Rob Adams wrote:
>
> Interestingly, an 1889 rule book for the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North
> Michigan does not contain "OS" in the list of telegraph abbreviations,
> so perhaps it had not yet come into use (at least universal use).
>
> Anybody have access to rule books from the 1890-1910 period? Perhaps
> the answer will be there.
>
> Kind regards, Rob Adams
>
The CB&Q 1900 rule book lists "OS - Train Report".
The CB&Q 1883 rule book does not list OS as an approved abbreviation.
Interestingly there is an abbreviation "O.K." means correct. This is not in
the 1900 book.
"As soon as a train arrives at a station at which an order awaits it, the
Conductor of such train shall proceed directly to the telegraph office, and
carefully examine the order. It shall be the duty of the operator to read
aloud the copy which he is to retain, and the Conductor shall see that the
copies for himself and the Engineer exactly agree therewith. If the Conductor
fully understands the order he shall sign it. It must then be repaeated back
over the Conductor's signature, word for word, as received, to the person
sending it, who shall, if the order is corrrectly understood, reply O.K. which
shall be indorsed over the proper signature upon the order, and countersigned
by the receiving operator with the exact time of receiving the O.K."
Ken Martin
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