- 321. Re: [CBQ] Re: Waycar mystery - CW class (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:44:11 -0700 (PDT)
- 1a Re: Waycar mystery - CW class "Charlie Vlk" n_cbqguy Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:21 am (PDT) . Posted by: Charlie, When I called on West Burlington Shop post merger to the early 1990s, they had a full tim
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00063.html (19,208 bytes)
- 322. Re: [CBQ] Roustabout (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:13:58 -0700 (PDT)
- Any body familiar w/the term Roustabout as used by the Q ? There were at least two road jobs officially referred to as Roustabouts on the Aurora Div from 1890 to the 1950s There was also one switch
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00091.html (13,969 bytes)
- 323. Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Roustabout (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:50:28 -0700 (PDT)
- John, Thanks for the response confirming my understanding of Roustabout service. Now here's the specific example I have stumbled upon dated 1896. I ask you and others to pull out your Q maps of the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00095.html (19,939 bytes)
- 324. Re: [CBQ] Roustabout (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:50:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo et al...Seems like it's a "well duh" matter...How could they not qualify for local pay with all that switching...I'm trying to remember, but can't as to what during "my day" qualified a freight
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00097.html (22,345 bytes)
- 325. Re: [CBQ] Roustabout (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:48:43 -0700 (PDT)
- Speaking of "station order" and related matters here's a little situation we had on the Rock Island. I'll state the problem and then ask you switchmen and "timeslip artists" to come up wi;th the sol
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00102.html (25,700 bytes)
- 326. Re: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Iowa bridge dedication (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:38:00 -0700 (PDT)
- I would be surprised to find ANY engineering / materials protection support for the notion (correct or not as a BN or BNSF decision ) that not painting ordingary steel as protective measure against
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00112.html (15,465 bytes)
- 327. Re: [CBQ] Roustabout (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
- The term roustabout is a general term for an unskilled laborer. The term is associated with Circus laborers; it also has nautical (esp. Mississippi River) origins referring to unskilled deckhands do
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00121.html (15,777 bytes)
- 328. Re: [CBQ] Silver Treasure (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:22:10 -0700 (PDT)
- Wasn't Silver Treasure the baggage car with a steam generator used on the Silver Streak Zephyr due to lack of a steam generator on the Shovel Nose unit used originally on that train??? A BB several
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00175.html (16,692 bytes)
- 329. Re: [CBQ] Silver Treasure (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:28:04 -0700 (PDT)
- Wasn't Silver Treasure the baggage car with a steam generator used on the Silver Streak Zephyr due to lack of a steam generator on the Shovel Nose unit used originally on that train??? A BB several
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-10/msg00176.html (16,596 bytes)
- 330. Re: [CBQ] Re: F3 Steam Generator Removal (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:17:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Thanks, Hol. I would have to concur with your assessment, barring photo evidence to the contrary. I was thumbing through Mike Spoor's four volume set and discovered that he states in the middle capt
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-09/msg00048.html (15,743 bytes)
- 331. Re: [CBQ] Q lanterns. (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 06:05:36 -0700 (PDT)
- Hi all. I want to model a guy backing up a string of cars. I will have to use a teeny tiny LED to do it.Its 1962. What should I uses? Red? Yellow? Green? or use a fusee and call it a day? __._,_.___
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-09/msg00057.html (12,363 bytes)
- 332. Re: [CBQ] Jim singers presentation (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:06:00 -0700 (PDT)
- On the CGW list they are talking about extra cars on passenger trains. Yes they are talking about moving live sheep so that answers the question from St. Paul about the lambs. Also talks about movin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-09/msg00123.html (13,285 bytes)
- 333. Re: [CBQ] Jim singers presentation (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:53:12 -0700 (PDT)
- On the CGW list they are talking about extra cars on passenger trains. Yes they are talking about moving live sheep so that answers the question from St. Paul about the lambs. Also talks about movin
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-09/msg00126.html (16,383 bytes)
- 334. Re: [CBQ] ex-Q SD9 in 2012 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:56:49 -0700 (PDT)
- Are those steel ties beneath BNSF 1551? The Iowa Northern has been installing some in their new yard near Manly IA Dick Schultz Photographed at South Seattle 8-25-12 was BNSF 1551 which goes all the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-09/msg00168.html (13,753 bytes)
- 335. Re: [CBQ] Re: Chicago transfers (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT)
- 3 Chicago transfers "qutlx1@aol.com" leophillipp Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:40 pm (PDT) . Posted by: Leo, I don't know how it was then in Chicago, but even today, crews regularly operate on the trackage of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00004.html (21,313 bytes)
- 336. Re: [CBQ] Fwd: [BRHSlist] Yard Track Numbering System Question (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 19:14:12 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo...I'm glad you made mention of the fact that the original track name never changed, no matter how long the original purpose for the track had been gone....and probably forgotten by all but the o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00032.html (23,133 bytes)
- 337. Re: [CBQ] Wyoming photos (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:08:53 -0700 (PDT)
- Pete, If you studied the interior shots of the waycar where the men are playing cribbege, I bet you noticed the case of emergency tools on the wall of the waycar. Behind the glass front hiding the t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00116.html (14,538 bytes)
- 338. Re: [CBQ] Wyoming photos (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 19:20:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Archie..I guess I'll have to have another look..I missed that item...It made me think about how ingenious and...generally helpful to each other those old guys were...It really was pretty much a fami
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00123.html (18,240 bytes)
- 339. Re: [CBQ] Zephyr #64 page 9 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 21:19:59 -0700 (PDT)
- Leo- Havent received my Zephyrs yet, but heres a spreadsheet of Milk Receipts I found at the Newberry for August, September and October of 1880 (the only one there, I believe). The Milk District for
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00142.html (67,878 bytes)
- 340. Re: [CBQ] Waycar Markers (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:33:58 -0700 (PDT)
- Im putting marker lights on a couple of waycars, and I dont know whether the Q used amber or green lenses to the side. What was the Q convention for Rule 19? Nelson Moyer __._,_.___ Change settings
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-08/msg00170.html (12,344 bytes)
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