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1. Re: [CBQ] Wallboard Loads (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:02:23 -0600
All When wallboard is shipped in bulkhead flats, does it still have 2x4 spacers along the center before it is wrapped for protection or is/was it stacked side by side with no spacers? Thanks Ricky K
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-10/msg00104.html (17,294 bytes)

2. Re: [CBQ] Horn on U28B (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 21:00:04 -0700
Bryan: The actual horn is the standard Leslie S-2B. The housing was designed to collect heat from the engine compartment to keep the horn from freezing. The same horn was mounted between radiator fan
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-08/msg00105.html (10,346 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] 230000 series company service tank cars ? (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:16:21 -0700
The 130000 series cars were initially used for corn syrup and molasses in relation to servicing sugar beet factories in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. They were regulars in the consist of t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-07/msg00005.html (11,747 bytes)

4. Re: [CBQ] 230000 series company service tank cars ? (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:28:21 -0700
Sorry ,the photos did not go the first time.Jim Sandrin _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#55566) | Reply To Group Mute This Topic Your Subscr
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-07/msg00006.html (11,275 bytes)

5. Re: [CBQ] SD-45 Horns (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:54:45 -0600
Hi Scott:  The standard horn for Q second generation power was the Leslie S-2, with both bells facing forward.   The enclosed attachments show the bracket, a "V" shaped affair behind the first fan wi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-06/msg00061.html (11,156 bytes)

6. Re: [CBQ] SD-45 Horns (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:51:52 -0600
The single bell horn in the 6458 shot is a post merger replacement for the original S-2.  The winterization hatch is likewise a BN addition. Here is a shot showing the S-2 on the short hood of SD9 61
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-06/msg00069.html (10,779 bytes)

7. Re: [CBQ] SD-45 Horns (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:27:56 -0700
Sorry, I should have said Denver in the caption. It is almost snobbish to say:Clyde, Gibson, Hobson and the like and assume that everyone is on the same page. I will try to be more specific in the fu
/archives/BRHSLIST/2018-06/msg00072.html (10,842 bytes)

8. Re: [CBQ] Empire Builder Location (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:24:43 -0700
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00208.html (13,237 bytes)

9. Re: [CBQ] Dual Headlight conversions on the E5s (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:20:52 -0600
Bill and group: you are correct in that the ex-passenger F3 A-units and the two F9Am rebuilds, C&S 700D and FW&D 750A, were the only units to be updated with this feature. I have looked through a sel
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00075.html (14,430 bytes)

10. Re: [CBQ] Comet and New North Coast Limited (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:06:26 -0700
It is my understanding that the "Comet" name was applied to a special section of the"Alaskan", the secondary NP transcontinental train. (This train was ultimately replaced by the "Mainstreeter".) The
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-09/msg00048.html (10,766 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] F-3 9960 A-B-A (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:38:40 -0700
Scott: I assume you are planning to model the trio in HO-scale. The best options are undecorated Highliner kits for A- and B-units, which are very hard to find. If you can find an Athearn phase 2 F3
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-07/msg00084.html (12,637 bytes)

12. Re: [CBQ] Great Western Sugar outbound loads. (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:41:07 -0600
Scott: The short answer is yes. There is a guide to what cars were assigned to the service you reference.  According to the Burlington Equipment Distribution Manual (Copies of which were available th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-07/msg00129.html (12,959 bytes)

13. Re: [CBQ] XA-11A build. (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 10:13:56 -0600
Aaron: You are correct.  The major cross bearing pieces should line up with the door posts. The smaller ones, usually an "I" or Channel cross-section, attached to the side sill where the angled "Z" b
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-06/msg00069.html (11,704 bytes)

14. Re: [CBQ] Help In ID'ing Image (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 19:35:20 -0600
This  car and 32 others were converted to MOW "Univans" during late 1985 and early 1986.  They were used system wide as bunk cars and mobile offices for construction projects.  This particular car ha
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-05/msg00023.html (11,014 bytes)

15. Re: [CBQ] GN F's and CB&Q Power on Freight in 1968 (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 14:19:15 -0600
The Q E-units ran through to Havre, Montana on the Western Star/Fast Mail.  As an added bonus, Two E8s were usually spliced with a GN F3/7 B-unit from the 350-370 series passenger pool. This practice
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-05/msg00106.html (15,338 bytes)

16. Re: [CBQ] Follow up on SD40's Lighting question (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:58:00 -0700
Here is a shot of C&S 880 leading a southbound on the Joint Line at Littleton, Colorado in 1971.  Note that while the sun is not quite setting, the upper white Mars light is lit.  While it was usuall
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-03/msg00077.html (10,656 bytes)

17. Re: [CBQ] Bernie Corbin's Locomotives (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 09:30:28 -0700
The Funeral Home layout was an unexpected treat that I received from a friend and his father when I was still living in Hillside in the early 1960s.  I was instructed to show up at their place at 6 o
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00004.html (11,899 bytes)

18. Re: [CBQ] Q GP7 (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:55:18 -0700
Greetings:  All GP7s were built with 36-inch radiator fans.  Since the Q did not usually alter external factory details, except for adding things like all-weather cab windows and spark arresters, the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-12/msg00110.html (11,117 bytes)

19. Re: [CBQ] Mars Light on CBQ, CS and FWD SD9's (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:02:04 -0700
Not all trains were Zephyrs lead by Silver E units. Enclosed is a mail extra lead by SD9s.  Some of Mike Spoors' books have shots of the Galesburg local lead by GP7s in both red and black schemes. Al
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-12/msg00117.html (15,960 bytes)

20. Re: [CBQ] Mars Light on CBQ, CS and FWD SD9's (score: 1)
Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 08:33:41 -0700
I have only seen evidence of  freight Geeps running, usually as trailing units.  The time frame was the 1960s when other mail or express runs had been terminated and LCL and occasionally Packing Hous
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-12/msg00128.html (20,529 bytes)

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