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1. Re: [BRHSlist] Kable Bros (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:06:55 -0600 (CST)
Quebecor has a big printing plant at Stillwater, Oklahoma, which receives by rail but, as far as I know, makes no outbound shipments by rail. It is the largest customer of the Stillwater Central, a s
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00005.html (7,296 bytes)

2. Re: [BRHSlist] Forwarded Posts re: Psgr Train Operations (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:32:48 -0600 (CST)
The name of the Railway Mail Service was changed to the Postal Transportation Service after so many RPO trains were eliminated and replaced with "Highway Post Offices" (basically the same as RPOs but
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00021.html (8,105 bytes)

3. Re: [BRHSlist] Locals (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:34:55 -0600 (CST)
Is it legal to run locomotives without cab signals as the controlling engine in cab signal territory? Isn't the 90 mph speed limits based on the idea that ALL trains will be equipped with cab signals
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00077.html (9,365 bytes)

4. Re: [BRHSlist] Question Re Chicago Union Station (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:44:30 -0600 (CST)
"Union Station" is a generic name, and means it serves more than one railroad, that is, that they have "united" to operate out of one station. Perhaps one of the most noted examples at one time was t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00130.html (12,058 bytes)

5. Re: [BRHSlist] Calendar (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:00:35 -0600 (CST)
Since most mail is now handled by machine, printing any cautionary wording on an envelope or other mailing piece usually has no result. The Postal Service recommends that anything which should not be
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-12/msg00190.html (7,046 bytes)

6. Re: [BRHSlist] Rights of Trains (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:10:36 -0600 (CST)
Peter Josserand's book is indeed the definitive work on train order operations, and everything good about it is true. However, automatic block signals were in use for many decades before the first CT
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00030.html (9,063 bytes)

7. Re: [BRHSlist] Doodlebugs/Gas Electrics (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 08:45:53 -0600 (CST)
To handle passenger and mail/express traffic on less heavily traveled lines efficiently and at less expense. (And I used to ride one frequently on the Frisco, not part of the Burlington Route but lat
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00131.html (8,488 bytes)

8. Re: [BRHSlist] Doodlebugs/Gas Electrics (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:45:18 -0600 (CST)
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ken martin wrote about doodlebugs, in response to Larry Doub's question: Longest on the Burlington Route, but there was at least one longer one on another railroad which is now p
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00134.html (7,473 bytes)

9. Re: [BRHSlist] Forwarded Posts re: Psgr Train Operations (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:28:34 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Ed DeRouin wrote, in a very interesting post about mail transportation by rail: A nitpick: it was the Post Office Department (USPOD) until 1970. The mail business was reorganized
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00198.html (8,762 bytes)

10. Re: [BRHSlist] Forwarded Posts re: Psgr Train Operations (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:55:57 -0600 (CST)
Mount Morris, Ill., was of course well-known in publishing circles. There were several other companies around the company which published the mass-market magazines, who circulations numbered in the m
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00209.html (9,449 bytes)

11. Re: [BRHSlist] UNSUBSCRIBE (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:54:47 -0600 (CST)
Wes Leatherock wleath@s...
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00220.html (6,807 bytes)

12. Re: [BRHSlist] UNSUBSCRIBE (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:56:59 -0600 (CST)
You have to unsubscribe yourself. The instructions are in the header of every message to the list, including the one you sent: Wes Leatherock wleath@s...
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-11/msg00226.html (7,366 bytes)

13. Re: [BRHSlist] Bulletin 37 (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:40:50 -0500 (CDT)
USPS at war on bulk mail? Hardly. That's what pays the bills. You'd shudder to think what the postage for a letter would be if the USPS didn't have bulk mail for its support. Wes Leatherock wleath@s.
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00199.html (8,229 bytes)

14. Re: [BRHSlist] Bulletin 37 (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:31:56 -0500 (CDT)
Usually they do, but I belong to one or two organizations that send their bulletins bulk rate because they don't want to go through the second class requirements. To be technical, the USPS has rename
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00201.html (10,179 bytes)

15. Re: [BRHSlist] Bulletin 37 (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:59:46 -0600 (CST)
This isn't Q, but I imagine the same thing was true in various stations. The Santa Fe station in Oklahoma City was on elevated trackage. There was a hole in the platform, and the mail car was spotted
/archives/BRHSLIST/2000-10/msg00220.html (10,571 bytes)

16. Re: [BRHSlist] heavyweight RPO (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:01:10 -0600 (CST)
Six-window cars were generally full RPOs--the RPO occupied the entire car. Three-window cars were usually half-and=half--onehalf RPO, the other half baggage and express. Two-window cars generally had
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-11/msg00285.html (8,601 bytes)

17. Re: [BRHSlist] C&S Books (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:18:12 -0500 (CDT)
"Colonel Morgan Jones: Grand Old Man of Texas Railroading," by Vernon Gladstone Spence (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971), ISBN 0-8061-0977-7, looks at it from the point of view of the Texa
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00017.html (8,093 bytes)

18. Railroads resume hazmat shipments (fwd) (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:00:53 -0500 (CDT)
Forwarded from the RAILROAD list. Wes Leatherock wleath@s... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:51:56 -0700 From: Stan Feldman <stans_railpix@y...> Reply-To: The Railroad List <RAILROA
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00082.html (8,596 bytes)

19. FW: Locomotives (fwd) (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:54:54 -0500 (CDT)
This should be of interest to Q fans, and is forwarded with the permission of the person who posted it to the list and Jack Haley, the author of the story. Wes Leatherock wleath@s... On Mon, 22 Oct 2
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00135.html (13,924 bytes)

20. Re: [BRHSlist] A bit off topic (score: 1)
Author: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:30:21 -0500 (CDT)
I assume you're aware of the CZ wreck near Wendover, Utah. Wes Leatherock wleath@s...
/archives/BRHSLIST/2001-09/msg00081.html (7,910 bytes)


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