Two sounders and resonators (receivers) [the tall items], two keys (senders), one "jack hole" box on the right, and one peg board on the wall.   There were two sets of telegraph equipment on this desk until 1925,  one set for the Santa Fe and the other for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass.  The 2-arm resonator at the left is in the exact spot as the original - the square impression and screw holes lined up on the desk top - and was most likely the Santa Fe sounder.  In offices with more than one telegraph sounder, a tobacco can (Prince Albert, in this case) was used to change the tone of the sounder, so that the operator could audibly differentiate between them.  The tobacco can lid could be open more or less to adjust the tone further. Both telegraph keys in the center are also located where they were originally.  The key on the left was most likely used for the Santa Fe circuit and the key on the right for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass.  

There may have been a scissor-phone on this desk after the 1920's.  Employee timetables through the 1920's differentiated between Santa Fe offices that were telegraph only or had a telephone line to the dispatcher.  After that point, the timetables only indicate "communication" offices and don't specify the equipment.  Eagle Lake was telegraph only at least through 1926 - the last GC&SF timetable I've seen that differentiated between telephone and telegraph equipped stations.  Curiously, Garwood and Eldridge were telephone offices already.

See the GC&SF Timetable page for more telegraph information.


Below:  The train order typewriter (covered).

In early typewriters, the lower case L [ l ] was also used as the number one.  To avoid confusion, train orders were typed in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.  Therefore, "train order" typewriters have no lower case letters.