- 1. [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob & Marian Sorensen" <rksmes@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:35:22 -0500
- I have what I hope are some easy questions for someone: While looking for something else in a local hobby shop I found their closeout section. There is a Walthers Work Train kit in CSX orange and I h
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- 2. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas Johnson (60/M)" <t.m.j@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:51:55 -0800
- I have an interest in putting together a Q work train also. I like modeling the transition era, so not sure exactly how many, if any, work trains were still in existence. Would be interested in work
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- 3. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:11:03 +0000
- Tom I dont pretend to know just too much about work trains other than I dont think there was a standard one. Each would have been assembled depending on the work to be done, the equipment needed for
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- 4. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Carroll, Ed" <ed.carroll@emeritus.heartland.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 02:30:32 +0000
- Hi Tom, In the 1950s, probably 1953 or 1954 my father had a construction crew, a section gang, an extra gang, and a bridge gang for work on the CB&Q mainline somewhere in north LaSalle County. It con
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- 5. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas Johnson (60/M)" <t.m.j@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:39:38 -0800
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- 6. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas Johnson (60/M)" <t.m.j@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:41:45 -0800
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- 7. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Douglas Harding" <iowacentralrr@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:56:33 -0600
- I found some photos of a track crew at work in Nodaway IA, c1947. Doug Harding https://www.facebook.com/douglas.harding.3156/ Youtube: Douglas Harding Iowa Central Railroad _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links:
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- 8. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken Martin via groups.io" <kmartin537=surewest.net@groups.io>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:53:21 -0800
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- 9. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Douglas Harding" <iowacentralrr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:00:21 -0600
- The photos from Nodaway IA were taken by Russell Lee in May of 1948. Copies are available from the Newbury Library. https://archive.org/details/cbqgr623 Many of his photos are also at the Library of
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- 10. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "jpslhedgpeth@aol.com via groups.io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:01:20 +0000 (UTC)
- Other than the two "motor cars" and the late 30's automobile not a single piece of mechanized track equipment. Strickly "pick and shovel. On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 12:53:38 AM CST, Ken Martin
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- 11. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "jamessandrin via groups.io" <jamessandrin=yahoo.com@groups.io>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:22:44 +0000 (UTC)
- The concept of a "work train" is as varied as the work needed to be done. A short list would include distribution of ties for, oddly enough, a tie gang which was a summer-time extra-gang project. A s
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- 12. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Douglas Harding" <iowacentralrr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:13:53 -0600
- Pete here is a photo of the Nodaway track gang with a machine https://archive.org/download/cbqgr773m/cbqgr773m.jpg Doug Harding https://www.facebook.com/douglas.harding.3156/ Youtube: Douglas Harding
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- 13. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "ted schnepf" <railsunlimited2@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:18:44 -0600
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- 14. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Douglas Harding" <iowacentralrr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:43:56 -0600
- The Newberry has 23 photos in this series of two track gangs working together at Nodaway IA. Russell Lee was there May 1, 1948 to photograph the crews. Here is a link to all the photos https://archiv
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2024-01/msg00060.html (14,931 bytes)
- 15. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken Vandevoort" <countrydepottrains@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:19:44 -0800
- One Saturday afternoon during October, 1971, Dick Hovey and I went exploring with our cameras. We found a work train in the Chariton yard and took photos of each car. Only two cars were BN, the rest
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- 16. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken Martin via groups.io" <kmartin537=surewest.net@groups.io>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 10:23:07 -0800
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- 17. Re: [CBQ] Work Train (score: 1)
- Author: "spsalso via groups.io" <Edwardsutorik=aol.com@groups.io>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:40:05 -0800
- Ms. Fisher's husband wrote a nice follow-on book about his work life, mostly on Donner. He worked on the telegraph/phone lines. Two very readable books! Ms. Fisher, in her book, told a story about ho
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