Re: (erielack) Teletype for train orders

[Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>]

The FAX machine had not been put into production
during the EL days. Not sure it have even been
invented yet. We had very few photo copy machines.
Even Stroudsburg depot never had a photo copy machine.
FAX machines came into being while I was working on
the Colorado and Southern. Bumped down their in 1982.
The FAX machines where installed several years later.
I am guessing around 1984. We used the fax machines at
first for sending delay reports and messages. In
November 1985 is when we went from train orders to
track warrents. The fax machines where then used for
track warrents and additional machines where
installed.
Bob Stafford

- --- Steven Kay <s.kay4_@_verizon.net> wrote:

> Mike and list,
> 
> Facsimile Machines were for many years and are in
> place in Suffern, Spring
> Valley, and Port Jervis for the receipt of Form Ds.
> The Conductor was
> required to contact the Operator at DB (before it
> closed) to verify the
> number and date of each Form D.
> 
> Was this a requirement during the Conrail and
> earlier EL times?
> 
> Steve
> -- 
> Chauffeur to the masses
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/21/05 11:56 AM, "Michael Connor"
> <mjconnor_rr_@_hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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