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1. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:55:02 -0600
Thanks, Nelson. It sounds like a great subject for a Zephyr article (hint, hint). I've felt frustrated not to have this basic part of a servicing facility available. In HO scale, at least, there have
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00101.html (13,694 bytes)

2. RE: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a@mchsi.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:09:23 -0500
Service facility photos appear to be rare. I suspect that the business of servicing locomotives didn't lend itself to amateur photography (access being the chief constraint), and the railroads appare
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00103.html (16,378 bytes)

3. Fwd: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:45:54 -0400 (EDT)
Nelson, I was holding off answering hoping someone with first hand experience at Burlington could answer. I have looked at your photos of the Burlington sand tower and cant really help specifiically
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00104.html (20,520 bytes)

4. Re: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "homanfamily" <homanfamily@fuse.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:11:30 -0400
You might look in old Locomotive Encylopedias, as manufactures took large ads in them, often with photos or drawings of their products. I don't know if there was a seperate book or journal for shop m
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00105.html (18,533 bytes)

5. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:55:01 -0600
I had to both use and maintain both the sand tower and sandhouse while working at Rice Yard in Denver between 1976 and the day the yard was closed. Sand was delivered to me in the oldest, most decrep
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00112.html (15,652 bytes)

6. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:55:01 -0600
Sand Tower Follies continued. One evening, the inevitable occurred, we had a major fire, the result of natural gas igniting when we tried to light the burners with a fusee (just goes to show you what
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00113.html (19,520 bytes)

7. Re: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:10:08 -0400 (EDT)
Bob Welcome to the world of railroad story tellers...You're right up there with the best of them...ie Leo, Karl and myself..Those are great stories and relieve the boredom of a lot of the "rivet coun
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00114.html (21,317 bytes)

8. Re: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: Michael Matalis <mmatalis@sprynet.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:17:37 -0500
Actually I love these stories, I don't know why but the Q list is the only place I see them regularly. Thank you kindly, Michael Matalis Downers Grove IL You can see my railroad photography blog at h
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00115.html (19,674 bytes)

9. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:55:01 -0600
More on sandtowers from the inside out. Once the bucket elavator had taken the sand up to the top of the sand house along with assorted dead/live rats, pigeons, squirrels and parairie dogs or what ev
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00120.html (22,997 bytes)

10. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:55:02 -0600
On occasion I tried to hurry the sand box filling process by notching the motors up to RUN 3 and that was all well and good until the much higher volume of air and sand mix being pushed through the o
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00121.html (25,982 bytes)

11. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "pal_houston" <paulaleonard08@att.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:55:02 -0600
Best Regards, Paul -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00123.html (11,940 bytes)

12. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:55:01 -0600
-- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http:
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00131.html (33,910 bytes)

13. Re: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:01:51 -0400 (EDT)
Bob....They get better and better...I say with the "denizens of the MM office"..Keep us up on the latest updates Pete -- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@...> wrote: __._,_.___ Change
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00133.html (30,038 bytes)

14. [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question (score: 1)
Author: "POOTUS2010" <bearmtnbob@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:55:01 -0600
Pete: thanks for the kind words, have a few more stored in the memory bank. I do realize now that when one works on the railroad, depending on your job, incidents like I have been realating were able
/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00134.html (37,852 bytes)


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