Re: [CBQ] Train/car bridges? was Re: Burlington Railroad Bridge, now fountain...

[Michael Matalis <mmatalis@sprynet.com>]

Pardon my ignorance, but if you place carbon paper "carbon side up"  
aren't you going to end up with mirror writing?  Or was the idea that  
the carbon would show thru the flimsy paper (hence the name) and be  
read that way?


Thank you kindly,

Michael Matalis
mmatalis@sprynet.com

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On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:29 AM, cttnghmrl@aol.com wrote:

>
> ...I never worked for a railroad, but had a good friend who  did.   
> The train
> orders were form 19 and 31, but I don't remember what the   
> difference was.
> Carbon paper was placed carbon side up under the thin  paper orders,  
> and a
> stylus was used to write the order information.  The  words were  
> then actually
> on the underside of the "flimsies." ....
> I really am that old.
>
> Ray Cottingham
> Troy, IL
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