Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

I was in a train order office in the 70's and a very young operator couldn't keep up. I told him to say BK. The DS said "You're too young to know that. Who told you to say that?"

He said, "Mitchell". And the DS said,"I might have known!" The DS had known me, from his telegrapher days.

John

--- On Fri, 1/4/13, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> wrote:

From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 6:52 PM

 

John...I know I'm disqualified....but I had to jump in on this one...BK is "Break"....used primarily by telegraphers when the sender...usually the DS.... was sending too fast for the OP to copy.... They would   break the circut and then send BK. The old timers would continue to use BK when taking TO's on the phone..They would just yell BK into the phone.  The old guys continued to use the telegraph abbreviations and station call signs even when the telephones came in.

 

There was a young "then" operator on the Lincoln Division back in the 1950's.....his name was Archer...He could barely telegraph,.....It was said that the only thing Arch could send was...FN.

 

Add FN to your abbreviation list.

 

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 9:20 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz

 

The ones in error are marked in red.

--- On Fri, 1/4/13, kurthayek <kurthayek@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: kurthayek <kurthayek@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Abbreviation quiz
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 1:02 AM

 

Abbreviation quiz:

I did not see this until several others had already posted answers but I'll pretend I didn't see those. Here's what I remember without looking in any reference material:


a/c—account
A1
AFE—Authority For Expenditure (prepared many of these on the CNW)
B/A—Billed At (location)
BK—Brakeman (a guess)
BO—Bad Order (easy; anyone that didn't know this one?)
Bsk
Bx—Box (car)
C&E—Conductor & Engineer
jct—junction
Jt—Joint
K
Ld—Load (-ed car)
LFVC—Loaded Full Visible Capacity
MT—Empty (car)
NOIBN
Ntfy—Notify
O
OS—On Station or On Sheet (time by a location)
P.H.P.—Packing House Products (meat, etc.)
RIP—Repair In Place (according to magazine articles; I'm dubious)
Rpt—Repeat
Sk—Stock (car)
W&F
W/C—Waycar
WB—Waybill
WW&IB-Western Weighing & Inspection Bureau

This was fun!

No, I was not an agent or clerk on the railroad; engineering dept. on Up and CNW, then TYE on CNW, BN, and BNSF.

Kurt Hayek

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