Burlington Bulletins
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Bulletin #01 contains photos, schedules, advertisements of the transition from steam to diesel on Chicago suburban operations.
Bulletin #02 contains history, photos and diagrams of the Alco-GE S-2 diesel switchers.
(A combined, 52-page reprint of Bulletins #01 through #03 is available.)
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Bulletin #03 contains history, photos, diagrams of the class T-2 2-6-6-2 mallets, with a section on gas electric operations and costs (from Railway Age 2/28/31).
The Special Edition is a 52-page reprint of Bulletins #01 through #03 and is available.
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Bulletin #04, available as a reprint, contains 36 pages of history, photos, roster, diagrams, paint and lettering styles of the F-units photos and roster plus photos and diagrams of the 6100 series heavyweight coaches.
Bulletin #05, The Denver Shops, is currently out of print, but available on CD. Click here for information.
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Bulletin #06, Center Cabs, is currently out of print, but available on CD. Click here for information.
Bulletin #07, available as a reprint, contains 28 pages of history, photos, roster, paint and lettering styles of the 1937 AAR design boxcar.
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Bulletin #08, Railway Mail Service on the Burlington, is currently out of print, but available on CD. Click here for information.
Bulletin #09, Seneca, Nebraska, is currently out of print, but available on CD. Click here for information.
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Bulletin #10, available as a reprint, contains 44 pages of history, photos, roster, paint and lettering styles of the EMD E-units.
Bulletin #11, available as a reprint, contains 40 pages of a comprehensive history and photos of the Central Iowa division point.
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Bulletin #12, available as a reprint, contains 52 pages of history, photos, roster, paint and lettering styles of the wood and steel ice refrigerator cars of the BREX and MNX. Includes mechanical reefers and insulated boxcars.
Bulletin #13, available as a reprint, contains 48 pages of history, photos, roster, diagrams, of the early custom built, stainless steel articulated Zephyr trains and non-articulated Zephyr locomotives, #'s 9900 through 9908.
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Bulletin #14, AEOLUS, is currently out of print.
Bulletin #15, The SSS Chair Cars, is currently out of print.
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Bulletin #16, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, is currently out of print.
Bulletin #17, Office Cars, is currently out of print.
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Bulletin #18, Wreckers and Steam Shovels & Bernard Corbin's Favorite Photos, is currently out of print.
Bulletin #19, Teague, Texas and the Boll Weevil, is currently out of print.
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Bulletin #20, contains 64 pages of history, photos, roster, paint and lettering styles of all Q hopper classes.
Bulletin #21, The "Colorado" Types(2-10-4's), is currently out of print
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Bulletin #22, available as a reprint, contains 56 pages of history, photos, rosters and diagrams of the seven car articulated trainsets first used as the Second Twin Cities Zephyr, and later as the Nebraska Zephyr. Also includes "OS Creston," a look at trains and dispatching in and out of Creston, Iowa on April 5, 1949.
Bulletin #23, Burlington, Iowa, Heart of the CB&Q, has recently been reprinted. It contains 124 information packed pages of the history of the Burlington Railroad as it relates its namesake city, Burlington. Over 240 photos, along with trackage diagrams and drawings complete this comprehensive history. A MUST for any Burlington library!
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Bulletin #24, currently out of print, contains 80 pages of history and photos of the various bus lines affiliated with the Burlington. Also history and photos of the dynamometer test cars.
Bulletin #25 contains 136 pages of history, photos, drawings, roster of all Burlington stock cars and associated facilities, including drovers cars and passenger service horse cars.
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Bulletin #26 contains 96 pages of comprehensive history and photos of the main back shops of the CB&Q.
Bulletin #27 contains 68 pages of history and photos of the Nebraska branch line built as the Pacific Short Line. Also history, photos, drawings of railroad scales and the cars used to calibrate those scales.
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Bulletin #28 contains64 pages of history, photos, paint and lettering diagrams of ice reefers sub-leased to and painted for shippers on the Burlington in the 1933-1934 era.
Bulletin #29 contains 68 pages of history, roster, photos, diagrams of the Consolidation type steam locomotives.
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Bulletin #30 contains 80 pages of comprehensive history and photos of the Iowa narrow gauge branch lines that ran from Burlington to Washington and Winfield to Oskaloosa, with a special section of Charles Franzen's photographs in Washington.
Bulletin #31 contains 48 pages of history and photos of a Q junction point and roundhouse location, and the story of John Fischer, a locomotive painter hired in 1926, who worked in the Lincoln roundhouse until 1974.
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Bulletin #32, currently out of print, contains 76 pages of comprehensive history and photos of one of the largest seasonal traffic sources on Lines West and on the C &S. Includes 60 full color photographs!
Bulletin #33 contains 164 pages covering the entire roster of the 3000 and 4000 series S-4 and S-4A class locomotives with history, photos, roster, operations and details.
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Bulletin #34, BURLINGTON'S MALLETS is focused around the South Dakota area in conjunction with our 1998 Annual Meet in Deadwood. It includes 50 pages on the CB&Q Mallets locomotives, the T1, T2 and T3s; 20 pages on the Cambria Branch line by Mel McFarland; and a 20-page article on the Spearfish Combine.
Bulletin #35, THE Q IN THE COAL FIELDS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, our largest issue ever, contains 256 pages of information and photographs compiled by BRHS member John Mitchell. The issue is solely devoted to the portion of the Beardstown Division south of Centralia that served over 70 coal mines. It includes information on operations, motive power, rolling stock, structures, MOW equipment, people, mines served and a small section on the Paducah & Illinois and the Q's navy!
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Bulletin #36 HAVELOCK BAGGAGE CARS, B. CORBIN REMEMBERED, WESTERN SPRINGS DEPOT contains 80 pages - History, photos and plans of the Havelock economy baggage cars, Bernard Corbin biography and photos, and photos and drawings of the Western Springs (Illinois) depot and elevated crossing gate tower.
Bulletin #37 BURLINGTON BOXES (CB&Q two and three story depot/division office buildings of the 20th century) Contains 96 pages - CB&Q depot/division office buildings, covering the structures at Aurora, Galesburg, Davenport, North LaCrosse, Lincoln, McCook, Alliance, Sheridan, and Casper. Includes 140 photos, plus diagrams of each structure.
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Bulletin #38 SNOWPLOWS - Contains 120 pages - History, photos and plans of Burlington (including C&S and FW&D) snowfighting equipment, including rotary and Jull plows, wedge pilot and push plows, flangers, spreaders, and the like. Extensive coverage of the Blizzard of 1949 and the plow re-building that followed. A dozen views in full color.
Bulletin #39 TRACK INSPECTION - Contains 84 pages - Covers track inspection vehicles: steam inspection locomotives, automotive inspection cars, and rail detector cars. With 155 photos, 43 in color, plans and extensive data on this progression of 20th Century vehicles.
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Bulletin #40 THE COLE CREEK DISASTER - Contains 44 pages - all black and white, contains two articles, both related to the severe flooding that hit the Q's Casper Division mainline in Wyoming during summer and fall 1923. The first article covers the rebuilding and relocation of 20 miles of mainline between Bonneville and Lysite, while the second deals with the disastrous wreck of Denver-bound passenger train No. 30 which crashed through a flood-weakened bridge just east of Casper on Sept. 27, 1923.
Bulletin #41 Q 537 - Contains 92 pages - First 73 pages on CB&Q #537, the Burlington's best known narrow gauge 2-8-0, with information on the other Black Hills narrow gauge locomotives. Also, 14 pages on Ira Eigsti's Buda, Illinois, with 20 late 1940's, early 1950's photos in and around Buda, located on the Chicago-Galesburg mainline.
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Bulletin #42 EXPOSITION FLYER - Contains 263 pages - Detailed history of the train by J.W. Schultz and Hol Wagner. Color and b&w photos/drawings.
Bulletin #43 9900 PIONEER ZEPHYR - Contains 48 pages - Includes a reprint of the 1934 Traffic World article. 60+ photos and illustrations.
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Bulletin #44 B&MRR LOCOS - Contains 112 pages - Locomotives of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska including assignments and tonnage ratings, complete all-time roster with renumberings and dispositions, data on B&MR shops and roundhouses, 128 photos, locomotive diagrams, roundhouse plans.
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