- 1. [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Robt. Jackson" <_Ocho1@excite.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:40:32 -0600
- Say howdy, I just stumbled over this site...I worked on CB&Q/BN from May 1957 to May 1993...Worked WD-StLouis MO, C-StJoe MO, CW-Ottumwa Ia, CR-Creston Ia, B-Brookfield MO, VS-Livingston MT, X-Hannib
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00070.html (8,918 bytes)
- 2. [CBQ] Old Telgr. attn. > John Lewis (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Robt. Jackson" <_Ocho1@excite.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:46:59 -0600
- Hi John, Oh yeah I know Wayne Beever one fine feller and a first class Agt/Opr .. whenever I had a msg for Palmyra & I called "MY" if he didn`t answer right back I knew he was not in the depot..Pls g
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00092.html (8,135 bytes)
- 3. [CBQ] Old Telgr. Last morse, prince albert cans etc... (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Robt. Jackson" <_Ocho1@excite.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:47:45 -0600
- Well I think the CB&Q was one of the 1st RR`s to install printers (teletype) yet it was also about the last to give up the morse ckts. - I was holding the Mgr/WC posn at "VS"-Livingston MT (on BN aft
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00096.html (9,515 bytes)
- 4. [CBQ] Beardstown > morse 5 wpm ? (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Robt. Jackson" <_Ocho1@excite.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:27:13 -0600
- Hey Bob I would not think that 5wpm could be called "qualified"..for anything... . I started out on the NKP (Nickle Plate) and you had to pass a wire test at 15 wpm to get a job (1950)..They had a Di
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00097.html (9,476 bytes)
- 5. [CBQ] Beardstown Ill CB&Q...5wpm Oprs... (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Robt. Jackson" <_Ocho1@excite.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:44:47 -0600
- Hey Bob, back in `52 I worked to 2nd & 3rd trick oprs job at "SO"- Sorento Tower (NKP/CBQ manual interlock)....We worked with "BT" Beardstown and it was a joke, we could hardly ever get them to even
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00099.html (8,682 bytes)
- 6. [CBQ] Re: Beardstown Ill CB&Q...5wpm Oprs... (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Robt. Jackson" <_Ocho1@excite.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:36:50 -0600
- Bob..Ya. as I recall the CBQ Agent at Sorento in 52 was a women & I never met her...I don`t remember the bowling alley but I remember the card parlor where all the old retired coal miners played card
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00103.html (11,322 bytes)
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