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21. Re: [BRHSlist] day or remembrance (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:39:06 -0500 (CDT)
Since this has been posted on so many lists and newsgroups, several persons have researched this commentary and the most complete summary seems to be this one. Wes Leatherock wleath@s... MORE INFORMA
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-09/msg00090.html (9,109 bytes)

22. Re: [BRHSlist] Color Scheme Question (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 07:58:08 -0500 (CDT)
I enjoyed all of it. Wouldn't be complete with any less. Wes Leatherock wleath@s...
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-09/msg00110.html (7,118 bytes)

23. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest 1084 signals on the Q (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:08:30 -0500 (CDT)
"The Union Switch and Signal Company?" One of the two major firms supplying signal equipment. Wes Leatherock wleath@s...
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-09/msg00113.html (7,231 bytes)

24. Re: [BRHSlist] Railroad North? (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:03:28 -0500 (CDT)
The ex-Santa Fe from Newton south to Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Houston and Galveston clearly north-south, but the timetable direction is still east-west. Interesting enough, when the GC&SF still issued t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-08/msg00262.html (7,952 bytes)

25. Re: [BRHSlist] Railroad North? (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:06:42 -0500 (CDT)
Couldn't tell you about that far back, but on most lines eastward and northward trains were superior to westward and southward trains. But there were many exceptions. And on certain subdivision there
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-08/msg00263.html (7,770 bytes)

26. Re: [BRHSlist] joint trains with CRIP? (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:37:05 -0500 (CDT)
The Sam Houston Zephyr and the Twin Star Rocket were listed in both FW&D and CRI&G timetables between Fort Worth and Houston (with a note that the SHZ used the T&P station in Fort Worth and the Twin
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-08/msg00312.html (8,217 bytes)

27. Re: [BRHSlist] joint trains with CRIP? (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:14:29 -0500 (CDT)
The Twin Star Rocket and the Texas Rocket came in from the north (Enid, Kansas City) on the RI. The Texas Zephyr (post war) (Amarillo, Denver) came in on the FWD. I'd be interested to know how the tr
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-08/msg00316.html (8,325 bytes)

28. Re: [BRHSlist] "Motors" (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:27:43 -0500 (CDT)
A story in Sunday's (August 26) Sunday Oklahoman travel section telling about the PRR-air-Santa Fe service that operated for a few months, with Charles Lindbergh as one of the pilots, noted that the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-08/msg00317.html (7,904 bytes)

29. Re: [BRHSlist] Ghost towns (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:34:40 -0500 (CDT)
Station--A place designated in the time table by name. A station, in the rule book sense, may never have had any depot and never been near any town. Wes Leatherock wleath@s...
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-08/msg00406.html (7,203 bytes)

30. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Cantilever signal bridges (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:06:12 -0500 (CDT)
With all due respect, a cantilever sticks out from one side only. If it has support on both sides of the track it is a signal bridge. A "cantilever" is a structure that is supported at only one end.
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-07/msg00074.html (8,833 bytes)

31. Re: [BRHSlist] Follow-on Sections (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:34:34 -0500 (CDT)
You're basically correct in the reason for trains running in more than one section, but the green flags or green lights were displayed on the front of the engine were classification lights ("class li
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-06/msg00032.html (9,814 bytes)

32. Re: [BRHSlist] Follow-on Sections (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:40:05 -0500 (CDT)
[ ... text deleted ... ] It wasn't just typical, it was required by the rules. Sorry, the last section carried NO signals. White lights (not markers) or flags designated an extra train (one without a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-06/msg00033.html (7,988 bytes)

33. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Sections (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:58:51 -0500 (CDT)
Earlier the rules provided for green flags by day and green lights by night. This was in steam days and continued for quite a while in the diesel era, but the rules were eventually changed to provide
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-06/msg00060.html (8,183 bytes)

34. RS: FWD "Preserved" Cabooses (fwd) (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:30:49 -0500 (CDT)
Might be of interest to _some_ on the BRHS list. Wes Leatherock wleath@s... -- A CATALOG OF CAPTIVE CABOOSE LOCATIONS CITY STATE CABOOSE # LOCATION AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -- Irving TX FWD no mark
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-04/msg00032.html (8,731 bytes)

35. Re: [BRHSlist] ticket punches (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:41:46 -0500 (CDT)
And Hollerith, an employee of the Census Bureau, immediately realized this could be adapted to make tabulating the census much easier. The first use involved rods, sort of like knitting needles, stuc
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-04/msg00033.html (8,119 bytes)

36. Re: [BRHSlist] Read after Streator Wye (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:42:30 -0500 (CDT)
While I heard stories about prejudice in World War I directed at people with German names, and I knew a man who was very fearful it would happen during World War II, I don't recall any instances in t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-04/msg00134.html (8,032 bytes)

37. Re: [BRHSlist] Kable Bros. (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:08:58 -0600 (CST)
That description is accurate, but it fails to mention that it is a form of recess (intaglio) printing, where the part to be inked is recessed into the plate rather than sticking up above it. Intaglio
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00263.html (9,009 bytes)

38. Re: [BRHSlist] West Lines (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:34:55 -0600 (CST)
I am in agreement with Bob. I know similar splits have taken places on other lists, and both of the lists become less interesting because of it. Certainly the Texas Zephyr (the Denver-Dallas version)
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00391.html (8,686 bytes)

39. Re: [BRHSlist] Lines west (and south) (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:43:43 -0600 (CST)
As was true of many lines, there were minority shareowners... the CB&Q's interest was, I believe, about 90 per cent. But until the Q felt it was worthwhile to buy out the minority shareowners, and fo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00392.html (9,515 bytes)

40. Re: [BRHSlist] Lines west (and south) (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:16:35 -0600 (CST)
Such a law did exist, but is probably not the reason that either the FW&DC or the T&P were originally incorporated in Texas. They were originally Texas promotions and incorporated in Texas just becau
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00406.html (8,846 bytes)


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