- 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. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lewis" <CBQJohn@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:47:51 -0600
- Paul, I am going to chase UP 3985 tomorrow as it runs through Jefferson City, along for the ride will be the retired Agent/Operator from Palmyra Missouri, Wayne Beever. He bounced around this area, b
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00072.html (11,786 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: "Jan Kohl" <jkohl@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:00:08 -0500
- Hi, Paul! I lived off the K-line from '71-86. Still my favorite neck of the woods, but I'm a bit displaced here in NC. Welcome aboard! Be interested in any Q stories...and esp. K-line! :) Cheers! Jan
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00073.html (10,351 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: "Duncan Cameron" <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:03:39 -0500
- Welcome Paul! It's always great to have former Q employees on the list. Many of us either by reasons of age or geography depend on the memories of those who were there for our research and modelling
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00079.html (10,292 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: drale99@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:31:10 EST
- I've been curious about that question myself. When I was in high school on the Aurora-Burwell branch, my dad, who was agent there, began teaching me the telegraph. He was training me to be a helper,
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00087.html (9,955 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Weber" <eng95@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:48:32 -0800
- When I was training to be an agent/operator (1950) by the agent at Chapin, Il (Beardstown-St.Louis subdivision of the CB&Q) the only use of the telegraph was to send/receive Western Union telegrams a
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00090.html (10,865 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: tim fleck <tf5077@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:20:59 -0800 (PST)
- How about using old prince albert cans to amplify the sounder. Has anyone else heard of this ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00091.html (11,262 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: jsteamernubes@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:41:02 EST
- Yes, the telegraph installation in the North Freedom , Wis.depot has a Prince Albert tobacco can for a sounder. It works, and there's a retired telegraphers club that meets there occasionally. The Mi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00094.html (9,304 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] New member, Old Telgrapher (score: 1)
- Author: leo mccauley <leo_mccauley2001@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:44:50 -0800 (PST)
- complete with the Prince Albert can, gues that made a sounding board for the set. Leo McCauley McNabb, Il. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus"
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-01/msg00095.html (12,450 bytes)
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