- 141. [CBQ] Re: Mixed trains on the Q (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:09:06 -0600
- Charlie (and list) - Thanks for the correction/clarification. You're right, of course, both with respect to the shorty combines and shorty baggage-RPOs (i.e., the ones NKP brought out a few years ago
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00256.html (24,012 bytes)
- 142. [CBQ] Re: Mixed trains on the Q (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:10:10 -0600
- Yes, that's exactly the right distinction. I always admired the fact that this railroad which was a pioneer in both experimenting with and adopting internal combustion and diesel power was also the l
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00258.html (26,847 bytes)
- 143. [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:17:29 -0600
- Those have to be some of the most horrifying pictures of a modern train wreck I've seen. They're much worse than the ones in Grenard's "Colorado and Southern, a Personal Memory of the Standard Gauge"
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00012.html (14,219 bytes)
- 144. [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:39:32 -0600
- Russ - I meant no disrespect to any person involved. I was simply paraphrasing the account given by Speas, who was senior engineer on the C&S, familiar with the incident, and a friend of all three me
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00017.html (17,460 bytes)
- 145. [SPAM]Re: [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:08:22 -0600
- Russ - Thank you very much for the link. I will bookmark it for future reference. Having now read the ICC report, I'm still confused as to where you find fault in the action or inaction of the other
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00023.html (21,026 bytes)
- 146. [CBQ] new photos of Oregon, 6-62 (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:47:20 -0600
- I just posted a few more photos in the Oregon folder in our Photos section. These are from the same fan trip - a way freight with 5632 on June 23(?), 1962. I know Tom Mack and Dave Sarther, at least,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00048.html (14,175 bytes)
- 147. Re:: [CBQ] Re: 1958 Wreck and the intimidation factor (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:41:45 -0600
- Thank you very much for sharing these stories, Pete. Your postings always are among the most interesting and informative on what is already a very high quality discussion forum. And you write well. I
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00054.html (21,147 bytes)
- 148. [CBQ] Re: new photos of Oregon, 6-62 (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:01:01 -0600
- Tom Mack advises me that the four motors trailing 166C in my 3rd photo are NOT greybacks, but rather some of the GN F-units the Q was leasing that year. They didn't look quite right to me, but I attr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00058.html (16,295 bytes)
- 149. [CBQ] Re: Passenger Car Models (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:50:32 -0600
- Thank you so much for posting these, Bill. They are inspiring. The descriptions of what you started with is very helpful, too. In several cases you used "Westwood" windows and doors. I do not know of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00131.html (10,832 bytes)
- 150. [CBQ] Re: New Oregon Photos (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:05:32 -0600
- These are such great photos. Thanks to Bob for making them available and to you for posting them at such high resolution. The fact that they are not fully overhead (vertical) shots but taken at an 'o
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00159.html (14,592 bytes)
- 151. [CBQ] Re: C&S/FW&D Books (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:26:01 -0600
- I've been told Four Ways West gave up on a "C&S Northern Division" project because there just weren't enough color photos of that part of the system. All we have for comprehensive coverage of that di
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00160.html (11,699 bytes)
- 152. [CBQ] Re: Castle Graphics railroad photos has moved... (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:43:05 -0600
- Jan - Just took a very quick look at your new gallery. It's beautiful. Very clean, crisp images, well organized albums, etc. Thank you! I've bookmarked it. FYI, your last Pacific in the CB&Q section
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00183.html (11,785 bytes)
- 153. [CBQ] Re: The Burlington lives on (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:12:15 -0600
- And in the flesh, ... er, skin, ... um, ... sheet metal. (?) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/photos/album/1235498746/pic/500961958/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=21&count=20&dir=asc at a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-02/msg00215.html (11,453 bytes)
- 154. [CBQ] Re: steam loco warabouts (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:47:30 -0600
- I don't recall any Burlington steam at the Museum of Science and Industry - just the Zephyr. I do remember the big Santa Fe northern. Since the museum was in our neighborhood,(*) a few of us walked d
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00018.html (10,553 bytes)
- 155. [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Depots (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:57:37 -0600
- The idea of white body with dark green trim seems plausible. The title page of Carryl Hadcock's BURLINGTON ROUTE DEPOT LIFE has a photo showing the Q's facilities at East Bridger, Montana in 1941. Th
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00030.html (13,735 bytes)
- 156. [CBQ] Re: Broadway limited paint job on 2-8-2 Mikado Steam locomotive (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:14:27 -0600
- All the photos I've seen in the color pictorials by Al Holck, Mike Spoor, Steve Goen (FW&D) and Ed Fulcomer (C&S) show black cab window frames. Same with my own (rather limited) photos. The one excep
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00101.html (11,031 bytes)
- 157. [CBQ] Stamped steel shingle roofs (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:39:30 -0600
- I recently bought one of the Frenchman River HO scale kits for the Trenton, NE depot. A bit pricey, but I guess that's what new kits cost nowadays. It's nicely detailed, easy to build, and - needless
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00113.html (11,901 bytes)
- 158. [CBQ] Re: Stamped steel shingle roofs (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:23:29 -0600
- Thank you, Sam. Very helpful! I've read that stamped steel shingles go back at least to the 1870s, so it is entirely possible they were the first roof for Milan (though not necessarily, of course). A
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00118.html (10,857 bytes)
- 159. [CBQ] Re: Passenger Car Books (score: 1)
- Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:34:59 -0600
- I have all three of Bill's books. They are superb. The diagram book has been especially useful in helping me identifying commercial models that are good candidates for kitbashing projects. I wish Bil
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-01/msg00189.html (11,555 bytes)
- 160. [CBQ] Re: Heavyweight Q Decals (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
- Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:21:56 -0600
- Mike - I'm sure that's exactly what's intended ("Burlington," "Burlington"); Rich's wish-list just includes what else he'd like on a passenger car decal sheet. And he pretty much covers it. Very well
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2010-12/msg00057.html (13,569 bytes)
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