Search String: Display: Description: Sort:

Results:

References: [ +from:cvlk@comcast.net: 1738 ]

Total 1738 documents matching your query.

201. Re: [CBQ] Life-Like to fix problems with GP9 paint (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:36:43 -0600
Oh!! That is an interesting version of the Blackbird paint job! A collector's item to go along with the Athearn Chinese Red Burlington F7s and matching passenger cars! Ooops! Charlie Vlk -- Yahoo! Gr
/archives/BRHSLIST/2005-01/msg00317.html (10,476 bytes)

202. Re: [CBQ] Re: BLI CZ Cars (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:08:19 -0600
I'm sure that if there is interest we could do another production run to pick up the car names that were not done on the first production. It wouldn't be years away either if there was interest. Char
/archives/BRHSLIST/2005-01/msg00320.html (11,485 bytes)

203. Re: [CBQ] Life-Like to fix problems with GP9 paint (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:07:44 -0600
BillI'm glad to hear that you like the way my artwork turned out on the SW7....because the Illinois Railway Museum is using my artwork in part to paint the former DRI line unit into Q colors!!! I hop
/archives/BRHSLIST/2005-01/msg00326.html (10,777 bytes)

204. Re: [CBQ] Life-Like to fix problems with GP9 paint (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:04:30 -0600
Goes great behind the Chinese Red DD40!!!! Charlie Vlk stripe. -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2005-01/msg00327.html (10,654 bytes)

205. Re: [CBQ] Check This Out! (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:54:35 -0600
I don't know how the selling portion of Ebay works, but in the bidding portion I almost put in a bid for $1500 when I wanted to put in $15.00....it could happen and maybe the guy made a mistake... Ch
/archives/BRHSLIST/2005-01/msg00342.html (9,829 bytes)

206. Re: [CBQ] Check This Out! (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:51:44 -0600
If the guy thinks he is going to get $4000.00 for a Trains Inc./Signal House/LMB 1906 Drovers Waycar he may be right. The only thing funnier than the starting bid will be a higher winning bid. I've s
/archives/BRHSLIST/2005-01/msg00345.html (10,226 bytes)

207. Re: [CBQ] Re:CB&Q Commuter Questions (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:16:58 -0600
BillExcellent recap. AFAIK the Bilevels and Power Cars were Air Conditioned with Waukesha Ice Engines.... there were propane lockers under the cars. The Power Cars provided electricity for lighting a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-12/msg00024.html (10,039 bytes)

208. Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Commuter Questions (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:42:03 -0600
Dave I don't pretend to understand the electrical systems used on the Q equipment but I've heard the term "field tap" applied to the practice of using the Motor to supply power for two or three galle
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-12/msg00028.html (12,684 bytes)

209. [CBQ] Sad News (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:48:03 -0600
Joann Douda, wife of Joe Douda, BRHS member and noted CB&Q Historian, passed away yesterday after a long illness. Visitation will be tonight at Toon Funeral Home in Westmont, IL with a funeral mass t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-12/msg00145.html (9,582 bytes)

210. Re: [CBQ] CZ foreign sleepers (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:58:12 -0600
Just a clarification..... BLI first released the Silver Rapids in CZ paint (with silver roof). They then released the SIlver Rapids in PRR paint (with black roof) using the old stock number, which ca
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00083.html (12,294 bytes)

211. Re: [CBQ] CZ foreign sleepers (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:13:33 -0600
BobI was not trying to specify paint for production, just making a casual reference. You are correct about the roofing cement aging to the Brown.... we'll leave that to the modelers as it is hard to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00108.html (13,938 bytes)

212. [CBQ] Dinkys and Bilevels (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:04:12 -0600
George Spier tells a story about a ride he had on an inbound Dinky behind a S4.... He recalls the hogger was going so fast around the s-curve at Western Avenue that sitting in the top deck of a bilev
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00134.html (11,011 bytes)

213. Re: [CBQ] Re: Chicago Union Station (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:36:08 -0600
BillGreat summary.... A couple of comments... I had heard that the Open Platform Steel commuter cars were built the way they were because the Q had started a program of putting steel underframes and
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00157.html (12,734 bytes)

214. [CBQ] Q "Suburbanaire" Service (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:05:49 -0600
A couple of further thoughts... One, the Q Commuter Service was styled "Suburbanaire" Service.... it was so lettered on a few of the test paint scheme cars, and did appear on some advertising and sub
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00186.html (11,281 bytes)

215. Re: [CBQ] Re: texas zephyr (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:38:02 -0600
BillThe MTZ probably hasn't deterioated as much as you think. Not too much you can do to stainless steel. I imagine that with enough money one could get it back in original condition... similar to th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00200.html (14,414 bytes)

216. Re: [CBQ] H Wts (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:44:15 -0600
Besides the T2 locos pictured on Jan's excellent site, the Q also had T1 2-6-6-2 locos of Great Northern design which were much smaller. Most of them were rebuilt to F2 0-8-0s using new frames built
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00201.html (10,289 bytes)

217. Re: [CBQ] Q "Suburbanaire" Service (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:49:20 -0600
BillYou foget how chea... er, thrifty.... the Q was. Keep in mind that by the late 40's many of the Gas Electrics were either retired or in the process of having their engine compartments sheared off
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00209.html (10,517 bytes)

218. Re: [CBQ] Re: Q "Suburbanaire" Service (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:24:31 -0600
BillI don't recall where the commuter fleet upgrades were done either if I ever knew.... It wouldn't make that much difference as the Eola Reclamation Plant (not scrap yard!!!) would have saved, tagg
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00218.html (11,073 bytes)

219. Re: [CBQ] New Burlington historical magazine direction (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:17:35 -0600
The Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio societies both have excellent on-line magazines that compliment their normal publications and allow more modeling content than is practical in a print medium. I
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-11/msg00233.html (11,151 bytes)

220. Re: [CBQ] Bill's Galesburg Journal - update (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:56:32 -0600
DarrenThanks for the update.... a number of us have been wondering about Bill and his excellent website. Please keep us informed.... I am interested in the N Scale open house as well as the website.
/archives/BRHSLIST/2006-10/msg00140.html (11,814 bytes)

Current List: 201 - 220
Page: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
This search system is powered by Namazu