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1. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: You mean there are other Jarheads here? (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:32:56 -0600
Well . . . I'm just a zoomie, but I suffered through several years in Iceland <snicker> - Doncha just hate those Scandinavian countries (and women)? But you did have one advantage . . . Denmark still
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00062.html (10,980 bytes)

2. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q 197197 (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:38:34 -0600
I no longer have my files to check, butas I recall, all Q cars with 6-digit numbers were company service . . . what color was it? Marshall Thayer Mt. Pleasant, IA -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00063.html (9,545 bytes)

3. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: 1960s HO boxcar idea (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:51:06 -0600
My personal & close observation of the pre-merger Q ends around 1967, but during the annual grain rush (which was treated more like an emergency), anything that was't too stinky, dirty or leaky becam
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00064.html (10,259 bytes)

4. Re: [BRHSlist] RE: Question for RR freight modelers... (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:41:04 -0600
<snip> I concur with the comments regarding IM wheels versus Kadees or P2K . . . an additional advantage is their weight, which helps balance over rough trackwork or complex switch/crossing assemblie
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00087.html (12,459 bytes)

5. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: New Passenger F3s (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:22:55 -0600
There may be more to it than that . . . when passenger traffic still mattered, railroads paid attention to what the other lines were doing . . . the AT&SF, western pioneer of A-1-A diesels, gave them
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00171.html (11,064 bytes)

6. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: What's a "gyra-light"? (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:01:40 -0600
Oh, darn! I'm gonna have to play pedantic historian again! (there will be a brief pause while most of you delete this message) - There is an economic difference between a MARS light and a GyraLight .
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00174.html (12,408 bytes)

7. Re: [BRHSlist] Silver Charger (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:20:17 -0600
characteristics? What are you thinking, Duncan?????? (a couple of e-slaps to the face) . . . 9908 never ran through Keokuk on a scheduled basis, as far as I know . . . But the Hallmark stuff was pret
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-11/msg00176.html (10,643 bytes)

8. [BRHSlist] Photo quest (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:30:52 -0600
Fellow listers: A member of the Henry County (IA) Historical Society is seeking photographs and information on the locomotive servicing facilities of the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern (after 1904,
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00056.html (9,251 bytes)

9. Re: [BRHSlist] F3 Passenger Units (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:28:45 -0600
These units (the only F-3s without dynamic brakes on the Q) retained their original 9900-series numbers until trade-in, but were re-painted into the paint scheme - I no longer have my date data, but
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00062.html (9,986 bytes)

10. Re: [BRHSlist] New file uploaded to BRHSlist (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:49:42 -0600
It sure doesn't look like the one the signal gang would leave sitting on the station platform while they bought sandwich makings from Beaver's Grocery in Mt. Pleasant (1955-65 or so), but it might be
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00095.html (9,086 bytes)

11. Re: [BRHSlist] my Keokuk, Iowa layout (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:09:31 -0600
I was through Keokuk once a month all through the '50s (to visit a greatgrandmother in Quincy), and all I ever saw of the TipuP was a loco and caboose sittying idle on the riverside siding just south
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00120.html (9,758 bytes)

12. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: History Channel -" Railroads"--( Disgraceful) (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:36:28 -0600
Does anyone know of any Hollywood movies featuring CB&Q steam??? (Except for RKO's original "The Silver Streak" - 1934) Marshall Thayer Mt. Pleasant, IA -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartri
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00131.html (11,558 bytes)

13. Re: [BRHSlist] Diesel loco "steam generators" (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:58:05 -0600
ephyrs, you'll find that every one was a steam boiler squirreled away somewhere for steam heat. Pre-heavyweight equipment settled on axle-powered generators and bulky battery boxes once electrical li
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00141.html (11,421 bytes)

14. Re: [BRHSlist] BB back issue reprint survey (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:39:08 -0600
Having lost my entire RR research library, I'll vote for the reprint of *all* BBs and buy one of each - Marshall Thayer Mt. Pleasant, IA -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill K
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00250.html (9,318 bytes)

15. Re: [BRHSlist] Zephyr 9902??? (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:13:13 -0600
Not quite - 9902 was the *surviving* "First Twin"; sister 9901 was burned in Texas in Dec. '44. 9902 did operate the Chi-Quincy run for a while after WW II, and was then transferred to the Galesburg-
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00255.html (9,557 bytes)

16. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington 99 office car in La Crosse WI (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:39:14 -0600
Alex: Bill Glick's roster lists it as blt. Apr. 1905 by the Aurora Shops, second 99. Since the built date is post-1904, there's no previous road or owner. It was sold (preumably marking the end of ac
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00261.html (9,095 bytes)

17. Re: [BRHSlist] How do you start a GP-7 locomotive? (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:26:57 -0600
As I recall, all EMD diesels were equipped with starter motors - note on a model that you'll see weatherproof electrical sockets where a dead battery could be recharged/jump-started. Most Q GP-7s (an
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00286.html (10,077 bytes)

18. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Skirts for Walthers Budd cars? (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:52:23 -0600
Me, too! As far as I know, all Budd cars delivered to the Q after the war eliminated the heavy sill above the window panel, and had "fineflute" panels running all the way across the roff - while all
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00314.html (10,577 bytes)

19. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Don't stop now. (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:37:28 -0600
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:19:44 -0800 (PST), George William \(Bill\) Newport wrote Let me see if I can simplify this: If you take a system that applies power to work, but reverse the input, you reverdse
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00317.html (12,710 bytes)

20. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q waycars (score: 1)
Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:19:27 -0600
Adam - one solution to the marker light problem (an admitted compromise for CB&Q) is the former Utah Pacific (TOMAR, last I heard) AdLake castings. These are not perfect, since one has to drill and m
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00014.html (10,116 bytes)

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