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1. [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:05:32 +1300; Left handed but for Aurora, from the 1886 Railroad Gazette - There is now being constructed in the locomotive shops a “left-handed ” switch engine. This may seem a trifle strange to most; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00109.html (17,041 bytes)
2. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:51:06 -0500; Left handed but for Aurora, from the 1886 Railroad Gazette - There is now being constructed in the locomotive shops a left-handed switch engine. This may seem a trifle strange to most people, yet su; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00110.html (17,836 bytes)
3. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:21:06 +1300; Leo I often wonder why U.S. engineers were on the right with right hand track running (coming from a country with right hand controls on left hand track) rather than towards the centre of a pair of t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00111.html (18,678 bytes)
4. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:55:19 -0400; October 13, 2015 Hol - On the subject of left handed switching locomotives used in the Chicago Lumber District, were these 0-6-0's separately identified as such on Locomotive Assignment Sheets? Knowi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00112.html (18,370 bytes)
5. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "Nathan Simmons trainman51@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:09:14 -0600; Leo I often wonder why U.S. engineers were on the right with right hand track running (coming from a country with right hand controls on left hand track) rather than towards the centre of a pair o; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00114.html (20,040 bytes)
6. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "'John D. Mitchell, Jr.' cbqrr47@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 03:21:44 +0000 (UTC); My random shot in the dark guess is because most people are right handed and being on the right hand side made picking orders up easier as it was with the right hand/arm. Nate Galaxy On Oct 13, 2015; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00117.html (24,306 bytes)
7. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:45:47 -0600; Louis and Group: No, there is nothing on any of the assignment sheets in my collection indicating left hand controls. The earliest sheets I have (1907) have no notes at the bottom as to locomotive eq; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00122.html (20,010 bytes)
8. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:43:59 -0400; October 14, 2015 Hol - Thanks for looking. One other idea, can you please check your steam locomotive diagram books for 0-6-0 types to see if any notations are made on the diagrams as to certain loco; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00123.html (20,587 bytes)
9. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:18:49 -0600; No notations in the diagram sheets that I can find, going back as far as 1912. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:43:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Left hand; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00124.html (21,973 bytes)
10. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:44:40 -0400; October 14, 2015 Hol - Again, thanks for looking. This is indeed a "mystery." I suppose by now all such Clyde roundhouse and Chicago Mechanical Department records are lost to history, but there certa; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00125.html (23,240 bytes)
11. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:04:27 -0500; One of my research listings for a trip to the Newberry next week is locomotive maintenance records going back to the construction of the Aurora engines. Since the Lumber District track dates back to; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00127.html (15,148 bytes)
12. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:32:07 -0400; October 14, 2014 Charlie - That's GREAT! Good luck - Louis In a message dated 10/14/2015 12:04:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes: One of my research listings for a trip to the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00128.html (15,411 bytes)
13. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:48:57 -0600; Sounds reasonable. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:44:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines October 14, 2015 Hol - Again, thanks for looking.; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00131.html (24,635 bytes)
14. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:14:35 -0400; October 14, 2015 Hol - OK, I'll make a search of my images and see if any 0-6-0 stands out. I encourage others in this Group to do the same. May be one of us has an image of a left handed switcher. B; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00133.html (24,495 bytes)
15. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:30:55 -0500; I think Rupert raised the question of why we Yanks insist on driving on the Right rather than on the Left as they do in the British Empire. Here is a link to the full explanation http://www.worldstan; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00134.html (15,593 bytes)
16. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:09:45 -0400; October 14, 2015 Charlie - I can't help remembering (now, with a chuckle) of my first trip to Trinidad in route to Guyana to do a scrap survey for the government. I was pretty wasted from the long fl; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00135.html (15,868 bytes)
17. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:35:13 +1300; Charlie No, it was the combination of right handed engineer on right handed track (or left and left for that matter) rather than putting the engineer in the middle, as is the case with vehicles. If y; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00136.html (18,352 bytes)
18. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "Kenneth Martin kmartin537@surewest.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:10:36 -0700; I will agree. While stationed in Germany I made several trips to England and drove around quite a bit even in downtown London. The only problem was when I first got there was making a left turn I wan; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00137.html (16,158 bytes)
19. RE: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:21:35 -0500; Rupert- The Right Handed Side of the Road Convention was established by the Teamster sitting on the left horse (before controlling teams from the wagon was established) to allow the “normal&#82; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00139.html (21,281 bytes)
20. Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines (score: 1): Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:57:54 +0000; Took me about 15 minutes to adjust to driving in England -- including downtown London -- and dealing with traffic circles (roundabouts), which have since become quite common in this country. The hard; /archives/BRHSLIST/2015-10/msg00143.html (19,110 bytes)

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