<div dir="auto">That's so cool thanks for sharing it.<div dir="auto">David Baker</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 1:13 PM NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>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...</div><div><br></div><div>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 ! </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div> -- abram burnett</div><div>Carboxylated Essence of Turnip Squeezin's... Bottled in Bond !</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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