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361. Re: [CBQ] Re: FW: Wheel (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:05:56 -0700 (PDT); I'm thinking planter. It's not sufficiently well made to operate at any speed, and the wheel would create a groove that would serve as a visual cue as to where to make the next pass. That could be u; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00093.html (14,781 bytes)
362. Re: [CBQ] Re: Wheel (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:01:36 -0700 (PDT); Said it before and Ill repeat; this wheel is too small and too lightly built to be from a tractor. I also doubt it to be an idler for a tracked vehicle as the rib is not as defined as any track idle; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00111.html (17,224 bytes)
363. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q roundhouse at Hannibal (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:12:59 -0700 (PDT); List, I have found a large number of blueprint drawings of various structures here at Hannibal. Subjects include additions of stalls 1,2,3, and 4 in 1925. Remodeling of the General office building i; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00156.html (13,227 bytes)
364. Re: [CBQ] This is news??? (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:08:00 -0700 (PDT); I caught the Facebook news feed of the local station, WSIL,from back home in southern Illinois and saw this ... "Witnesses say train cars come apart on tracks in Zeigler" There was also a picture of; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00177.html (14,627 bytes)
365. Re: [CBQ] This is news??? (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:23:56 -0700 (PDT); IF you do not do the maintenance you will have problems. This use to be done with carman jobs who did the inspections and maintenance and could fix minor problems before they got out of hand. Course; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00178.html (17,689 bytes)
366. Re: [CBQ] That's news-in route mechanical troubles (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:14:41 -0700 (PDT); I agree things like broken knuckles are a lot less common than in the past. If they called a news crew out every time my old "buddy" Harold Carney broke a knuckle, it would have been a full time bure; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00195.html (14,698 bytes)
367. Re: [CBQ] This is news??? (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:21:52 -0700 (PDT); Having worked both sides of an event like this, heres what probably happened for it to wind up on the news: knuckle breaks, train blocks crossing, people call the police to complain, call goes out o; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00198.html (18,034 bytes)
368. Re: [CBQ] That's news-in route mechanical troubles (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:59:12 -0700 (PDT); I agree things like broken knuckles are a lot less common than in the past. If they called a news crew out every time my old "buddy" Harold Carney broke a knuckle, it would have been a full time bur; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00200.html (17,805 bytes)
369. Re: [CBQ] This is news??? (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:54:00 -0700 (PDT); Steve...You might want to explain "for those who need to know"...what is meant by the "wrong end"...Seems obvious to us "old timers" but some may need this info. I could do it, but since this is you; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00203.html (21,238 bytes)
370. Re: [CBQ] This is news??? wrong end vs right end (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:38:24 -0700 (PDT); Well..."I guess I'll have to do it myself".. Wrong end simply means...the drawbar and related "hardware" is pulled out of the car which is still attached to the rest of the train behind it...necessi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00205.html (21,781 bytes)
371. Re: [CBQ] That's news-in route mechanical troubles (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:46:35 -0700 (PDT); I agree things like broken knuckles are a lot less common than in the past. If they called a news crew out every time my old "buddy" Harold Carney broke a knuckle, it would have been a full time bur; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00207.html (21,289 bytes)
372. Re: [CBQ] Re: That's news-in route mechanical troubles (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:01:03 -0700 (PDT); Is there some reason we are trashing Harold Carney? __._,_.___ Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00215.html (13,172 bytes)
373. Re: [CBQ] Eola Yard-West yard photo (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:48:35 -0700 (PDT); I am enjoying Vol 3 of John Strauss' work on Q passenger service. But something caught my eye. Look at the photo on bottom of page 13. There are at least 16 cars of So ILL finest coal sitting on tra; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00258.html (14,277 bytes)
374. Re: [CBQ] Re: Wheel (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:22:56 -0700 (PDT); Threshers driven by belts were still used when I was young. I never saw a ridged wheel or any kind of tensioner used. The tractor was simply backed up until the tension was right. I have seen the be; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00313.html (20,964 bytes)
375. Re: [CBQ] Re: Wheel (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:15:10 -0700 (PDT); dieselpop wrote" "My grandfather had a belt driven hammermill. He made his own feed. Our Ford 8N had ridges down the middle of the front tire until my father learned that other Ford wheels would fit; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-07/msg00317.html (13,867 bytes)
376. Re: [CBQ] Re: Waycar book (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:15:50 -0700 (PDT); I got mine today, so I can die a happy man! __._,_.___ Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit You; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00092.html (12,701 bytes)
377. Re: [CBQ] Speaking of Waycars (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:48:00 -0700 (PDT); Speaking of Waycars, last night I noticed something interesting on 13500. On the back of the air brake pipe bracket there is a peanut whistle piped to the exhaust port. So whenever the brakes releas; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00108.html (12,344 bytes)
378. Re: [CBQ] re: Waycar Book (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:54:46 -0700 (PDT); Re: Waycar book Posted by: "qmp211" mailto:milepost206@mchsi.com?Subject=+Re%3A%20Waycar%20book qmp211 Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:57 am (PDT) No, James J. Hill was never a Q employee, he was the direct comp; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00117.html (14,165 bytes)
379. Re: [CBQ] Re: Speaking of Waycars (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:06:33 -0700 (PDT); The primary use of those monkey tail whistles, at least on the branch I grew up on, was to sound a warning whistle at crossings, etc. during back up moves. Jack Ferris __._,_.___ Change settings via; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00124.html (12,201 bytes)
380. [CBQ] Waycar Brake Whistles (score: 1): Author: "John" <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:55:01 -0600; The whistles on the brake exhausts on waycars were not standard equipment. Individual conductors had carmen to apply them to their waycars. In fact, the Mechanical Dept. did NOT sanction them, claimi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-06/msg00125.html (11,264 bytes)

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