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Etrump

January 02, 2009 03:15PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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The D&RGW didn't have any selectorized Morse way wires in their remaining relay offices when I worked there... The RR was trying real real hard to kill the Morse operations entirely and ultimately succeeded.
what message work still went on on the few remaining Morse wires was easily handled by one operator in the relay offices. Denver HQ didn't even HAVE a Morse wire anymore after about 1960-62. Pueblo and Grand Jct. did, but only until the last remaining operators who could work the Morse wires retired...and those went away immediately when they did.
Everyplace else that acted as a telegraph relay office paid a "telegraph operator" to take incoming RR messages
ON THE COMPANY TELEPHONE!

Pooo!

I never got close enough in with the comm guys on the Santa-Fe to dig into what they used enough to find out....dammit.

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Re: Wire mystery....	davegrandt	December 30, 2008 01:30PM
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Re: Wire mystery....	gbrewer	December 31, 2008 09:31AM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Skip	December 31, 2008 12:21PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	gbrewer	December 31, 2008 12:47PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Etrump	December 31, 2008 06:16PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Philip H. Walters	December 31, 2008 06:44PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	gbrewer	January 01, 2009 09:59AM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying- The Phone Company and Morse Telegraph	Greg Raven	January 01, 2009 10:22AM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Etrump	January 01, 2009 04:42PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Skip	January 02, 2009 12:30PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Etrump	January 02, 2009 01:16PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Skip	January 02, 2009 01:42PM
Re: Wire mystery.... relaying	Etrump	January 02, 2009 03:15PM
Re: Wire mystery....	Etrump	December 31, 2008 03:16PM
Re: Wire mystery....	hank	December 31, 2008 09:33AM
Re: Wire mystery....Perhaps some answers from 1916	davegrandt	December 31, 2008 09:44AM
Re: Wire mystery....Perhaps some answers from 1916	Etrump	December 31, 2008 05:19PM

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