Pete and John
How about any double sided carbon paper
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings
> 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
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> >
> >
>
>
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