Re: (erielack) politeness, was: DAYTON HILL.

["Michael Connor" <mjconnor_rr_@_hotmail.com>]

SMT - I also do not recall any rule that orders be typed (I certainly wrote 
a bunch by hand at QD and BY in 65-67).  One reason typed orders may have 
been done in caps is that billing machines, which most agencies (as opposed 
to interlocking towers) had, and which could also be used for orders and 
letters, only printed in caps.  Many Agent-Operators would only have a 
billing machine at their disposal.
      Certainly all cap orders were somewhat easier to read in the dim light 
of engines and cabooses, as you note, but I think this was good luck rather 
than a plan.
Have a safe day.
MJC


>From: Smtimko_@_aol.com
>Reply-To: Smtimko_@_aol.com
>To: erielack1_@_yahoo.com, erielack@lists.railfan.net
>Subject: Re: (erielack) politeness, was: DAYTON HILL.
>Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:47:34 EDT
>
>
>In a message dated 8/16/2005 12:18:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>erielack1_@_yahoo.com writes:
>
>All  train orders could only be typed
>on a cap only typewriters. That was a  rules requirement.
>
>
>Bob
>
>I thought so also, but in looking in the EL Book of Rules, October 25,  
>1964,
>it states:
>
>Rule 209.  Operators receiving train orders must write or typewrite  them 
>in
>manifold during transmission. If the requisite number of copies can not  be
>made at one writing, they must make others from the original copy and 
>repeat  to
>the train dispatcher from the new copies each time additional copies are
>made.  They must retain a copy of each train order.
>
>The word "Complete", the time and the signature of the operator must be in
>his handwriting.
>
>(end)
>
>I don't see where it states that they must be in capital letters.   I'll
>concede that trying to read the fifth carbon copy of a train order  typed 
>in small
>letters, in elite style type, onboard a moving train at night was  not
>conducive to a safe operating environment!
>
>
>
>SMT
>
>
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