[GreenKeys] OT: Teletypes, Telephone & Railroads

[kf9nz at juno.com]

     The teletypes were used for message traffic and were located in
different offices.   The "Operators" and "Telegraphers"  belonged to a
one union and handled the message traffic.   "Clerks" belonged to a
different union and handled the "consist" traffic.  Of course as this
whole thing developed so that all traffic was handled over computer data
circuits, the unions merged, and lost 99% of the jobs that did the work.

Frankf9nz 

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Michael O'Day <odaymg at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Back in the 80's I serviced part of the Chessie System network. They 
> sent consist info from Baltimore via dedicated phone lines at 
> 12-1800 baud (Burroughs OEM modems) to the three yards in Chicago. 
> They would punch one 80-column card for each train on our equipment, 
> and sort them on an IBM model 36. Cards were relayed to the switch 
> tower on the 'hump" in Barr Yard (Riverdale). Consist info was sent 
> to Baltimore via the same setup from the intermodal yard (75th & 
> Western Ave.) and from their other yard at 71st and Pulaski.  Nary a 
> teletype unit in sight, or I might have had one sooner.
> 
> Mike
> N9ODM
> 
> --- On Thu, 4/16/09, pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com 
> <pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com> wrote:
> From: pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com 
> <pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com>
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] OT: Teletypes, Telephone & Railroads
> To: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>, 
> pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com
> Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 1:10 PM
> 
> 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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