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221. [CBQ] Lettering "Old Passenger Cars" (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:56:19 -0700
Here's an interesting letter from the time when Burlington company service equipment was still painted mineral red instead of Omaha orange. It's dated Chicago, May 15, 1934, and was sent by Edward Fl
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00142.html (12,215 bytes)

222. [CBQ] Brightening Up Heralds (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:04:22 -0700
Here's another letter from the 1930s, written by C&S motive power superintendent John Pfeiffer to Denver master mechanic F.T. Gregg on Nov. 20, 1936, as the country was beginning to climb out of the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00143.html (11,564 bytes)

223. RE: [CBQ] M3 class steam question (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:07:37 -0700
None of them were ever converted to oil; they were all in use on the Colorado & Southern from 1927 until their retirement in the early 1950s. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: cbqrr47@yahoo.com Date:
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00163.html (13,145 bytes)

224. RE: [CBQ] Re: Pool Diesels on the Q (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:33:08 -0700
There was no power pooling or run-through operation by the Q with the Espee prior to the BN merger of 1970. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: bdurham260@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:36:39 +000
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00171.html (13,836 bytes)

225. RE: [CBQ] Denver Union Depot (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:26:36 -0700
Bob: You're right, they were D&RG. They stayed in place as far northeast as 16th St. for well into the 1940s, but were cut back between 16th and 18th streets fairly early in the 20th century. The C&S
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00202.html (12,011 bytes)

226. RE: [CBQ] XM-26 double door (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:19:16 -0700
As Ken martin has noted, this car is actually an XA-14 auto box. "Parallel doors" simply means the door openings on each side of the car were directly opposite each other, as opposed to the common "s
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00208.html (12,581 bytes)

227. RE: [CBQ] Custer SD depot and High Line reference books [1 Attachment] (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:26:52 -0700
[Attachment(s) from HOL WAGNER included below] Here's a view of the Custer depot as it appeared on August 3, 1964, seen from the Deadwood mixed train. Hol To: cbq@yahoogroups.com From: jterry618@hotm
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00294.html (16,414 bytes)

228. RE: [CBQ] C&S Pay Car (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 09:29:22 -0700
Roger: This old Ambroid One of 5000 model replicates, as I recall, a Union Pacific pay car of the 1860s. The fact that this model is lettered for the C&S is pure modeler's license. The C&S never had
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00003.html (12,784 bytes)

229. RE: [CBQ] Steam photo query (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:58:26 -0700
Ruper: Dave's precisely right. I'm badding on that print to add to the assortment of these blowdown stacks I have in my collection and have long been planning a short article on them for the Bulletin
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00305.html (15,604 bytes)

230. [CBQ] Steam Blowoff Funnel [2 Attachments] (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:33:32 -0700
[Attachment(s) from HOL WAGNER included below] Attached is the 1948 Model Railroader piece on the steam blowoff funnel at the C&S Seventh Street roundhouse in Denver. This one was built around 1920 a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00308.html (13,992 bytes)

231. [CBQ] Old Correspondence (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:37:38 -0700
It's been awhile since I've posted anything from the volumes of old Q and C&S records I'm gradually sorting and filing at the Colorado Railroad Museum library, so I thought I'd try to transcribe a fe
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00312.html (13,383 bytes)

232. [CBQ] Motor Car Collision (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:29:46 -0700
The recent discussion of the collision of a gas-electric passenger motor car with a steam locomotive near Montgomery, Ill., in 1943 has emphasized how the gas-electric always lost a confrontationof t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00313.html (15,235 bytes)

233. [CBQ] Small Steam Power in Nebraska (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:47:24 -0700
This one should be of particular interest to Pete. It's a June 29, 1951, letter from C.E. Melker (SMP, Lines West) to Lincoln master mechanic C.E. Bloom and was sent under the heading, "Use of Small
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00314.html (11,661 bytes)

234. [CBQ] More for Pete (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:04:48 -0700
Here's a bulletin issued at 6 p.m., Dec. 6, 1952, by the superintendent of the Wymore Division: "Effective Monday Dec. 8 present train service on Dewitt-Holdrege line and Fairmont branches [will] be
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00315.html (12,200 bytes)

235. [CBQ] T-2 Pusher on Crawford Hill (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:16:57 -0700
Here's a fascinating one, unsigned, but dated Oct. 23, 1952. It was sent as the 200 series GP7s were entering freight and passenger serivce across the system and as the last of the T-2 Mallets were b
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00316.html (11,817 bytes)

236. RE: [CBQ] Motor Car Collision (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:50:32 -0700
Noel: I don't have anything specific on that collision, but I have lots of records to go through still at the museum library and I'll be on the lookout for anything passenger motor car related. Hol T
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00321.html (17,175 bytes)

237. [CBQ] Shovelnoses on the C&S-FW&D (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:30:40 -0700
Here's a letter sent by C.E. Melker, Lines West superintendent of motive power, to Denver master mechanic B.F. Meligan on June 27, 1952 under the head, "Lease of Diesels to C&S." "Under date of June
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00322.html (13,359 bytes)

238. [CBQ] Drover Cars as Rider Cars (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:40:53 -0700
In October 1947 the Q purchased a substantial number of surplus Pullman tourist sleeping cars for potential use in railroad company service. Most of these cars became company service bunk cars or out
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00323.html (14,237 bytes)

239. [CBQ] Passenger Service to Cody (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:11:04 -0700
Since the discontinuance (during WWII) of the summer season Buffalo Bill (trains 25-26) between Denver and Cody, Wyo., providing service to Yellowstone National Park by way of the Cody Road and the p
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00324.html (12,444 bytes)

240. [CBQ] "Emergency" Box Waycars (score: 1)
Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:44:31 -0700
Here's a series of letters relating to some of the remaining wartime emergency waycars converted from boxcars. Other than the bay window on each side, they were almost identical in appearance to comp
/archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00326.html (15,209 bytes)

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