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41. Re: [CBQ] Early Railroads... (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:58:24 -0600
Ed, It's amazing I still remember it 40 years later. I was in meteorology, but it was an emphasis major in the geography department. So we also had to take some of the geography major classes to comp
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-01/msg00085.html (13,632 bytes)

42. Re: Fwd: Re: [CBQ] Early Railroads... (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:47:39 -0600
Jan, If you want to read sometime about the big boys - Vanderbilt Morgan and the backers of the Pennsylvania Railroad - and how they could waste incredible amounts of money battling each other, read
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-01/msg00098.html (14,340 bytes)

43. Re: [CBQ] FM12 flatcar (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:16:28 -0600
Ben, FM. 52' Steel Flat Car. NP Design. Class FM-12. Built 1938 at CB&Q Galesburg. Series #89000-89099. All were still in service as of 1966. 52 still listed in CB&Q lettering in 1973. Bill Hirt On 1
/archives/BRHSLIST/2016-01/msg00130.html (14,134 bytes)

44. Re: [CBQ] VO1000 disposition question (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 08:48:22 -0600
Andre, The only light I have shed on this is based on the book Diesel Locomotive Rosters reprinted from Railroad Magazine. The rosters in this book are known to have errors. However for what is worth
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-11/msg00027.html (14,859 bytes)

45. Re: [CBQ] Walthers Announced a 50' Mechanical Reefer (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:53:53 -0500
Rick, Now that Walthers has published the artwork on their web page, the reefers have BRCX lettering. RPL. 55' 11" Mechanical Reefer w/8' Plug Door Opening. Built 1963 by Havelock (CB&Q). Trane Refri
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-08/msg00039.html (17,137 bytes)

46. Re: [CBQ] Re: Havelock CBQ Repaint: Tangent PS-1 Mini-Hy Cube (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:11:38 -0500
If I recall correctly, the original idea was just to add the word Northern under the Burlington  after the merger as time permitted. The BN lettering "font" that eventually was adopted turned out to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-08/msg00156.html (39,184 bytes)

47. Re: [CBQ] Icing Platform On The CB&Q (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:37:15 -0500
I would say Lincoln because in the previous image you can see the Nebraska state capital building in the background (looking east). If you advance a few pictures, you can see the bridge which if I re
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-06/msg00187.html (13,636 bytes)

48. Re: [CBQ] Fw: [OMR] Colorado Peaches (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 09:15:32 -0500
Rick, I will be curious about the answers. I have seen several places a color photo of a large number of ART reefers staged in Grand Junction and this helps explain why. A 1965 MP Freight Traffic Cir
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-05/msg00121.html (16,227 bytes)

49. Re: [CBQ] Fw: [OMR] Colorado Peaches (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 13:04:38 -0500
Hol, Thanks for the explanation. Do you know if they were consolidated into the train with the run through traffic from UP (via Grand Island) at Lincoln to move to Chicago in the 1960s? Bill Hirt On
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-05/msg00123.html (20,873 bytes)

50. Re: [CBQ] Covered hopper decals (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 18:59:11 -0600
Andy, I assume the cars you are referring to are Class LO-10 PS-2 4740 cuft PS-2 Covered Hoppers built 1967 by P-S and numbered 184600-184949. I have two of the 87-830 sets in front of me. There is a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-03/msg00015.html (13,570 bytes)

51. Re: [CBQ] Broken Bow, NE (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:26:05 -0600
The 1918 Sanborn does not show a turntable either. Bill Hirt On 3/11/2017 10:54 AM, Tom Burg teb2771@earthlink.net [CBQ] wrote: No turntable on the 1943 Sanborn map, either. Tom Burg On Mar 11, 2017,
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-03/msg00127.html (17,393 bytes)

52. Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q signals (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:04:28 -0600
On the Burlington and Washington Subdivision, Mount Union was listed as an open office from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday-Friday in the Ottumwa and Creston Division Employee Timetable 84 effective April
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00132.html (14,422 bytes)

53. Re: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q signals (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:14:43 -0600
Nelson, The 1960 CB&Q track chart shows the division of ownership at RI milepost 15.38 and CB&Q milepost 15.51. This is just north of Mediapolis. The only depot shown at that time is the Rock Island
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00139.html (16,383 bytes)

54. Re: [CBQ] Timetables & rules (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:13:18 -0600
Don, Try and find a copy of Across Iowa on the K&W and H&S RR by Corbin and Hardy. Many pictures and the history of the line. Also look at Rob Adam's website <http://keokukandwesternrr.com/>. He has
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00140.html (15,833 bytes)

55. Re: [CBQ] O Gauge Decals Needed (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:46:11 -0600
Ray, This web site shows they have the Champ set available (the listing page says it was updated the 7th of January): <http://alleghenyscale.com/O%20Scale/O%20Scale%20General%20Decals%20-%20Champ.htm
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00163.html (14,993 bytes)

56. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Operating Data Sheets (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:51:35 -0600
John, Fred Frailey's Twilight of the Great Trains has some of the information you are looking for. The original edition was from Kalmbach, but he expanded the book with a second edition that is avail
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00214.html (13,067 bytes)

57. Re: [CBQ] 1952 flooding (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:49:32 -0600
This would have been an interesting move as Q trains always used the west entrance and exit to Kansas City Union Station. I would think they made a station stop there once off the UP to get Lincoln a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00258.html (22,221 bytes)

58. Re: [CBQ] Burlington Lines Freight Train Operating Data Sheets? (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:15:03 -0600
Bryan, Besides this, it would be nice to have an earlier version of the operating data sheets. This would be prior to the train renumbering in anticipation of the BN merger. I have a July 1966 C&S-FW
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00259.html (17,545 bytes)

59. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Operating Data Sheets (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:25:39 -0600
John, In the TRRA Historical Society bulletin on the Zephyr-Rocket, there was a discussion on the Zephyr-Rocket always being under powered and the back and forth between the operating and passenger d
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00261.html (13,920 bytes)

60. Re: [CBQ] Re: Weed Spray equipment (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:55:39 -0600
Louis, I have a friend and fellow model railroader (Jim McCroskie) whose first job out of the high school was working the sprayer on the weed trains. He's talked about about being in a T shirt and je
/archives/BRHSLIST/2017-01/msg00262.html (16,224 bytes)

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