Re: (LVRR) Lehigh Valley - hexagonal concrete phone boxes?

[GRSCoLVR_@_aol.com]

Hi Bill----
     These concrete T booths were made by the Massey Co. in, I believe, Ohio. 
A lot of railroads used them and/or other Massey products.  They also made 
reinforced concrete battery boxes,  battery chutes, larger switchman's 
shanties (larger than T booths) and quite large battery wells, many of which 
are buried here and there along the LVRR  ROW, with only their top "necks" 
showing.  These wells housed Edison primary batteries, which had to be kept 
from freezing, thus below ground a bit. Older track cyclopedias, and 
signaling magazines will often show pictures of the Massey line.  If 
"captured" the T booths make great garden tool storage in your back yard. :-)
Hope this helps, 
- ---Roc
L V Rockafellow
New Jersey 

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