The joys of train orders was setting up the stack to make the copies. Often
used was a piece of sheet metal or the cardboard off the back of a note pad.
But the metal worked the best. Next was carbon paper not the usual but double
sided. It had ink on both sides and got on your hands very easily. You used a
fat large lead pencil or large ball point pen. A stylus worked if you could
find one.
The Dispatcher had to use ink. Both on the train sheet and in the order and
track and time books. I generally used a ball point pen and if it lasted 7
days you were lucky. We had one guy who used a fountain pen. And along with
it had a special bleach which was used for the ink. It would remove the ink
and not leave a trace. Otherwise pages would disappear.
SJH
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From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:57:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Train/car bridges? was Re: Burlington Railroad Bridge, now
fountain pens and train orders
Ray and listers
Indeed I do know what a "fountain pen" is.?? We have a local business man here
in Lincoln who is quite a history expert and writes a column each week for our
Sunday paper...His headline along with his name and picture includes the
line..."Who still writes with a fountain pen"
Do you remember the bottles of ink with a little "well" on one side just inside
the mouth where you could tip the bottle and get just a small amout of ink to
fill your pen...Also.. another test question..Do you remember the brand name of
the ink most popularly used in fountain pens.
Someone else mentioned something about Eversharp which was a brand name of a
mechanical pencil...maybe the first one...It did also become the "generic" name
for any mechanical pencil....in the same way that...in the early days any
refrigerator was called a 'Frigidaire" even though it might be a GE or
Westinghouse etc....ie in the earlier days of copiers...Any machine which made
copies was called a '"Xerox".... You get the idea.
Speaking of old radio quiz programs...way off topic now....anybody remember one
called "The Quiz Kids"...if you do who was the most famous "kid" who
participated? ???
Now to make a "token effort" to relate to a railroad matter....In the matter of
making copies.....How were copies of Train Orders made?...The rules required
that these be prepared in "manifold".. .ie more than one copy was necesary.? On
the Q there was one for the head end and one for the rear end on freight trains
and on passenger trains there was one for the engine crew, one for the
conductor and one for the flagman.? Also the operator was required to keep one
copy for his office file.
Also what were the form numbers for the two basic types of TO's and how were
colors used to designate the two types.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: cttnghmrl@aol. com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:27 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Train/car bridges? was Re: Burlington Railroad
Bridge,,,Rail- auto b...
Jpslhedgpeth wrote:
"Tom you're "Right for Eversharp".. .and we'll give that man " 5 Silver
Dollars. Another question...you have to be reallly old to remember...Where
did these comments come from."
I'm sure I qualify! These are from an OLD radio program called "Doctor
I.Q." Eversharp was (is?) a brand of mechanical pencils and fountain pens.
They sponsored the show. Which leads to another question: You do know what
a fountain pen is, don't you?
Radio: Television without the pictures.
Ray Cottingham
Troy, IL
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