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321. [CBQ] Rockfalls Wayfreight (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:12:16 EDT; At the Robert Benett estate sale in Aurora amongst the literal thousands of RR items I found time books from R.K. Johnson from the 1950s. RK was an Aurora div brkmn who some of us on this list could; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00204.html (10,991 bytes)
322. [CBQ] Rockfalls w/f-2 (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:18:39 EDT; Again using R.K. Johnson time books I learned that on a few occasions the Rock Falls job on Tues and Fridays when heading for Eola would "turn" at Earville and/or Somonauk and return to Rockfalls bef; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00205.html (10,455 bytes)
323. [CBQ] 69/64 the Moonlight Job (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:34:21 EDT; R.K.. Johnson spent the first 7 months of 1952 on the "Moonlight" job(that's what Lew Peshia always called 69/64). Job on duty at Clyde at 7:45PM and returns next day at 7:15PM from Barstow. There's; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00206.html (10,891 bytes)
324. [CBQ] Rockfalls Wayfreight (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:46:00 EDT; (this is a repost because in the original I used a word that the filter caught,rather than break the theme I've reissued) I found time books from R.K. Johnson from the 1950s 60s at the Robert Bennett; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00207.html (11,062 bytes)
325. [CBQ] Doubles (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:50:47 EDT; Pete, Here's my recollection of how doubling hill payments worked back in the day. 25 miles: "from a point to a point and return then to that point." Basically you stall on a hill and double into the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00256.html (12,552 bytes)
326. [CBQ] Westbound sheep (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:02:42 EST; Here's a possibility that is based on real life day to day rr experience. Could it be that load of sheep missed the eastbound unloading point due to crew or billing error ? Oh yes it happened more of; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00007.html (10,635 bytes)
327. [CBQ] Westbound Sheep-crooked tracks (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:28:41 EST; As to the question on the curves in the sheep yard tracks at the west end: my best guess is it's related to where the "lead" coming over Webster St. from the west drops down from the post "elevation"; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00008.html (10,301 bytes)
328. [CBQ] Westbound Sheep (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:08:37 EST; Russ, The reference to sheep for Princeton is based on a photo in the new BRHS 2009 calendar. Sorry I asked before you and others had your calendar. For years I've read the list wondering what guys w; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00012.html (10,580 bytes)
329. [CBQ] Montgomery Stock Yards rail operations (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:46:51 EST; We have pretty well covered this in other posts over the last few years so check the archives but I'll summarize here. NO ONE HAS ATTEMPTED TO ANSWER THE B/O TRK ? COME ON...................... Becau; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00022.html (12,399 bytes)
330. [CBQ] Westbound Sheep (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:12:40 EST; Doug, Your points are valid. The question was raised because westbound stock was extremely rare. Princeton had a fairly sizeable stock yard for feeders and outbound shipments,which of course by 1956; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00024.html (10,757 bytes)
331. [CBQ] Beer Moves (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:06:50 EST; Steve, I suspect the Budweiser movements to Magill went to truck in the late 60's/early 70's for 2 reasons. The MRS fleet was getting old and as stock movements on the mainline dropped off the beer m; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00031.html (10,922 bytes)
332. Fwd: [CBQ] Beer Moves (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:11:49 EST; Russ, The truth ????. Not sure what could be untrue in what I said. It's based on what I saw everyday working on the RR and in the G.O. I'm not talking about today on BNSF. While I was Ass't to Manag; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00037.html (11,001 bytes)
333. [CBQ] Barstow (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:18:12 EST; Bob, Russ' answer provides a good summary on 69/64 and its' connection to Barstow and reason for existing. One of the bigger customers business that was being chased was John Deere. Somewhere back in; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00042.html (10,198 bytes)
334. [CBQ] Hot Move at Eola (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:34:08 EST; I don't want to paint Eola in a totally negative picture as there were many good customer serving moves made there too. General Mills was one of the customers who had direct phone numbers to the righ; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00043.html (10,808 bytes)
335. [CBQ] Quad Cities Interchange 69/64 (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:50:36 EST; I don't know for sure as this predates me(I know,hard to believe) but most likely the answer is coal. The Q moved massive quantities of coal from So ILL. Leo Phillipp **Worried about job security? Ch; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00050.html (10,038 bytes)
336. [CBQ] Hot move @ Eola (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:01:16 EST; Russ, General Mills at West Chicago is running as it has since 1957 or so. They just don't use rail except for bulk inbound materials. It was in the early 80's under trucking deregulation that the pl; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00052.html (10,267 bytes)
337. Fwd: [CBQ] Barstow (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:26:13 EST; Russ, I "broke" for Lew Peshia on and off for several years in the C&I pool. He loved the "moonlight job" (69/64) and worked it for a long time. He talked about how they did local work westbound from; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00053.html (10,923 bytes)
338. [CBQ] bad order trk at Montgomery (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:42:18 EST; Ok nobody wants to even guess; or maybe you all know and I'm wasting my time !!?? The b/o trk at Montgomery was the southern most or closest to the "old North main:" This trk was used for some years; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00054.html (10,658 bytes)
339. [CBQ] Rock Falls Branch (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:07:37 EDT; I worked the Rock Falls branch from the extra list in the early to mid 70s as vacation fill in. Also when mgmt decided to turn the C&I pool crews into "dog catchers" ended up on the branch several ti; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00131.html (13,767 bytes)
340. [CBQ] Oregon Photos (score: 1): Author: qutlx1@aol.com; Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:43:28 EDT; Guys, I agree the photo shows a train coming off the Rock River bridge at Oregon westbound. It cant be 88 or 82 as they were eastbound trains. Based on the power I'd say this is 97 but if it's before; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00200.html (10,114 bytes)

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