I remember in the 1970's when we would hang around Great Notch, on the old Greenwood Lake Division, the maintainers would always start their conversations with "JY GA". And I also remember listening to the dispatchers line through the bay windows even when the maintainers weren't at the station. Thanks, Bob D. Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com> wrote: Rich, You bring back a memory I had forgotten about. Those big black ringer boxes in the bay windows that the dispatcher would ring you with. When the dispatcher punched in the code every box on the line would click away. After a while of listening to them you could tell what station was going to answer from the sound of the clicks. Bob Stafford Richard Pennisi wrote: You are correct, JY was for Jersey City. The NYS&W also used JY. I used a lineside phone once at North Hawthorn (in the 60's) and that was how the dispatcher answered. The West End Job and the Main Line Job used JY. The Boonton line side and the M&E after about 1967-68 just had an open line and you just called in your station. IE Murray Hill, Dover, Denville Etc. Prior to that all dispatcher jobs had the ringers to call up an open office to give train orders etc. A different code number selection was used for each office,station, tower. Rich Pennisi The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org - -- Bob Dobrowolski __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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