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Reply to "Are you a switchman? (3)"

The link in Big Jim's reply brings up another aspect that hasn't yet been mentioned; hand written switch lists made by station agents who didn't care to type versus typed or machine printed lists.  Our OKC yard switch lists were generated from stacks of IBM punch cards sending the data to a dot matrix printer that sounded like a giant mosquito.  Those lists were easy to read.  Down the line either direction it was a tossup if you got a typed list or a hand written list.  Good old George, whose photo is in the Hofsommer book The Quanah Route was a great character, but whose handwriting resembled ancient runes.

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