- 61. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: 4-Window Waycar Interior Color (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:33:41 -0600
- Oooops! I shoulda thought of that! The wooden-waycar-era was when almost all railroaders were smokers. The tar from cigarette smoke in an enclosed space will yellow *any* color. I'm a smoker, and the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00335.html (11,899 bytes)
- 62. Re: [BRHSlist] up license (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:02:03 -0600
- IIRC, there was some sort of deal between TycoToy and CSX on their catcolored Pacific (although it sure didn't look like a RDG T-1 to me!) - but we have our own villain - after Cicago Shyster Lorenzi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-08/msg00337.html (9,573 bytes)
- 63. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q shovelnoses (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:14:39 -0600
- <snip> Like you, I couldn't justify the cost of Roger - Fabricating one's own Zephyr nose (more accurately than in the old MR article) seems a lot simpler than you might think. As nearly as I was abl
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00164.html (9,939 bytes)
- 64. Re: [BRHSlist] Original paint schemes for early Q yard switchers (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:39:16 -0600
- Rob Solid gloss black overall with duluxe "BURLINGTON" on the hood sides and duluxe numerals in four positions: Standard "small steam" herald under the cab windows. The EMD advertisement in Kalmbach'
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00213.html (10,140 bytes)
- 65. Re: [BRHSlist] Original paint schemes for early Q (diesel) yard switchers (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:09:10 -0600
- Now we get to the hard part, Rob - My Microscale "small steam" set will give you the heralds and numbers . . . but the hood-side BURLINGTON will probably have to be hand-set from a Roman alphabet bec
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00216.html (10,998 bytes)
- 66. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q 2-Bay Ribbed Hoppers (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:11:30 -0600
- John - It sounds like you're looking for the HT-5s - a slightly off-beat Galesburg design characterized by having two-sheet sides - there's a horizontal riveted seam halfway up th side & running the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00229.html (10,642 bytes)
- 67. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q 2-Bay Ribbed Hoppers (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:09:15 -0600
- The Kalmbach index says Nov. 1979. I lost all my railroad mags, books & files before moving back to Iowa, so I can't confirm . . . -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Free shipping on all inkjet cartridg
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00233.html (9,937 bytes)
- 68. Re: [BRHSlist] "Burlington" emblem on steam loco tenders (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:19:40 -0600
- Tom - Walthers Decals were seldom very close to accurate. If you need HO or N scale, you'll want the sets I designed for Microscale a couple of years ago. There are two sets. One is for the "Superpo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00243.html (11,068 bytes)
- 69. Re: [BRHSlist] Reagan and the ICC (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:34:09 -0600
- (in part) (end quote) For those of you with access to a collection of Trains Magazine, John won't have to tell the story - it was written up in the mag. A tongue-in-cheek filing by a railroad for a s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00244.html (10,471 bytes)
- 70. Re: [BRHSlist] Quiz Show (wasReagan and the ICC) (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:11:45 -0600
- PSHedgpeth wrote (in part) As long as I'm playing smarta** today, yeah . . . the suffix -"arin" is essentially identical to "-ist", and "nihil" is Greek for "nothing (cognate to Latin "nil" - A "nihi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00249.html (10,396 bytes)
- 71. Re: [BRHSlist] NKP Car Kits (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:24:04 -0600
- Oooooh!!! You're talking about my FAVORITE mixed-train car on the Q - I lived two blocks down from the Q entrance to Washington in 1948-52, and there was always one of the CF-7s on the tail end. I wa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00250.html (9,748 bytes)
- 72. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q books - Saved flatcar (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:18:10 -0600
- '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Well - I dunno. There are enough people out there who pay $2000 + for a brass model of the Mark Twain Zephyr (that has "Hucklberry Finn" misspelled to jus
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00253.html (9,561 bytes)
- 73. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: "Burlington" emblem on steam loco tenders (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:30:57 -0600
- Well, drat! I'm afraid that MicroScale is unlikely to ever issue the set(s) in O . . . OTOH, since they have all the artwork on computer file, & I did it in a vector program rather than bitmap graphi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00266.html (13,743 bytes)
- 74. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: "Burlington" emblem on steam loco tenders (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:53:24 -0600
- Tom - responses are interspersed to your text - GOOD! The Champ numerals were revised to true CB&Q style some time around the mid-70s, so you should have the good ones. Unfortunately, the same revisi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00269.html (11,958 bytes)
- 75. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Stingy or not Stingy? (score: 1)
- Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:45:21 -0600
- And Marshall reples, <You make some good points, but I'd like to expand a bit on some . . . I'll insert my comments at the appropriate spots, framed <thusly> <True, but I also think it would be good
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-07/msg00272.html (13,899 bytes)
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