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Station: Saginaw, Michigan - "GO" Telegraph Office |
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Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum |
Pere Marquette Railroad
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Information from Doug Hefty: "GO" was the telegraph
(teletype) office on the 2nd floor of the Pere Marquette/C&O Potter Street depot in
Saginaw. All the messages from the Chief's office across the tracks
were sent via a vacuum tube to "GO" and the operator there sent them via
teletype to offices so equipped or phoned them for delivery to other
locations. These would include High/Wide loads, pick ups, etc. We used
to copy quite a few at Kearsley for southward trains. "GO" also kept a
file of all the train consists that came in over the teletype and
forwarded them as necessary. There would be teletype tape draped all
over and we would often feed it into or out of an empty metal
wastebasket to keep it from getting tangled up or stepped on! That was
really high tech! I'm not sure when "GO" was closed, but I think before
1980.
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