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Re: [CBQ] Re: Morse lost language

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Morse lost language
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:39:41 -0500 (EST)
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Lenny that's a great story...There's a similar one I heard on the RI...B.F. 
Wells, General Manager and another officer were making an inspection trip over 
the line..They stopped at a depot and were talking with the operator... An 
operator down the line came on the wire and said something like..."You better 
watch out the "big shots" are on the way"...BFW ...a former telegrapher, turned 
to the OP and said..." tell him the "big shots" are already here"

What we need now is a demonstration of an old time operator repeating a train 
order. on the phone.   I loved to hear these guys work..It was like an 
auctioneer's chant and if  you didn't know what they were saying you would 
think it was a foreign language...Spelling out the train and/or engine numbers 
and each station...
Maybe you and Steve Holding could give us a demonstration.

Pete




-----Original Message-----
From: wohrnell <wohrnell@kc.rr.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 17, 2010 6:56 am
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Morse lost language


 

Pete,

A little story about Morse, this happened in Monmouth. There were two operators 
in the office when a pretty young lady came to the ticket window.
One operator tapped out a short message about the young ladies looks. She 
smiled and thanked him, turned out she was a Western Union operator.

We still had a wire between the Q and C&NW (M&StL) in 67 at Monmouth.

Lenny

I ended up with Paul's bugs after he passed away in January.






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