called Plank Road when I lived the
Yesterday I was watching a BNSF freight train go by at a crossing near Kansas City. To my surprise came by a freshly painted cream colored Grain Hopper with black BNSF car number lettering and a larg
Bryan, I heard from a friend this afternoon that is a Frisco modeler that BNSF doing to make sure their retain legal rights to the heralds. They already have at least three Frisco and three GN hopper
Does anyone have a Q lettering diagram for the Austin Western 30 yard dump cars? I was just able to get a few for my HO scale model railroad from an estate sale and now would like to properly letter
On 2/17/2013 12:24 PM, Frederick Ripley wrote: These days, do a handful of UP trains still use the ex-CB&Q to KC? I haven't been on that line SW of Galeburg for some years. When shooting the ex-AT&SF
I received a flyer from NKP Car Co that they will be doing HO car kits for the Pullman (leased and CB&Q purchased) "Tower" series as well as the "Clover" series. I have looked at the pictures in Bill
Rich, You may be surprised, but your local library may have a subscription or reciprocal borrowing rights so you can view them at home using their web site as a portal and your library card. The Mid-
Charlie, Thank you. I had looked at the Microscale web site, but not at the alphabets. I see it is set #90202 Black I want for HO. I'm happy to see they also have a Deluxe Gold set also. Bill Hirt On
Rich, Thank you. I bought up a bunch of Champ decals before they closed up, but I did not buy that set. If anyone on the list has a set or two they would like to sell, or know of a hobby shop that ha
I've acquired a collection of various blank Burlington Lines forms. I'll be scanning them and uploading them periodically over the next few weeks. I hope they will be of interest to members of group.
Ken, Precision Scale has announced they will be producing the General Pershing Zephyr in HO. They are producing dining parlor-observation cars 300, 302, and 303 as separate cars from the complete set
Ken, I have one that I bought from Mike Spoor. It's been re-powered and has DCC, but runs about as well as can be expected from a Hallmark. Railway Classics had announced redoing them before they sto
On 11/9/2014 8:44 PM, thommack@yahoo.com [CBQ] wrote: I always knew that the Q ran unit ore trains down from Mpls-StP to Granite City, IL and Chicago, especially during the winter when the Great Lake
On 11/9/2014 8:11 PM, thommack@yahoo.com [CBQ] wrote: Now that winter has arrived I have time to get back to my long forsaken layout. I would like to start ballasting both my main line and Savanna ya
Nelson, It's a regular on eBay as some one sells copies. That is where I got my copy. Bill Hirt On 11/17/2014 1:26 PM, 'Nelson Moyer' ku0a@mchsi.com [CBQ] wrote: Gene, Thanks. This is just what I nee
On 9/25/2014 4:24 PM, gvlc6@hotmail.com [CBQ] wrote: Now to segue to CB&Q & WWII. The AAR issued posters and blotters with patriotic messages(I believe one of the latter was used by Dave for a Zeph
Wow, lot's of great info in these wheel reports! A big thank you to those who did the work to transcribe them to Excel and do the research on the ORER car types. You are welcome. 2. There are few
I have posted two additional wheel reports in the files area. One is for Train 70 from West Quincy to Galesburg and one is for Train 97 from Hannibal to West Quincy. These reports actually have some
Rupert, I am not sure the listing in the ORER shows all, most or even any of the equipment assigned that was owned/leased by Burlington Truck Lines. In working on the wheel reports of the 1960s, ther
Jim, No Trailers and related Equipment are listed in the 1960 Equipment Guide. The 1968 Guide which Rupert referred to is the first one I have had access which does. I've attached it to this message.