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Cover of The Railroad Telegrapher, monthly magazine of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, for March 1902.. The Order of Railroad Telegraphers (ORT) was a United States labor union established in the late nineteenth century to promote the interests of telegraph operators working for the railroads.
A telegraph key, clacker, tapper or morse key is a specialized electrical switch used by a trained operator to transmit text messages in Morse code in a telegraphy system. [1] Keys are used in all forms of electrical telegraph systems, including landline (also called wire) telegraphy and radio (also called wireless) telegraphy .
Bunnell and Co. was one of the largest telegraph key suppliers in USA before the World War II. As one of the country's main telegraphic manufacturers, examples of Bunnell's telegraph equipment can be found in the Smithsonian's Museum of American History, various railroad museums, and other communications museums.
1911 Chart of the Standard American Morse Characters. American Morse Code — also known as Railroad Morse—is the latter-day name for the original version of the Morse Code developed in the mid-1840s, by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their electric telegraph.
Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were a commercial telegraph code used to shorten the telegraphic messages sent between the stations and offices of the railway. The codes listed below are taken from the 1939 edition of the Telegraph Message Code book [ 1 ] unless stated otherwise.
A token being offered by a signalman on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway The moment the train driver picks up the next key token from the hands of the station master at the Bukit Timah Railway Station in Singapore moments after he had dropped off the previous token. This happened whilst the train was still moving fast.
Apr. 22—PEMBROKE — CSX Transportation has scheduled a series of railroad closures throughout Robeson County for the replacement of new railroad ties. The project will begin in Marion County ...
When the train has passed, the signals behind it will be set back to danger and the signaller will inform the next signal box when the train has left the section. These messages are conveyed by telegraph instruments with a key that is pressed to sound a bell at the remote signal box.