- 1. [CBQ] Re: For Sale: CB&Q Book (score: 1)
- Author: "zuch2rew" <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:59:55 -0600
- If noone else has jumped up to raise their hand, I would be interested in the book. I can either send you the $15+4 (guessing the postage) or settle up later. Roy Wojahn THE BURLINGTON by David P. Mo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-12/msg00053.html (10,844 bytes)
- 2. [CBQ] early morning commuter train (score: 1)
- Author: "zuch2rew" <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:21:27 -0600
- I remember seeing an eastbound commuter train in the wee hours of the morning parked on the old house track behind the Downers Grove depot. I saw it more tha once. This would be early 60's or late 50
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00165.html (9,541 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] Re: early morning commuter train (score: 1)
- Author: "zuch2rew" <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:59:22 -0600
- I don't remember seeing any express cars or baggage, but then I wasn't looking for that. They were gallery cars with a power car. I remember off that house track was a siding into a lumber yard just
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00171.html (11,953 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] Why two routes to Streator? (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
- Could I offer a guess why the two routes? In the time I lived along the "Q", I know that a lot of out the Streator branch to Chicago was the silica sand. My guess is it went to users in the Chicago a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-10/msg00096.html (11,836 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Congress Park Station (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
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- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-03/msg00124.html (15,845 bytes)
- 6. [CBQ] CB&Q steam on suburban runs (score: 1)
- Author: "zuch2rew" <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:53:25 -0600
- For those of you not familiar with the publications of the Shore Line Historical Society, you must check out the Winter 2006, and Spring 2007 editions of the First and Fastest, their fine work. The W
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-03/msg00134.html (9,457 bytes)
- 7. [CBQ] Re: Omaha to Chicago Passenger Trains (score: 1)
- Author: "zuch2rew" <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:12:02 -0600
- I agree that the NB Zephyr is the best candidate. But the part about the KC Zephyr doesn't apply. In my last year in Downers Grove area (1961) the two trains ran separately eastbound, at least in sum
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2007-01/msg00302.html (14,296 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] Street Running in Illinois (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:26:45 -0800 (PST)
- I'll bet few remember the street running and team track of the "Q" in Naperville. The team track was about one mile and a half south of the mainline (it may have once served a quarry) and then turned
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2008-01/msg00031.html (11,086 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] Mixed trains on the Q (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:25:43 -0700 (PDT)
- When I rode the mixed from Des Moines to Albia and return in spring 1961, a combine was used. I think the conductor had a desk in that; no caboose Does anyone out there if mixed trains on Q were all
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00150.html (12,177 bytes)
- 10. [CBQ] Zephyr #59 and Downers Grove (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:49:17 -0700 (PDT)
- I really enjoyed the article about the terminal at Downers Grove. I grew up there from 1949 on. I remember at a very early age boarding a commuter train at Downers, and seeing the diesel powered tr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00056.html (9,923 bytes)
- 11. Re: [CBQ] Re:Zephyr #59 and Downers Grove (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo Phillip was kind enough to help answer my own question of "did diesels use the facilities at Downers Grove before the sites demise?" Bulletin #1 has a shot of #9904 (Pegasus) on the turntable in
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-09/msg00062.html (12,732 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CBQ] Burlington park 100 years ago (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
- That is correct. There was a sort of team track just west of downtown where coal was off-loaded from hoppers. Not sure who received the coal. IIRC, the track was in the middle of the street. Som
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00252.html (11,341 bytes)
- 13. Fw: Re: [CBQ] Burlington park 100 years ago (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:02:03 -0700 (PDT)
- That is correct. There was a sort of team track just west of downtown where coal was off-loaded from hoppers. Not sure who received the coal. IIRC, the track was in the middle of the street. S
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00255.html (11,326 bytes)
- 14. Fw: Re: [CBQ] Burlington park and track in Naperville (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:05:14 -0700 (PDT)
- more info That is correct. There was a sort of team track just west of downtown where coal was off-loaded from hoppers. Not sure who received the coal. IIRC, the track was in the middle of the s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00256.html (10,776 bytes)
- 15. [CBQ] Fw: [SouthernPacific] Re: Industrial and Street Running in Downtown Los Angeles (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:06:08 -0700 (PDT)
- I know this has little to do with the CB&Q. My bad! But it is so similar to the "lumber district", that I had to share this. If you are into urban switching, this is for you. Bob Smaus modeled th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-08/msg00309.html (11,745 bytes)
- 16. [CBQ] CBQ near Bridgeport., Chicago (score: 1)
- Author: "zuch2rew" <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:56:11 -0600
- While searching fr the history of the Bridgeport area of Chicago, I found reference to a area northwest of their called the "Lumber Area". Assuming there were lumber yards and mills there, did the CB
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-06/msg00036.html (10,946 bytes)
- 17. Re: [CBQ] CBQ near Bridgeport., Chicago (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
- The site I looked at about the history of the Bridgeport area called the area northwest of Bridgeport as "the lumber area". The "Q" was not identified as serving the area, but the "Pennsy" was. Wer
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-06/msg00073.html (11,894 bytes)
- 18. Re: [CBQ] Rochelle (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 07:18:56 -0700 (PDT)
- I seem to remember a greenhouse in Downers Grove (Belmont Road) that received coal in hoppers into the late 50's. Ed you are of course correct about Rochelle Rose. Has it really been 11 years since
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-09/msg00070.html (12,036 bytes)
- 19. [CBQ] Identification of railroad photos... (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:19:31 -0800 (PST)
- The fourth one down looks like a Boston & Albany engine; where, I don't know. By the way, you have a great web-site. Roy ________________________________ From: Jan Kohl <j.kohl@wildblue.net> To: "StL
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-02/msg00196.html (13,398 bytes)
- 20. Re: [CBQ] Motor car 507 (score: 1)
- Author: roy wojahn <zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:08:51 -0800 (PST)
- Are you sure the V&T operates from Reno? I think they operate from Carson City. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have b
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2011-02/msg00219.html (11,948 bytes)
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