... - About a month & a half ago, I witnessed it on a Cherry Bros house moving trailer & posted a note to the Railspot list inquiring if anyone knew where it...
The "ore" is liquid sulphur and is produced at a plant in Eustace. That remant of SP line that Eustace is on ran from Athens to Dallas and was part of the...
Greetings! I just picked up a copy of a T&NO 1924 timetable. A train order office is shown to be in daily operation at Thomaston (ex-GWT&P between Victoria...
My 1926 T&NO Side Track record book for the Victoria Division does not show a depot at Thomaston. It does show that the siding is 2287 feet long and on the...
I have 3 lists of Brass HO models..(TNO E-23 + Sunbeam 6 car set & 11 car set of the Sunset Limited)..Also 2 lists for Kato & LL locomotives + a small book...
Tom Peterson
peterson@...
Jan 23, 2004 8:39 pm
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The Yoakum historical museum has a desk that has several (telephone?) jacks marked as follows: 8 - HO. 104 9 - Val. 9 - SA. 1 - C.C. 8 - Pt.LV. 407 - YK.SX. I...
When SP786 here in Austin was running, we used filtered/re-refined motor oil. As I understand it, filter/re-refined motor was filter oil to get all of the ...
In a message dated 1/25/2004 6:16:24 PM Central Standard Time, sptno@... ... Wasn't the major source of this oil from Austin's city busses? I thought I ...
LokoMac8@...
Jan 26, 2004 1:09 am
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These were probably telegraph circuits (or "wires" as they as the were usually refered to). Western Union maintained all of the railroad's telegraph wires....
Thanks for the info John! When did telegraphy end on the T&NO (or SP in Texas)? The Skidmore Historical Museum has what they say is the teletype machine from...
Teletypewriters came into general commercial use around 1923 and with technological improvement and dedicated communication lines, their use spread to many...
... Actually, Teletype is a registered trade mark, not the same as a copyright. Western Electric, of course, is now Lucent Technologies, or at least the part...
It also might be noted that the first input and output devices for computers were Teletypes--as recognized in the MS-DOS command CTTY (change Teletype). ===== ...
RJ, I never heard that. All that I heard was that it was used motor oil that had filtered. I work for a large state agency and was trying to find a home for ...
I under stand there is a reason for that. International morse can not be done on the US of A telegraph. The international is by sound and the length of the...
ljack70117@...
Jan 27, 2004 9:19 am
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Purely as a matter of comment, learning to telegraph for the railroad was a matter of accepting certain sounds (the clacking of the metal bar on the sounder)...
I can't say for sure when telegraphy ended on the SP in Texas, but I would think Bill Neill's estimate of mid to late 1960s is about right. I started with the...
In looking over my previous post I see that I misspelled Morse about half the time, turning it into Mores. That is just a result of my poor typing. It should...
In early 1976 took a trip from on the head-end of Number 4 from Albuquerque to Raton (destination York Canyon) with Jim Pinson (an ATSF ex-dispatcher). He ...
Other than some trivial misspelling of Morse, I think this is pretty damn interesting and, more importantly, very well written with a scholarly choice of words...
Hello Everyone, I have three questions: 1. Was TNO or SP the first railroad to service the Flax Plant in Kenedy, and how many cars did that siding hold? 2....
... I believe that I have seen pictures at the Ken Kreme and drawings in Sanbourn maps date the Flax plant back to SA&AP days. The concrete structure is...
Here's a little information on the flax plant. Today I met with a former engineer for the guar plant in Kenedy. He told me that the flax plant was probably...
... The grain elevator is the shorter buildings at the right end of the picture on the flax plant. When I was teaching in Karnes City, a fellow teacher's...
Vince Do you know anything about the "roundhouse" at Kenedy? I think it was really a square engine house inside the wye. Someone told me that it was around...
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