- 1. Re: [BRHSlist] Q Baggage BA-10A (score: 1)
- Author: zephyr03@s...
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 04:40:15 -0500
- Bob - Is that "New Freedom", or "North Freedom"? Marshall
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-09/msg00067.html (6,920 bytes)
- 2. Re: [[BRHSlist] R.E.O.] (score: 1)
- Author: zephyr03@s...
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:35:24 -0500
- . . . sounds like a railroad employee <LOL>! Marshall
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-09/msg00093.html (6,535 bytes)
- 3. Re: [BRHSlist] Truck Colours (score: 1)
- Author: zephyr03@s...
- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:13:49 -0500
- What else! It was "Zephyr Silver" with red and black markings (there is a MicroScale minicale for the 1949 version) - IIRC, cabs were always red - even back to the thirties - Marshall
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-09/msg00106.html (6,902 bytes)
- 4. Re: [BRHSlist] Joint effort to save MTZ. (score: 1)
- Author: zephyr03@s...
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:02:44 -0500
- As the second poor schmuck who tried to preserve/restore this train, I have to volunteer to be of whatever help I can - (The first was Frank Dashner of Glenwood, IA, who died before he could exercise
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-09/msg00124.html (7,392 bytes)
- 5. Re: [BRHSlist] blackbird gray & decals (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 16:41:54 -0500
- I never saw two redbirds in the same shade from trackside in Mt. Pleasant or Burlington, IA, either <g> - It seemed as the paint would soon drift toward the brown or the orange - in as little as a mo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00024.html (7,892 bytes)
- 6. Re: [BRHSlist] Silver Pendulum (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 19:35:28 -0500
- I recall reading somewhere that it occasionally "augmented" the Twin Zephyrs . . . . & I wouldn't be surprised to see it on the Exposition Flyer (Advance, not heavyweight) during that period. Anyone
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00036.html (7,286 bytes)
- 7. Re: [BRHSlist] Proto 2000 0-8-0's (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:49:04 -0500
- If you can get access to a copy of Corbin's "Steam Locos", you seem to have a choice. 548 has no walkway (1937); 545 does (1950) . . . . Marshall
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00048.html (7,543 bytes)
- 8. Re: [BRHSlist] P2K 0-8-0 (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:01:30 -0500
- Dick - Basic steam troubleshooting 101: First, remove the eccentrics & tape the valve gear to the running boards & try again. Still glitching? If not, the problem is in the valve gear motion. Check t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00070.html (9,615 bytes)
- 9. Re: [BRHSlist] Headlights and the P2K 0-8-0 (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:39:11 -0500
- <snip> According to a friend who worked at the West Burlington Shops in the 40s and 50s, it was standard practice on the Q to salvage all re-useable applicances from retired engines before they went
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00081.html (7,489 bytes)
- 10. Re: [BRHSlist] Headlights and the P2K 0-8-0 (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:40:51 -0500
- Just make sure you use PSC's headlight rather thanthe old Cary (Bowser) casting. Precision Scale's version is fully cored (including number boards) with a separate backplate, while the Bowser casting
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00082.html (7,750 bytes)
- 11. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 681 (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:02:15 -0500
- Visor cuckoo clocks were rare on CB&Q proper (although there are exceptions) - much more common on C&S engines. Marshall
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00103.html (7,814 bytes)
- 12. CB&Q F-1 details (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:04:51 -0500
- I now have my P2K F-1 0-8-0 (temporarily numbered 545) For maximum Burlington flavor, I want to detail and number it for a loco which used cuckoo clock headlights front and rear, and has a center num
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00168.html (7,631 bytes)
- 13. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q F-1 details (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:33:55 -0500
- It's beginning to look like 548 will be the closest I can get to what I want - cuckoo clock lights fore and aft, centered number plate . . . Thanks, all, for your help. If I luck out and manage to ma
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00180.html (8,144 bytes)
- 14. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: 2-8-2 Mike clarification (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 07:54:21 -0500
- You are looking at FW&D 454, a USRA heavy mike. In the late fifties, 454 had a moment of fame in Trains magazine, when it was borrowed by a neighboring dieselized road for service on flooded trackage
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-08/msg00185.html (7,453 bytes)
- 15. Re: [BRHSlist] Information on E-5's shells (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 07:38:18 -0500
- Scott - It's www.deltamodels.bigstep.com They do not have a product yet - just an announcement of "coming attractions" with no projected delivery date. Also, it is not to be a shell, but a set of rep
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00008.html (7,020 bytes)
- 16. Re: [BRHSlist] RE: Query re Burlington Atlantics (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:33:10 -0500
- Dave (and others) I sent Roger a summary of the P-classes, their history and their significance . . . . if he needs to know more than I do, I'll probably scream for help <LOL> . . . . Marshall
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00019.html (7,025 bytes)
- 17. Re: [BRHSlist] 4960 (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:26:27 -0500
- William - If you mean '66, I have a lovely runby on standard 8 mm on the return, at a grade crossing just short of Princeton, doing at least 65 mph . . . . Now: How do we arrange the copying of an ol
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00028.html (6,811 bytes)
- 18. Re: [BRHSlist] Silver Arrow (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:34:24 -0500
- Silver Arrow was a 12-section articulated sleeper #412 on the 1936 Denver Zephyr (it articulated to Silver Sides #440 6BR-3CPT-1DR). The DZ sets became to Texas Zephyr sets in 1957 and continued in t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00065.html (7,128 bytes)
- 19. Re: [BRHSlist] FW: Fan Trip Book/Northern 5632 (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:38:00 -0500
- That's correct. 6315 was crippled by its only Illini fan trip, losing both eccentric rods & being pushed by 5632 . . . . no diesel "protection" on that run. All the listed engines were used on one or
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00091.html (8,114 bytes)
- 20. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q 3007 (score: 1)
- Author: marshall <zephyr03@s...>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:26:48 -0500
- Correct. After the Q's high-brifdge was put in at Quincy, the City tried to convert the center island to a picnic park with pedestrian traffic over the old rr bridge. It didn't work out too well . .
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2000-07/msg00094.html (10,941 bytes)
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