[R-390] Antique Bug

[Tim Shoppa]

K2CBY writes:
> Lionel made a bunch of things under military contract during WWII, including
> plugs and jacks, as well as straight keys and bugs.

> You mention J-37. If I recall, J-37 was a straight key -- not a bug -- with
> a leg iron.

There are a lot of different models of J-37. The J-38 was the "training key" and
the J-37 in all its variants (J-44, J-47 and others I've seen but don't know the
number) was the "field key". I learned on a J-38, in fact I still have the one
my elmer gave me when I was 9 years old and still use it on SKN, but
I never used the J-37 much.

The military generically called the Vibroplex (even those made by other
suppliers with Vibroplex tooling) a J-36.

Why does the bug get a lower number than the straight keys? Dunno... :-).

Tim.