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Burlington Bulletin #38 Snowplows CB&Q C&S FW&D snow fighting equipment
Burlington Bulletin Number 38 Snowplows
119 Pages
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.
No sooner had we begun to deal with the untimely loss of consummate Q fan and modeler Rod "Bat" Masterson than came the news of the passing of another devoted Burlington historian, Joseph C. "Joe" Hardy of Alliance, Nebraksa. He died Dec. 6, 2000, at his home in Alliance at age 83. Joe was born March 31, 1917, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. His family moved to Sterling, Colorado, in his youth, and he graduated from high school there in 1935. He attended Holy Cross College in Canon City, Colorado for two years before moving to Alliance with his family and starting to work. He hired out with the Burlington in April 1944 as a brakeman but left train service in 1949, first becoming a telegraph operator, then in 1952, a train dispatcher. He retired 34 years later, in 1986, as chief night dispatcher at Alliance. Along the way, he attended both Scottsbluff Junior College and Chadron State College, receiving his B.A. degree in English in 1959. And in 1973 he married Vallie Josephine Brow in Cheyenne. Funeral services were held Dec. 9, followed by burial in Alliance. Hardy is survived by his wife, Vallie, and cousins Doris Torguson, Charles Hardy and Frances Hardy, all of Cheyenne, Edith Johnson of Omaha and Carolyn Olson of Oakland, California. Memorials may be given to Prairie Haven Hospice or Good Samaritan Village, both in Alliance.
Among Burlington fans, Joe is best known for his photographs and his books on Burlington subjects: Burlington in Transition (1967) and Across Iowa on the Keokuk & Western and Humes ton & Shenandoah Railroads (1986), both co-authored with Bernard Corbin; Alliance and Everywhere West (1990), co-authored with Richard Kistler; and shortly before his death, Burlington Route West, A Personal Journey, published in 2000.
This issue of the BULLETIN, dealing with the Burlington's snowfighting equipment, is another whose content has been accumulating in a file folder for years and is at last seeing the light of day. In addition to the many photographers and photographic collections represented, special thanks are owed Al Holck, whose thorough research of on-line newspapers turned up the reports of the Jull plow in action on B&MR's Wyoming Division in 1894. Al was also responsible for fascinating newspaper accounts reproduced in the previous issue on "Burlington Boxes" (combined depot and division office structures) and, earlier, on the Q's Mallet articulated locomotives on the Alliance and Sheridan divisions in the early 20th century.
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