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1. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: "Florian Griessenboeck" <florian@v...>; Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:08:13 +0900; Vielen Dank, Warren! Your answer is indeed very helpful. Fortunately, I already purchased a Burlington rulebook from 1929 via ebay. It should be already in the mail. I am sure this will make clear a; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00252.html (10,890 bytes)
2. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: "VLBG" <VLBG@s...>; Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 16:51:03 -0600; Florian, In the 40's there would have been a lot of Telegraphy. Most of the branch lines would not have switched to a voice phone line. IIRC in the mid sixties there was still one telegraph station D; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00255.html (9,759 bytes)
3. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: John Mitchell <cbqrr47@y...>; Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:17:54 -0800 (PST); The telegraph was used(for both train orders and "wires"), at least to a limited extent until the mid-50's, on the Q. John D. Mitchell, Jr. -- Florian Griessenboeck <florian@v...> wrote: ____________; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00257.html (11,556 bytes)
4. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: "Florian Griessenboeck" <florian@v...>; Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:47:37 +0900; Boys, that's what I call a great list - you come up with a question and by the way you get a bunch of other problems solved! Thank you all. For my branch line that means no phones, right? Not even wi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00258.html (9,023 bytes)
5. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: John Mitchell <cbqrr47@y...>; Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:39:33 -0800 (PST); Sorry, but "line ups" were not used exactly this way. It is true, that a line up was used to tell track car operators when and where to expect trains and engines, but the dispatchers used a system of; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00259.html (12,137 bytes)
6. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@a...; Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:26:19 EST; IF memory serves the telegraph was used on the Q until about 1972. Rock Island ended the telegraph in 1965. On the Q most branch lines continued to be dispatched by telegraph right up until the end o; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00270.html (7,351 bytes)
7. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: drale99@a...; Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:05:13 EST; Telegraphy was on the wane by the end of the 40s. I remember going to my Dad's old station in Ravenna (I believe in the late 40s) and being shocked to see that teletype had taken over the telegraph o; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00274.html (8,315 bytes)
8. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: PSHedgpeth@a...; Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:04:45 EST; RE: DRAle Reev's note re telegraph I'm not one, although I once tried to learn from an old OP on the RI...I got so I could send a little, but never could receive. Couple of things I know from contact; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00275.html (8,717 bytes)
9. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: John Mitchell <cbqrr47@y...>; Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 12:47:23 -0800 (PST); Even after the telegraph was no longer used, the old abbrevations continued. For example, if the Dispatcher was "putting out train orders" too fast, you would say "BK", which meant "break" or slow do; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00277.html (8,497 bytes)
10. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: John Mitchell <cbqrr47@y...>; Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:03:50 -0800 (PST); Pete You can beleive me when I tell OS is on sheet. I wouldn't lie to you, buddy. I learned it 45 years ago from real railroaders who had learned it at the turn of the century. This is not unknown, i; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00278.html (10,541 bytes)
11. Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Basic reading (score: 1): Author: drale99@a...; Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:06:42 EST; I never became proficient. Couldn't begin to receive as fast as those guys would send. Later in the Navy, we had to get up to about 15 words per minute. (but this was with buzzer, radio code, which w; /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-12/msg00279.html (7,607 bytes)

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