Steve
At the mine, we called those tags, "Lamp Checks". In
the old days, you gave yours to the lamphouse man who
in turn gave you your cap light and placed the tag on
a hook with your check number under it. The company
used it like a time clock and you could tell who was
still underground as well as keep track of the cap
lights. Here in Illinois, the state law mandated the
use of a "check-in check-out system". In my day, all
of the cap light boards were "self service" but most
mines had check tags that we put on ourselves. I still
have mine.
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- Steven Holding <hold-on@s...> wrote:
> James
> At a show in Jacksonville, Fla. a person had a bunch
> of those brass tags.
> Someone there who had worked with them said often
> they were used also not
> for baggage but were issued at the beginning of the
> week for pay checks and
> were handed in each day to a clerk so time could be
> kept. Also Coal mines
> used them to tell who was in the mine. You placed
> the tag on a board when
> you went down and took it off when you came up/out.
> sjh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave_Lotz <Dave_Lotz@m...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:53 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] FW: Train Question
>
>
> > Does anybody on the list have any ideas?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James B. [mailto:KD124@w...]
> > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:45 PM
> > To: brhs@n...
> > Subject: Train Question
> >
> >
> > If you have time to answer this question I would
> appreciate it. My
> > hobby is metal detecting and I have found an old
> baggage tag. On the
> > front it has:
> > B.C.C.O.CO Is that your railroad?
> > Do you know what railroad this is and what time
> period it operated?
> > Thanks
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
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