Mail Archive Search: <+subject:/^(?:^\s*(re|sv|fwd|fw)[\[\]\d]*[:>-]+\s*)*\[CBQ\]\s+Re\:\s+Dope\s+Wagon\s*$/>

Results:

References: [ +subject:/^(?:^\s*(re|sv|fwd|fw)[\[\]\d]*[:>-]+\s*)*\[CBQ\]\s+Re\:\s+Dope\s+Wagon\s*$/: 16 ]

Total 16 documents matching your query.

1. [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Harding" <dharding@nethtc.net>; Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:59:23 -0600; Bob, I have no clue what the NYC called a Dope Wagon. But apparently Dope was a term used for soft drinks or carbonated beverages, down south. A Dope Wagon contained soft drinks, ice, sandwiches, etc; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00066.html (11,882 bytes)
2. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Bob Webber <rgz17@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:59:51 -0600; Doug, I just pulled the drawing (I'm compiling an index of donated drawings, and that one was one that I brought home). It is based on a standard Vanderbilt Wheelbarrow. 4 Wheels. It has details for; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00067.html (13,543 bytes)
3. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:23:50 -0500; As a former "box packer" I can say with 9944%? certainty that what is referred to as a "dope wagon" would have been a cart to carry the waste "packing" used in friction bearings...Believe it or not a; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00068.html (15,656 bytes)
4. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Bob Webber <rgz17@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:32:30 -0600; Thanks Pete! That definitely fits with the drawing, and explains the iron as well... Bob Webber [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00069.html (17,202 bytes)
5. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: "Archie" <kliner@mywdo.com>; Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:55:26 -0600; Hot box water cooler? Named for Joe Keely 3rd trick dispatcher out of Ottumwa? Archie -- Original Message -- From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:23 PM Su; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00070.html (16,012 bytes)
6. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:43:06 -0500; Archie You get at least 50% credit...The keely, as I understand it, was a water can equipped with a hook so that it could be hung over a grab iron or any other protruding item on a car with a hose wh; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00072.html (17,526 bytes)
7. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Bob Webber <rgz17@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:57:31 -0600; I *think* that Keely came from a quack that started in Dekalb or thereabouts - and had dozens if not hundreds of clinics "for the cure". Will have to look it up (the name would be what is wrong, ther; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00074.html (19,608 bytes)
8. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: VERLIN WHITE <verlinwhite@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:47:18 -0800 (PST); Hello, Could you send a copy or post it in the file section so we can see it? It might make an interesting model. Doug, I just pulled the drawing (I'm compiling an index of donated drawings, and that; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00076.html (14,004 bytes)
9. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Bob Webber <rgz17@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:05:07 -0600; Verlin, I can't. I don't have it scanned, It is about 4' square, it is not mine, it's the property of the Pullman Library, and it can't be put on the web.. In a very short time, it should be able to; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00078.html (15,826 bytes)
10. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:31:42 -0500; I did a little checking in my TREASURY OF RR FOLKLORE but couldn't find any reference there...In a 1966 piece in Railroad Magazine by the late Bill Knapke in a list of definitions he says...."Keeley; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00079.html (20,698 bytes)
11. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:39:03 -0500; Keeley Cure...GOOGLE Keeley Cure and you'll find out all you would ever want to know about the matter. It did, indeed, begin in Dwight, IL and there is a museum and other "mementoes" of the Keeley In; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00080.html (21,572 bytes)
12. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:40:57 -0800 (PST); For all of you younger guys, please be advised that "dope" was oil soaked waste used to pack journal boxes on cars and locomotives that used solid bearings. Are there no car knockers on the list? I k; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00085.html (14,174 bytes)
13. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com; Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:34:42 -0500; John Didn't you read my post yesterday...I covered the subject...being an ex box packer I am qualified. I also asked if anyone knew what a Keeley was..how about you?? Pete For all of you younger guys; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00088.html (13,738 bytes)
14. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: VERLIN WHITE <verlinwhite@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:36:23 -0800 (PST); Verlin, I can't. I don't have it scanned, It is about 4' square, it is not mine, it's the property of the Pullman Library, and it can't be put on the web.. In a very short time, it should be able to; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00089.html (15,788 bytes)
15. RE: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: "Grice Dale-MGI1833" <dgrice@motorola.com>; Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:03:06 -0400; I tend to recall in reading some of the old Railroad magazine stories that they referenced dope as the friction bearing packing material. Dale ________________________________ Doug, I just pulled the; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00090.html (15,034 bytes)
16. Re: [CBQ] Re: Dope Wagon (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:38:56 -0500; IIRC the Keely Cure was a treatment for alcholism involving much injestion of water. There are photos of O1a tenders that have the plumbing mentioned. A couple of Waycar photos show up with very larg; /archives/BRHSLIST/2009-03/msg00092.html (20,767 bytes)

Current List: 1 - 16
Page: [1]