Ah, I was searching wrong! "14" doesn't show up anywhere in the listing! :) I didn't realize it was the "Aeolus" issue. From a description I had read, it was an issue about the B&MR in Nebraska. Than
<*>[Attachment(s) from randy@prototrains.com included below] If anyone has any early 1920's to late 1930's ETT's for the Omaha Division, could you scan the Ashland and Schuyler Subdivision portion fo
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:35:59 -0500
Thanks to Ken Martin supplying the May 31, 1931 Time Table 38 section, I would like to amend my request for time table sections from 39 through whatever was the current time table in early 1942 (afte
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:39:42 -0500
My face is a little red right now. I misread Rupert's excellent BRHS publications index and conflated "BB16" and "BB44" on two consecutive lines to arrive at "BB14". I do have a complete scan of BB14
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:12:41 -0500
<*>[Attachment(s) from Randy Gordon-Gilmore included below] Hi all, For those of you who can do crosseyed-stereo viewing, I've assembled a few stereophotos from images (specifically 1JW0000070128.tif
<*>[Attachment(s) from randy@prototrains.com included below] Greg asked: Excellent timing on your question, Greg. I have been researching the Ashland-Schuyler branch line (for an upcoming N scale lay
Yes, that is an interesting observation of Burwell, Philip. From the fairly coarse Schuyler photo (the snip I posted, I had already enlarged and interpolated) it does look like it may have had a pit.
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:30:51 -0500
On the Burwell turntable, there is a cable winch, and there are posts spaced around the "pit" just inside the ring rail. Putting those together brings the mental image of lassoing a post and winching
Jim Krzycki's article "Railroad part of area culture" in the Schuyler Sun last fall said "Burlington Railroad discontinued service on Dec. 4, 1941...The last train to pull out of the station was "Old
... The Q certainly seems to have liked Lassig (Lassig was one of the companies that merged to form American Bridge Co. in 1900) The deck plate girder bridge over the Platte River on the Omaha line e
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:02:28 -0600
<*>[Attachment(s) from Randy Gordon-Gilmore included below] track In 2002, at the Streator meet, Steven Holding had scans of CB&Q track alignment charts burned to CD-ROM for Lincoln, Ottumwa, McCook,
I was searchng around online yesterday and came across the following PDF of scans of (purportedly) 1967 track chart books, which seem to be both Lines East and Lines West, including the yard map page
What wonderful, high-resolution photos! Thank you for posting them, Hol. Randy -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email set
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:07:11 -0600
Now that I have had a chance to compare the PDF with pages from the CD-ROM's (I only have 3), the scans are identical. The position on the scanner bed, the stains and marks on the pages, etc. all mat
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:05:33 -0600
Rupert, I'm not Ken but have been looking through the PDF. The only Lines West division included is the Lincoln Division. The Alliance Division is not, unfortunately. I do have the Alliance Divison C
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:46:44 -0600
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/ilhap/county/j_winnebago.html That is fantastic, Rich! I have just emailed the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources to ask if they have any plans to do t
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:17:48 -0600
Rich, I'm running 64-bit XP, and use the freeware IrfanView as my graphics browser. It will view SID files (just tell your browser to use IrfanView to view the file). As an aside, I'm a little jealou
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:20:52 -0600
Speaking of things that people have mentioned before <grin> take the Sanborn maps with a grain of salt. They are better than nothing, but if they do show railroad facilities it is as a peripheral thi
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:02:10 -0600
Thank you, Harold. The page I listed is the direct search available off the page you listed. Unfortunately the USGS website is seemingly broken for Firefox users that have some kind of popup, adblock
Author: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:39:08 -0600
<*>[Attachment(s) from Randy Gordon-Gilmore included below] All, I have decided to heed Charlie Vlk's admonishments and work up N scale body shell 3D models that can be downloaded from Shapeways ( ht