IF memory serves the telegraph was used on the Q until about 1972. Rock
Island ended the telegraph in 1965.
On the Q most branch lines continued to be dispatched by telegraph right up
until the end of the key and sounder era.
Most all stations continued to have a key and sounder, but after the 1950's
and the retirement of many of the old time telegraphers it became used less
and less.
I recall from my braking days a standing joke on the Lincoln Division that
the only Morse one agent-operator knew was FN (phone).
Pete Hedgpeth
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