TELEGRAPH CALL SIGNS

Every telegraph office had a call sign, consisting of one or two letters, usually with some connection to the name of the town where the telegraph office was located. If there were more than one railroad in a community, there would be different call signs on each railroad for their respective offices, and if there was a separate Western Union telegraph office in that community, it too would have its own, distinctive call sign. These are the call signs for railroad offices on the Ocala (Florida) and Jacksonville (Florida) Districts of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. These signs were resurrected from the memory of Morse Club members who worked as active telegraphers in those territories. The Jacksonville District was merged into the Ocala and Tampa Districts in the early 1960s and those Districts were then termed Divisions. Even though an office may have been closed, the call signs remained in use on Train Dispatcher's train sheets and by telegraphers in other offices referring to the closed office.