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1. [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "B.J. de Vries" <ben1.vries@planet.nl>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:00:32 +0200; Got my Walthers waycars too and now want to put some "life'' into them. But since Preiser still doesn't succeed in making real living miniatures it's me to put them into position. And that raises a n; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00164.html (9,850 bytes)
2. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:02:00 -0500; Ben, Normal would be Conductor and Rear Brakeman, (also called Flagman). Normally cupola forwards. It was CB&Q policy to put a "low car" ahead of the waycar, an empty flat or gon so that the view of; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00165.html (12,512 bytes)
3. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:19:11 -0700 (PDT); Good job Russ. But I do take exception to one small part. While the cupola may have been forward much of the time, there was no "normal" position for it. The waycar could be run either way and was. M; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00167.html (15,367 bytes)
4. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: jkohl <jkohl@nc.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:38:05 -0700 (PDT); Wow, great info...thanks! Quick question that I've been wondering about for a little while. I was used to the BN caboo...errr...waycars with the mounted rear red light. Was there lighting with the ol; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00168.html (10,903 bytes)
5. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:02:11 -0600; <snip> This may be date-dependent - I recall a conversation with a Q freight conductor in the late '50s or early '60s, when he stated that crews definitely preferred the cupola to the rear. He said t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00169.html (12,407 bytes)
6. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "JLBender" <jlbender@indianvalley.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:11:55 -0500; Ben, In my area, at least, I would have to agree with Russell......NORMALLY (well over 90 percent of the time...enough for me to call it normal) the waycars were short roof (cupola) forward. I refer; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00173.html (10,678 bytes)
7. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:43:09 -0700 (PDT); I just got a copy of BB # 35 out (becuase I had it handy). On page 68 is a picture of a waycar in 1917 with the long end forward. On page 85 there is picture of the southbound "third turn", that show; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00174.html (12,047 bytes)
8. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:46:09 -0700 (PDT); __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Re; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00176.html (11,661 bytes)
9. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:02:33 -0500; John, Back before the days of pooled waycars the waycar was changed at every crew change point. Even a location like North La Crosse with more daily passengers movements than freight it would not hav; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00179.html (12,437 bytes)
10. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:48:14 -0700 (PDT); At Centralia, there was the "Beardstown" waycar track and the "Centralia" waycar track for the two road freight trainmen/conductor pools. I never could figure why the Beardstown track was closer to t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00180.html (13,761 bytes)
11. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: jsteamernubes@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:08:57 EDT; Out of curiosity I dug back into my black/white print file from 1952 and find confirmation that the cupola end of the waycar was operated forward, and in each of the three prints (three different tra; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00182.html (10,757 bytes)
12. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:24:19 -0500; Seems to me that the long end being operated forward was common enough for me to register a ???? when the question came up... Yes, there were enough examples of the car being operated short end first; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00187.html (11,744 bytes)
13. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:39:56 -0500; Quieter location for sleeping???? Charlie Vlk -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Remanufactured Ink Cartridges & Refill Kits at MyInks.com for: HP $8-20. Epson $3-9, Canon $5-15, Lexmark $4-17. Free; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00191.html (14,879 bytes)
14. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:15:38 -0500; Charlie, Shorter walk to and crawl back from the gin mill. -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Remanufactured Ink Cartridges & Refill Kits at MyInks.com for: HP $8-20. Epson $3-9, Canon $5-15, Lexmar; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00193.html (10,965 bytes)
15. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:05:35 -0700 (PDT); __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> Buy Remanufactured Ink C; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00195.html (16,416 bytes)
16. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:15:39 EDT; I've been gone for a few days and am just catching up...With all of the conversation re cupola direction...are you guys saying that waycars were turned to keep one particular end forward...As the kid; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00240.html (10,470 bytes)
17. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:27:55 -0600; At least around 1950, the BNW turn out of Burlington usually turned loco and caboose (or the entire outgoing train) at the Washington depot wye . . . Recollection from a *very* young age - Marshall T; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00242.html (11,245 bytes)
18. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:58:50 EDT; I should have added a bit of a disclaimer...although we never did it on any branch line local I ever worked, I can see that, under certain circumstances at the end of a branch line, it would be easy; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00243.html (9,995 bytes)
19. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:06:46 -0500; Marshall, Recollections from a current age. Argentine has been told to make up the power on the West Texas feed lot trains with the trailing unit facing East so if the train runs via La Junta all the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00244.html (11,687 bytes)
20. Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life (score: 1): Author: "Haydens" <kliner@socket.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:10:18 -0500; Marshall, They would turn the entire train so they didn't have to shove their train back to their terminal. A lot depended on how much track was left on the other two legs of the wye. We used to turn; /archives/BRHSLIST/2003-09/msg00245.html (11,877 bytes)

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