Norfolk Div Telegraph Calls - Block Signals on the Road in 1896

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That's so cool thanks for sharing it.
David Baker

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 1:13 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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> Old people and researchers have one thing in common:  they fear that the
> fruit of their labors will be forever lost when their hard drive dies and
> the kids throw out their computer.  I am both an old geezer and a
> researcher.  So in the interest of preservation of historical knowledge,
> attached hereunto are two items...
>
> 1.  The latest revision of my little scribblings on Norfolk Division
> Telegraph Calls, assembled over the years through the generosity, guidance
> and longsuffering patience of Mr. Jim Blackstock, Mr. Harry Bundy, Mr. Bob
> Cohen, Mr. Ken Miller and Mr. John Garner (in alphabetical order.)  Don't
> carp about 11 puny little pages... my Reading RR list runs 27 pages !
>
> 2.  A re-post of a document titled Block Signals in Use Upon the Road,
> September 1896.  This faded, crumbling and almost illegible old document
> was given to me in 1988 by the Venerable Bill Harman of Christiansburg.
> Information on the first two pages of the PDF file tell the story of the
> document.  In April 2000, I had the privilege of working a live, operating
> Morse Telegraph circuit with Bill, two weeks before his death.  I was in my
> home Telegraph Office and Bill was at the Roanoke Transportation Museum,
> where a temporary Telegraph Office had been set up for one weekend.  As I
> recall, they were using the office call RK at the Museum that day, and my
> office call is SW.  Had I known it would be our last conversation, I would
> have spent more than ten minutes with him on the Wire.  Bill had been my
> friend since 1955.  He was the Real Thing, and a Southern Gentleman of the
> Old School.
>
>   -- abram burnett
> Carboxylated Essence of Turnip Squeezin's... Bottled in Bond !
>
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