According to Mr. Norwood, those old timers down there ALL used the Morse most of the time. They liked it better than the phone for doing the trainorder work when the DS office was in Alamosa. After the Dispatchers were moved to Denver, The DS telephone was used to talk to the DS. When I worked there the Dispatchers were all in Denver, and they put out orders to Alamosa for the Narrow gauge operations, and Alamosa and Durango handled it from there. Durango got stuff from the DS over the commercial phone after the line was cut west of Chama. Alamosa's DS telephone circuit came via
open wire carrier facilities from Denver and Pueblo, and went to physical open wire east and west out of Alamosa. LaVeta DS phone east was physical wire from Pueblo and Walsenburg.
In the later years, the Creede Branch and the Farmington branches were in Yard Limits and no train orders were used at all. Silverton passenger trains operated on a timetable schedule and needed no orders. Extra trains used orders phoned to Alamosa and Durango from Denver..mostly "go and return" orders, so only needed the "OS" from Alamosa, Durango, or Chama
on departure and "tie up" on arrival back at those terminals.