- 1. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2486 (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:45:24 -0500
- For those of us that didn't grow up during the Alton era, Gulf Mobile and Ohio was simply "GM&O". I grew in Chicago and recall few if any people calling it the Alton Road. Bill Barber -- Yahoo! Group
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00036.html (11,297 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2486 (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:17:58 -0500
- Paul, I, too, am interested in building a coal train typical of a Q train in central/southern Illinois. My impression is that the vast majority of the cars were Q owned, but varies in type with lots
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00037.html (12,560 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2486 (score: 1)
- Author: clipperw@EarthLink.net
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:28:07 -0500
- Simon, I believe all of the Q's Baldwin VO1000's were delivered on a single order and they all originally had a single short stack near the rear of the hood. Those generally assigned to Kansas City a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00038.html (12,019 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2486 (score: 1)
- Author: <kohlj@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:39:49 -0400
- I have an overhead shot of #9370 without the 4-stack modification on Castle Graphics... Cheers! Jan -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hpn
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00039.html (12,672 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2486 (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 07:50:11 -0700 (PDT)
- In the pre-unit train days, most but not all Q coal trains were solid Q's. There were several ways foreign cars would show up. First of course, were the cars that the Q had received as a loads(bear i
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00045.html (15,079 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2486 (score: 1)
- Author: trainmanwes@webtv.net
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 06:51:27 -0500
- SD`9 split tanks were originally used as one held water for the steam boilers and other for fuel. When the boilers were removed the Q connect both for fuel. The one tank versions had no boiler. -- Ya
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00047.html (10,217 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2486 (score: 1)
- Author: Aeolus3@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:46:56 EDT
- Some of the SD9's had one tank to make them lighter. They were called SD9s. I'm not sure of the numbering of these motors. Loren Johnson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2005-08/msg00050.html (9,930 bytes)
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