[GreenKeys] OT: Teletypes, Telephone & Railroads

[pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com]

Yes and yes.  I believe the consist info would include the
train crew members too.

PDW

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net>
To: pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com
Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] OT: Teletypes, Telephone &
Railroads
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:35:10 -0400

> On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:27 PM,
> > pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com wrote:... There were a
> > lot of local loops for special functions such as
> > distributing information within a large station or
> sending consist information to a hump tower.
> 
> Do I understand the terms correctly:
> 
> "consist information":
> details of what cars a train being put together would
> consist of
> 
> "hump tower":
> signal and switching tower that managed a section of a
> rail yard that   included a "hump", over which cars would
> be pushed to roll to the   train being made up.
> 
> Roy
> 
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073
> 
> 
> 
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