Recently several club members were scouting out the Doon Heritage Crossroads Pioneer Village and reported seeing a Morse set-up in the old Petersburg train station.

Many members may not be aware that KWARC members were responsible for this display.

In 1970 the Coffee-Club was asked by the Doon Heritage Crossroads Pioneer Village to recreate a Morse Sounder that could be used as part of the Petersburg Train Station that was moved to the village. Ross Carruthers led the project who along with CNR telegrapher Norm Perrault VE3DEQ developed a rotary disk that opened and closed the relay thus sounding the message in Railway Morse "greetings from the Doon pioneer village".

KWARC member Norm Perault, VE3DEQ is shown above during a recent cleaning and lubrication of the code wheel.

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