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1. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:38:36 -0700; (someone want to try to complete the list?) < CB&Q may not have been the first, but they converted to all coal-bruning locomotives very early - before the start of the Civil War. They were also the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00025.html (7,074 bytes)
2. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: SilvrDome@a...; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:55:49 EDT; Don't forget Flourescent interior lighting and disc brakes on passenger cars as introduced by the "General Pershing Zephyr"! Hubert [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00026.html (7,316 bytes)
3. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:35:34 -0500; And, according to a conversation I had with Al Hoffman, the first in Chicago to experiment with push-pull operation..... they MU'd gas electrics on each end of a string of commuter coaches.....in the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00029.html (8,041 bytes)
4. RE: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Tom Mitchell" <tmitchell@c...>; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:59:41 -0400; To add a non-railroad specific question to the conversation, What made the CB&Q corporate culture so innovative? Tom Mitchell And, according to a conversation I had with Al Hoffman, the first in Chic; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00030.html (8,557 bytes)
5. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:34:50 -0500; Hard nosed Yankee (Boston) management..... necessity (frugal cash flow) was the mother of invention and it became an integral part of the Q Corporate Culture. The Q was one of the leading R&D railroa; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00031.html (9,958 bytes)
6. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: drale99@a...; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:35:10 EDT; I think the innovative culture resulted, right from the early years, from customer focus.; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00032.html (7,339 bytes)
7. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:59:55 -0700; customer focus. < Also, there is the fact that drom Charles Perkins to Harry Murphy (with the exception of a few short-term caretakers), Q presidents had been carefully mentored from early in their; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00034.html (8,608 bytes)
8. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@y...>; Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:08:24 -0700 (PDT); List I know I will stir up a hornet's nest with this! But, if we are talking about able managers, don't be too hard on Lou Menk. I am like most of you, in that I hated what he did with passenger trai; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00043.html (9,799 bytes)
9. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@a...; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:57:13 EDT; John: RE Louis Menk I think that you are right re Menk. I remember seeing an article in the Chicago Tribune after Menk had been president for a while. One of his comments in an interview was "we're g; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00052.html (8,807 bytes)
10. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@e...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:11:40 -0500; Do you have your copy of "Quotations from Chairman Menk" right next to "Quotations from Chairman Mao" on your bookshelf? railroad article...probably at and sanctum"..Murphy, "you; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00053.html (10,179 bytes)
11. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@a...; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:22:26 EDT; Sorry Russ It all comes from memory... Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00057.html (8,430 bytes)
12. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@e...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:34:48 -0500; Pete, The book DOES exist. I think I have a copy. Got it from a Customer's Traffic Manager. I don't think he was very impressed.; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00058.html (9,582 bytes)
13. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:42:58 -0700; railroad I'm not arguing against Menk as an individual, and I admit that the apprenticeship system tended to preserve older and useless practices in some areas. I recall in the late '50s, visiting t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00059.html (10,522 bytes)
14. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@a...; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:00:25 EDT; RE Marshall's comments Another thing that annoys me is that our paper here which is pretty "thin"...My dad always used the word "thin" to describe something that wasn't very good, is that when ever t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00060.html (8,885 bytes)
15. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@e...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:18:08 -0500; Pete, The train service employees at Lincoln and Sioux City sure know the difference. At Fremont they cross "The Big Road". Never heard anyone dispute that. wasn't here; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00062.html (10,026 bytes)
16. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:55:23 -0500; No, but I do have two copies of the "Menk the Fink" buttons.....a treasured keepsake. In retrospect, his biggest sin was allowing a corporate culture that would foster the NP guys loading up baggage; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00063.html (11,910 bytes)
17. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: Brad Slaney <bradslaney@w...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:27:21 -0700; When I worked in Disbursement Accounting during the late 60s, it was literally something out of Dickens. The dreariest office you ever saw. It would have been modern about 1920. And their procedures; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00065.html (11,944 bytes)
18. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@a...; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:07:39 EDT; Brad and list You should have seen the Freight Claims Dept. on the Rock Island...don't think that it was any worse than the Q or any other RR...talk about antiquated. Nothing was ever thrown away...W; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00071.html (9,509 bytes)
19. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: "Myron & Lois Dudenbostel" <myroloi@e...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:53:45 -0500; Marshall, I believe that you hit the nail square on the head! Myron Dudenbostel; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00072.html (8,696 bytes)
20. Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect (score: 1): Author: Brad Slaney <bradslaney@w...>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:42:50 -0700; Pete, I know what you mean. Some invoice for 3.76 worth of bolts from a hardware store in Alma, WI would cross my desk. By the time it got to me, it had 16 additional pieces of paper attached to it (; /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-09/msg00073.html (11,329 bytes)

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