Card tickets

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Frank

When I order preprinted checked baggage tags, it's always for the most popular stations first then the less traveled stations. My main rack (a plastic version of an older style) contains all the checked baggage stations on the Cardinal route. Then, I keep a secondary rack with the more popular stations that my customers go to off line. 

For all other stations, I have "universal tags" that the station name and code is hand written in the blanks. While these are mighty handy they take longer to fill out (if filled out properly). When you have a train bearing down on you time can get critical (at least at my station :-)

In speaking with longtime C&O ticket agent Marvin Plumley, you wanted as many preprinted items as you could because in the days of hand written tickets, things could get complicated, especially if the passenger had several connections and booked Pullman space as well. 

Hope that information was helpful

Matt Crouch
CHW 



> On Feb 6, 2017, at 6:47 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Hello, all:
> 
> Does anyone have thoughts about what destination card tickets a station agent had on hand.  Most card ticket cabinets for small depots had between 12 and 24 chutes, so not all origin-to-destination pairs were available.  I suspect it was limited to stations within 25 miles either way from a depot, plus some of the larger cities on the same division.  Perhaps the agent ordered the printing based upon the sales frequency during the previous year.
> 
> I've created a facsimile 1-1/4 by 2-1/4 inches card ticket for Boyce to Roanoke.  The cardstock used was approximately 40 point which is about one millimeter thick.  For now, I'll print these on paper so that I can hand them out as samples to visitors with a validator imprint on the back.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Frank Scheer
> f_scheer at yahoo.com
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