While railroad code differed from Morse code, an acceptable alternative is to recruit two ham radio operators as operators. I'm a ham, so I only need one more to run my Railroad.
Nelson Moyer
Hi group,
This is an awesome topic and also hope to see that list. But my main reason for posting was a great find a decade ago that I made while working with a club that I use to belong to. They are responsible for maintaining the old Milwaukee Road/CB&Q tower
that was in Newport Minnesota. While going through one of the cabinets, I found a very intriguing electronic box. After inspecting it, I figured out that it was an old Telegraphers training device. It had several paper-tape rolls that could be run through
the device and it would output the dots/dashes on the tape for the Telegraph Operator to decipher. One member was going to throw the device away thinking it was useless, but fortunately I intercepted the toss and saved the device. I handed it to the club president
(at the time) and told him to save it at all cost and relayed exactly what it was. I intend to talk to him again soon to see where the device ended up and if at all possible, gain custody of it. If I do get my hands on it, I hope to find an old teletype machine
that has a paper-tape reader/puncher and make copies of all the tapes (they were getting old and I am sure fragile). If successful, I will make a couple of recordings that I can post to the group.
Tom Johnson
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