- 1. [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: bsrls@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:55:02 -0600
- Larry, Thanks for your response. You confirm what I was already thinking particularly in regards to the what the required grade would have been. The only elevation data that I have is from USGS Topo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00142.html (15,824 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Stoll <larry.stoll@cbqrr.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:54:31 -0500
- I have produced a map of the West Quincy - Quincy area showing the routing of the Zephyr-Rocket through Quincy for inclusion in the next Terminal Railroad of St. Louis Historical and Technical Socie
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00144.html (18,775 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: bsrls@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:55:02 -0600
- Ken, Thanks for the reference. I will try to find a copy of that article as it sounds interesting. Those old trade magazines often had some very good detailed articles. 'Railway and Engineering Revie
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00145.html (13,426 bytes)
- 4. [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: bsrls@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:55:02 -0600
- Thanks Larry. A few days will be fine. Bill -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditiona
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00146.html (18,211 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:52:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Phil Weibler is really your "go to guy" on this matter..Maybe he will come on and enlighten you guys. It does seem to me that I recall seeing an article in TRAINS sometime shortly after the new West
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00147.html (20,191 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
- Kalmbach put out a Burlington photo album in the late 40's or early 50's showing the Quincy yards with a Q passenger train behind E-5's coming off of the old bridge and showing the "bay" bridge. BTW,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00150.html (14,907 bytes)
- 7. [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: bsrls@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:55:02 -0600
- John, Thanks for sending the reference to the Trains articles. I should be able to find them. Best, Bill -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/grou
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00157.html (13,004 bytes)
- 8. [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: bsrls@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:55:02 -0600
- Dave, Thanks for posting the five maps from the Track Chart Book. They show quite a bit of additional information that my track charts from the west side of the river don't show. I can now get a bett
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00158.html (11,258 bytes)
- 9. RE: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:05:57 -0700
- Bill: I found a track chart from 1956 that shows from MP 260 to West Quincy, via the 1947 connection track and the original route across the river. I will try to scan it tomorrow and post it to the s
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00161.html (13,101 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:04:28 -0400
- That might have been the Zephyr Rocket. It was still crossing over to Illinois until the early fifties. What other trains might it have been? Duncan Cameron -- Original Message -- From: cbqrr47@yahoo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00164.html (14,971 bytes)
- 11. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:35:56 -0700 (PDT)
- That might have been the Zephyr Rocket. It was still crossing over to Illinois until the early fifties. What other trains might it have been? Duncan Cameron -- Original Message -- From: cbqrr47@yaho
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00166.html (17,095 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: rgortowski@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
- Duncan, Per the caption, it's the detouring Exposition Flyer, due to a wash-out on the main. The book was copyrighted in 1947. It's a very nice, large photo of the train coming off of the bridge. Ric
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00167.html (16,103 bytes)
- 13. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: rgortowski@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:39:53 -0400 (EDT)
- I forgot to mention - an 11 car train with one express box on the head and one pre-war stainless car in the middle. The rest of the cars are heavyweight. Rich G. Duncan, Per the caption, it's the det
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00168.html (17,275 bytes)
- 14. RE: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Lotz" <Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:56:49 -0400
- John, Im interested to know why you feel this is not the Expo, or at least a section of the Expo. Ive always accepted the caption, and here are my reasons: the pair of E5s on the head end an express
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00169.html (20,167 bytes)
- 15. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: ralph linroth <wcman8@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:34:00 -0700 (PDT)
- Dave, Thanks for posting the five maps from the Track Chart Book. They show quite a bit of additional information that my track charts from the west side of the river don't show. I can now get a bet
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00172.html (12,794 bytes)
- 16. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
- John, Im interested to know why you feel this is not the Expo, or at least a section of the Expo. Ive always accepted the caption, and here are my reasons: the pair of E5s on the head end an express
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00174.html (21,103 bytes)
- 17. Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: Philip Weibler <pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:28:50 -0700 (PDT)
- Phil Weibler is really your "go to guy" on this matter..Maybe he will come on and enlighten you guys. It does seem to me that I recall seeing an article in TRAINS sometime shortly after the new West
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00177.html (16,818 bytes)
- 18. RE: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Lotz" <Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:02:45 -0400
- Hi John, I had always just accepted the caption for the photo as being accurate, but then, I know that captions are not always correct. Thats why I asked if you had some information that I was not a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00178.html (17,168 bytes)
- 19. [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: bsrls@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:55:01 -0600
- Glen, I look forward to seeing your 1956 track chart. All of the track charts I either have or have seen, have been from the mid 1960's. It will be good to see a pre new bridge track chart. If you ha
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00180.html (13,141 bytes)
- 20. [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy (score: 1)
- Author: bsrls@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:55:01 -0600
- List, I have posted in the files section a portion of a 1938 aerial photo of similar area to what Dave just recently posted. It is: "Aerial Quincy-Carthage Jct. 1938.PDF" and it is in the file folder
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2012-04/msg00181.html (12,589 bytes)
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