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41. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: New official at Galesburg (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:43:10 -0700
Hi Bob, No, (he didn't give anybody enough warning) but I'm sure we wouldn't have had too much trouble finding a boxcar for him to travel in :>) Mike
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-03/msg00226.html (6,693 bytes)

42. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 846 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:19:10 -0700
Hi Larry, et. al.: Last year there was a calender out with his photos, including the drive-in shot. I got mine at the "Border's" store in Rapid City. You can bet I'm not losing that one! I've got one
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00005.html (7,375 bytes)

43. Re: [BRHSlist] Spur rules (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:58:56 -0700
Hi Rupert: In all the Rule books before the current GCOR, there is a Rule #105. It requires, among other things, that, on other than the main line, you move at a speed that is variously called "yard
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00082.html (9,677 bytes)

44. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 851 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:00:07 -0700
Hi Ken: Interesting photos, too bad they didn't destroy a couple MAC's (or even better, a couple Punkins) :>) I've got several photos of the clean-up after the Clay Spur wreck. About all aluminum coa
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00084.html (7,151 bytes)

45. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q 4960 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:06:26 -0700
Hi Milt: I don't know about the Special, but there is a photo in the Rockpile Museum in Gillette of the last steam switcher in Gillette. It's the 4960, so it was her territory at the time. The senior
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00302.html (8,506 bytes)

46. Re: [BRHSlist] Sunday Only CD - Questions (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:00:38 -0700
Hi John: I rode some of the "Only on Sunday" trips (though the "way freight" to Rockford was a Saturday trip). I think the Engineers put a little extra into the "show" part of it :>) Now.......if you
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-01/msg00284.html (8,969 bytes)

47. Re: [BRHSlist] High Speed Coal Trains/was Sunday Only CD - Questions (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:51:28 -0700
Hi Bob: Down there where the Santa Fe runs, I'm not surprised, up here on the ragged end of the Burlington, they're cheaper with the power :>) Other places, I've seen Frisco guys braggin' up how fast
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-01/msg00314.html (8,974 bytes)

48. Burlington tank (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 14:48:29 -0700
Hi Folks: Last trip, as we were getting in the van at Gillette, I looked across the main, and saw a Burlington tank car setting on yard 3. Its current number is BN 974049, but the black paint is comi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00083.html (6,184 bytes)

49. Re: [BRHSlist] Chucking your rights/Drones (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 09:44:18 -0700
Hi Folks: It was common on the Alliance Division, right up to the time they got rid of the Brakeman. At that point, some of the drones had to decide if they were going to be Conductors or Engineers..
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00353.html (7,800 bytes)

50. Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1540 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 09:48:31 -0700
Hi Folks: My favorite...from an actual Trainmaster's notice: "See no failure to comply".....they don't hire 'em for their command of the English language Best, Mike Decker
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00354.html (7,596 bytes)

51. Re: [BRHSlist] Assigned waycars (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:02:55 -0700
That's correct, Leo: The Edgemont-Deadwood "Highline" job had an assigned waycar right up to the end, in the '80's. Mike Decker
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-12/msg00430.html (6,496 bytes)

52. Re: [BRHSlist] Joint Line (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:34:22 -0700
Hi Folks: I agree with Karl. As someone who once lived in Denver and now works out of Edgemont, the "Joint Line" I know is between Denver and Colo. Springs. We call the extended Alliance Division 6th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00080.html (7,388 bytes)

53. Re: [BRHSlist]Train ID ca. 1910 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:11:39 -0700
Hi Bill: I have a 1914 "Official Guide" that was my uncle's. Train 50 from Minneapolis is scheduled at Oregon at 9:10A. Train 42, from Savanna, is scheduled at 7:16A, probably too early. The three ot
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00197.html (7,506 bytes)

54. Re: [BRHSlist] Heavy Trains. (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:06:23 -0700
Hi Karl and Folks: A agree with you. I'd rather handle a mile-and-a-quarter of coal, than a half-mile of freight. When I first went braking out of Edgemont, they were using the ore cars to haul balla
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-11/msg00304.html (8,835 bytes)

55. RE: CBQ donating land for US-based WWII POW camps? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:10:15 -0600
Hi Folks: We went down to Fort Robinson, Neb., the home of the 9th. and 10th. Cavalry (the Buffalo Soldiers), last June, and there was a German POW camp there...just across the road from the Red Clou
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00186.html (8,703 bytes)

56. Fw: [PT] Beautiful 4-4-0 Pics (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:17:10 -0600
Here's something interesting. There's no indication of where the line is located, but it snows there :>) Mike Decker down nice
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-10/msg00188.html (6,847 bytes)

57. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Work Rules (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:27:15 -0600
Hi Bob: The old-time basic day was 100 miles with overtime after 8 hours. I don't remember exactly when the basic day started to be increased, but it was sometime in the late 1980's. The current cont
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00045.html (8,425 bytes)

58. Re: [BRHSlist] Where's the Fireman, was: E-5 B Units...... (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 07:57:01 -0600
Hi Pete and folks: When Bob Richardson got the C&S Mechanical Department files out of the Denver roundhouse, there were also some old personnel records. In the old days, the Engineers and Firemen wor
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00159.html (10,390 bytes)

59. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: U25B's (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:35:00 -0600
Hi Folks: Which motors were the BN 5200's? I don't have Pinkeypank's book handy. They were U-something or other-B's, and they rode really rough. One day, I hit the Clay Spur switch at track speed wit
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-08/msg00094.html (7,859 bytes)

60. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar photo (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:02:10 -0600
Hi Folks: Nice site Dan. The waycar is now sitting next to the "union" (CB&Q/C&N-W Ry.) depot in Hot Springs, S. D. The "executive" train photos are just the Santa Fe's version of our B-9 track geome
/archives/BRHSLIST/2002-07/msg00027.html (7,650 bytes)


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