[GreenKeys] Re: Chessie & your Greenkeys post.

[Michael O'Day]

Hi Frank,

 I did remember, after I hit "Send", that Forest Hill
Yard was in fact at 75th & Kedzie. I also remember the
IBM 360 at Barr Yard. We also serviced the DEX
machines used to transmit the punch card consist to
the tower and the TD 800 terminals, which were black
and about the size of a small portable TV. I still
have the video section from one of them, it's a nice
B/W composite video rig. I answered the page when
sombody hit a 10,000 volt feed line with a crane, and
crossed it to the 110 volt line for the Barr Yard main
building. As you might imagine there was lots of
smoke, and several desktop calculators were immolated.
I recall frantically trying to get new power supplies
for the TC35's only to find it was the one assembly no
one had ever anticipated replacing, and there was no
part number.  C&O Baltimore sent some replacement
machines strapped on a flatbed car.  They hit rain on
the way. Fun times.
 I would come back, except that I now live in Dyer IN,
so it's a bit of a strech.  Good luck in the election.

Mike N9ODM

--- kf9nz at juno.com wrote:

>      I started on the B&OCT as an Operator-Leverman
> - more commonly known
> as "Towerman"- in 1957.  I worked 7 different towers
> at times, and in
> 1967 transferred to the Engineering Dep't as
> "Telephone Maintainer". 
> Actually I maintained anything remotely connected
> with Communications
> (How about a fire alarm system?) and even did a fair
> amount of lineman
> work - mostly trouble shooting.   My headquarters
> was in Grand Central
> Sta at Harrison & Wells and my territory included
> yard offices at 13th &
> Damen (Robey St Yard)    13th & Homan, and 12th &
> Cicero (48th Ave) as
> well as 79th & Western (actually closer to Oakley) -
> Forest Hill Yard.  
> 75th & Pulaski ?   Maybe 75th & Kedzie.  Actually a
> C&O yard on the Belt
> RR.  Not until much later after C&O/B&O merger did I
> get involved in that
> one.   in 1979 I was promoted to Supervisor of
> Communications and I had
> all of B&OCT as well as B&O territory east to
> Garrett Ind as well as part
> of B&O Indianapolis Div, Indy to Tuscola Ill and C&O
> territory Peru Ind
> to Griffith Ind (Now abandoned).  Over the years my
> title and territory
> changed several times.    My office was at Barr Yard
> (that's the 128th &
> Halsted loc'n) all this time.   I enjoyed Teletype
> work, but of course it
> was on it's way out even when I started.   I wound
> up with a fair amount
> of stuff salvaged from the scrap - but it was I and
> some of my men who
> disconnected it and carried it out of the offices.  
> When I first visited
> Barr Yard, the yard office was so crammed with IBM
> card punch and card
> sorters etc you could barely walk through the
> building, and not a video
> screen in the place.   
> 
>         SRRC is still going strong, and I'm running
> for Pres.  Election
> is Monday Dec 8.  Come on back.
> 
> Frankf9nz
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:43:06 -0800 (PST) Michael
> O'Day <odaymg at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> > Hi Frank,
> >  I was getting caught up on all my backlogged
> Yahoo
> > email, and read your post to Greenkeys. What B&O
> > office did you work out of? I used to work for
> > Burroughs/UNISYS and serviced the TC3500's & card
> > punch units in the Chicago area, specifically
> 128th &
> > Halsted, 79th & Western, and 75th & Pulaski (so I
> had
> > many conversations with Walter in Data Control). I
> was
> > also a member of the SRRC for a while, but was
> only
> > able to make a few of the meetings (in
> > Streator)because of my work schedule.
> > 
> > Mike N9ODM 
> > 
> > --- kf9nz at juno.com wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > >         On the B&O RR we used mailboxes almost
> > > exclusively for Model 15
> > > printers as well as some M14 reperf's.    There
> were
> > > cabinets for RO
> > > printers - no opening in the door for they KB.  
> The
> > > reperf cabs had a
> > > slot for the tape chute in the cover.    We
> liked
> > > them.  it was very easy
> > > to work on the machines with the table rolled
> out.  
> > > The 15 I have is in
> > > one of them. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Frankf9nz
> > >
> >
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