I've been curious about that question myself. When I was in high school on
the Aurora-Burwell branch, my dad, who was agent there, began teaching me the
telegraph. He was training me to be a helper, which was to be how I would work
my way thru college. The navy interfered, and I never became a brass
pounder. When I was back after the war, it seemed that telegraphers were
becoming
extinct.
Question: When did they stop using the telegraph on the railroad? I was
always very impressed by those old telegraphers. They were fast. I hope we
scare up a few more who know what telegraphy was. Railway telegraphy has
really
become a thing of the past. Very few people have any idea what it was. I have
my dad's old bug, and a couple of keys and a sounder set up in my basement.
I like to work the keys just to hear those old sounds. Whenever I demonstrate
the telegraph, I find that I'm making sounds that people generally have never
heard.
Nice to reminisce. Dale
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