2 Photographs. The Ticket Agent at Amtrak Last Week Said He Had Never Met a Railroad Telegrapher

"You did peep peep peep?" he said, meaning to imitate the sound of International Morse. No, I said, we did click click click. "Gene Autry was a railroad telegrapher," I said, but he did not know who Gene Autry was. It was 60 years in August when I quit the railroad. I have been thinking about the way with a newfangled bug you could hire out anywhere. Railroad telegraphy was a lifetime job.