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What era was that Gary? 

My father started on the Radford Division in 1947 but he never heard of any such thing done by the train crew, they always had to walk to a lineside box. A signal maintainer, yes, that is who I got my metal phone from, but I've never heard of train crews doing such.

Just curious.

Ken Miller

On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:07 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> The two white insulators were for the telephone line to the dispatcher in the older days.  Train crews could carry a telephone that could be clipped to these. 


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