Re: [CBQ] Re: Telegraphic Office Calls

["STEVEN HOLDING sholding@sbcglobal.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Dave has the list for the Zephyr and I also sent it to Lenny another (No OP) worker who I thought might be able to help with it.  He has found some errors already.

It was put together by myself and the late Don Seeger a former Dispatcher and TM for the Q.

Often these, generally, two letter codes were used as abbreviations were used on train sheets and delay reports.  Some times they showed up in Employees Timetables

They were similar to what is used today for airport abbreviations  ie.  ORD  is Orchard Airport now O'Hara  and MCO  is McCoy AFB now Orlando International

Steve in SC

On Sunday, May 28, 2017 8:37 AM, "Nelson Moyer npmoyer@hotmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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

On May 27, 2017, at 10:32 PM, t.m.j@comcast.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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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