Pete
I still have an old train order "tin" and stylus in my
collection. Using a typewriter was a breakthrough, as
far as I am concerned. Some of the old longhand train
orders were pretty hard to read! As with EVERYTHING
new on the railroad, the old guys resisted using
typewriters fo train orders.
John
--- PSHedgpeth@aol.com wrote:
> John
>
> As one old guy to another....I remember the old all
> cap typewriters...I think
> that I or my dad actually had one...don't have it
> any more...Seems they were
> called "billers"...all the items the agent typed in
> on a freight bill or
> waybill were always in caps.
>
> You probably remember that there was a time when the
> typewriter came into
> more widespread use that it was against the rules to
> use the typewriter for train
> orders....
>
> Also during my younger..much younger days when I was
> watching the OPs copy
> train orders I was fascinated by why the carbon
> paper was put in upside down and
> how that "stone thing" (stylus) could write...when
> it didn't have any ink in
> it.
>
> The OPS at Langdon always used a fairly heavy metal
> backing to put under the
> last copy to provide a firm base..That's probably
> the way it was done
> everyplace, but it's just another old memory..very
> definite.
>
> Pete
>
>
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>
>
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