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21. Re: [BRHSlist] reL freezing locos/E unit usage (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:50:51 -0700; One of Russell's comments in his latest post brought up a related question in my mind - In the Q's late steam era, some Prairies were assigned to work train duty and given an additional air compresso; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00089.html (7,935 bytes)
22. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Last post.. (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:01:19 -0700; Whose collection was this Edwards motor car from and why is the collection being broken up? <<< This is embarrassing - I can't remember the name of it to save my soul, but some individual bankrolled; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00091.html (8,045 bytes)
23. Re: [BRHSlist] Mystery Collection (was Re: Last Post) (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:54:46 -0700; Aaaaaarghhh! I had the wrong highway, the wrong Q branchline, and couldn't remember the name of the museum . . . (checking my driver's license to remember how to spell my own name) Marshall Thayer; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00096.html (6,935 bytes)
24. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Last post..Motorcar on Keokuk Streets... (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:59:15 -0700; Thanks . . . I don't need panic attacks at my age <grin> Marshall Thayer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00097.html (7,557 bytes)
25. Re: [BRHSlist] reL freezing locos/E unit usage (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:33:11 -0700; A "flanger" is a plow-blade designed to drop below railhead level and clear snow or ise from the flangeways. Flangers are always vertically adjustable, and must be raised before encountering a turno; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00102.html (7,856 bytes)
26. Re: [BRHSlist] Radiators. (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:57:02 -0700; http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00004702+OP-4702) it looks like there are turnstuds (right term?) spaced around the inlet grille openings, as if to mount cloth covers like I sometimes se; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00108.html (7,661 bytes)
27. Re: [BRHSlist] Kato Business Car (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:07:57 -0700; But when was the origianl business car put into service? I fear not in the 40s. << Alas, Florian - you're right: January '52. Marshall Thayer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00112.html (7,914 bytes)
28. Re: [BRHSlist] Kato Business Car (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:12:16 -0700; - because it was the only low-maintenance lightweight business car on the Q roster. The similiar-in-appearence car, "The Round Up", was an ordinary heavyweight, gussied up with thermopane windows an; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00113.html (8,400 bytes)
29. Re: [BRHSlist] Kato Business Car (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:30:31 -0700; Marshall, With my vast array of obsessions, who am *I* to call anyone "mad"? <grin> . . . There are minor differences in length - "Burlington" coupled, 85'-0"; "The Round-Up", 81'-8 3/4" and Burl. tr; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00119.html (10,609 bytes)
30. Re: [BRHSlist] Kato Business Car (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:52:20 -0700; . . . with a portrait figure of me on the back platform, chatting it up with Harry Murphy . . . I LIKE it! Marshall Thayer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00126.html (8,359 bytes)
31. Re: [BRHSlist] Parlor car (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:27:42 -0700; I have a "Shoreham Shops" HO brass Twin Cities Zephyr parlor car, series 340-341, that I would like to finish off and am having trouble finding information on it. What names went on these cars, and w; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00129.html (7,378 bytes)
32. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington Sleeper (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:02:21 -0700; Hi, Bob - Here is what I can throw together from a few references at hand: The "Lake" sleepers were part of the 80th anniversary refit of the Black Hawk and Aristocrat trains in 1930 & were to Pullm; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00139.html (8,818 bytes)
33. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington Sleeper (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:35:43 -0700; was not scrapped until 63. Would the letter board read Pullman or Burlington with Pullman at each end in small letters. The car had two different road numbers but that was probably after the expirat; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00156.html (8,556 bytes)
34. Re: [BRHSlist] CBQ donating land for US-based WWII POW camps? (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 07:53:31 -0700; hauled in and out by train, i.e. revenue. John D. Mitchell, Jr. <<< . . . as would the original building supplies, as well as food, clothing, etc. - it would, in effect, add a new small city to the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00171.html (9,139 bytes)
35. Scale time vs. real time in switching? (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:13:44 -0700; My 1940's Q-based switching layout will not only be a home layout for me and potential operators to enjoy, but is envisioned as being portable for shows. I'd like to operate as realistically as possi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00175.html (10,440 bytes)
36. Re: [BRHSlist] MOW Orange and Stencil Decals (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:02:42 -0700; suggest a paint for MOW orange. Checking my Yahoo BRHS message bank I found one reference to using Floquil reefer orange. Any other/better suggestions? << I remember using Floquil reefer orange on a; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00177.html (7,668 bytes)
37. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington Sleeper (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:13:36 -0700; Marshall, I found a picture of a pullman in a picture dated 1957 that had Pullman on the letterboard and the style looked like railroad roman. I could not identify the color of the lettering. Did the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00181.html (7,919 bytes)
38. Re: [BRHSlist] How to Preserve RR Stock Certificates? (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:33:23 -0700; And the trained historian/researcher replies "AAAAAAAAArrrghhhhh!!!!" NEVER laminate a historical or collectors' document. You have destroyed its value in one fell swoop. And with older paper, you ar; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00191.html (8,154 bytes)
39. Dayman? (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:37:22 -0700; And the thoroughly useless trivia question of the month - When the US Army built its ammunition plant just east of Middletown, Iowa, in the early 1940s, the CB&Q put a station sign next to the wye wh; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00197.html (7,083 bytes)
40. Re: [BRHSlist] Dayman? (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:11:24 -0700; Zimmerman" - a contraction of that company's name became the station name. N. L. Pitsch <<< THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Now . . . I gotta figure out a way to work that into a conversation <grin>; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00200.html (7,633 bytes)

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