Serial numbers on Virginian Railway lanterns

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Things like lanterns, rule books, & switch keys, were signed for on lots of railroads. In some cases, if an employee lost a key, or lantern, he might be charged a small fee to get another one from the company.
 
 


Jeff:
At the time Louis Newton went to the Transportation Dept.,  R.B.Claytor
brought in an outsider to  run the Planning Dept.  He'd started on the L&N
as an operator, but became V.P.-Operations for the IC.  At that time, 
Ill. Cent. had a practice of not issuing switch keys to Afro-Americans.
                                       Harry Bundy

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