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Looking for information on what brands of train order signals the Q used at its 
depots. In particular, further on the paddle type, often referred to as the 
"Swift Train Order," patented by John Ames (October 27, 1885, Patent No. 
328913) and manufactured by the Ames Company through about 1940. These may have 
been referred to as Butterfly or Banner train order signals.

A short bio per his patent application:

"John Hubbard Ames, the father of John McEwen Ames, was born at Housatonic, 
Massachusetts, December 27, 1838, his parents being William Henry Ames of 
Housatonic and Lucy Bartlett of Lee, Massachusetts. Entering Williams College 
in 1856, he discontinued his course in 1858 to go abroad in company with George 
Fuller, the artist of Deerfield, Massachusetts. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War in 1861, he applied for examination and was commissioned in the United 
States Navy as engineer of the third grade and assigned to the U.S.S. 
Connecticut for blockade duty. His service continued throughout the war in this 
duty, except for the time during which he, with others, was detailed by the 
government to experiment with superheated steam on boats plying between 
Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. At the close of the war he started on the U.S.S. 
Minnesota to circle the globe, but the ship broke down and had to return to New 
York. Mr. Ames resigned his commission as assistant engineer to become 
superintendent of the Yale Lock Company, then located at Shelburne Falls, 
Massachusetts. In 1871, he was superintendent of the Herring Safe Company, New 
York, and in 1872, was made superintendent of the Grant Locomotive Works, at 
Paterson, New Jersey. As representative of this concern he was sent to Odessa 
to erect a consignment of locomotives purchased by the Russian government, the 
first ever exported by an American concern. The Grant Company failed while he 
was abroad and in 1875 he again became superintendent of the Yale Lock Company, 
at that time located at Stamford, Connecticut, which position he held until 
1879, when he was employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the 
purchase of rails and locomotives. In 1881 he was made purchasing agent of this 
company and was transferred to St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Ames retired from the 
position in 1890, as his health was failing, and shortly thereafter moved back 
to the East, dying April 14, 1908, at his home at Ware, Massachusetts. Mr. Ames 
was a member of the Loyal Legion. He made the designs for the first government 
post office boxes for the Yale Lock Company and secured a number of patents, 
among others a steam separator for boilers, a Yale padlock, a refrigerator, an 
automatic brake for railroad cars, a railway signal apparatus and a pneumatic 
transmitter for store service."

Any info about Ames and the Ames Company and points where this type of signal 
might have been in use is much appreciated.

RSVP
John Phillips
Seattle



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