[PRCo] Re: Headway__Recorders

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I rode Charleroi perhaps twenty times - only once did I see an 
operator stop to use a wayside phone -- circa 1944 when the block 
signal on the inbound track just before Mesta Stop failed to 
clear. It didn't and after a few minutes he proceeded to the next 
phone presumably to notify the dispatcher.  (I thought the phone 
was at Mesta but Jim does not list a phone at that location.) 

On the other hand, most operators stopped at Charleroi Car House 
outbound (and, to a lesser degree, inbound) and disappeared into 
the innards of the office for perhaps manifold reasons one of which 
may have been to use the phone.

Tom

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Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 4:58 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Headway__Recorders



I rode Charleroi and Washington, both of them, only once on March 30 and
March 31, 1953.  At no point did the operator get out to use a
telephone. 

On one fantrip, however, Roy Taylor used one of the line phones on the
interurban to let the DS know where he was.  

Harold Geissenheimer wrote:
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> The Harmony phone system recorded each passing bus to a dispatcher.
> 
> Did the WestPenn or PRC record each passing car or were the phones
> for emergencies.
> 
> Harold
> 
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