RE: (erielack) Teletype for train orders

["Michael Connor" <mjconnor_rr_@_hotmail.com>]

Ken and list
I never saw or heard of teletype machines being used to transmit Train 
Orders.  The very nature of the process which required the DS to dictate the 
TO and then receive a read back from the Optr argued against a TT machine.  
For that matter I don't recall seeing a TT machine near any DS desk at 
Hornell (though there was one in the bldg, downstairs IIRC).  At QD 
Binghamton, which was a TO office but not an Interlocking, there were TT 
machines but they were used strictly for car movement and miscellaneous 
communication.  TO were handled via a separate DS phone line and copied by 
hand.

M J Connor


>From: Philip Albano <palbano_@_earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Philip Albano <palbano_@_earthlink.net>
>To: erie910 <erie910_@_fastmail.fm>
>CC: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
>Subject: (erielack) Teletype for train orders
>Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:51:50 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>
>
>Ken and list:
>
>Ken wrote:
> >Did the Erie, E-L, or Lackawanna ever use Teletype machines for
> >transmitting train orders?
>
>Not that I'm know of. Just a few towers on the West End even had them and 
>they were mainly used for train consists. They were cantankerous machines 
>that were not missed when the EL switched to the IBM card system.
>
>Philip Albano
>
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