N&W Telephone Boxes

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Abe,

     I can't answer your question, but I now own one of the boxes, bought it at an auction with all of the "innards" several weeks ago at Merrimac.

Skip Salmon


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Skip and Judi Salmon 
3721 Buckingham Drive 
Roanoke, VA 24018-2448


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> Anyone remember those steel "T-Boxes" on the N&W? They were about 
> 2'x2'x2' and fabricated from sheet steel. Painted silver, they held a 
> magneto, a selector (one side was "B" for Block Line, the other was "D" for 
> Dispatcher's Line,) a push-to-talk button and a telephone handset. They 
> looked fairly new in the 1960s. 
> 
> When I went to work in the early 1960s, they were ubiquitous... all over 
> the N&W. I can recall them in the late 1950s, too. Matter of fact, in all 
> my booming around the various divisions of the N&W, I never saw a wooden 
> T-Box ! 
> 
> Now, my question is this... When were they installed, supplanting the old 
> wooden boxes? In CTC territory, one might assume they were installed along 
> with the CTC. But I also worked in non-CTC territory, and they were there, 
> too. 
> 
> I checked Warden & Miller's book on N&W passenger trains post-1956, but 
> could find them depicted in none of the photographs. 
> 
> A quo ... ? 
> 
> -- abe burnett 
> 
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