--- tim fleck <tf5077@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How about using old prince albert cans to amplify
> the
> sounder. Has anyone else heard of this ?
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> --- Bob Weber <eng95@comcast.net> wrote:
> > When I was training to be an agent/operator (1950)
> > by the agent at Chapin, Il (Beardstown-St.Louis
> > subdivision of the CB&Q) the only use of the
> > telegraph was to send/receive Western Union
> > telegrams and to request/receive freight rates
> from
> > the tariff office. All train orders were done via
> > telephone. The only exception was when the
> > telephones were down (usually during winter
> freezing
> > rain storms). Of couse, when I hired on the end
> of
> > March 1951, my first job was at Alsey, Il and we
> had
> > a storm that brought done the lines to Beardstown.
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> > The first communication lines that the signalmen
> > restored was the telegraph which required me to
> use
> > the key for train orders and clearances. The
> > telegraph speed requirements at that time were 5
> > words/minute which I just barely passed. It was a
> > tough first week for my initiation on the Q.
> >
> > Bob
> > From: drale99@aol.com
> > Subject: Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher
> >
> >
> > ...[snip]...
> > Question: When did they stop using the
> telegraph
> > on the railroad? I was
> > always very impressed by those old telegraphers.
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> > 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
> >
> > The museum at Mendota has a telegraph room set up
complete with the Prince Albert can, gues that made a
sounding board for the set.
Leo McCauley
McNabb, Il.
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> >
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