- 1. [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: LZadnichek@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:35:48 -0500 (EST)
- For those who remember the late E.L. Potarf who was Q vice president of operations during the 1960s, here's a story related by Fred Crissey. - - - - Louis: Here is my first E L Potarf story. A R MacD
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00070.html (14,307 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:16:27 -0500 (EST)
- Terrill was Division Supt here in Lincoln in IIRC 1954-55 era...G.L.Griggs Jr. was Supt here in 56...he was the guy who arranged for me to get a braking job...Someone earlier posted that he was taken
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00072.html (16,801 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: LZadnichek@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:28:48 -0500 (EST)
- Pete, OK, so Mr. Terrill's name was spelled with an "i" instead of an "e." Wasn't there an unrelated post some months ago from some Terrill family member wanting to find out about him? Anyway, I do n
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00078.html (18,608 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:42:04 -0800 (PST)
- Louis Griggs ( Sr. went by George) was a roadmaster at Centralia when his father was Beardstown Division Super and then was Ass't Division Engineer at Beardstown. I heard the oldtimers talk about him
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00079.html (17,560 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:00:26 -0500 (EST)
- Louis Don't rely on me for the spelling of Terrel..or Terril..I'm familiar with the name, but not the proper spelling. A guy by the name of L.L. Smith was terminal supt at Lincoln for an extended per
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00081.html (23,341 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:04:36 -0500 (EST)
- That's exactlly what I heard, John re Jr. Griggs...That's why I placed "retired" in quotes...I thought maybe Louis would confirm or deny what I thought...I'm familiar with the picture in BB 35 and se
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00082.html (19,611 bytes)
- 7. RE: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 06:42:21 -0700
- John W. Terrill, who started his Q career at Brookfield, Mo., subsequently became GM of Lines West and then VP of the C&S, from which position he finally retired. He became a good friend here in Denv
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00087.html (17,906 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:40:16 -0500 (EST)
- Thanks Hol...I had forgotten about Terril going to the c&S Do you happen to know the years he was Supt. here in Lincoln Pete John W. Terrill, who started his Q career at Brookfield, Mo., subsequently
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00088.html (19,049 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: Noel Crawford <georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:52:01 -0500
- Pete Speaking of the deadline at the Lincoln roundhouse, sometime in mid or late summer of 1958 the engineer on the local Ravenna-Lincoln evening passenger train (cannot remember the train numbers)
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00090.html (42,263 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:26:41 -0500 (EST)
- Noel I don't remembere a Fred Bolton, but Owen Bolton, who was a retired yardmaster at Hobson Yard here in Lilncoln was in an exercise class my wife and I participated in at the YMCA here in Lincoln.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00091.html (26,371 bytes)
- 11. RE: [CBQ] EL Potarf Story (score: 1)
- Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:38:00 -0700
- Pete: I'll have to check some employee TTs to get the dates, and my Q collection is not that complete, so I'll check those at the Colo. RR Museum also. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: Jpslhedgpeth@
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-02/msg00092.html (19,837 bytes)
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