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1. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:18:35 -0700
Hi Pete... Here's another one I read from the MM 's files. We all know the Company would award 'Brownies' for Rules infractions. But, at least on the C&S, they would also award 'merits' for good deed
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00000.html (12,083 bytes)

2. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 13:02:22 +0000
And here's what I have in my C&S book on that accident. The stream crossed, incidentally, was the South Platte River, not Clear Creek: On Monday, June 9, the Denver Times detailed a head-on collision
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00001.html (36,898 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 16:10:09 +0000 (UTC)
November 1, 2019 Hol - I've never seen an image of this collision, nor of either of the wrecked locomotives. Do you have any images that you could share with us? Thanks - Louis Louis Zadnichek II Fai
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00003.html (34,368 bytes)

4. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:43:03 +0000 (UTC)
Thanks Mike and you may or may not know the "Modern day steam fireman's "I was down on the deck taking care of my fire: excuse"....If you think about what one of the "ancillary duties" of a PASSENGER
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00007.html (13,909 bytes)

5. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:25:50 -0700
Yup, Pete, I learned that one early, and when the helper crew 'drifted' their motors through the crossover into the side of a train loading at Belle Ayr, the Engineer was 'down in the nose'. I don't
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00010.html (11,689 bytes)

6. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 04:02:10 +0000 (UTC)
Yes indeed Mike..THE NOSE was a location I never frequented while "in motion"...It was always my first duty when going "on duty" as head brakeman. You always had to go "down in the nose" to see if yo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00012.html (12,913 bytes)

7. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 15:06:49 +0000 (UTC)
November 2, 2019 Pete - Back in steam engine days, what did the engineer. fireman and head end brakeman do when they had to use the bathroom when their train was moving since toilets were unheard of
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00015.html (14,889 bytes)

8. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Carroll, Ed" <ed.carroll@heartland.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 19:41:37 +0000
According to what I was told by my father and Mr. Starjack a buck was hung from a point on the tender or on the end of the plate that covered the stoker and was used along with toilet paper that was
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00016.html (19,463 bytes)

9. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 19:51:17 +0000
Louis: There appear to have been no photos taken of this collision, at least not have yet turned up. Hol From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io <LZadnichek=aol
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00022.html (37,661 bytes)

10. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:35:31 +0000 (UTC)
Regarding use of "facilities" on Steam Locomotives I recall from some "long lost" "ravings" in the old RAILROAD MAGAZINE that "Going back in the tender to "CALL ON MOTHER JONES" was just not done. Ju
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00025.html (19,730 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:44:40 +0000 (UTC)
Louis et al..I wrote the preceding" diatribe before I saw "yours of Nov 12" using proper OLD TIME RR reference...Sorry Louis et al since I never had the privilege of "working for pay" on a steam engi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00026.html (16,434 bytes)

12. [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:05:57 +0000
Page 12 of Zephyr 58 includes a photo of a Kerr Patented Cal Chute built at Aurora in 1868. If you are interested in some of the detail, the diagram and specifications (explanation) of the letters pa
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00106.html (12,764 bytes)

13. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:46:18 -0700
I see by the Patent papers that one of the applicants is a 'J. E. Clifton'. That leads me to believe that these are the chutes that are popularly called the 'Clifton Pocket Coal Chutes'. Among others
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00107.html (12,181 bytes)

14. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:49:53 +0000
Mike: You're right, the patent application and drawings are for the so-called Clifton chute, not the Kerr chute, which was patented well before 1883. As for your story from Bob Richardson, he told th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00108.html (24,770 bytes)

15. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:55:23 +0000
More on the topic of the Clifton coal chute: Attached are two CB&Q drawings of a 102-ton Clifton coal chute and its track layout, both from the library of the Colorado Railroad Museum. Don't know whe
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00109.html (16,220 bytes)

16. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:47:47 +0000 (UTC)
I love it...I love it...This kind of stuff really "trips my trigger"...Having worked "on the ground" and "in the offices" I can appreciate and understand and laugh about these "antics" which are so t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00110.html (23,676 bytes)

17. Re: [CBQ] Aurora coal chute 1868 (score: 1)
Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:30:59 -0500
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2019-10/msg00111.html (15,926 bytes)


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