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----- Original Message -----
From: "cy svobodny" <ctsvobodny@yahoo.com>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher Phone recordings
> Been there, done that; even today orders(track
> bulletins) and clearances(track warrants) are still
> handed up in a few places(I've done it at Fargo, ND on
> AMTRAK as recent as 4 years ago. That's last time I
> worked there. But, now everything is faxed so no
> copying.
> --- Bob Weber <eng95@comcast.net> wrote:
> > As a relief agent/operator in the 1950's, I worked
> > almost every CB&Q office on the Beardstown division.
> > The standard typewriter was an ancient all caps
> > Underwood machine used for waybills, freight bills,
> > railway express bills and Western Union telegrams.
> > Interchange reports and bookkeeping forms were
> > handwritten using pencils and regular one-sided
> > carbon paper. Train orders were always hand written
> > on green (form 19) or yellow (form 31?) onion skin.
> > Five copies with double-sided carbon paper between
> > each sheet of onion skin and a tin plate under the
> > fifth sheet. Writing was done using a metal stylus.
> > Two copies with clearance for the front end
> > (Engineer and Brakeman) and two copies with
> > clearance for the waycar (Conductor and Brakeman)
> > and 1 for the file. Orders were handed up by hand
> > using a open ended Y shaped rack strung with a
> > sheepshank knotted string. Real fun standing a
> > couple of feet from the track to hand up orders to
> > an M4 or F7 doing 50-60 MPH then wait in the blowing
> > dust and cinders to hand up to the waycar,
> > especially at night. At least that's the way I
> > remember it.
> >
> > Bob
> > Seniority 3/2/51
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: PSHedgpeth@aol.com
> > To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Fw: [n_scale] Dispatcher
> > Phone recordings
> >
> >
> > 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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