- 41. Re: [BRHSlist] North Mo RR and H&StJ Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:41:17 -0600
- Yes - this was possible - and could have been very exciting at the time. A deputy commander of Quantrill's Raiders made a "business" out of raiding the NMRR during the war, (name was "Bloody Bill" An
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00128.html (10,893 bytes)
- 42. Re: [BRHSlist] Mid-1930's St. Louis to Burlington passenger trains (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:59:06 -0600
- Yes. That was the slot on the schedule which became the Zephyr Rockets in '41 It was a joint operation similar to the Z-R except that power was not runthrough. I *used* to have a late '30s CRI&P time
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00166.html (11,373 bytes)
- 43. Re: [BRHSlist] Light Mikes (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 06:46:01 -0600
- Not counting the USRA heavies (class O-4), the Q's light mikes were class O-1 and the improved O-1A; the heavies were the O-2 and O-3 classes. They were most easily distinguished by a straight boiler
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00171.html (9,168 bytes)
- 44. Re: [BRHSlist] Mikes (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:38:42 -0600
- Hmmmmmm - First you mention "aesthetics", and then you invite "Thoughts" . . . . How could I resist!?!!! Agreed - the O-5s were quite handsome locomotives - and so were the S- 4s . . . and the M-4s h
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00176.html (12,201 bytes)
- 45. Re: [BRHSlist] North Mo RR and H&StJ Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:00:25 -0600
- . . . except for the sinking caused by snags, the fires following boiler explosions and the #*@%*@! perpetrated by riverboat gamblers . . . . Marshall Thayer Pesky & Pedantic Historian -- Yahoo! Grou
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00180.html (10,147 bytes)
- 46. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: CB&Q Proposed Steam - "D-8" (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:28:06 -0600
- "Fascinating", as Mr. Spock would say . . . wasn't the diamond stack a preextended-smokebox adaptation for lignite burning? And the reference to inside delivery steampipes also brings up some thought
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00198.html (10,637 bytes)
- 47. Re: [BRHSlist] Cannonball Car Shops Express Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:45:18 -0600
- Tom - I can't help you on construction hints, since I havcen't seen one of the kits - As far as the prototypes were concerned, the Q bought 300 of the 400 troop kitchen cars through a 1947 auction of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00202.html (10,778 bytes)
- 48. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Way Freight (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:09:36 -0600
- Paul - Having lost all my personal property last spring, I can no longer rummage through my (former) 50-year stack of MR and quote issue & page number, but there was a fairly extensive article back i
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00218.html (10,085 bytes)
- 49. Re: [BRHSlist] What paint to use for graphite. (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:48:14 -0600
- I've always custom-mixed it . . . using weathered black, reefer gray and silver or aluminum. The thing is that graphite is/was so variable. By doing a custom mix, I was always able to come pretty clo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00227.html (9,357 bytes)
- 50. Re: [BRHSlist] NE-13 Extended Vision Waycar #13593 in Princeton, IL (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:49:09 -0600
- Bill - You have a real problem there, because the NE-12 and NE-13 stripes, heralds and end panels were not painted on - they were ScotchLite (tm) appliques. The base color was standard duPont metalli
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00231.html (10,945 bytes)
- 51. Re: [BRHSlist] Walthers new dome (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:14:02 -0600
- <deeeep sigh> . . . it's bogus. All Q Budd cars after the '36 Denver Zephyrs featured fine-fluted letterboards panels with a flat plate over the area for the road name train name. And, by the time th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00240.html (9,888 bytes)
- 52. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Walthers new dome (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:48:49 -0600
- Becoming marginally serious, MicroScale has decals for all the dome names - there's a set for the California Zephyr, and I filled in the remaining gaps with my "Postwar Zephyr Pool" set - Alas, no -
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00247.html (10,818 bytes)
- 53. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: NE12 Waycar Question (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 22:16:48 -0600
- Randy and others - I am not operating from any secret store of research data, but from an acqaintance with shop people through the years . . . the dates may be meaningful on those photos - In some sh
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00248.html (10,460 bytes)
- 54. Re: [BRHSlist] Graphite (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:37:25 -0600
- This is an eyewitness of working Q steam speaking: Unless the locomotive in question was very dirty and sooty (which was rare on the Q - especially for first-line power like the S-4s - , the "Sta-Bri
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00250.html (10,424 bytes)
- 55. Re: [BRHSlist] Best way to remove lettering (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:24:45 -0600
- There are several ways of removing factory lettering, but it varies with the specific lettering ink/paint used by various manufacurers - I haven't tried an Stewart cars, so I don't know for sure - he
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00282.html (12,047 bytes)
- 56. [BRHSlist] Re: Approved (score: 1)
- Author: <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:46:34 -0600
- See the attached file for details [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00305.html (8,240 bytes)
- 57. Re: [BRHSlist] Steam cab roof color (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:50:25 -0600
- s discussed earlier, the "red" cab-roof was not a "color scheme", but a maintenance measure, intended to shield against the corrosive action of soot and cinders - it was a red lead relative, similar
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00309.html (8,932 bytes)
- 58. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: 4-Window Waycar Interior Color (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:39:50 -0600
- Once again, a memory excercise in lieu of my vanished reference files - however, I recall references to waycar interior walls, bulkheads and ceilings variously described as "tan", "light brown" and (
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00325.html (10,706 bytes)
- 59. Re: [BRHSlist] Another Waycar question? (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:02:17 -0600
- Malcom - You're up against a *couple* of problems: Your first demon is light -as-interpreted-by-photo-emulsion-as-tranlated-bythe-four-colo(u)r [gratuious "U"] furnish for the convenience of British
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00331.html (10,178 bytes)
- 60. Re: [BRHSlist] Newport/Hastings (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:17:35 -0600
- *ALL* track diagrams are out there *somewhere*. Even if the BNSF has *lost* it, the Henry County auditor's office still has the alignment records of the (abandoned 1934) track alignment of the St. L
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00334.html (9,498 bytes)
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