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61. Re: [CBQ] Observation Cars Purchased from SP&S (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:43:53 -0500
Sorry guys..I just can't help myself from a couple of..."loosely connected" items relating to Open Platform Obs cars. My first experience was bout 1942 and traveling from Lincoln, NE to Sheridan WY w
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-02/msg00118.html (15,763 bytes)

62. Re: [CBQ] Vertical Bug (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:58:23 +0000 (UTC)
Having spent many hours in the depot at Langdon, MO with my dad..back in the 40's and 50's I was able to experience...but, of course could not understand...telegraphy. As someone said,the "standard"
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-12/msg00089.html (16,013 bytes)

63. Re: [CBQ] Vertical Bug (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:06:00 +0000 (UTC)
Interesting to hear the name Samuel Morse showing up here..I wonder how many if any of the younger troops know who Samuel F B Morse was and what he did. now for a background quiz...let's see any anyo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-12/msg00091.html (15,245 bytes)

64. Re: [CBQ] Vertical Bug (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:21:17 +0000 (UTC)
I've been in a lot of depots and see a lot of telegraph "stuff", but I've never seen anything like..or even close to what those two photos depict....Well, as my dad used to say under conditions like
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-12/msg00093.html (13,092 bytes)

65. Re: [CBQ] Vertical Bug (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:22:25 +0000 (UTC)
Way to go JOHN.....I really didn't think anyone here would get it....I'll buy you a cup of coffee next time our paths cross. Pete Samuel Finley Breeze Morse On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 9:58:40 AM
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-12/msg00094.html (17,864 bytes)

66. Re: [CBQ] Vertical Bug and commentary (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:47:47 +0000 (UTC)
thanks for the reminder Ken...I often think when I'm driving on a highway that parallels a RR I get the sense that something is missing....Yes..that's right. NO POLE LINES. Back in the day lots of th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-12/msg00097.html (13,585 bytes)

67. Re: [CBQ] Vertical Bug (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:07:43 +0000 (UTC)
Pat et al...To the best of my memory and recollection....Rock Island eliminated telegraph in 65 and IIRC the Q in 72. Pete I recall being in a Soo installation up in the North Country somewhere, Mich
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-12/msg00100.html (12,053 bytes)

68. Re: [CBQ] Vertical Bug (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:34:26 +0000 (UTC)
Now that's the kind of BUG that I recall seeing..Back in the days when Telegraphy was almost everywhere. Pete Here is a picture of a my bug with the tapered plug, open the standard key and place the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-12/msg00103.html (11,410 bytes)

69. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:43:03 +0000 (UTC)
Thanks Mike and you may or may not know the "Modern day steam fireman's "I was down on the deck taking care of my fire: excuse"....If you think about what one of the "ancillary duties" of a PASSENGER
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00007.html (13,909 bytes)

70. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 04:02:10 +0000 (UTC)
Yes indeed Mike..THE NOSE was a location I never frequented while "in motion"...It was always my first duty when going "on duty" as head brakeman. You always had to go "down in the nose" to see if yo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00012.html (12,913 bytes)

71. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:35:31 +0000 (UTC)
Regarding use of "facilities" on Steam Locomotives I recall from some "long lost" "ravings" in the old RAILROAD MAGAZINE that "Going back in the tender to "CALL ON MOTHER JONES" was just not done. Ju
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00025.html (19,730 bytes)

72. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:44:40 +0000 (UTC)
Louis et al..I wrote the preceding" diatribe before I saw "yours of Nov 12" using proper OLD TIME RR reference...Sorry Louis et al since I never had the privilege of "working for pay" on a steam engi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00026.html (16,434 bytes)

73. Re: [CBQ] H&StJ Engine #35 "General Grant" - Later CB&Q #49 - Looking for Information (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:56:48 +0000 (UTC)
T he '35" is on display along with the mail car at the Patee House Museum at St. Joseph. MO Pete New Mail 142 Check Mail Old Mail --Original Message-- From: owl_man_2000 via Groups.Io <owl_man_
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00079.html (13,956 bytes)

74. Re: [CBQ] Milepost 206 Publishing, Inc. (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:23:31 +0000 (UTC)
OK Randy..You're the "journalist and historian, but you "stumbled a bit with your Mark Twain reference..Here's the accurate statement "The report my death is "GREATLY EXAGGERATED" To offer a bit of "
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00141.html (16,339 bytes)

75. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:53:15 +0000 (UTC)
Re the question regarding the age of an engineer in early 20th century. My only "source"..if you could call it that is some of the old stories I have read over the years in RAILROAD MAGAZINE. Just in
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00180.html (22,236 bytes)

76. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 17:01:38 +0000 (UTC)
GREAT GREAT PICTURE When I see these I always try to figure out who is who...Here's my guess...The three guys on the left are the train crew..The tall guy in the middle is the conductor (note the bad
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00181.html (20,098 bytes)

77. Re: [CBQ] Coal Dock Location (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:51:55 +0000 (UTC)
I believe that I can say WITHOUT LOOKING AT A MAP..The Burlington DID run through UCRoss. Pete I have two copies of the attached photo of T2 4106 sitting adjacent to a coal dock. One photo identifies
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00217.html (11,768 bytes)

78. Re: [CBQ] MONMOUTH IL. (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:59:20 +0000 (UTC)
I rode behind the 637 on an excursion on August 6, 1955 sponsored by the Iowa Chapter of the NRHS from Ft. Madison (IA) to Bloomfield and return. The late Railfan-Photographer and later CB&Q operatin
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00099.html (25,721 bytes)

79. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:47:47 +0000 (UTC)
I love it...I love it...This kind of stuff really "trips my trigger"...Having worked "on the ground" and "in the offices" I can appreciate and understand and laugh about these "antics" which are so t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00110.html (23,676 bytes)

80. Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Caboose? (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 03:49:04 +0000 (UTC)
that tall smokestack just beyond the State Captial would be the A Street pumping station...Burned coal brought in the Rock Island RR. Building still extant..Now condominium apartments. Pete CB&Q Cabo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00120.html (11,789 bytes)


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